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by causal 2y ago
I agree. For those not in biotech, protein folding has been the holy grail for a long time, and AlphaFold represents a huge leap forward. Not unlike trying to find a way to reduce NP to P in CS. A leap forward there would be huge, even if i
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by causal 2y ago
I've yet to come across a satisfying definition for free will beyond "it's not determinism but also not randomness"
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by causal 2y ago
Right. It feels like conjecture built upon conjecture, I can't tell where the foundation lies. It at least needs to make some rigorous, real-world predictions we don't already have. I'm also dissatisfied with the notion of ti
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by causal 2y ago
The universe keeps going even when you're unconscious and having no experience at all. Others experience consciousness without your knowing. So why would you assume your past or future can't exist without your knowing?
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by causal 2y ago
This seemed like an obvious blindspot in the pg essay - if you take the 0.1% most successful founders and put them in a room together (which is the context of his essay) then of course you're going to come away looking for that special
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by causal 2y ago
Would flashing BIOS post-boot really work though? Also don't see how the article's exploit would be useful pre-decryption.
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by causal 2y ago
You mean the remaining 25k will also be out of a job? The article linked above doesn't go into detail on what container royalties are, but it sounds like it was a protection from being laid off negotiated in the past. And in the contex
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by causal 2y ago
It's a different attention mechanism with a different map setup, so fundamentally a different type of model
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by causal 2y ago
Nice - thanks for digging. I'm guessing you're right, iirc it rounded up the number of minutes.
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by causal 2y ago
Also annoyed that the title has > and here's how to do it better And then basically just says go use a vendor solution. Cool.
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by causal 2y ago
I've been wondering how Iridium costs are tallied. Recently had two calls with an Iridium phone, one sent and one received, about 1 minute each. T-Mobile charged me $50 for those. I found it very odd - it seemed like Iridium was someho
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by causal 2y ago
Any rule of thumb when it comes to adopting Python releases? Is it usually best to wait for the first patch version before using in production?
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by causal 2y ago
Past the edit window - want it to be higher up that only the model architecture is shared, no training scripts, as diggan correctly points out.
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by causal 2y ago
Oof you're right - no loss function or optimizer in place, so you'd need add that plus pull in data + tokenizer to get a training loop going. Apologies - you are right and I was wrong. I would edit my comments but they're pas
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by causal 2y ago
The source I linked is the PyTorch model, should be all you need to run some epochs. IDK what the pretraining scripts are.
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by causal 2y ago
Sure, the Llama 3 Community License agreement isn't one of the standard open licenses and sucks that you can't use it for free if you're an entity the size of Google. Here is the Llama source code, you can start training more
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by causal 2y ago
They have released a ton of open source? Llama 3 includes open training code, datasets, and models. Not to mention open-sourcing the foundation of most AI research today, pytorch.
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by causal 2y ago
I'd guess 1 in 10 model demos turn out to be useful product, at best. This and Sora are particularly annoying, though, for how they put together these huge flashy showcases like they're announcing some kind of product launch and t
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by causal 2y ago
Being pleasing to the eye is often not the point. Technical ability is a small part of the art experience. That's one reason a lot of people hate calling image gens "art" - it's so flashy without substance. But it'
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by causal 2y ago
> I am absolutely against artificial intelligence. I'm curious where someone like him draws the line. AI is an ambiguous term. He's an author and photographer, so perhaps AI has just come to mean LLMs and image generators? I mi
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by causal 2y ago
Tried again today, latency seemed a little better- still a lot of interrupting himself to change thoughts. I'm still most impressed by the image recognition - could clearly read even tiny or partially obscured print on products I held
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by causal 2y ago
One of two possibilities I foresee, unsure which will play out: 1) People surrender their perceived anonymity in favor of real interactions, embracing some kind of digital ID that ensures some platforms are human-only. or 2) AI gets good en
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by causal 2y ago
1) Your website, and the dialup sounds, might be my favorite thing about all of this. I also like the cowboy hat. 2) Maybe it's just degrading under load, but I didn't think either chat experience was very good. Both avatars inter
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by causal 2y ago
This presumes the AI has the same level of problem-solving agency of a real human, which I think is really asking for AGI. Until then I expect AI chatbots will mostly succeed at portraying care and gaslighting customers without actually fin
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by causal 2y ago
You're over-anthropomorphizing. The ability of a thing to appear human says nothing of sentience.
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by causal 2y ago
And the lack of detail on the architecture innovations are also... odd? Like why make such a big deal about how novel your architecture is and then just explain it as "derived from a set of computational units." ?? okay
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by causal 2y ago
I'm 90% sure I was talking to an LLM during a chat interaction with T-Mobile today. Pretty bad experience overall.
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by causal 2y ago
This is specifically about something that is very addictive. Moderation was never a likely outcome.
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by causal 2y ago
There's a line between product hype and cult-like faith that I think OpenAI straddles way more than any startup I've seen. And it's pretty disappointing how shamelessly they milk that following, even trying to replicate &quot
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by causal 2y ago
?? The author never suggested "the USA is a POS" - they gave a very nuanced breakdown of the factors at play.

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