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by dilap 4y ago
All good points. The cambrian explosion of stable diffusion variants & uses is a good demonstration of the benefits of a more open system.
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by dilap 4y ago
Yeah, me too; it's very useful. But you have to be careful! It can and will hallucinate quite convincingly. So while it's great as a starting point, you really should verify everything it tells you. Overall I've been finding
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by dilap 4y ago
It's the opposite. The absolute occurence of stroke was higher in people who got the vaccine, but other risk factors were also higher; adjusting for those, they found a "less-higher than expected" amount of stroke, which they
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by dilap 4y ago
I still occasionally accidentally do this to myself when I come back to my phone looking at a screenshot in full-screen... It's almost a sensation of vertigo when you realize what's going on and your brain readjusts.
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by dilap 4y ago
Publishing research is pretty normal for traditional companies. The pledge to make patents available is a small step towards open. But I think the obvious and natural thing for a company in the business of training machine learning models t
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by dilap 4y ago
It's really obnoxious for non-open companies to include "open" in the name. Stolen valour, basically.
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by dilap 4y ago
Well, sure, you could equally find it to be anti-comforting. I just think (1) there is a truth to reality, beyond even what we might be able to physically access and (2) it's interesting to ponder what that might be. Maybe even comfort
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by dilap 4y ago
Well, do you think there is a truth, understandable by humans, about the nature of the universe? If you think there is, what better guide than our best theories of physics so far? So of course what the nature of the universe is doesn&#x
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by dilap 4y ago
This feels like a cop out. Like sure, you can just do the math and get results and not worry about it. But what's the motivation here? When you get down to it, he seems to believe many-worlds is true, BUT holds the philosophical positi
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by dilap 4y ago
Does it work with grackles? I'd really love to befriend a grackle or two.
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by dilap 4y ago
Wow, it's great! Thanks for sharing :-)
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by dilap 4y ago
Wow, this is amazing! Do you still have any of the music that resulted? Would love to hear!
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by dilap 4y ago
ChatGPT can give you websites, too, if you ask: "What's a good social website for people of a technical bent" It recommended: Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, Quora, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, GitHub That's a pretty goo
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by dilap 4y ago
what can i say im a sucker but mostly 'ciz work paid for it & and i could give my old phone to my brother-in-law (who had recently lost his in a hilarious dating mishap -- a hike, a river, old shorts w/ holes in the pockets...
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by dilap 4y ago
yeah, I went from a 12 to a 14, and honestly you could swap it back and I wouldn't even notice or care. maybe this is what we should expect, though, as the tech matures -- like cars: there's a new model every year, but only signif
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by dilap 4y ago
Yes, it's a good point! A similar data point is men of the Bodi tribe, normally quite skinny, have a contest to see who can get the fattest during a 6 month period: the technique the men use to get fat is to eat a lot of blood and milk
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by dilap 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but dietary cholesterol is not main driver of serum cholesterol, right? Very easy to eat a vegan diet and have very high cholesterol. And vice-versa.
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by dilap 4y ago
Fun fact: Ice-cream is the food that most closely resembles breast-milk, nutritionally. So how bad can it be? ;-) (I guess the answer depends mostly on what you think about saturated fat and sugar. If you believe both of those are fine, ice
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by dilap 4y ago
I don't know if anything ever came of it, but a whistleblower in their covid vaccine trial alleged data issues and ignoring negative side effects: > A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Researc
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by dilap 4y ago
Hard to follow the law without a certain amount of cash, unfortunately. If it comes down to it, I'd definitely recommend trying to get your hands on a van before going full homeless.
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by dilap 4y ago
I think you meant this as a rhetorical question, but I'll go ahead and answer it anyway. The practical answer is you do become homeless, but not out in the open -- you'll set up a tent somewhere somewhat hidden (maybe in the middl
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by dilap 4y ago
I don't think this would work for me, absent some sort of brain surgery. Even if I'm not looking at my phone, my brain still knows I could look at my phone, which colors my experience. I think these kids have the right idea, goi
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by dilap 4y ago
That's not true! It really is deliberately not answering things it could in fact answer, and in the non-answer it tells you that it can't, which is, plainly, a lie. While I do not think chatGPT is sentient, it is remarkable how mu
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by dilap 4y ago
Check out the song "No Scrubs" by TLC for another angle on the same topic. It's a real phenomenon, not just something made up by nerds on substack. Some people are blissfully checked out enough from social competition dynamic
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by dilap 4y ago
About half of americans are already overweight and falling apart by the time their 40 -- I'm aiming higher!
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by dilap 4y ago
Those are all short-term phenomenons, though, providing rapid feedback in both feeling worse and having worse performance. I mean, sure, it's possible that eating food which makes you feel good (over weeks and months, not just for 1 ho
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by dilap 4y ago
I understand the term to mean - dense protein vs calories - adequate quantities of all consituient amino acids - easily digestable So e.g. beef is a higher quality protein than beans, by that metric. It's hard to know the ideal amount
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by dilap 4y ago
How long do you want to live and how robust do you want to be as you age? Something like 50% of people have sarcopenia by the time they're 80. Seems likely eating more high-quality protein and doing resistence training could be a good
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by dilap 4y ago
Shouldn't be any noticable perf impact of splitting out tokenization as a separate stage, I think.
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by dilap 4y ago
FWIW, a tokenizer is not really necessary . It (arguably) makes things cleaner / easier, but you can also just write a parser that operates directly on a byte stream, if you feel so inclined, and it turns out fine.

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