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by bwfan123 2y ago
My personal view is that science is our human “interpretation” of what’s “out there” Using a language (math) and a method (scientific method) which leave no room for doubt. It is purely a human endeavor much like other arts we pursue - exc
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Same here, I am baffled by making llama free for all to use. Only incentive I see for them is to remove barriers to ai slop generation. So, their platforms become stickier. Risky bet if you ask me.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
Reminds me of software i have built which had some basic foundational problems. Each bug was fixed with a data-patch that fixed the symptom but not the cause. hence we continually played whack-a-mole with bugs. we would squash one bug, and
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by bwfan123 2y ago
this work is similar to the GSM symbolic paper (applied to putnam) https://arxiv.org/html/2410.05229v1 going forward, llm performance must be reported on the confounded benchmark as well
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Founder-led companies still have a shred of such a culture left. Once founder ceo leave, it is an inevitable slide into decay.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
>It seems like neural networks will never figure out ladders (!!!!!). And it's not clear why such a simple pattern is impossible for deep neural nets to figure out. this is very interesting (i dont play go) can you elaborate - what
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viewed from a skeptical lens of incentives: openai and epochai are both startups with every incentive to peddle this narrative. when no one else can independently verify.
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by bwfan123 2y ago
openai and epochai (frontier math) are startups with a strong incentive to push such narratives. the real test will be in actual adoption in real world use cases. the management class has a strong incentive to believe in this narrative, sin
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by bwfan123 2y ago
regardless of where you are in the world, your race, religion, language, whether you are left or right in political leaning, you are better off believing in newton's theories. it will help you build tools to navigate the world better a
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people have always believed whatever they want. hence, it has been a game of persuation for eons. the most persuasive person was always listened to regardless of what they said. science changed the game by insisting that it is not what we b
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by bwfan123 2y ago
it has always been an "attention"-economy rather than a "science"-economy. and scientists are human too, with their biases. there are two kinds of people. the majority of us have made up our minds and find evidence for i
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there are workflows where the outputs are "narratives" - an example is customer support. another example is summarization of text. characteristic of these use cases is that there is no one right answer. in these use cases agents f
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by bwfan123 2y ago
brilliant take from Ben Affleck on ai in movies.. "movies will be one of the last things to be replaced by ai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypURoMU3P3U including this quote: "being a craftsman is knowing h