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by extheat 3y ago
Same reason we study and do research in biology and fields in general. Understanding more about biology, whether in neuroscience or elsewhere, is the fundamental backbone of medicine. Do you want to live in a world where we don't pur
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by extheat 3y ago
At 8x86B, looks like the largest open model yet by far. Would be interesting to hear how many tokens it's been trained on. Especially important for higher param models in order to efficiently utilize all those parameters.
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by extheat 3y ago
He's not asking for money in the lawsuit, so what is it going to do? I thought it was for show in the first place, the goal was to hold them to their founding principles. Which are of course, pretty subjective. Top to bottom it's
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by extheat 3y ago
It was his money to give, he's not obligated to giving it out without some form of control. But yes that does seem pretty excessive, he basically wanted to pull a Tesla there.
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by extheat 3y ago
Anyone can sue anyone for any reason at any time. Unless the lawsuit is in bad faith and meritless (only a court can make that determination), there is no argument to be had about "lawfare". The only difference here and in other c
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by extheat 3y ago
LLaMA 3 with >=70B params will be launching this year, so I don't think this is something that will hold for long. And Mixtral 8x7B is a 56GB model, sparsely. For now I agree, for many companies it doesn't make sense to open so
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by extheat 3y ago
The 5th Circuit court of appeals has already ruled similarly that the SEC's in house courts are unconstitutional, and that Congress can't delegate its legislative/judicial powers to the executive branch in that case under the
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by extheat 3y ago
I love it when people make this “nuke” argument because it tells you a lot more about them than it does about anything else. There are so many low information people out there, it’s a bit sad the state of education even in developed countri
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by extheat 3y ago
Why not just use an LLM to generate the code/commands for you? Making a whole new language someone has to learn and memorize special keywords and built-ins doesn't seem too appealing by today's standards.
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by extheat 3y ago
It’s not really a vulnerability in the sense that it leads to any sort of system compromise. It’s definitely a design flaw in whatever features they added to the OS, but not necessarily something that warrants a huge investigation.
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by extheat 3y ago
This is why I am concerned that really good AI tools (be it LLMs, or not), are only going to make people dumber over time. It is true that those people that are highly motivated will be digitally enhanced by LLMs, but the hard reality is th
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by extheat 3y ago
People should never have blindly trusted anything on the internet in the first place. As far as I’m aware, most of the fears like this are overrated. People will live, learn and adapt as we always have. Constantly complaining about doom and
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by extheat 3y ago
The webpage here seems more like promotional blogspam. The paper has been on arxiv for 2 days now. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051279 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061399
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by extheat 3y ago
The Hacker in hacker news was never meant to imply black hat/malicious types of hacking. There’s quite a difference between say, tearing something apart, reverse engineering it, breaking into something that _you_ own, versus trying to
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by extheat 3y ago
This sounds even worse for Apple. If it’s too easy to make an in-app purchase, why don’t they make it harder to complete one by adding password requirement for payments through their App Store? Of course they won’t do that because it hurts
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by extheat 3y ago
By "doing something for 10 years", I think the implication is you're actively working on that subject area, regularly, for 10 years. Not per se occasionally working on something every now and then. You can become a really goo
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by extheat 3y ago
A lot of attention gets paid to sex abuse content, which it should, but there is much less I feel for all sorts of other abhorrent content. Gore, violence (physical/mental), terrorism, death, destruction, shock content, etc. It's
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by extheat 3y ago
I assume this works like traditional cellular roaming, no? So this would mean you have to be a customer of one of the service providers to get reciprocated roaming capabilities abroad.
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by extheat 3y ago
I don't think it's that unusual. What comes to mind immediately is it's not unusual for me to clone something from a private git repo, where a username+password would be needed for permissions. In which case it's possibl
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by extheat 3y ago
This particular rejection vote by the US in the UN is a bit peculiar to me. Obviously, I understand the sensitivity around the situation--so why not abstain from the vote? Why when given that option, not use abstention and instead choose re
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by extheat 3y ago
Why would normal memory access be O(log n)? Seems to me jumping to a random address should be an O(1) operation. Would be pretty dumb if jumping to higher RAM addresses takes longer than jumping to lower RAM, excluding hardware things like
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by extheat 3y ago
This seems pretty incoherent to me. It’s a hodgepodge of complaints about all sorts of things like bad code, slow job running, version control and other stuff. You can say the same things about any complex software. Not sure what the takeaw
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by extheat 3y ago
It’s the “least controversial idea” if you have faith in the government to do the right thing. Many people don’t, for one reason or another. Fortunately, more people (and companies) are realizing that liabilities like this can be absolved b
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by extheat 3y ago
No, I disagree with the idea that one letter domains look wrong. Especially with the many new TLDs, more often than not short URL services use single character domains. Take g.co for example—google uses that in ads everywhere. It’s modern e
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by extheat 3y ago
Tit for tat moves like this serves no legitimate public interest. The fact that Nvidia can even "redesign" and nerf chips on the fly should perhaps make it obvious to keen observers how ridiculous trying to control compute is. The
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by extheat 3y ago
Completely agree. When I talk to others about Github Copilot/ChatGPT however, I am rather surprised to hear some of the criticisms. As in, it's unreliable, it's wrong, not good for beginners, etc. I don't understand that
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by extheat 3y ago
Nothing of interesting value comes out of these soundbite posts or discussions.
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by extheat 3y ago
I don't think you understand where those comments are coming from. I didn't interpret it as malicious but rather venting his frustration. It's obviously (very) inappropriate, but there is a (very) big difference between speak
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by extheat 3y ago
It was an emotional response driven from frustration. But obviously something highly inappropriate to say outright, and only creates yet another PR disaster. He is his own worst enemy, unable to adequately control himself. It seems verbatim
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by extheat 3y ago
As an FYI, Bing Chat at http://bing.com/chat continues to work even during OpenAI outages. It's also running GPT-4 -- it can be annoying when it reaches out to search, but you can usually explicitly prompt it to not do

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