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by bjourne 9mo ago
Basic problem with Google's AI is that it never says "you can't" or "I don't know". So many times it comes up with plausible-sounding incorrect BS to "how to" questions. E.g., "in a facebook
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> Short answer: Japan treats high-speed rail as a tightly controlled system, not just fast trains on tracks. Is exactly what a text bot would say. Eloquent, but when you think about it, is just nonsense. Which operator treats HSR as &quo
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by bjourne 9mo ago
I counted 15 hallucinated citations. The authors explanation is plausible, but it is still 15 citations to works they clearly have not read. Any university teaches you that citing sources you personally have not verified supports you claim(
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Trust is damaged. I cannot verify that the evidence is correct only that the conclusions follow from the evidence. I have to rely on the authors to truthfully present their evidence. If they for whatever reason add hallucinated citations to
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Yeah, but you cannot use although anywhere you can use though, though.
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Still a citation to a work you clearly have not read...
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There are legitimate , non-cheating ways to use LLMs for writing. I often use the wrong verb forms ("They synthesizes the ..."), write "though" when it should be "although", and forget to comma-separate clau
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Sorry, but blaming it on "AI autocomplete" is the dumbest excuse ever. Author lists come from BibTeX entries and while they often contains errors since they can come from many sources, they do not contain completely made up auth
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Japan was an industrialized country even before WWII, China was not. Moreover, both Japan and China used protectionism to nurture domestic industries.
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The other side of the coin is that many real bug reports are dismissed out of hand. That is frustrating if you have spent hours or days triaging an issue and have submitted a well-written bug report. It would be useful if projects advertise
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Take a look at a plot of China's gdp per year since 1980. A curve can only get so exponential.
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Doesn't using ssh from colab violate their ToS?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness You can still call your congressman, senator, local political, councilman, or someone else, spend 30 mins watching a demonstration, donate $10 to Amnesty, tell a rando
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by bjourne 9mo ago
You should be commended for an honest question, but why the hell are you home schooling your kid if you have no idea what you're doing? That's child abuse.
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Does the US really lack cheap easily exploitable labor? What about Uber taxi drivers?
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by bjourne 9mo ago
But I wonder if that characterization is actually flattering for Prolog? I can't think of any situation, skill, technology, paradigm, or production process for which "doing it right the first time" beats iterative refinement.
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Is that why corporations bid to build wind power in the UK EEZ at record-low prices? :)
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> the stated power capacity of wind generation is a theoretical maximum, and the actual capacity will be much lower in practice. Capacity is constant. You're talking about capacity factor , i.e., average utilization. Numbers from 2
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by bjourne 9mo ago
That's more of a damning indictment of the American education system than praise of immigration. I'm not a fan of autarky in general but it seems reasonable that a country should be self-sufficient in smart people.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Haha, I'm touting my own ten year old horn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12749717 Also see steveklabnik's comments. They are relevant. Back then the C implementation of the (i.e., "one") micro
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Modern discourse is all about smearing groups and people you dislike. BLM hates whites, BDS Jews , Muslims Christians and so on
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Also talker. And impact force increases with the square of distance so the extra height matters.
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You're tall so you can't sit upright? :P Do you need to lean backwards when you work too? I think you are wrong and a lot of people are not fine with it. I don't need a closeup view of someone's bald spot while trying
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Keep lying.
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The same argument applies to ad-sponsored media too. In fact, have you noticed that it was a very long time since a major paper did an exposé of the very sleazy online casino business? I wonder why.
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Cookie pop-ups are mandatory so you need something.
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Google for "malay people acne" or other acne-related queries. It will readily spit out the dumbest pseudo science you can find. The AI bot finds a lot of dumb shit on the internet which it serves back to you on the Google page. Yo
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How do you know that generates high quality text?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the problem is that it is almost impossible to evaluate sampling methods. You can't just look at perplexity and conclude that A is better than B. So you need large-scale expensive human evaluations. Ev

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