dweinus

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by dweinus 3y ago
Yay, the planet is saved! /sarcasm
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by dweinus 3y ago
What would these tabular foundation models look like? LLMs work as foundation models because the input is fixed in format (a sequence of text). Would the model be for a specific fixed tabular format?
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by dweinus 3y ago
> Your city has a problem with trash ...doesn't that entire problem rest on the fact that the unstated goal is to pick up the trash at the lowest cost labor will bear? That yields service reduction, automation, and labor disputes. W
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by dweinus 3y ago
Right. Maybe it is hard to prove, but the choice to eat them is a life-or-death decision. I am going to opt for tofu. Given that "sentience" is roughly the ability to have feelings, it seems very hard to believe most animals are n
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by dweinus 3y ago
I did, that's where my quote is from. The appendix confirms; they ran the regressions on just two inputs: 2022 and 2023 totals.
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by dweinus 3y ago
The methodology seems to be: compare commit activity from 2023 to prior years, without any idea of how many involve Copilot. Then interpret those changes with assumptions. That seems a bit shakey. Also: "The projections for 2024 utiliz
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by dweinus 3y ago
Only a mathematician could think that when people are arguing over a cake, the best solution involves giving everyone a knife (Stromquist moving-knives procedure)
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by dweinus 3y ago
I agree, Facebook is generally lacking in intelligence.
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by dweinus 3y ago
Roughly -8 years from now: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar...
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by dweinus 3y ago
We need solutions, likely a mix of them, because they all come with challenges: 1) Transmission takes time and $$$ to build (especially to get the land). Maintenance ain't cheap either. Longer transmission == greater losses. 2) CSP req
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by dweinus 3y ago
...and this is why we can't have nice things
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by dweinus 3y ago
Of course they don't! But I think the most fascinating and exciting part about LLMs is: a sufficiently large model can produce things that look a lot like cognition, without having it at all. That is shocking and suggests maybe AGI is
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by dweinus 3y ago
Obscure words are excellent when they add more nuaced meaning, but in most situations the same few words are perfectly cromulent.
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by dweinus 3y ago
I was disappointed I couldn't actually create recursion by tracing my egg to a chicken to an egg to a...
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by dweinus 3y ago
That's a good explanation, but problems with silently reducing quantity are: - It attempts to trick the customer - As a customer, it makes it harder to depend on your product or buy predictably (a box of cereal used to last me throug
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by dweinus 3y ago
> There's evidence that the earth is warming, but only if you squint a certain way. Get real. I used to sympathize with global warming deniers. It's 2023. The debate has been had for 40 years and now things are literally catchi
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by dweinus 3y ago
Exciting! What is the argument for Polars on clusters instead of Dask?
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by dweinus 3y ago
Sounds good, but enforcing it how? The only party here that can do the enforcing is the Google/Apple/Microsoft App Store. I'm not sure they all have the right incentives to expend the effort to enforce that in a consistent an
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by dweinus 3y ago
> consider instead of using fancy and scary mathematics like “neural networks”, it is just tabulating and counting keywords. Is it still infringement? I've seen this analogy before. A NN, especially an LLM, is very different in meth
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by dweinus 3y ago
https://github.com/Anaconda-Platform/nb_conda_kernels
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by dweinus 3y ago
What if we just let cheaters cheat? If they don't have the knowledge, they won't last long in a job that requires it. As the saying goes "You're only cheating yourself"
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by dweinus 3y ago
Came here to see fan boys call an explosion a success; did not disappoint. This rocket is compared often to the Saturn V. Number of times the Saturn V exploded: 0. "Fail fast" for launching satellites is one thing, but this is mea
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by dweinus 3y ago
Yep, definitely aliens. Not new military drone vehicles we have been developing, no sir. Sincerely, The Pentagon
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by dweinus 4y ago
Maybe your prompts are better, but so far I have found it fails at producing the right math code too regularly. For example, calculating an average of averages instead of a simple mean or producing code that doesn't run.
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by dweinus 4y ago
> It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all. Nonsense, there are countless ethical and alignment harms in the wild, and have been for many years. For example: - midjourney ripping off art
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by dweinus 4y ago
Agreed, please send me all of the hotdogs for safe disposal. Also bratwursts, especially bratwursts
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by dweinus 4y ago
Bringing glorious richness to the universe of sandwich possibility
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by dweinus 4y ago
I think you're both right: the current global level of consumption not sustainable, or necessary. Everybody wants a healthy planet, almost nobody wants to volunteer to consume less. Regulation is needed, and it will mean we have to con
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by dweinus 4y ago
Phishing to deliver ransomware? In this economy?
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by dweinus 4y ago
Why would I switch to this? I'm a huge fan of Jupyter, I use Jupyter Lab as my primary IDE, but a little confused here. Maybe if I frequently connect to different servers? The python env discovery looks cool, but nb_conda_kernels does

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