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by cs702 1y ago
Great points. I was thinking only about the noggin inside our heads, without considering all the infrastructure it relies on for support!
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I wouldn't call it "game over." That's too harsh. The truth is, we don't know. Sure, there's a ridiculous amount of hype , fueled by greed and FOMO , often justified by cargo-cultish science , but... progres
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AI has a cargo cult problem(ft.com)
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by cs702 1y ago
According to the website, Kohler's researchers trained ML models, including convolutional neural networks, on 1.2 million samples of human feces and urine. I don't want to imagine what that was like for those researchers.
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I find I need to re-read Sutton's essay at least twice a year...
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Hmm... you may be right. I don't think I've seen that before either.
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I find the deck remarkably comprehensive and in-depth for what it is. The negativity here is a bit shocking. I mean, we're talking about a deck !
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This is basically a Pytorch library for executing computations over dynamic ranges that exceed Float64's limits, including on GPUs. I can see how it could be useful when you really need it. Thank you for sharing it on HN. I tried the s
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by cs702 1y ago
I'm not sure this engineer wasn't the "most brilliant" contributing to FFmpeg, because there are a lot of smart folks that contribute to it, but he certainly made significant contributions. His reason for leaving is that
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by cs702 1y ago
Surely, Andrej's getting a good chuckle about being called "the inventor" of Vibe Coding...
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by cs702 1y ago
An RLM is like a language model using DSPy plus all of Python to manipulate its prompt.
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Briefly, an RLM wraps an existing language model (LM) together with an environment that can dynamically manipulate the prompt that will be fed into the LM. The authors use as an environment a Python REPL that itself can call other instance
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A glimpse of the future for all other countries. I switched to driving EVs (Tesla) around six years ago, and it's so much better . You get to charge at home for everyday driving. There are no toxic fumes. There are no unpleasant smell
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by cs702 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567153
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I disagree. The OP states in the first sentence of its "Conclusion" section: > To conclude, there appear to be parallels between excessive toy motivation in dogs and behavioural addictions in humans. Understandably, however, th
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by cs702 1y ago
This research only confirms what many dog owners already know, but it still deserves an Ig Noble Prize.[a] --- [a] https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/
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Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from 'misophonia'(ft.com)
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To paraphrase an old saying incorrectly attributed to Everett Dirksen[a]: $0.77 trillion here, $0.77 trillion there, and pretty soon we'll be talking about real money. --- [a] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Everett_
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by cs702 1y ago
That headline needs a few edits to make it, you know, accurate : "Toyota believes it will launch all-solid-state EV batteries by year-end 2027 ." My understanding is that 2027 is wishful thinking, due to high manufacturing cos
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> The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our cor
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by cs702 1y ago
This looks like great work. I've added it to my reading list. Thank you for sharing it on HN.
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TL;DR: Krugman finds himself agreeing with Ken Griffin, Citadel's billionaire founder, that the soaring price of gold is a sign that the world is losing faith in the US and its currency. I sure hope they are both wrong, but I fear th
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by cs702 1y ago
This is fantastic . Highly recommended reading for anyone here interested in the state of AI. It covers multiple fronts, including research, applications, politics, and safety. Thank you for sharing this on HN!
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by cs702 1y ago
Anecdotally, many people at OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle, etc., sincerely believe their company's own hype . They remind me of the story about the oil prospector in Warren Buffett's year-end 1985 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholde
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What Happened to Yahoo (2010)(paulgraham.com)
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> By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used t
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Irrational Exuberance(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ah, got it. I'd say it's possible but no one knows for sure. There's too much related spending that's hard to measure, including, for example, organizations spending to try out newfangled AI services. I don't think
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The incremental revenues to software and hardware vendors and energy providers is also used to hire new people, build new infrastructure (manufacturing plants, energy production systems, etc.), with second-order economic effects too. There
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To paraphrase Hemingway, every major innovation happens in two ways: gradually, then suddenly.

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