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by calf 3y ago
I've been watching For All Mankind and a small subplot was the director finally choosing to "play ball with the big boys" in order as to secure funding and stability for NASA's scientific projects. It made NASA underling
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by calf 3y ago
OK then that's tedious work, not complex work. I know that lots of people have personal stories of using ChatGPT but I was hoping something publicly reported on or like a showcase of truly impressive usages somewhere.
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by calf 3y ago
But I'm not seeing an explicit reason why experience is needed for intelligence. You're repeating this point over and over again but not actually explaining why, you're just assuming that it's a kind of given.
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by calf 3y ago
> Talking to a computer to bring it to make some quite complicated task is INCREDIBLE... Are there any good examples of this? I struggle to use ChatGPT, maybe I'm using it not cleverly (or deeply) enough.
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by calf 3y ago
Then why can't the the grounded truth of ChatGPT be born of a body of silicon and emotional experience of zillions of lines of linguistic corpus?
606.
by calf 3y ago
Did Ilya give a reason why transformers are theoretically sufficient? I've watched him talk in a CS seminar and he's certainly interesting to listen to.
607.
by calf 3y ago
Are there theoretical models that use real time weights? Every intro to deep learning focuses on stochastic gradient descent for neural network weights; as a layperson I'm curious about what online algorithms would be like instead.
608.
by calf 3y ago
Well I think toddlers get both offline training from millions of years of evolution (idea being that evolution itself is nature's very own training algorithm, a computational process that creates genetic information), and online traini
609.
by calf 3y ago
I don't find that a compelling argument :) If one computational model accepts only assembly code, and another model accepts only C++, it tells us nothing about what is going on inside their black boxes. They could be doing computationa
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by calf 3y ago
I think it's reductivism to assume that neural networks cannot emergently support/implement a non-stochastic computational model capable of explicit logical reasoning. We already have an instance of emergent logic. Animals engage
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by calf 3y ago
"In mice" is one of those shorthand sayings that scientists/professors themselves coined, it's not as dismissive as you're making it out. In this context of social media it's very useful as a reminder.
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by calf 3y ago
But that's exactly my problem--there are countless examples of banking crises the result of colossally irresponsible and negligent financial and economic decisions. Yet the government bails those out and does not call those fraud. The
613.
by calf 3y ago
> They successfully prosecuted the main perpetrator of a massive and very complex fraud in spite of him being (pre collapse) the absolute golden child of the industry. Not OP, but as a layperson like myself, what is the compelling proof
614.
by calf 3y ago
You talk about a moral education, but performatively your plan is "an individual solution to a social problem". Irony aside, in other words, when homeschooling is the (rational) response of a parent doing their best by their child
615.
by calf 3y ago
But couldn't one say the same about P vs NP? No polynomial algorithm for SAT being analogous to no analytic solution for 3-body? It's not that closed form answers are required by the insistence of anyone, I just thought it's
616.
by calf 3y ago
My dad has Parkinson's and one of the pamphlets said such neural diseases can result in confabulating behavior. So I can definitely see the relevance of confabulate instead of hallucinate. It turns out, some medical experts wrote these
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by calf 3y ago
That's interesting, I'm a millenial aged leftist so I don't have the political baggage from the 70s-90s that older people have on Chomsky. And so I find in a globalized, hegemonic world, Chomsky's first reason is just as
618.
by calf 3y ago
It was over a decade ago, so the phone elicited comments from strangers how small it was for a smartphone, and they would ask what brand.
619.
by calf 3y ago
Once at a fancy Japanese restaurant in NYC, I found a pea-sized crab inside a cooked mussel, and showed it to the staff. They didn't know what it was! I don't recall exactly, but either I was brave/stupid, or checked my Sony
620.
by calf 3y ago
The parasite is mainly in Hawai'i (it reported said that many Hawai'ians do not eat salads anymore) and now Florida, expanding northwards in North America. Up in Canada I've been eating my garden leafy greens, but experts say
621.
by calf 3y ago
When I was in grad school, I would catch up reading journal papers on the plane and keep to myself, but finally on two separate occasions it sparked lengthy conversation, because the other person was an engineer or a mathematician.
622.
by calf 3y ago
I think people who use the word whataboutism do not understand the more difficult concept of hypocrisy. It's more difficult because it requires contextual reasoning. "Whataboutism" is easy because it's purely syntactic,
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by calf 3y ago
If the abstract actually defined intermediate we wouldn't have comments talking so much about advanced education like PhDs and STEM majors...
624.
by calf 3y ago
After the article, my opinion is going to be that people do this because they are politically privileged by a social relativistic argument. The professor in the interview is advantaged by the narrative that proofs are socially constructed.
625.
by calf 3y ago
It would be interesting to see some computer-aided proof expert write a possible counter-response to the article.
626.
by calf 3y ago
This problem is why I strongly dislike social relativism arguments. It's sloppy reasoning and I can't make heads or tails of what they're asserting. I also disagree with the interviewee for this reason, I think his argument i
627.
by calf 3y ago
A research university is a pretty select group though. What about the average working family with children? Or retired age adults? Do Germans not have a "slow food" movement where they are encouraged to garden, cook, and compost a
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by calf 3y ago
I went to Princeton, I can assure you Narayanan is only one professor among the many brilliant STEM scientists there.
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by calf 3y ago
Couldn't memoryless neural networks still possibly learn the Next-State function of a Finite-State machine? Depending on the training algorithm. Especially if the eventual usage of such networks is to be called over and over again to g
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by calf 3y ago
Well I can hear a repetitive rattling sound on the low bass notes, but it is rattling very fast and evenly. So I call that tinny. A pure treble note like from a computer wave form does not rattle like that, to my ears. A normal piano is sup

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