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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Look into men’s work / men’s groups. I’ve just started exploring this space and it isn’t perfect but I’ve found it quite helpful. There is something special going on in this space. Some groups: * Mankind project * Sacred Sons
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
And never will reach us, as the space in between us and that distant light is expanding to quickly.
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ChatGPT gets this one right.
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I don’t have a deep understanding of how these language models work, but what do I know makes think that saying “It is basically a lookup table” is sort of like saying “A car is basically a bike”. Sure, there are some very vague similaritie
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
I’m waiting for someone to make a GPT-style model trained for video and audio prediction (e.g. frame by frame, perhaps) in addition to the existing text prediction. Imagine using a significant percentage of YouTube content, for example. It
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> The current solution of 500b parameters or whatever is literally just a lookup table of existing data. They could replace it with an SQLite database with the same amount of data and get the same solution. I'm pretty sure this is c
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
I hear what you are saying, but I'm not convinced. Can you dig a bit deeper? What makes an idea "novel"? What types of physical processes can create new ideas or have spontaneous thoughts, and which can't? What is "
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
That's not a fleshed out argument. Why do you believe that "statistical combinations" can't create novel ideas?
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One of the linked resources in the article is a great high-level overview of how Stable Diffusion works: https://stable-diffusion-art.com/how-stable-diffusion-work/ It’s a quick read and I found it very helpful.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Open to it Technologies: Javascript, React, CSS, Python, Flask, Django, PostgreSQL, sqlalchemy, bash Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwaltrip/ Email: dwaltrip77@gmail.c
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Why did the mountaineer climb the mountain? Because it was there.
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Don't feed the off-topic flamewar, downvote and carry-on ;)
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Every so often, I check the bar chart on the "Timeline of spaceflight" Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_spaceflight#Orbita... Space activity is really picking up. There were 177 succe
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by dwaltrip 4y ago
Does anyone know if there are good reasons for not adjusting the difficulty more often?
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> We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps. What makes you think this is the case?
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Me: I’ve made up a word called “mlaizapf”. Can you count the number of letters? ChatGPT: Sure! "Mlaizapf" has 8 letters. -- Me: How about this word: “spoofydoofaplixader” ChatGPT: Spoofydoofaplixader" has 18 letters. -- Me: H
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It's a computer program that can partially explain jokes. That's never happened before. Yes, it's not that great at it, but clearly something special is going on here. And we can expect it to improve significantly in the comi
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We don't have a good understanding of how human intelligence works, so it doesn't seem reasonable to critique AI by only looking at the implementation details.
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Those problems don't seem insurmountable, especially if it is 10-100x better than Google.
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You are thinking too narrowly. If you asked me, a human, “tell me something new” without any additional context, I would reply with the human equivalent of “error, request is overly vague” as well.
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That’s absolutely fascinating… We are truly at an inflection point.
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Art is subjective. It fits well in the poem in my view.
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It had an emotional reaction to the poem when I first beat the game. I find it to be beautiful.
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Bezos famously has been trying to build orbital rockets for two decades and hasn't yet succeeded. So there must be some difference between them on this point.
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> With sufficient cash I can go hire an incredible amount of expertise building both cars and rockets. Rocketry in particular is an engineering problem Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are pretty good arguments against this. Take a look a
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That's an unusual example. Most posts on twitter are not formulaic recognition of holidays by politicians. In general, not knowing if a machine or a human wrote a twitter post is a bad thing.
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To add on, a little further down: > People with access to specialised education, vocational training and local business opportunities – in other words urban dwellers – will be more likely to have in-demand, digital skills. Very interesti
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> It's less that and more that you're not maximizing retirement savings at that point, which is something that stresses a lot of folks out. I understand where this is coming from, but it can be a trap. Maximizing your retiremen
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Crazy. At what speed / acceleration would a manhole cover burn up from friction with the atmosphere?

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