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by cornel_io 3y ago
Whether or not you agree, a lot of people do. There is a trivial sense in which a perfect compression algorithm is a perfect predictor (if it ever mispredicted anything, that error would make it a sub-optimal compressor for a corpus that
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by cornel_io 3y ago
For those of us who don't Windows, can you explain what a detour is?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
But...they did that, with Llama 2, and apparently did get better results, at least up to a point. My big WTF is, if you're feeding the same amount of data through all of them, then to use the same amount of compute for the smaller
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I was super skeptical of this article, because I was trying to imagine how we'd have to arrange extractors in the oceans to pull any meaningful amount of energy out of the rotation of the earth based on tides, and only at the end of th
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Actually, re: my edit - I think it really is worth considering whether there might be an accidental delay here that's on the NYT side. It's totally possible that Twitter is hitting the sites it redirects people to before it actu
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I went through my own Twitter feed, and found 10 non-NYT links. All redirected almost immediately through t.co via wget, only lagging on the destination sites. I also tried 5 NYT links. All had a very consistent 5 second delay through wget.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130129 has some wget commands that absolutely confirm it, at least with a couple examples. You can run the commands yourself in the terminal.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I'm guessing it's reactive, and Federalist links tended to be garbage often enough to convince someone they should hit the ban button, whereas the others didn't rise up with trash often enough to matter?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
As someone who quit Google in large part because of all the stuff like readability that I ran into there (red tape everywhere in sight, low productivity due to process, zero urgency bc everyone is fat off the money-printer, no deadlines for
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Readability doesn't help Google or anyone else, it's a pure "inmates running the asylum" artifact.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Not only could you make this in Unity, it'd probably be easier than in Pygame by a good margin. Game tech is basically universal for zero-graphics games like this, it's 100% "business logic". If you have to fight with th
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by cornel_io 3y ago
We 100% know why airplanes of every shape and size stay aloft, and can calculate lift/drag extremely accurately based on the geometry of the plane and the airflow, in both steady state and much worse conditions. We have great approxima
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I know nothing about this one in particular but typical game license deals are something like 25% of revenue to the IP holder. A strong dev like EA may bump that down a little bit and a mega IP (Harry Potter, Marvel, etc) might bump it up,
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Whether or not training on publicly available data counts as a copyright violation is still completely up in the air legally, and clearly a lot of lawyers at all of the top tech companies think they're going to end up in the clear unde
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I think it didn't land because so many people are in the comments seriously arguing almost exactly what you were saying as a joke. Tough environment for parody to thrive in, alas...
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by cornel_io 3y ago
This isn't about a QM interpretation, rather it's about a non-quantum model of gravity with some features that would make it distinguishable in principle from any quantum gravity. Edit: I maybe semi take this back, it actually may
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Slack to most end users is the client, though. As well as the admin, user management UI, scalability, webhooks, etc, absolutely none of which is handled by "you can chat with other users in Linux if you all log into the box" whi
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Have you tried to develop in a language or environment that you have 0 familiarity with? I find in those cases I'm up and running at least 3-4x as fast, cutting weeks off the learning curve.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
"Stop trying to make 'Objective C' happen" ...is what all non-Apple programmers have been begging ever since the iPhone came out.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
A separate directory being crowded with things that serve a similar purpose is vastly superior to dumping crap in the project root, though... There's a reason Linux doesn't just stuff everything into /
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by cornel_io 3y ago
You can, though, that's literally what refinancing is.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
They're also selling much worse headphones than what an audiophile would buy for $500+, but trendier.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
No. There is no incentive for car AI to improve because everyone knows it won't be allowed for basically forever. Chat AI is here and will progress, so there's massive incentive for it to improve. Chat AI will improve at at least
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Is that Waymo or Cruise?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
There are dozens and maybe hundreds of different approaches that could theoretically get around the limitations of GPT4 that merely haven't been trained at scale yet. There is absolutely no lack of ideas in this space, including potent
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Bad faith actors who have been beating the "tech sucks" drum on Twitter since before Chat GPT even came out (despite in several cases working for big tech, in AI, before getting rightfully shitcanned for bad behavior on the job) k
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Uhhh...this is out there, from like a dozen different groups. Not going to do a full Googling for you on my phone because it's literally everywhere but "LLM for audio" gives https://ai.googleblog.com/2022&#x2F
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by cornel_io 3y ago
> And you can't even use Bard as a developer, there's no API! There is an API for the underlying model, it's just in alpha/beta/whatever they call limited invite-only release and you have to ask your devrel team
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by cornel_io 4y ago
This is dead-on: those 7 probabilities (which I notice the author declined to actually put real numbers to: does "very questionable" mean 0.001%, or 10%?) cover one very specific way that AGI could kill us. Points 4-6, three of
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by cornel_io 4y ago
Solutions like Spanner are fantastic for some things (and within Google it's a no-brainer, since you're not paying an outrageous markup), but besides being expensive, they don't just let you drop them in as a scalable replace

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