ants_everywhere

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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
> not that it can be operated by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. It's operated by an LLM, not a human. There is no human in the loop.
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
> Existence problems are not optimisation problems Several of the problems were existence problems, such as finding geometric constructions. > It needs an optimisation function that can be incrementally improved in order to work towa
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
That's exactly how a great deal of research level math is done. In fact all open conjectures can be cast this way: the objective function is just the function that checks whether a written proof is a valid proof of the statement. Is th
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
They put an LLM in a loop that mimics how people do real math, and it did research-level math. Like humans, it wasn't equally capable across all mathematical domains. The experiment was set up to mimic mathematicians who are excellent
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
all mathematicians and scientists work with a feedback loop. that's what the scientific method is.
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
> Hopefully this will finally stop the continuing claims[1] that LLMs can only solve problems they have seen before! The AlphaEvolve paper has been out since May. I don't think the people making these claims are necessarily primaril
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
I agree there could have been more tact, and I would probably be upset too if a bunch of my work got replaced by automation. I would even feel that way if the automation was better. I've criticized Mozilla extensively in the past, and
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
Conversely, it's a bit strange for a for-profit company like Mozilla Corporation to rely on volunteer labor through its non-profit parent Mozilla Foundation to perform customer support. There was a period where every company was trying
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
> I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. > I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. It's Mozilla's data... > explicit violation to the Mozilla mission I&#x
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
I don't think I understand the change re: licensed professionals. Is it also disallowing the use of licensed professionals to use ChatGPT in informal undisclosed ways, as in this article? https://www.technologyreview.com&#x2
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
which one do you think is unlike the others?
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by ants_everywhere 11mo ago
sounds like the site isn't able to guarantee reliable service but it works for some people in an unpredictable way
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
I have the same experience. SQLite has been a source of most Jellyfin problems, and Jellyfin has more problems than the rest of the ~ 150 containers I run regularly. A stateless design where a stateless jellyfin server talks to a postgres d
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
Because a large number of "preprints" that are really blog posts or advertisements for startup greatly increase the noise. The idea is the site is for academic preprints. Academia has a long history of circulating preprints or man
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
I'm not sure this is the right way to handle it (I don't know what is) but arXiv.org has suffered from poor quality self-promotion papers in CS for a long time now. Years before llms.
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
As in to OP's experience with chocolate, some of this may be down to people being more sensitive to flavors and textures associated with the less expensive manufacturing processes. I, for one, don't like the bite of low quality al
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
Some of the American chocolate for high volume candy bars is very waxy and not very chocolatey. For example, compare the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to Trader Joe's peanut butter cups [0]. It may be that the Reese's ones used
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
I deliberately avoided cultivating a taste in coffee and wine after having acquired a taste for good whisky. For exactly the same reason you mention: I knew my utility from drinking coffee/wine would stay constant, but the time and mon
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
Active noise cancellation does not provide noise reduction and active noise cancellation headphones generally don't have official NRRs. Closed headphones or foam ear plugs would be better than earbuds with ANC. People have tried to cre
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
It sounds like we both agree that genocide denial is a serious matter. By familiarizing themselves with the links I put above, people will be able to make an informed opinion on Chomsky's engagement with it.
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
IMO these should be required reading for anyone unfamiliar with Chomsky's positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genoci
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
I agree by and large with the thrust of what you're saying, but > wasn't the USA founded by... very religious people? The USA was founded by a mix of people religiously, but many of them were essentially deists. That is, not ou
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
according to the article > Oil companies and automobile manufacturers (especially General Motors, which owned the patent jointly filed by Kettering and Midgley) promoted the TEL additive as an inexpensive alternative superior to ethanol
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
Lead had been a known poison for nearly 2000 years when it was added to gasoline. The guy who owned the patent for leaded gasoline and who promoted its use even got lead poisoning himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
Sure, I think that's a good rule. It's what we teach children. However, many courses that teach interpersonal skills (e.g. sales courses) encourage touching as a way to foster closeness. So in practice it seems like touching witho
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
> misalligned with society's It's hard to think of a society where this is the right measure. A better measure would be the user's best interest. Arguably social media is significantly worse when it's aligned with the
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
> The standard of acceptable behavior is reading all the little signs The thing that defines awkward behavior is being unable to read those signs. Conversely what makes someone charming is that they're better than average at reading
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
> To operationalize this, we ground our methodology in Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, the most empirically validated model of human cognition Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, like a lot of psychometric research, is based on collecting a lot of
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
I didn't follow the "second cancellation", but re: the first cancellation, I think so far this thread has lost the fact that the Epstein/Minsky comments were not the first comments RMS made about childhood sexuality. And
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by ants_everywhere 1y ago
to make this point extra extra explicit: a life vest is also a "stay very close to the surface" vest. It prevents the worker going down like when you jump into a pool. The usual reason for this is it keeps your mouth from being fa

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