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by fn-mote 3mo ago
I think this is a the GP’s point: the whole thing is a fool’s errand.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
Try the Quanta magazine articles. https://www.quantamagazine.org/series/fields-and-abacus-meda...
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
Is this a purely hypothetical question? Or are you saying that’s what happened in this case. Because that’s not the way I understand it.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> The person you call at 3am to fix your drain, isnt using AI. I am 100% using AI to figure out wtf to do about my 3am plumbing problem. /joke After I have the water turned off, I’m going to back to sleep to call a plumber during re
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> Today I foolishly thought maybe I was the one who was holding it wrong […] Apparently goes on to describe being confused about parallel reading from the standard input?
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
The citation needed is for the other part, which claims a mathematician got an amateur proof which was correct. Nobody is reading unsolicited proofs. They are like spam. Source: personal friend of a “crank”.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
The concern is that there could have been expert knowledge input, whose importance/worth we are unable to evaluate. I don’t believe a mathematician produced the counter example secretly, but how much did they contribute to the result?
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
On one hand, yes. The parent wants to be skeptical… nothing wrong with being suspicious of marketing claims, right? I would be a lot less impressed if I found out the session was guided by an expert in the field who already had a good idea
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> to get good enough that choice of shoe matters Bowling shoe vs running shoe? As soon as you’re trying to get better, the shoes matter a lot. They let you use the established techniques. Bowling shoe vs socks? Never tried it, but I’m go
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> more absurd to think that humans are near the top of that curve rather than right at the bottom The “absurd” dimension does not enter. This is a situation where you have no evidence at all. In the absence of any information, the averag
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
How would this be different from taking a yoga class from a video? I would be willing to be proven wrong, but I doubt the ability of LLMs to give useful corrections in yoga much more than their ability to write useful code.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
The customer has more power than a patient. I definitely want to be a customer.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
I think this is an unfair take. The necessity of teaching nurses that doctors orders are not sacrosanct comes from the bitter experience of doctors giving orders that are wrong. Asking for clarification is great, but doctors can be very rel
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> with no option to say "Actually they did their best but this isn't their fault." In this case, the lack of such an option is obviously a flaw in the assessment system. How to fix that? Major political issue, I suppose.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
When LLMs stop helping me with my work, I’ll stop going to doctors who use them. Too bad for me, it’s a real mixed bag. I need a doctor who is an AI-using LLM skeptic, I guess.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
Ed: I disagree. My recollection is that machine learning was routinely sold as “AI” even when it obviously wasn’t. (IBM’s Watson was good at Jeopardy but not real medical applications.) This isn’t exactly the same, but nothing in the book P
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> AI-powered alerts from their apple watches that detected cardiac events Surely these are “good old-fashioned AI” (statistical learning) and not LLM, though. I just want to be clear that the “medical LLM” tools are the new ones, and the
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> AI is a force multiplayer and scarily dangerous in the wrong hands You have to spell this out a lot more if you want to have credibility. I’m not seeing anything in discussed here that seems scary.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> AI hasn't done anything we couldn't already do. It's just doing it faster and with more mistakes. You forgot CHEAPER (at least now, burning VC money), which is a major motivating factor.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
I really don’t think that’s what’s going on here. People interact with AI, talking to it like a human. Of course they start to believe it’s rational like a human. LLM does all of the entry level tasks better than the students. Partially bec
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
I would be so much happier with this comment if it gave any detail about what was worse. As it is, it’s just a rant not a contribution to dialog.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
It’s not more important information than a password manager, it’s just more .
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
> You can just not have phones, but it's socially isolating. I hear this plenty, but kids are literally forced to go be with their peers (hopefully including some friends) for 6+ hours a day (in my country). Don't they have en
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
Pretty sure iOS is providing this? At least for messages and voicemail.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
Curious if anyone can explain the Shodan packets described here.
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by fn-mote 3mo ago
This is barely an issue… changing the redirect is instantaneous.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
> Can't the customer rate-limit connections? Bad guys use a botnet (compromised residential computers and routers) to defeat rate limiting and ip-based blocking.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
(2022) I can only imagine what it’s like now.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
The difference is, if you tell the LLM that the component is too big and ask it to use some strategies to break it up, it will. Humans? Also maybe, but I always suspect the humans actually don’t know a better way. The LLM does, just that pa
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
My main argument about this kind of work is that it is (essentially if not exactly) in the training set. I want a different argument before I believe that LLMs are doing “out of training dataspace creativity” (extrapolation not interpolatio

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