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The McDonald's theory of why everyone thinks the economy sucks(natesilver.net)
4 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
This seems like a perfect use case for an LLM :)
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by ctoth 3y ago
Now all it needs to learn is which asses to kiss and it's well on it's way to a PhD!
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by ctoth 3y ago
I'd like to explore more the fan-out pattern: - having it generate an outline - have multiple clones write each section of the outline - a stage which synthesizes the parallel-written sections, capturing the best - a stage which combin
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U.S. Syphilis Cases in Newborns: A 10-Times Increase over a Decade(cdc.gov)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend(thezvi.substack.com)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
The purpose of this article is to be linked in a long Gish Gallop of AI harms (you know the type) and this one is supposed to be under the link "underage workers" so as to give people who skim that future article a sense of outrag
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From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees(washingtonpost.com)
222 points by ctoth 3y ago|293 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
Found the guy who works at ULA :)
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by ctoth 3y ago
Please consider accessibility while you're building this. The number of TV apps which don't use the Accessibility APIs is probably worse than on any other platform. Apple TV (as usual) is the best, but still has issues.
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by ctoth 3y ago
I think maybe it would do you some good to sit down for a moment and think about just how mindbogglingly big space is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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by ctoth 3y ago
No no silly people it's Black Stone! (not Black Rock -- how could you possibly get those confused!) who is stealing all your houses. We are just building houses which will only be rentable so you will rent your whole life and like it
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OpenAI Major Outage(status.openai.com)
6 points by ctoth 3y ago|3 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
I agree, and I think we're a year or two away from a full end-to-end trained screen reader. The ground truth from existing systems would provide great training material. As a technical blind person, my only concern is the inherent loss
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by ctoth 3y ago
> You should prefer a world with credit cards and discount brokerages to one which doesn’t have them, even as you listen to hold music occasionally. The problem with this is, we've known for 30 years that a system that calls you bac
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by ctoth 3y ago
Yes, actually, they do. See the heading Blessings of scale in [0] [0]: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis :
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by ctoth 3y ago
This is (probably) wrong, see: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis And specifically the part where it discusses addition under the heading Blessings of Scale.
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by ctoth 3y ago
Tokenization, same as a year ago.
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by ctoth 3y ago
Remarkably, these issues you've articulated perfectly-capture the progressive bugbear zeitgeist and yet do not seem to have much (if any) support in the original article. Is it possible it actually might be the phones somehow as she ar
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by ctoth 3y ago
Hi. I dream about commercial spaceplanes. Maybe I can help you understand it a little! What's holding us back from affordable healthcare and houses? Humans. What's holding us back from affordable spaceplanes and cool rockets? Phys
891.
by ctoth 3y ago
I've shocked myself with the end of a USB C cable too many times to believe this (power negotiation) is implemented well.
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by ctoth 3y ago
My silly question for the day: Could you use interpretability techniques on this model to figure out the easiest places to perturb conditions to steer towards particular weather in a particular location (cloud seeding, or whatever?) Is this
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New Yorkers Need to Quit Shopping Online(nytimes.com)
7 points by ctoth 3y ago|6 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
Oh man why didn't I think of this? The Vaccine I'm about to get is the third one for a very popular disease, and somehow it will just ... maybe possibly keep me from catching it for ... maybe a year or something? Of course, altern
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by ctoth 3y ago
Very excited to see @mwcampbell working on this.
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by ctoth 3y ago
I was reading an interesting interview[0] with Shane Legg of DeepMind where he mentioned reading Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual machines in 2001. I also read ASM around 2003-4 and just decided to give it a quick re-read to see how the pre
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Tierra (Computer Simulation)(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by ctoth 3y ago|1 comments
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San Francisco's Brand Is in Trouble. Can a New Ad Campaign Fix It?(nytimes.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 3y ago
By George! this sure sounds like a good idea!
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by ctoth 3y ago
This is cool but I never could figure out why it was named like an Imperial Star Destroyer.

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