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by bbor 10mo ago
I’m glad someone else noticed the time frames — turns out the lead author here has published 28 distinct preprints in the past 60 days, almost all of which are marked as being officially published already/soon. Certainly some scienti
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by bbor 10mo ago
Ah, indeed I did! It's a searchable term in general, but I'm particularly fond of this write-up: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/ yet again I am begging, weeping, pleading for markdown
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by bbor 10mo ago
Aside, why not link the original video instead of a reddit post? It's a compilation, but regardless, Reddit seems about as "original" as any other platform. I'd certainly rather see Reddit links here than YouTube
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by bbor 10mo ago
This is just patently absurd: "AI" is just the vehicle (the excuse) - it's not the root of the problem nor is it the ultimate goal. People are investing in AI because they believe the scientists' warnings that th
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by bbor 10mo ago
large LLM-generated texts just get in the way of reading real text from real humans In terms of reasons for platform-level censorship, "I have to scroll sometimes" seems like a bad one.
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by bbor 10mo ago
Search is quite the undertaking, so I'm not really hoping that Mozilla takes that on in particular. I'm just pointing out the odd reality that I tend to trust Kagi (a for-profit) to fight the general good fight in a way I agree wi
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by bbor 10mo ago
That reminds me that their new tab grouping feature is the first one to really impress me and immediately enter my workflow in… years? Probably since either reader mode or auto-translate first dropped. Highly recommend everyone check it out
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by bbor 10mo ago
Random thought, but Kagi is acting like I wish Mozilla would. Their main product is a search engine, but they’ve been trying out a slew of other initiatives, all of which seem well thought out and integrate LLMs in an exclusively thoughtf
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by bbor 10mo ago
I mean, there are lots of models that run on home graphics cards. I'm having trouble finding reliable requirements for this new version, but V3 (from February) has a 32B parameter model that runs on "16GB or more" of VRAM[1],
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by bbor 11mo ago
Over the past few months, I've switched a few decently-sized python codebases from MyPy (which I used for years) to PyreFly (because the MyPy LSP ecosystem is somewhere between crumbling and deprecated at this point), and finally to Ty
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by bbor 11mo ago
Great article that I haven't finished, but if the author ends up reading this: any good dictionary of terms needs an index!
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by bbor 11mo ago
Well, expert systems aren’t machine learning, they’re symbolic. You mention perceptrons, but that timeline is proof for the power of scaling, not against — they didn’t start to really work until we built giant computers in the ~90s, and h
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by bbor 11mo ago
Maybe true in general, but Gary Marcus is an experienced researcher and entrepreneur who’s been writing about AI for literally decades. I’m quite critical, but I think we have to grant that he has plenty of credentials and understands the t
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by bbor 11mo ago
I always love a Marcus hot take, but this one is more infuriating than usual. He’s taking all these prominent engineers saying “we need new techniques to build upon the massive, unexpected success we’ve had”, twisting it into “LLMs were nev
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by bbor 11mo ago
Yup, exactly this! To clarify a bit more for the lurkers: Obviously the line can be hard to draw for most (intentionally so, even!), but at the end of the day there’s people who work for their living and people who invest for their living.
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by bbor 11mo ago
I see where you're coming from on a methodological level, but 1. Capitalists control our society, and live completely different lives than the rest. A typical CEO is certainly quite privileged, and may even work their way up to true
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by bbor 11mo ago
Traditionally when talking about money as it relates to social class, people refer to an income bracket I think this article is worth the read for the interesting data it highlights with the arbitrary framework, but it's hard t
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by bbor 11mo ago
So the story behind the title is that the UK gov claims that the IP block wasn't working? And the author agrees that IP blocks can't really work, even? Separate from the free speech debate, the international law part of this see
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by bbor 11mo ago
I share your general emotional reaction, but to be fair, heart disease is far and away more important than other type of disease. More people die of it in the US than die of all cancers combined : https://www.cdc.gov/nchs&#
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by bbor 11mo ago
I'm already quite put off by the title (it's science -- if you have a better benchmark, publish it!), but the contents aren't great either. It keeps citing numbers about "445 LLM benchmarks" without confirming wheth
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by bbor 1y ago
But… it found them… and they were previously marked unsolved… Note that “solved” does not equal “found”
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by bbor 1y ago
This is just tit-for-tat clickbait. The researcher’s wording was a bit unclear for sure, but far from incorrect.
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by bbor 1y ago
Exactly this, well said. Symbolic AI works so well that we don’t really think of it as AI anymore! I know I for one was shocked to take my first AI course in undergrad and discover that it was mostly graph search algorithms… To say the leas
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by bbor 1y ago
Quite telling -- thanks for the insightful comment as always, Simon. Didn't know that, even though I've been discussing this on and off all day on Reddit. He's a smart man with well-reasoned arguments, but I think he's a
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by bbor 1y ago
Wow, thank you for posting (you have to click the green "Enter" button, it's not super obvious -- someone needs to have a sit-down with Gary about design conventions! It's also completely un-bookmark-able, as there'
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by bbor 1y ago
Good reminder... Presumably, the lab phases were completed before 2025. In February of this year, a neuroscientist at John Hopkins said of the political spending cuts “This is simply the end.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science
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by bbor 1y ago
To paraphrase the great Noam Chomsky: cognitive science is in a pre-Gallilean stage. Many thousands of incredible scientists have done amazing work over the past ~century, but cutting-edge neuroscience still doesn't have the conceptual
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by bbor 1y ago
How does this vindicate Penrose in any slight sense?? This is using "nanotubular" in the sense of "ultrathin membrane bridges" that serve as "long-range intercellular transport" for macro objects in the um
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by bbor 1y ago
It’s just basic epistemology… like literally day one stuff. Too advanced for HN, I guess :(
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by bbor 1y ago
It's perfectly HackerNews, I agree -- any other forum would have native support for Markdown, which solves this problem much more cleanly! Maybe they'll finally turn it on for Markdown's 25th anniversary in a few years? A man

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