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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
This is great! I just tried some queries and the results were pretty decent, in terms of semantics. But, just thinking of it as a user, if this were to be part of my daily workflow (instead of say something like Google Scholar), I would lik
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
> Agents can be used for open-ended problems where it’s difficult or impossible to predict the required number of steps, and where you can’t hardcode a fixed path. The LLM will potentially operate for many turns, and you must have some l
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Indeed. Very clarifying. I would just posit that they do make a distinction between workflows and agents
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Not excusing the lack of caveat in his talk but IMO, the old adage of: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." applies here.
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
I would choose (3) -- i.e., an ATProto project. The idea would be to have public but "local" discussions that could lead to in-person interactions when people feel comfortable. P.S: I just signed up. I am in the Chicago area. Woul
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Just signed up. Would be cool to learn about Derivates! I have an earnest question and I reckon you might have given it some thought. Is teaching financial modeling to humans a growing market? If so, why do you think that? If you think not,
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Harder in the sense that never before in human history could any person communicate with any other person on most of the inhabited planet through instant wireless internet. They can do all this with end-to-end encryption, if sufficiently m
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
I think the inherent contradiction stands. You are right to point it out. However, there _is_ another side to it: the law enforcement agencies have a harder job now and it needs to be acknowledged as such. The acknowledgement does not requi
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Those are more for the supply part of the equation. I was thinking of reducing demand. I don't think that the energy needs that will emanate from "AI" stop at LLM training/inference. I think this recent burst of demand i
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
An "average" Qatari consumes 1160x more energy than a Somalian. An average American consumes 84x more energy than a Nepali, and so on... [1] There will be 10 billion of us on this planet by ~ 2050. [2] We might need more energy ef
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Thanks!
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Hey - Thanks for sharing! Will take a closer look later but if you are hanging around now, it might be worth asking this now. I read this blog post recently: https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/06&
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
This collection of starter packs might be useful: https://github.com/stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-pack...
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Wow. The sheer magnitude of "I told you so" in this piece is shocking! It has been difficult to have a nuanced public debate about precisely what a model and an intelligent system that incorporates a set of models can accomplish.
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
> nationwide database of electronic health records (EHRs) of 116 million US patients. If you are expert in this space: Is such a dataset available publicly? If so, are there examples of other studies that have used this? Where does one g
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have a somewhat more optimistic take: We will create some form of artificial intelligence (AI) in the next decade. However, the recent (i.e. over last five years) advances in natural language processing a
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
For those supporting this legislation: Would you like to share the specific harms to the public that this bill sought to address and prevent?
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
That's an interesting idea! I think that the liability will just travel a layer of indirection. So in your example, I would think that the company that made the elevator would still be liable for any harm that their product causes -- i
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Yes. It does require thinking about the monolith in a way so it can be broken up should the need arise. Going down the monolith path != Having spaghetti as the core abstraction. :)
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Great idea! The challenges one can imagine with that are: 1) human reviews are expensive 2) the citation might not have anything to do with the reason why the cited paper was retracted. Now, if it all could be automated (say with some emerg
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
> "No matter what happens there is going to be a lock occurring. No two PyThreadStates can execute Python bytecode at the same time. However, they can execute multiple C calls at the same time which is why for long running pure C op
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Where is Lina Khan when you need her, eh?
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
I grew up writing C/C++ and I could write this same blog post but about Python for the same reasons that the author cites :-) Sometimes I wonder if I am just being lazy and justifying not learning new stuff but then I look at the new s
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
The abstractions could be cleaner. I think some of the convolution is due to the evolution that it has undergone and core contributors have not come around to being fully “out with the old”. I think there might be practical benefits to it.
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
My understanding is that is tries many variations of the set of few shot examples and prompts and picks the ones that work best as the optimized program.
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
1. To learn, how. 2. Nvidia needs to be challenged with OSS. They are far too big to be left alone. 3. To have some fun.
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
Funny. I like.
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IsOdd (and IsEven) as a Service (2021)(typicalprogrammer.com)
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Ask HN: What browser do you enjoy using for reading HN?
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by curious_cat_163 2y ago
> We think MAIA augments, but does not replace, human over- sight of AI systems. MAIA still requires human supervision to catch mistakes such as confirmation bias and image generation/editing failures. Absence of evidence (from MAIA

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