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by dimask 3y ago
> This is a great write-up and I love all the different ways they collected and analyzed data. > [..] due to inherent biases in the sample set [..] But that is an analysis methods issue. This serves as a reminder that one cannot depen
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by dimask 3y ago
> They both use the same mental processes There is not some evidence or argument in the article to actually support this claim. If anything, assuming the more plausible hypothesis that programming and mathematical thought are akin to eac
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by dimask 3y ago
"Interoperability" was cool and all 20 years ago or so, but I do not understand how nowadays anybody really considers it a good idea tbh. It has pretty much obvious security risks (it need not have in theory, but in practice it ce
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by dimask 3y ago
I am all against monopolies, I loved pidgin (and just saw that actually it still exists!), but the beeper-mini case was quite weird. > The user will create an account so IMO if I have an Apple account (I own an old Apple laptop) then WTF
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by dimask 3y ago
Good and bad itself depends on the perspective. Good for Hasbro? Can be argued I guess, depends also on its current economic situation and a lot of things other people may indeed not have the best knowledge about. Good for the players and f
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by dimask 3y ago
I use this firefox extension that converts `OpenAI` to `"Open"AI` as part of my sanity-preserving toolkit. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openai-is-not...
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by dimask 3y ago
> the free market can reward good development ha ha No way, especially because all the people taking most market-business-related decisions (eg which software to buy) are not tech-oriented. If we had more power on these decisions, that w
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by dimask 3y ago
You do not have to activate the "crypto wallet", even less use it.
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by dimask 3y ago
> The 2% isn't going to do much. 2% of what? If you mean alcohol, that is not how fermentation works for preserving food/drinks. Using beneficial/harmless cultures to outcompete harmful microorganisms, which is how ferment
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by dimask 3y ago
Yes I do feel. I have no invested interest in the online advertising industry as to not be.
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by dimask 3y ago
Phones are an end-consumer product. AI is not only an end-consumer product (and probably not even mostly an end-consumer one). It is a tool to be used in many different steps in production. AI is not chatbots.
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by dimask 3y ago
Stuff like alphafold has and will have huge impact in our lives, even if I am not into spending time folding proteins myself. It is absurd to make this sort of comparisons.
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by dimask 3y ago
I don't disagree, as in that if we achieve school math in a way that is not mere overfitting over a language-based training set, going to more advanced mathematics is definitely conceivable. My problem is that people are talking about
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by dimask 3y ago
Proving that the first player has a winning strategy, or the optimal strategy for both players leads to draw.
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by dimask 3y ago
Their current ambition is to be able to solve school math, which is quite far away from solving unsolved conjectures or math olympiads. I really doubt that any of this is within LLM/transformer scope, except maybe in some auxiliary sen
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by dimask 3y ago
Also FF long time user. Ime FF is pretty much fine nowadays. It used to have problems, but it got a huge leap in performance around 2017 when they improved multithreading support. Since then it is pretty much fine, aside from the occasional
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by dimask 3y ago
If we are talking about a paid service (like slack), not supporting firefox imo means it is a bad product. A service for which one pays for should not force them use a specific browser. This is essentially an argument of not using slack, no
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by dimask 3y ago
> Ads do work excellently for their intended purpose. But this is the problem, because their intended purpose is not the user experience. A lot of people block the ads because they find them distracting, and actually part of the intended
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by dimask 3y ago
The boundedness of the data is also the main argument here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8401...
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by dimask 3y ago
I would call this type of argument a case of regression to the mean rather than "autocorrelation". That, of course, in principle requires independence between performance and assessment of performance. In many cases, it would make
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by dimask 3y ago
I think you are exaggerating a bit, but tbh I had a very similar attitude towards macs before, because at work we were forced to use some mac computers which I found insufferable at the time. Hardware-wise we had some pretty much ridiculous
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by dimask 3y ago
If you sell your 3yo computer you are gonna get a decent price, so upgrading a 4k computer every 3 years is not the same as spending 4k every 3 years. Though, it highly depends on the initial configuration, and the additional premiums you p
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by dimask 3y ago
Imho M1 airs are the best bang for buck as mid-whatever-range laptops. Especially if one finds a 16gb one. Crazy if you think that before, the base macbook air you could get at the same original price would be a mere i3 one, while m1 actual
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by dimask 3y ago
Rosetta, plus the fact that M-series was so much better than intel macs, made the transition period relatively painless until native ARM support became standard (almost). Also, the tight control of its ecosystem allows Apple to do things li
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or sudo open -a Activity\ Monitor
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It is not about different set of information, but different stakes/interests. They act firstmost as investors rather than as employees on this.
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by dimask 3y ago
He will most likely join M$ if the board does not resign, because there is no better move to him then. But he leaves time to the board to see it, adding pressure together with the empoyees. It does not mean he is bluffing (what would be a b
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by dimask 3y ago
Imagine if Jobs had gone to M$.
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No, but it also shows that those who supposedly care about AI alignment and whatnot, care more about money. Which is why AI alignment is becoming an oxymoron.
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by dimask 3y ago
They probably care more about the people they may bring with them.

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