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Brain-Inspired LLM Alignment(docs.google.com)
1 points by aoeuid 10mo ago|1 comments
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by aoeuid 10mo ago
We have some good ideas about how mammalian brains get "aligned". How can we train/scaffold LLMs in a way that we can apply the same approach?
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GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial(github.com)
161 points by aoeuid 4y ago|147 comments
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by aoeuid 6y ago
Google recently published the SWE Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492082791
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by aoeuid 8y ago
Note that that story is apocryphal: https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
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by aoeuid 15y ago
The poster is right -- don't write on a whiteboard. Instead, bring your laptop, make the font bigger on your favorite editor, and write in that. I've gone through many interviews like this, and only one interviewer insisted I use the whiteb
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by aoeuid 16y ago
The guy who wrote this post used to be president of Alcor ( http://alcor.org ), one of the two cryonics organizations in the US. Cryonics is in fact certainly a procedure where people will definitely die if they don't get it, particularly b
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Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?(chronopause.com)
280 points by aoeuid 16y ago|130 comments
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The Future of Journalism (and Everything) is Data(good.is)
4 points by aoeuid 16y ago|0 comments
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Mathematica 8 allows free-form English input using Wolfram Alpha(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
1 points by aoeuid 16y ago|0 comments
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by aoeuid 16y ago
The official rules say that one of the requirements is that the recipients "Forgo other employment or educational enrollment during the two year Fellowship except as approved by the Thiel Foundation." Thus, they can go back to school after
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Thiel Fellowship applications up -- no dropping out required(thielfoundation.org)
3 points by aoeuid 16y ago|1 comments
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by aoeuid 16y ago
I'm fairly interested in cognitive science in general, but this was the first time I'd heard of any sort of scientific study of venting your anger. When I get angry at my computer (which is the only thing I usually get angry at :) I often t
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Venting actually makes you more aggressive(youarenotsosmart.com)
5 points by aoeuid 16y ago|1 comments
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by aoeuid 17y ago
This is the kind of 80-20 knowledge compression that I love seeing on HN and in general. Even if it's not completely new information, it quickly informs me on at least one good view on an important and largely overlooked issue. Now I can at
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by aoeuid 17y ago
If you want to hear what English sounds like to foreigners, take a look at http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...
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by aoeuid 18y ago
My best first hand impression of the story's professionalism was when I saw http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/3332/brilliantpe1.png "Microsoft (GOOG, Fortune 500)"
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by aoeuid 18y ago
About those pesky shortcuts: My suggestion would be to make windows shortcuts available by default: Win+D = minimize/unminimize all windows Win+R = Terminal I also added Win+G = Gedit and Win+F = Search (which really needs some improvement)
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by aoeuid 18y ago
And if you don't like Adobe, for Windows there's Foxit Reader, and for Linux there's Evince. I can't vouch for Foxit, but viewing PDFs through Evince is also far more efficient in terms of processor usage, especially since flash seems to li
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by aoeuid 19y ago
I can't imagine why nobody even mentioned Greg Egan so far. Reading Permutation City left me in a dazzled state for days because of the sheer number of reality-altering concepts it throws at you in such a short span. If by inspiring, you me
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by aoeuid 19y ago
This reminded me so much of a useful rationality anecdote, I almost thought it was going to be a link to it. Alas, it wasn't. http://www.spaceandgames.com/?p=27 Now how certain are you that 51 is prime?
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by aoeuid 19y ago
I think it would be a good idea to have a preference in the user profile to disable the iPaper integration. Personally, I don't mind getting PDFs or other documents, and I love the way Evince displays them on Ubuntu. However, I can see how
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by aoeuid 19y ago
Basically anything by Greg Egan, particularly Permutation City. Also nanotechnology, the singularity, and friendly AI, in order of learning about them.