chronolitus

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by chronolitus 3y ago
but, since it is somewhat like a random walk, isn't it guaranteed that if you go on for infinitely many tosses, at some point you will be very rich? [1] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/493446
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by chronolitus 4y ago
You put the finger on exactly what I find incredible about the recent progress in ML - the reason I wrote this post was to see how much I could de-mystify these state-of-the-art models for myself, and the conclusion is that (after the model
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by chronolitus 4y ago
Good point, will do!
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by chronolitus 4y ago
Hi! I'm the author (Daniel). I used OneNote on some old surface tablet I had lying around, but these days I'm not sure I would use it again (for example because it doesn't support exporting parts of a page to .svg)
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by chronolitus 4y ago
Back when GPT-3 came out, I wanted to understand how it works, so read the papers and made this post: https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html I hoped it would be simple enough for anyone who knows a
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by chronolitus 4y ago
check out "Raised by Wolves"
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by chronolitus 4y ago
This view may ultimately be right, but massively ignores the current observed trends in capabilities increase[0], scaling laws[1], and things like grokking[2]. I'm seeing an increasing amount of researchers (me included) moving to stan
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by chronolitus 4y ago
To stay sane: for myself as a developer, I consider github copilot as a (much) faster google/code search work-flow. I can copy / or re-mix code I find in a google search, but it's my responsibility to figure out the copyright
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by chronolitus 4y ago
This method does work, but not entirely (see for example https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/b5aro8/comment/ej... ). The reason is that the underlying problem is mechanical (a likely explanati
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by chronolitus 4y ago
For those who don't know about the joycon problem: I bought a new switch with 4 joycon controllers. A year later, 2 were unusable (the sticks drift), a third one with slight but acceptable drift. On the other hand, I have 4 xbox 360 co
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by chronolitus 4y ago
Typical. Here we are trying to outsource our work to foreign horses. It's all fun and games until the wheel stops spinning and we realize there are no typing jobs left for honest American horses, leaving our own ponies penniless.
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by chronolitus 4y ago
Good idea! Maybe a note that attests that your 1 token is backed by government certification? What about making that note green, to make sure people understand that it is the real thing?
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Another take on this particular question (that I found much more interesting) https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I'm a big fan! Such a fun way to approach a new language! Would make it absolutely perfect (in my mind) if you could click the hiragana to hear the sounds, but I understand that that would require a lot of storage. (For my self, I&#x27
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by chronolitus 5y ago
IIRC that's how it works! it starts from a first image, and improves it until 'satisfied' that the result fits the prompt
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OSINT decoding Russian artillery strikes by listening in on radio communications(actualcontrol.substack.com)
58 points by chronolitus 5y ago|0 comments
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I was reminded of this when I ended up on reddit's Unity development subreddit ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/top/ ) The daily amount of creativity, talent and technical ability blows my mind!
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Reminds me of this post by Scott Aaronson: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6288 "Forget all that. Judged against where AI was 20-25 years ago, when I was a student, a dog is now holding meaningful conversations in Englis
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by chronolitus 5y ago
To me this is a good reminder of our brain's weird ability to take any abstract thing, use it over and over to figure out some common rules, and translate it into a model which uses the good old physical-world concepts we're used
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I find this discussion on the topic to be of high quality (low noise, high signal) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKYWbXioKaANATxKY/soares-tal... Personally I think that consciousness (as in qualia) is the narrow
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Ask HNs should allow the asker to create poll. Here's one for this question https://fast-poll.com/poll/1f20e9ff (I wonder how much valuable information on HN gets lost because it does not get extracted properly)
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Things like this make me lose confidence not in Mathematics itself, but in the brain's ability to truly 'grasp' Math. I know I am a layman, and this particular example is peanuts to an adept, but I am sure similar examples ex
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Amazing project! Although, I would probably err on the side of caution and at least wear some safety glasses when hand-loading a supersonic trebuchet.
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Best of luck! Have you looked / interacted with Pepper and Nao robots? In my experience, Aldebaran Robotics tried hard to go down the "lifelike robot" route, and the issues they encountered are real and hard problems. A big p
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Squid Game Theory: Nash Equilibria in Korean Death Games(dugas.ch)
3 points by chronolitus 5y ago|0 comments
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I know this topic usually devolves into flamewar, but I'm used to seeing at least a few interesting comments on climate posts on HN. Here's a few topics that would make sense for hackers to discuss: - Insider knowledge on state of
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I was learning to use Krita the other day, and was surprised that while you can draw frame by frame, there's no way to draw as the clock advances (and then have the drawing converted to individual frames). Could be useful to map natu
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by chronolitus 5y ago
Sufficiently expert wizards would probably go around saying "Magic is not magic!"
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by chronolitus 5y ago
It almost feels as though economics discussion is made complicated on purpose. Almost none of the comments and article mean anything practical to me. A country issues debt to itself? In money it can print? Here's the crux: The US goes
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by chronolitus 5y ago
I find it strange that omniscient (a.k.a Time-Travel Debugging) is not more common, or even the default. I assume it is due to memory cost, but it could also just be that low adoption leads to low development effort. Anyone here with experi

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