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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
It's (probably) XKCD #989 ("Cryogenics"): https://xkcd.com/989/
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
My team can't even evaluate Ball (as a tool for physical simulation of spherical cow-like objects): https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/9 Currently, we are using Unreal Engine 5 to do our hundred
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Google Chrome has a built-in reading list (go open the 3-dotted menu at the top-right corner, then click on "Bookmarks and lists" -> "Reading list")
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Nobody has mentioned space-based solar power yet ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-re... : "Launch is the largest cost driver..."), which would the cheapest (and current
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Calculating the cost per kilogram for LEO with Starship gives me a new startup idea: small business (or even personal) interplanetary postal service. It only costs $150 per kg in the near future to send objects into space with Starship; so
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Great visualization, though (ironically, as one of the first Chrome experiments) the music no longer works on Chrome by default (go to site settings > sound and set it to "Allow" to hear it), and it is somewhat outdated now (fo
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
OpenAI could either hire private testers or use AB testing on ChatGPT Plus users (for example, oftentimes, when using ChatGPT, I have to select between 2 different responses to continue a conversation); both are probably much more better
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Is it something similar to beam search ( https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate#beam-search ) or completely different (probably is not beam search if it's changing code in the middle of a block)? (I can't
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
> One distinguishing feature of "deluxe-chat": although it gives high quality answers, it is very slow, so slow that the arena displays a warning whenever it is chosen as one of the competitors Beam search or weird attention&#x
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
Reddit may have told OpenAI to pay (probably a lot of) money to legally use Reddit content for training, which is something Reddit is doing with other AI labs ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-deal-
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by concurrentsquar 2y ago
You don't (you have to use real-valued inertial 'latent weights' during training): https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02107 (there is still a reduction in memory usage though (just not 24x): > "Furthermo
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
This is a related official press release (I can not find the actual source for this article): https://www.anl.gov/article/new-international-consortium-for... > The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) brings together
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
More new information from Swisher: > "More scoopage: sources tell me chief scientist Ilya Sutskever was at the center of this. Increasing tensions with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman over role and influence and he got the board on his
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
> Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard numbers. Wikipedia is an extensive snapshot of Human Knowledge. If you can compress the fi
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
This competition was from 2006. The consensus among AI experts (really just everyone) during the 1990s/2000s was that: - AGI could be achieved by giant GOFAI (usually expert systems/knowledge bases) projects (like OpenCog and Cyc)
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
You may be thinking about [ChronoZoom]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChronoZoom ) ; unfortunately that is from Microsoft Research, not Google.
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
Seems like even the servers are going offline - opened this on my phone - then after 30 minutes I was going to read this on my desktop but the website is now down. Wayback Machine is broken. Spooky.
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
Update: The livestream now has a timer (and is back up)
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
How about adding a arXiv Atom feed viewer for LK-99? It should be easy to implement: https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:LK+AND+9... is the Atom feed I am using to track all current replications (ie non
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
Andrew McCalip (co-founder of Cosine Additive) has been working on a project on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip ) to replicate the experimental results of the LK-99 papers ( https://news.ycombinator.com&
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[video/livestream] MeissnerOrBust(twitch.tv)
10 points by concurrentsquar 3y ago|4 comments
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
This is the patent of the superconductor: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023027536A1/en?oq=WO202... No company listed. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869088
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
> I really need someone to bring me down a notch. This is too exciting! It's on arXiv, which is a preprint journal, which means it has no peer-review; and is therefore generally less trustworthy (especially when the paper has no c
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
This, or cryptographic signing (like what the C2PA suggests) of all real digital media on the Earth are the only ways to maintain consensus reality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_reality ) in a post-AI world.
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
Seems like the changes are being reverted now (The index on the home page for C is restored, and most other pages are restored): https://ibb.co/3vGRr0Z
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by concurrentsquar 3y ago
I always wanted a Windows CE clamshell laptop, but I just have not had the time to look at ebay. The small laptops were always interesting to me. Is there a 3D printable case for the Raspberry Pi that is like one of these? I looked at the D