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by cs702 2y ago
Health "insurance" companies in the US are not actually, primarily insurers. For the most part, they are not in the business of insuring rare events. Maybe they were primarily in the insurance business at some point in the past, b
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by cs702 2y ago
This rings true: > We’re increasingly becoming a society where very wealthy people get obsequious, leisurely human care, like concierge medicine paid out of pocket, private schools with tiny class sizes and dead tree books, and apothec
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The Mother of All Bubbles(ft.com)
3 points by cs702 2y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
Based on a first look, this appears to be... genuine: > The letter is signed by Professor Duncan Buell, Ph.D., Chair Emeritus — NCR Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South
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by cs702 2y ago
Yeah. This thing is "assembling a different transformer" on the spot for each token. If one thinks about it for more than a moment, it's kind of incredible that it works.
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by cs702 2y ago
The authors factorize every weight matrix with an attention mechanism: weight = attention(token_query, weight_keys, weight_values). In other words, they query weight_keys to fetch the weight_values, and mix them to compute each weigh
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by cs702 2y ago
Came here to say pretty much the same thing, and saw your comment. The rate of progress has been mind-blowing indeed. We sure live in interesting times!
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by cs702 2y ago
Awesome. Incredible. Inspiring. Words fail me. Heartfelt congratulations to the folks at SpaceX!
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by cs702 2y ago
I never said otherwise. My point was and is that only with the passage of time can we identify the survivors, i.e., the works that stand the test of time.
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by cs702 2y ago
Interestingly, critics have started to reevaluate many of these movies!
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by cs702 2y ago
Original works of art that don't conform to the conventional norms of their time are likely to be panned by critics and ignored by the public at first. Only with the passage of time are we able to reevaluate more objectively those work
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by cs702 2y ago
I found the OP to be an earnest, well-written, thought-provoking essay. Thank you sharing it on HN, and thank you also to Dario Amodei for writing it. The essay does have one big blind spot, which becomes obvious with a simple exercise: If
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by cs702 2y ago
Some of these death threats -- I can't believe I'm writing this -- are for "creating and directing hurricanes." How can anyone end up believing that meteorologists have the power to create and direct hurricanes? Some of
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by cs702 2y ago
I can only imagine the kind of last-minute drama the Robotaxi team is going through, behind the scenes. Hopefully they will pull through and get started soon enough.
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by cs702 2y ago
I finally got around to reading this. Nice paper, but it fails to address a key question about RNNs: Can RNNs be as good as Transformers at recalling information from previous tokens in a sequence? Transformers excel at recalling info, like
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by cs702 2y ago
I agree! Nothing I wrote disagrees with that: The phrasing "evolved in the past due to the influence of" has a more expansive meaning than "influenced by."
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by cs702 2y ago
Reading this, I come away with the impression that European languages today are evolving due to the influence of "Vulgar English" (the lowest common denominator of English spoken by the most people worldwide), analogously to how R
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by cs702 2y ago
"Probably?" In what universe would Meta not use the data it collects to improve its AI models? Most consumers don't care about privacy implications in the abstract, so they won't even think of asking Meta to stop. Most t
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by cs702 2y ago
Milei's speech "copied word for word" a monologue by the TV show's fictional president, Jed Bartlet. In all likelihood, Milei's staff asked an LLM to give them an inspiring speech, and the LLM obliged: "Here is
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by cs702 2y ago
Impressive. It's only going to get better, faster, cheaper, easier.[a] Sooner than anyone could have expected, we'll be able to ask the machines: "Turn this book into a two-hour movie with the likeness of [your favorite act
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by cs702 2y ago
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 Abstract: > The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated
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by cs702 2y ago
Yeah, they're buying a bit of time. Everyone involved is hoping OpenAI will either a) figure out how to resolve all these issues before the clock runs out, or b) raise more money before the clock runs out, to buy more time again.
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by cs702 2y ago
My understanding is that Microsoft has already earned a large return, from incremental Azure revenues.
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Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)(royalsocietypublishing.org)
79 points by cs702 2y ago|35 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
Yeah, there's no upper limit to hype and exuberance . As Isaac Newton once said, "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."[a] --- [a] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes&#
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by cs702 2y ago
My understanding is that the company is burning $0.5+ to $1+ billion each month. I'd say that's very high risk.
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by cs702 2y ago
Given the high risk, investors likely want a shot of earning at least a 10x return. $157 billion x 10 = $1.57 trillion, greater than META's current market capitalization. Greater returns would require even more aggressive assumptions.
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by cs702 2y ago
The OP is long-winded, extremely convoluted, and completely unscientific. It is best described as an opinion piece based upon qualitative insights drawn from a tiny number of unrepresentative samples. Nonetheless, I found it a worthwhile re
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Who Is Government? The Cyber Sleuth(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by cs702 2y ago|1 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
... and most are never noticed by anyone other than their authors.

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