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by devalgo 6y ago
Even if it was completely rote memorization it is still extremely valuable to be able to give a plain text prompt and get relevant answers back. As SWEs most of us probably have very high end google-fu so we can find potentially obscure ans
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by devalgo 6y ago
As someone very pro-vaccine, what are the risks of doing this? Is the worst case scenario you get the vaccine and not a placebo and it does nothing? Are there real health risks to doing this?
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by devalgo 6y ago
>You are pushing this idea so hard and blasting this thread with copy/paste comments. I'm sorry but this comment is absurd. I'm assuming you are insinuating that I am astroturfing for OpenAI which is against guidelines. No
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by devalgo 6y ago
OpenAI is far from having the deepest pockets.
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by devalgo 6y ago
You'll be looking for reasons to downplay it while dozens of startups receive funding to build automatic app generation tools.
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by devalgo 6y ago
People need to look WAY beyond generating text here. There are lots of demos on Twitter already of people generating fully functioning code in various languages with english inputs. https://twitter.com/sharifshameem
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by devalgo 6y ago
https://twitter.com/sharifshameem TLDR: Generate working apps in seconds from english text input. If you can't see the power here you might not be paying attention fully.
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by devalgo 6y ago
It offers you procedurally generated dialogue that can be relevant to any potential player actions. You decide to kill the town chicken and now all the townspeople are talking about it. You've freed up devs from having to hard code all
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by devalgo 6y ago
>But then I thought of possible applications Indeed, some pretty impressive demos have been sprouting up on Twitter. Things like generating properly running code from english descriptions of the desired functionality are potentially game
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by devalgo 6y ago
This reads like a UFO hysteria report. "10 ft drones that make no sound and hover in the air for hours at a time" Do drones like this even exist that are available to civilians? Even $30,000 commercial grade drones are only a few
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by devalgo 6y ago
>There are 5.1 million people working in hospitals. And most of them are wearing full PPE when possible for many hours a day, if anything your numbers point to the effectiveness of masks. >Schools across Europe have opened. Children r
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by devalgo 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/fahim-saleh-susp... What? You guys got hysterical and blamed the Saudis based on no facts and you were completely wrong? Who would of guessed? Oh wait, I did.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Are you kidding? There are hundreds of nurses and doctors who have gotten sick and that's when wearing full PPE. Do you think teachers and kids are going to be wearing PPE in class?? This is a troll comment.
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by devalgo 6y ago
It's not 0 and putting every kid in the country into a worst case scenario location for spread of the disease you are running an evil experiment.
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by devalgo 6y ago
>may be far worse than the consequences of reopening. Let's be perfectly clear, this isn't something abstract. The consequences are dead kids and dead teachers. Get that through your head. You of course imagine it won't be
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by devalgo 6y ago
My point was more that they didn't need to have access to some 0 day exploit to do this. There's been a lot of "conspiracy" type talk online that this was actually a 3 letter agency showing off their Twitter backdoor.
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by devalgo 6y ago
Well that definitely speaks more to the field in general and not necessarily to "beginners" who tune a pretrained model and post the results to arXiv. There's massive incentives to post papers with incremental progress when t
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by devalgo 6y ago
I believe Twitter themselves reported that. Edit: "We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools." ht
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by devalgo 6y ago
>At the same time, the low barrier of entry and hype has resulted in a huge amount of people downloading Keras, copying a bunch of code, tuning a few parameters, and then putting their result on arXiv so they can put AI research on their
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by devalgo 6y ago
Twitter employees were duped by social engineering. Hacker gained access to their credentials, used them to get access to internal Twitter tools that allowed them to takeover Accounts. Not very sophisticated but still alarming that random T
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by devalgo 6y ago
Yeah assault and murder + dismemberment are clearly the same amirite
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by devalgo 6y ago
Sure but Khashoggi was a very high profile Journalist and Activist and that happened on Turkish soil. An assassination like that in the US would be a dramatic change in their behavior and politically very hazardous.
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by devalgo 6y ago
I'm not a defender of Saudi Arabia but besides him being born there how is it relevant? He does business in Africa and was educated in and lives in the US. Is there any indication he was a anti-Saudi activist? I don't see any so w
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by devalgo 6y ago
>by the end of my lifetime the US will not even be in the #2 spot globally Not sure this says what you think. Simple GDP growth math has India and China passing the US in a few decades so that's not even controversial. If you are su
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by devalgo 6y ago
I would say absolutely not. The habit of promoting competent technical people into management makes no sense to me, there is no reason to think a good coder would make a good manager. In fact it's probably the opposite case and the 10x
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by devalgo 6y ago
Sure, I work at one. But my manager is a former tech lead/architect who writes code everyday and he reports to a former Startup CTO with a CS Degree from UIUC. Are English Majors with no tech chops seriously managing engineers in 2020?
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by devalgo 6y ago
Legitimately confused by this. Is it really common that truly non-technical, as in can't write code at all, people are managing Software Engineering teams? I've certainly never seen it, at least until you get to Senior Exec levels
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by devalgo 6y ago
Agreed but that's also reason for the EU to continue blocking entry to Americans so that doesn't seem likely to change.
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by devalgo 6y ago
But most of the debt has been around for years at this point. What in the next 9 months changes that?
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by devalgo 6y ago
What's the minimum number of bitcoin nodes needed for it to continue operating and is it reasonable to think that post collapse that many PCs will remain online? Seems unlikely to me.

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