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by arketyp 3y ago
Are you guys tripping?
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by arketyp 3y ago
I understand your distinction, I think, but I would say it is more engineering than ever. It's like the early days of the steam engine or firearms development. It's not a hard science, not formal analysis, it's engineering: t
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by arketyp 3y ago
I studied at university and chose a programmer path quite indirectly and rather much because the thought of being physically and temporally bound to external and impersonal locations and tools and interactions, for labor, made me nauseous.
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by arketyp 3y ago
Kinetic triangulation problems are formulated similar to this. I've written an algorithm for a specific kind of triangulation schema [1] where collision events are sorted as quadratic inequalities. The math becomes quite involved when
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by arketyp 3y ago
It's curious how DNA and enzymes are quite literally like a Turing machine tape and head.
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by arketyp 3y ago
The argument seems to be based on the premise that books are picked up at random from the pool of all books in the world. (As if what constitutes a book is even well defined to begin with.) But his encounter with The Book of the Dead wasn&#
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by arketyp 3y ago
Yes, it's performativity. I think going to the Champs-Élysées for the countdown is too. Not anything wrong with it, necessarily.
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by arketyp 3y ago
I sketched an example and you countered it. That was my point, about not choosing the cynical perspective.
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by arketyp 3y ago
To be fair, the new year's countdown is a simulacrum (Baudrillard) of a moment to begin with. It's the perfect example of a meme without real substance. So people want to save this (hyperreal) moment, share it, fill it with meanin
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by arketyp 3y ago
Cramming up two player split screen on the same keyboard with your bro was part of the deal, and pretty sweet, made it all the more visceral.
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by arketyp 3y ago
My take on this is that much of work and problem solving is about understanding the problem. So I think human abilities will remain the bottleneck. I pose this thought experiment: Is it possible to design an AI system for a monkey which giv
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by arketyp 3y ago
The video demonstrates the 1:1 coin size case and speaks about the curvature of the line it rolls on, but your thought experiment makes it a lot clearer. As the size of the other coin goes to 0, the amount "gnawed off" of the rol
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by arketyp 3y ago
My music teacher, an Englishman, said he could never get over how Swedes watch fireworks and go "Oi!".
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by arketyp 3y ago
One commonly encounters a conflation of the philosophical idea of atoms, time, matter, motion, etc., with the (modern) scientific concepts. That atoms are composed of quarks of course has no bearing on the original (and persistently recurri
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by arketyp 3y ago
They will appear elsewhere because fundamentally: we want them. Now I can steelman the argument against ads by likening them to parasites or drugs. The "want" can then be put into question. Any way, the bottom line is that simple
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by arketyp 3y ago
Associating the author's face with the book makes sense for auto-fiction. Knausgård has an appropriately photogenic one congenial with the tone of the book series. The draft on the other hand is way too playful and does not reflect exp
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by arketyp 3y ago
Note to self, "a sliver of hope" is not to be confused with "the silver lining".
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by arketyp 3y ago
No
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by arketyp 3y ago
The work is based on the SAMed paper and repo, so I'm not re-inventing the wheel, still leveraging best practices. Generally I see a point in keeping things minimal though, anticipating getting gritty with it.
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by arketyp 3y ago
In a way our societies are already super intelligences, honed by natural selection and with their own incentives working on top of, and not necessarily aligned with, the desires of each of its constituent human apes. AI will just seamlessly
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by arketyp 3y ago
I'm working with fine tuning the SAM encoder using LoRA at the moment, so thanks for this. The Segment Anything code on its own, I must say though, is perhaps the most readable and easily navigated DL code I've encountered. Or may
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by arketyp 3y ago
PyTorch has the nicest debugging experience. JAX is supposed to be powerful too, but I'm skeptical of its static graph which is what made TensorFlow such a chore. I'm whishful about Mojo, in theory it sounds great.
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by arketyp 3y ago
Are you referring to Chollet? He does come off as arrogant at times. I had some hopes when Keras dropped the other backends and just became part of TensorFlow 2.0, for which I had high hopes too, but I think it just made it worse. I've
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by arketyp 3y ago
Old Norse is Germanic so I'm not sure whether you're suggesting those words entered the English vocabulary later, with the Vikings, of which I'm sure there are examples. On a side note, I liked seeing "swike", which
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by arketyp 3y ago
I can see how ridicule of this specific instance could be the best medicine for an optimal outcome, even by a utilitarian argument, which I generally don't like to make by the way. It is indeed nigh impossible, which is kind of my poin
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by arketyp 3y ago
For all the talk about responsible progress, the irony of their inability to align even their own incentives in this enterprise deserves ridicule. It's a big blow to their credibility and questions whatever ethical concerns they hold.
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by arketyp 3y ago
Except executed successfully?
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by arketyp 3y ago
Indeed. What has caught researchers off guard is the way system 2 properties seem to appear as emergent phenomena in LLMs. This is also what has prompted people like Hinton and Sutskever to make this condensed point about statistical modell
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by arketyp 3y ago
That's a feature of todo lists I think. Well, perhaps not for ADHD per se, but it's a way also to offload and let go of things. At least that's what I remember the lifehack character on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy said.
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by arketyp 3y ago
Many years ago at a LAN party at my friend's house his father came in with a news article saying studies showed that gamers could develop a better sense for instantaneous assessment of count, up to 6 I vaguely recall. Anyhow I do remem

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