ericjang

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On the Difficulty of Extrapolation with NN Scaling(lukemetz.com)
21 points by ericjang 5y ago|2 comments
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by ericjang 5y ago
I have immense respect for Moxie, who has spent time building experiments and tinkering with a new technology, and as a result has a take on it that highlights very different issues than what most of the predictable web3 flamewar centers ar
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by ericjang 5y ago
I agree with your point that the operative word here is "earn", and not "play". To play the devil's advocate: many crypto developers continue to build in the space (or have done it in the past) despite large drawdow
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by ericjang 5y ago
When I ask pro-CCP people the question "what might change your mind", I often hear a variant of what you just said - "consider the motives (of the American hegemony), it explains our observations". But that doesn't
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by ericjang 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this out. Two questions, followed by a response to one of your comments: 1) On the Uyghur issue. If what you say is true, why is it difficult to get CSPAN footage in Xinjiang? 2) Is there a hypothetical f
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by ericjang 5y ago
you seem to be implying that 1) a transaction between the US and Lithuania occurred in which Lithuania agrees to provoke PRC. 2) Lithuania provokes PRC (presumably the act involves the embassy opening). However, the article you linked publi
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by ericjang 5y ago
I agree with your comment "In many languages, if you choose any of those supposed rules you can probably construct an algorithm to generate odd, but understandable words that defy that rule." - it comes many forms, from Goodhart&#
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by ericjang 5y ago
My hope is that sufficiently rich language models obviate the need for a lot of robot-language grounding data. LfP ( https://learning-from-play.github.io/ ) was a work that inspired me a lot. They relabel a few hours of open-
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by ericjang 5y ago
Fair enough, I agree that if we really examine the comment "word as a discrete unit of meaning", the edge cases start to accumulate and the semantics rapidly break down. But barring things like prefixes/suffixes/modifier
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by ericjang 5y ago
Thanks! Words are considered a "discrete unit of meaning", i.e. 3/4 of a word doesn't really mean much. So words like "red" and "grass" are "standalone" in the sense that the mean something
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To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization(evjang.com)
91 points by ericjang 5y ago|38 comments
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by ericjang 5y ago
> There's a reason much (maybe even most) anger on the left revolves around a perceived denial of the existence of privilege, and perhaps most of the anger on the right ultimately boiling down to a perceived denial of the existence
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by ericjang 5y ago
Interesting ideas. If I understand what you are saying, it's that we don't have a great way of attributing cause/effect, and therefore it's difficult to assign merits or demerits in society? 1) "Reality is always mu
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by ericjang 5y ago
Another commenter made exactly the same point I try to make, so I copy them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29293687
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by ericjang 5y ago
> I assume the hidden leg of your rhetorical enthymeme is that the universe is a Turing machine No, I am not making that claim. Not sure how you inferred that. ... by any chance, are you the author of the paper linked in this post? I am
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by ericjang 5y ago
Whether certain behaviors in the universe are uncomputable or not is irrelevant. If we classify "humans" as intelligent and assume no spooky immaterial aspects of consciousness, you already have an existence proof that intelligenc
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by ericjang 5y ago
You don't believe in the "wisdom of the crowds" ?
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by ericjang 5y ago
> So in contexts where one is actually trying to solve the _same problem_ as a group, placing very high weight on the honest information received from previous experts can be critical. Another "loose attempt to make this argument ri
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by ericjang 5y ago
The fact that the NFT sold for more than the original print after the act suggests to me that the "sacrifice-value-transfer" is not an exact 1:1 process, since the resulting NFT had a different value. Yes, the owner is probably de
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by ericjang 5y ago
Interesting idea. But doesn't this rely on public acceptance of the "imbuing of the original object's essence into NFT?" How do you encourage people to associate the act of destruction with an act of value transfer? As a
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by ericjang 5y ago
I am not only awed by the size and bulk of whales, but also the sheer meatiness of shrimp. It seems like these organisms are > 90% meat. Why do they have so much meat? What do they need all that meat for?
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by ericjang 5y ago
Hypothetically, if the computer could try both of these experiments at no cost to you, and tell you whether it improved things or not, does asking whether wavelets are appropriate for the domain even matter?
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by ericjang 5y ago
I still think that AI development should be embodied, and am willing to entertain the possibility that you don't need simulation at scale to train it (e.g. some clever unsupervised learning algorithm). Evaluating a system that can do m
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by ericjang 5y ago
+1 to these Taipei real estate price estimates. Note that TSMC is headquartered in Hsinchu County, and I think real estate is much cheaper there (please fact check me on this though). source: Parents are from Taiwan, and I have relatives in
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China ready for ‘friendly relations’ with the Taliban(independent.co.uk)
7 points by ericjang 5y ago|1 comments
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by ericjang 5y ago
I wasn't debating semantics https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghanistans-first-female-may...
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by ericjang 5y ago
Specifically about "natives, likewise, don't mind taliban rule". Nicholas Kristof (an American journalist with possibly pro-American biases, but one who I think has a pretty good track record of honest reporting), has pointed
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by ericjang 5y ago
The title and content of the article, in which Hanke espouses the virtues if Niantic Labs (an AR company), were cognitively dissonant for me. > The concept reached one of its most complete expressions in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One,
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by ericjang 5y ago
This is a sensitive topic, so I hope my question comes off as genuinely curious and not invalidating to the OPs experience, but rather a general question about how applicant selection ought to work. I wonder if the OP has some qualities tha
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by ericjang 5y ago
Believe it or not, I spent the last hour typing and re-deleting a response to your sarcastic comment that you probably casually typed in the span of 10 seconds. In the end I reduced a 1000 word paragraph into a short one, in hopes that peop

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