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by extr 4y ago
You yourself have a series of markovian connections between tokens. The only difference is that your tokens are bound across modalities and you use them for things, so you consider them to have meaning instead of just being high dimensional
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by extr 4y ago
I agree, the world needs a healthy dose of jokers :)
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by extr 4y ago
Lol. This guy sounds like a real joker.
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by extr 4y ago
I agree with the take that LaMDA is not sentient (not even close). But I think the excessive smack-down of excitement is a little patronizing of the public. Even if they don't know what to do with them, big language models now have int
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by extr 4y ago
Shooting down a circling UAV with a missile, sure. But the equivalent here is sending a micro drone to go hover outside the windows. I think most people would agree that's pretty brazen provocation, a shotgun is a totally proportional
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by extr 4y ago
It's like, I send the server an encrypted math problem. The server has no idea what the math problem is, but homomorphic encryption allows it to compute an (encrypted) result and send that back to me. I get the result and decrypt it fo
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by extr 4y ago
This is kind of already what's happening inside the NN. You can think of intermediate layers in the network as talking to each other in "NN-ease", that is, translating from one form of representation (encoding) to another. At
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by extr 4y ago
Hi Gwern, I'm the submitter of the other thread. It was quite coincidental to wake up to this announcement this morning, because the last thing I read before bed was your "Clippy" story: https://www.gwern.net/
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by extr 4y ago
Abstract: Inspired by progress in large-scale language modeling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-t
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent(deepmind.com)
502 points by extr 4y ago|337 comments
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by extr 4y ago
This article does a great job going over what I'm talking about https://dev.to/iq9/external-monitor-for-macos-avoiding-the-b...
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by extr 4y ago
I made the switch from Windows/Linux to one of the new M1 MBPs and it's been mostly great. But one of the most surprising things has been how poorly MacOS handles high resolutions. Windows has completely nailed it at this point wi
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by extr 4y ago
I used to work at a company like this. Only hired new grads, and promoted mostly from within. It was great in some ways but you would definitely have "blind leading the blind" moments and it was very frustrating. I came to see the
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by extr 4y ago
I think you'll get an extremely general and possibly skewed sense of things reading the comments here. What field do you work in? I would find a professional peer who is experienced and can serve as a trusted mentor, this is really mor
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by extr 5y ago
Part of the reason I and many others love twitter is precisely because it retains a spark of that early internet forum style community, with pseudonymity for those who want it and "Real ID" for those who want to treat it like Link
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by extr 5y ago
OP could just be confused. It wasn't obvious to me until I clicked it's a post published today looking back at 2021, the doc itself isn't from 2021.
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by extr 5y ago
Very true. I find it to be a fun thought exercise though. Kind of like asking your friends around the dinner table how they would rob a bank.
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by extr 5y ago
Not sure how a random user of /r/WSB who has been receiving anonymous insider tips in return for 50% of the gains, to be paid in untraceable crypto, is going to "flip" :D
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by extr 5y ago
I guess I'm imagining more of a situation where you are working with someone (or yourself) that already has a sophisticated understanding of the market's expectations, and you wait for opportunities where your inside info is not p
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by extr 5y ago
This is another situation where I am literally dumbfounded at the actions of the indicted. How are you smart enough to know what options are and how to buy them but stupid enough to think that you won't get caught making such a blatant
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by extr 5y ago
I don't find it hard to imagine. 1. Work for a company that provides signal-giving infrastructure for a variety of companies across disparate industries. Twilio is actually a perfect example. 2. Find someone to work with that already h
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by extr 5y ago
What a lame way to insider trade. I thought that instance of the Capital One analysts using internal database queries to understand which retailers were having good quarters was far more interesting and insidious. Similarly you could imagin
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by extr 5y ago
Part of the reason twitter is so great is that reading posts chronologically gives you a feeling of connection and immediacy in communication. I like reading posts from 5 seconds ago, conversations only yet halfway through, absolute bleedin
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by extr 5y ago
Thanks for the blog post.
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by extr 5y ago
Sure, perhaps I was reading too much into your comment. As another comment suggests, there is a big spectrum between disallowing social media entirely and allowing your child unrestricted access. The example you give here makes complete sen
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by extr 5y ago
I get where you're coming from, and it's a nice thought that you could simply "go nuclear" and forbid a teenager from using social media to avoid this kind of thing. But if you did this you would also be denying your kid
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by extr 5y ago
> But Ava’s parents allowed her to sell Mr. Justin a couple of selfies that she had already posted to Snapchat. They were aware and allowed it. But, not knowing the family's financial circumstances, it raises a difficult question of
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by extr 5y ago
I would be interested to hear the arguments that posters here would make if they were in charge of a firm that did analysis and found that they were paying labor costs in gross excess of the market rates needed to retain employees. How woul
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by extr 5y ago
A lot of this stuff matches my experience. I'm a classic night owl and occasionally subject myself to acute sleep deprivation (< 3-4 hours of sleep). Typically the next day I'm in weirdly good humor, slightly manic, and feel as
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by extr 5y ago
That's pretty standard phrasing for "you've hit on something i've also thought a lot about". I say it all the time, usually with pleasure, because it means the opportunity to share something I find interesting or fe

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