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by beowulfey 1y ago
while true, that doesnt change the fact that every one of those independent units of transmission are within a single system (being trained on raw inputs), whereas the language model is derived from structured external data from outside the
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Side note, was that a recent transition? When did it become transformer-based?
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Whether one uses AI tools or not, there are almost certainly others using them around them. AI tools are ubiquitous now.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
It's not the computer that Microsoft is selling, it's Windows. It's apples and oranges (no pun intended). Apple doesn't charge for its software and Microsoft has many other products. It's just about how you distribu
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by beowulfey 1y ago
I cannot quite tell what point this is trying to make. LLMs are just the next Clippy? As far as I can remember no one actually liked Clippy, so my read is you are not a fan of LLMs, but I could see it going either way.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
With that in mind, would you say the administration is going about this the right way? Because this is going to hurt all H1B candidates, not just the "middle".
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by beowulfey 1y ago
There are a lot biochemical hypotheses for why social media is unhealthy that I personally buy into.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
You think they would have done it if they didn't get taken to court?
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by beowulfey 1y ago
> What's actually wrong with this? It's because they did not choose to pay for the books; they were forced to pay and they would not have done so if the lawsuit had not fallen this way. If you are not sure why this is differe
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by beowulfey 1y ago
I don't think most people realize just how much of ancient civilization is now under water. The oceans rose 120 meters since 10,000 years ago. I've always dreamed of making a tool to help visualize this. It would likely be very dr
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by beowulfey 1y ago
that is also assuming the demand is atomic when that isn't necessarily the case. A lot of that pooled demand can come from singular sources. in other words, not all demand is created equal
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by beowulfey 1y ago
This is a silly argument. That wealth is already there. If the people with privately held wealth wanted to support research at the level that it is at now, then they could already do so. The fact that they do not does not lead me to think t
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Look, I'm going to be honest -- your comment here tells me you have very little knowledge of how scientific funding, or even the scientific process in general, actually works. Would you like information on what is actually going on? I&
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by beowulfey 1y ago
How many innovations have been made without government funding or subsidies?
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by beowulfey 1y ago
I'm an academic. I am of the mind that the whole system has been upended and we'll be lucky if we're making any progress towards research in two years. Part of me thinks we're in a lame duck situation for the NSF and NIH
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by beowulfey 1y ago
I have no idea what you even mean by this. Are you suggesting the rest of the world, with no centralized government or single budget, could grow to match what the USA previously had because it worked in the USA?
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Endowment funds are not a checking account, they are not just cash on hand for universities to spend as they please. They could certainly liquidate, but then each year their disbursement would get lower. There is no situation where they cou
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Thanks for your comments. The ROI is not positive because there is no guarantee basic science will lead to any money-making outcome. That's not how basic science works and it is never how it worked, but basic science is absolutely cruc
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by beowulfey 1y ago
1) Why would companies pay for basic research? They used to get that research for free. 2) Very few schools have endowments that are large enough to support current faculty research costs; even Harvard can only support all research off thei
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by beowulfey 1y ago
The scale of the US research program, compared to the rest of the world, is about an order of magnitude difference.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Does Search have a basic HTML mode too? Might be worth trying it if so.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
auto correct gone awry
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by beowulfey 1y ago
> I'm not really sure that soup kitchens do much besides allow a surplus time of the more fortunate to gather socially together for a pro-social benefit You say this like it is a bad thing, which confuses me
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by beowulfey 1y ago
One might argue that it is the same thing, but that Jurassic Park comes from an era before that was common. It would be a different, though related, point in favor of the duplicative nature of media today to the one the author mentions.
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Ironically enough this is a good display of critical thinking! For what it's worth, I learned how to balance a checkbook in fifth grade. My child is not old enough for me to know the curriculum these days but my impression based on tal
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by beowulfey 1y ago
People aren't going to learn to be skeptical or think critically because we've been literally removing that from the curriculum in schools. How can someone be skeptical of something if they don't even know how to be skeptic
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by beowulfey 1y ago
$9 is basically an hour of parking or whatever so really it's likely to be saving people a lot of money since transit costs a lot less
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Only if you charge someone to reproduce it for them
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by beowulfey 1y ago
I'm with you on this. I'm pouring one out for human skill because I think our ability to do a lot of creative work (coding included) is on the brink of extinction. But I definitely think these are the future
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by beowulfey 1y ago
Which do you prefer of the different models for coding?

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