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by bwfan123 2y ago
math arose firstly as a language and formalism in which statements could be made with no room for doubt. the sciences took it further and said that not only should the statements be free of doubt, but also that they should be testable in th
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by bwfan123 2y ago
this is the question that the greeks wrestled with over 2000 years ago. at the time there were the sophists (modern llm equivalents) that could speak persuasively like a politician. over time this question has been debated by philosophers,
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by bwfan123 2y ago
fair, but "logically consistent thoughts" is a subject of deep investigation starting from the early euclidean geometry to the modern godel's theorems. ie, that logically consistent thinking starts from symbolization, axioms,
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by bwfan123 2y ago
the machine is fooling you with a mimicry of reasoning. and you are falling for it.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Fantastic course and website, thank you professors for this valuable contribution. I would ask for exercises and practices attached to the course that one could do to penetrate the BS - this would be invaluable as we increasingly get bombar
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by bwfan123 2y ago
"assume the sale" is the marketing tactic. ie, in every pitch, project that agi (whatever that means) is here, and is a persistent threat. unfortunately, ai is not search or social. there are no network-effects here. so, get-big-f
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by bwfan123 2y ago
indeed, these machines do a great mimicry of "reasoning", we get fooled by it. the word reasoning has been subverted by those pushing these llms, and we all have bought-in. quite a magic trick this illusionist has pulled on us.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
thanks for sharing that insightful reddit thread.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
can people vote with their feet, and leave the platform ? but the masses are addicted to the slop that meta feeds them.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
you dont control your destiny in orgs. you can only be passionate about engineering. you are a hero one day, a zero the next. here today, gone tomorrow. focus on engineering excellence, you seem to be too focused on your place/status i
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by bwfan123 2y ago
ha, the story is filled with ironies. OpenAIs $200 closed-ai uppended by hedge-funds free side-project Quant geeks outcompete overpaid silicon valley devs etc. Basically, hubris gets its comeuppance which is a david vs goliath biblical arch
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Perfectly echos my thoughts as a 25+ year veteran engineer who has been laid off 3 times. Your writing style is poetic as well. I would add a few more. 1) There is no permanancy in tech, only impermanancy - hence, stay on your toes, be a le
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by bwfan123 2y ago
The panic is because a lot of beliefs have been challenged by r1 and those who made investments on these beliefs will now face losses
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by bwfan123 2y ago
It’s mit licensed, go run it on your own hardware if you are worried about data leaks etc. That’s what breaks open ai, anthropic’s business models. Anyone can offer services using these models - hence they are commodities.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this beautiful essay by a legend that captures the essence of the llm debate. That, the use of formal languages - although an evil (since it is not a natural human language) is essential to avoid nonsense (ie halluci
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by bwfan123 2y ago
but it also means that reasoning models are a commodity, and there goes the moat for openAI, anthropic and others. they cannot charge a premium.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
bloated PyTorch general purpose tooling aimed at data-scientists now needs a rethink. Throwing more compute at the problem was never a solution to anything. The silo’ing of the cs and ml engineers resulted in bloating of the frameworks and
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by bwfan123 2y ago
please dont self-proclaim "groundbreaking" or "novel" or "innovative" - It diminishes your contribution since it clearly is an attention-grab.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
there are problems in ml-infra where rust could have a good impact. appears to me that there you are merging 2 popular bandwagons - agentic and rust - perhaps you could solve specific infra problems using rust which are inefficiently solved
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by bwfan123 2y ago
I beg to differ, I think the writing conveys beautifully, the deeper abstract ideas embedded in what appears to be a simple problem - hence, it captures the essential spirit of what math is about
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by bwfan123 2y ago
the extent to which a random string is a "theorem" of some system can be measured i am guessing. ie, given some text, to what extent is it "grounded" in some sense in facts.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
i would think public outcry by influencers on social media (such as this thread) is a better deterrent, and also establishes a public datapoint and exhibit for future reference.. as it is hard to scale the tarpit.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
not only money, but also a culture of "all your data belong to us" because our ai going to save you and the world. the hubris reminds me of dot-com era. that bust left a huge wreckage. not sure how this one is going to land.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
yea, it comes across as an extremely entitled mobster take. heads i win, tails you lose. we own all your content, and you better behave. i can bet this is incentive-speak.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
indeed. this will spur research on how to distinguish BS from legit content. which is the fundamental hallucination problem in llms. and all of us will benefit from this.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
thanks !
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Can you share a good reference to peirce's work on existential graphs ? also, can you share references to how Peano relates to Peirce's work. I loved Peirce's essays, but have not tried to read his work on logic or semiotics.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Speak bro. gen ai is the wet dream of mgmt types tired of ceding control to the pesky workers, not to mention highly paid entitled devs. How dare they poke fun at us suits. Now is the time for the managers of the world to wrest control back
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Pick the area that has more engineering complexity and complements your unique skills and personality. In this case that would be robotics
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Devalapers developers developers - balmer monkey dance - the key to be entrenched is the platform ecosystem. Also why aws is giving trainium credits for free

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