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by ericjang 6y ago
Sorry, I misread the original question. I am not aware of the CCP accessing TikTok user data (for instance, to track dissidents or surreptitiously use it to compute social credit scores).
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by ericjang 6y ago
Yes https://twitter.com/ericjang11/status/1289713401992683523?s=...
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Chaos and Randomness(blog.evjang.com)
1 points by ericjang 6y ago|0 comments
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by ericjang 6y ago
What are some examples of this?
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by ericjang 6y ago
Same technological challenges, but the rendering of past historical figures' ethnographic features has much higher social stakes and is a considerably more politically sensitive issue than how a T-Rex is rendered.
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by ericjang 6y ago
Thanks Daniel for your response! I hope my GP comment didn't come across as hostile or discouraging to future artists who want to explore this kind of art. I want to be clear that I'm not offended by your work. My discomfort stems
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by ericjang 6y ago
> On a completely different note, I am not sure what you’re getting at with the racial stuff What I am saying is that this sort of work can lead to people believing these images as true, i.e. "this is what Roman Emperors looked like
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by ericjang 6y ago
This is undoubtedly cool, but I worry quite a lot about people who aren't educated about ML interpreting these "historical renditions" as a "ground truth forensic". Rendering fossilized animals and coloring black an
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by ericjang 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what would such a model be used for? I worry that as ML is becoming more popular and powerful, people are jumping to use it on problems from which the answer cannot possibly be identified accurately from the inputs alone.
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by ericjang 6y ago
> You can connect them just like you do with micro services or modular systems - what is the issue about this? Clearly I'm missing something here. Can you walk me through how exactly a micro service would enable GPT-3 to look up fac
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by ericjang 6y ago
I feel that overestimation of fundamental capability is actually the cause of many morality/safety issues, if not at least a degradation of user experience (automated voice menus). The big difference here is that TikTok, Twitter, Whisp
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by ericjang 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for your reply and clarification. I think "PR nightmare" scenario might be more likely than you suspect. 1. What if an AI therapy bot tells a depressed person to kill themselves? How do you get a language model
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by ericjang 6y ago
The author's main points are all centered around the assumption that GPT-3 related technologies are ready to create market-disrupting products, and that the key business challenges remaining are mostly around figuring out how to build
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by ericjang 6y ago
It's less of a matter of "I don't want the government to spy on me, the individual with a banal life" than a matter of "I don't want the government to spy on us, a society". For instance, having a FB accou
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by ericjang 6y ago
"The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" discusses the lineage of Shaw, Tartaglia, and his predecessors briefly. I think some more academic texts on Pairs Trading and Stat Arb will mention the
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by ericjang 6y ago
I read somewhere long ago that there have been incidents of FBI employees tasked with reviewing child pornography [1] who saw so much that they became desensitized or even aroused by it. Does anyone know if this is well-documented, or was t
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by ericjang 6y ago
In the process of learning about a family of algorithms in machine learning I also gained some physical intuition of determinants (same diagram as 3Blue1Brown, but applied in a different context of "squashing and stretching" proba
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by ericjang 6y ago
This is horrific. When did this happen? Was this in Harlem?
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by ericjang 6y ago
I think the basic premise is that the status quo of transactions (free service for user data) has resulted in an imbalance of power for tech companies, and that by increasing the cost of acquisition, users have a means to collectively negot
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by ericjang 6y ago
I hope I'm not drawing too tenuous of a connection to current events, but I can't help but notice the irony of so many Silicon Valley companies coming out in vocal (and financial!) support of the BLM movement [1], while turning ri
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by ericjang 6y ago
She's certainly not conceding defeat, so yes it's "doubling down" in a sense. But "doubling down" might imply some sort of "I'm right, you're wrong" in an objective sense. Maybe she just wan
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by ericjang 6y ago
Great response. Increasing investment in the "Science Index Fund" prepares us to handle risks like COVID-19 better without requiring the "active management / forecasting" ability to know what the probabilities of a
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by ericjang 6y ago
The contrib directory is used as an unorganized (or, at best, lightly organized) bin of various useful things contributed by the community around the software, but which is not necessarily a good candidate for being a proper part of the so
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by ericjang 6y ago
I could not disagree more with this post. To summarize what the author is unhappy with: 1) "It’s another big jump in the number, but the underlying architecture hasn’t changed much... it’s pretty annoying and misleading to call it “GPT
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by ericjang 6y ago
There is an excellent short sci-fi film exploring this concept by a former technical director at Pixar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv30ExfoKcc
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Thinking While Moving: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Concurrent Control(youtu.be)
4 points by ericjang 6y ago|0 comments
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by ericjang 6y ago
The author was probably talking about the logistic function being parameterized by 3 parameters, x0, L, and k [1]. The point the author is probably making is that if you are fitting a perfect logistic model to data, 3 data points should be
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by ericjang 6y ago
Hypothetical question: if your employer offered you the option of extra compensation to install keyloggers/screen capture software on your work computer, and you know that the logs are only being used for aggregate productivity statist
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by ericjang 6y ago
Which software do you have in mind?
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by ericjang 6y ago
It was a proof by contradiction, I think. One example is sufficient to make the point that success is not impossible .

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