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by cosmojg 3y ago
Better yet, you can get the latest version of RetroArch up and running on an ODROID-C1 with Arch Linux Arm: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Here are links to the exact machines I mentioned, in order: [1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/364239987954 [2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/145134550658 [3] https://www.ebay.com/itm/17
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Assuming it's small enough for your needs, a used Intel NUC can get you loads more mileage than pretty much any ARM SoC at an equivalent price. Currently available on eBay: * $49.95 for an i5-5300U at 2.3GHz, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of S
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by cosmojg 3y ago
As someone who makes a living developing AI/ML solutions for various government organizations from the NIH to the DoD, I am confident that the first large-scale, AI-related disaster is going to be far less agentic and far more mundane
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Can you even properly define "self" using Occam's razor?
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by cosmojg 3y ago
I can do (almost) all of these things with a traditional Linux distribution, git, and a few scripts written in my language of choice, and I can do it faster. Nix seems more competitive with something like Conda or Spack than a traditional p
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Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by cosmojg 3y ago|1 comments
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by cosmojg 3y ago
As a computational neuroscientist, I find myself both terribly disappointed and unfortunately reminded of Gell-Mann amnesia.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
>> We learn precisely nothing from this > That's literally never true about anything. But if this were true, data compression would be impossible.
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Analysis of 4M Climbing Ascents(alessandromasullo.com)
1 points by cosmojg 3y ago|0 comments
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by cosmojg 3y ago
RLHF and fine-tuning! While these methods make prompting more accessible and approachable to people unfamiliar with LLMs and otherwise expecting an omniscient chatbot, they make the underlying dynamics a lot more unstable. Personally, I pre
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Wait, isn't the point of teaching the OODA loop to avoid maintaining a legible OODA loop? As I've been taught it, OODA loops are a means of modeling and interfering with adversaries, not a tool for organizing yourself.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Heh, the "Memes" section of their Essays page is brilliant: https://htmx.org/essays/#memes
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by cosmojg 3y ago
> It simplifies prompting and makes the LLM more steerable, more useful, more helpful. While this is true, there is also evidence that RLHF and supervised instruction tuning can hurt output quality and accuracy[1], which are instead bett
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by cosmojg 3y ago
I regret to inform you that "average intelligence" is a far lower bar than you might think.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
There's definitely more to it than this, but keep in mind that djb was a teenager at the time, likely flaming for the sake of flaming as we all have at some point in our misguided youth, and no doubt, he was quite proud of his library.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Indeed! It's awful, but all-too-true. Those who enable the bullies can be as bad for the group as the bullies themselves. Cultivating, protecting, and maintaining a peaceful and trustful society is an active effort, not a passive one.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Have you tried running `julia --lisp`? That's a full-blown Femtolisp interpreter built right into the REPL! I also recommend playing with `Meta.show_sexpr` which can take any Julia expression and represent it as an S-expression. For ex
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Just speculating, but this looks like precisely the sort of result one might expect from fine-tuning models on chain-of-thought-prompted interactions like those described by Wei et al. in 2022[1]. Alternatively, as Madaan et al. show in the
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Wow! I sincerely wonder how all those folks manage to do business in the tech industry without ever touching Linux, Git, Bash, GCC, glibc, WordPress, Ansible, Grafana, MongoDB, 7-Zip, Vim, Emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird, StackOverflow, Wikiped
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Heh, I think I'm going to start bringing up this paper whenever somebody tells me they majored in communications. This stuff is fascinating! Shannon really was a genius.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Huh, I hadn't considered that the rise of 5G, and faster internet more generally, would make "Tor phones" viable. The cost of using Tor as an everyday VPN, on any device, will soon be negligible (ignoring the usual server-sid
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by cosmojg 3y ago
I used this to recover data from a phone with a shattered screen and, later, turn it into a full-fledged remote server. It is undeniably one of the most beautifully designed tools I've ever used. Major props to the developers.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
> If you want to get on the right track for how the brain actually works pickup Minsky's Society of Mind. I was with you until that last sentence. What you call the "Mental Health Industrial Complex" is the modern-day equi
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Glued screens are a big part of why we get to enjoy the level of water resistance we have today, and while I agree it's tricky, I can tell you I've successfully changed the batteries on two different phones with nothing but a hair
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by cosmojg 3y ago
For anyone else in this predicament, I was able to get around this by editing some registry keys and installing from a lightly modified ISO on the one Windows machine in my fleet.
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Rates of Spontaneous Mutation (Drake et al., 1998)[1] says that a human's genome accumulates around ~64 new mutations per generation through meiosis alone. Those mutations are propagated into every cell of the newborn baby. Over a life
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by cosmojg 3y ago
Have you tried PostmarketOS? If your old phones are on this list[1], you absolutely can turn them into a very affordable k8s cluster! [1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/All_devices
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by cosmojg 3y ago
This right here is Android's killer app, and the very reason I've exclusively owned rootable Android mobile devices (Nexus → OnePlus → Pixel) for a little over a decade. Every single one of my old devices that isn't lost or t
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by cosmojg 3y ago
> That's why we have things like alcohol and don't have things like heroin. No, by your logic, alcohol would have been banned long before any other mind-altering substance. A multitude of longterm studies[1] have borne out the

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