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by cs702 6d ago
The OP never claimed that this is history. The purpose of the story is to explain how things work. Please don't attack a strawman.
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by cs702 6d ago
Wow, what a fantastic blog post! While there are some necessary simplifications, I couldn't find a single mistake on a first pass. Anyone who wants to understand current monetary systems should read it. Substituting "stones"
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by cs702 9d ago
> The six incidents included models developing ways to ignore “normal constraints”, fabricating and misrepresenting data and hiding mistakes made while conducting tasks, the San Francisco-based company said on Wednesday.
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OpenAI discloses new 'concerning' model behaviour(ft.com)
6 points by cs702 9d ago|7 comments
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by cs702 11d ago
Thanks. The exaggerated framing is the only reason why I posted my comment :-)
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by cs702 11d ago
Yes, it's interesting research, I agree and even wrote so in my post :-) But the submission title calls it a "backprop alternative." It is not, at least not yet.
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by cs702 11d ago
"Backprop alternative" was the OP's headline. I think my initial assessment is correct: interesting research, but not an alternative, at least not yet.
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by cs702 12d ago
~74% on CIFAR-10. Still a far cry from backprop. I didn't see ImageNet. TinyImageNet is something else.
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by cs702 12d ago
~85% accuracy on MNIST. Sigh. How does it do on CIFAR-10, or even better, ImageNet? Interesting research, not sure it's a backprop alternative. === EDIT: accuracy on MNIST is not ~90%. It's ~85%.
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Did AI write this? It's getting harder to tell(ft.com)
3 points by cs702 28d ago|0 comments
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by cs702 1mo ago
"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." - Mark Hanna Mark Hanna was a political consultant in the late 1800's, in the US. Source: https:&#x2
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by cs702 1mo ago
To me, it looks like the leading labs are investing more and more to improve their frontier models, and are being forced to charge less and less for them due to competitive pressure. Maybe I'm wrong, but "reasoning as a service&qu
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The Waldo Moment(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by cs702 1mo ago|0 comments
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by cs702 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode in which a blue animated bear named Waldo nearly wins a by-election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment Reality these days sometimes feels as strange as fiction.
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The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse(ft.com)
5 points by cs702 2mo ago|1 comments
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by cs702 2mo ago
That is my reaction too. It looks like great work! Valuable not only for inference, but for training too (think proprietary datasets). I would add, a single individual did this. One person can make a difference :-)
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by cs702 3mo ago
The OP talks about the drought extensively. Quoting: > there is quite a lot of compelling evidence that period of LBAC [late bronze age collapse], especially the 1190s, was unusually dry in the Eastern Mediterranean, which would have ca
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by cs702 3mo ago
It's not hard to imagine that will be able to do as good a job as a human accountant in the not too distant future. It's also not hard to imagine tax authorities using AI to audit everyone's tax returns every year. We sure li
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by cs702 3mo ago
Arguably, they're a better choice for customers than a shutdown. I mean, they're at least keeping the service alive for as long as possible.
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by cs702 3mo ago
Yes, agree.
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by cs702 3mo ago
Think of it as a perpetual bond with declining coupon payments. Customer "inertia" or "lock-in" might be better terms to describe what the company is looking for in an acquisition. Their ideal customer may well be someon
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by cs702 3mo ago
Also, in case you didn't already know, I saw a headline announcing that the sky is usually blue.
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by cs702 3mo ago
Bending Spoons is a company that acquires SaaS companies/products that are not growing or losing users but have a well-known brand and customers who stick around. The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut cos
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by cs702 3mo ago
The little photo of the guy with a top hat, dancing, with high-wire towers behind him, cracked me up. It's a literal "high-wire act!"
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How Liberal Law School professors fueled rise of Federalist Society(news.harvard.edu)
2 points by cs702 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Bessent Doctrine (Essay by Mohammed El-Erian)(nytimes.com)
3 points by cs702 3mo ago|0 comments
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by cs702 3mo ago
> the economy is filled with bullshit jobs, bullshit corporations, and bullshit products. Yeah, it sure feels true. There's even a book about it, you know, to help people cope with it: https://press.princeton.edu/boo
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by cs702 3mo ago
Yeah, that's true. Sigh.
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by cs702 3mo ago
Sure, touchscreens are cheap, but high-quality touchscreen software is most def NOT CHEAP! Apple and Google have spent untold amounts of money developing iOS and Android. CarPlay and Android Auto are really nice. Tesla has spent gobs of mon
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by cs702 3mo ago
Love the title. I think it's a great idea to associate pervasive surveillance with the all-seeing eye of evil incarnate from The Lord of the Rings. General audiences reading only the title, or coverage of it in the media, will immediat

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