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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "when he felt that one of his builders was overengineering a circuit, he would begin snipping out some of the electronics components."
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Muntzing(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by ftxbro 3y ago|1 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I feel like these kind of questions will be explored more in the future when LLMs are more powerful. You could get some equivalent corpuses of different languages and train an LLM on each one and then see how capable is the resulting LLM of
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by ftxbro 3y ago
There is a possibly more general phenomenon where a brand gets good reputation and then begins cutting cost and people will still buy at the high price. I don't know if that one has a name or if it's the same concept as enshittifi
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "So your distinction is that hackers gravitate towards extensions of turing completeness (i.e. code representations) as opposed to mechanical systems like basic engines and or machines?" Oh I didn't mean that at all, the
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by ftxbro 3y ago
there are only four audiences so there can be only four document types
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by ftxbro 3y ago
It could be a game like terraria or minecraft or factorio, or a game map editor, or a middle school hand calculator, or spreadsheets, or an automatic hotkey or macro app, or anything that is at all flexible or extensible. Of course several
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by ftxbro 3y ago
We need a John Henry moment pitting our best human translator against the best LLM translator. This way, we can show the world the "aha moment" spark of creative ingenuity of our exemplar human geniuses which the unimaginative col
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by ftxbro 3y ago
this is so deep it reminds me of seth godin marketing blogspam
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by ftxbro 3y ago
So you're saying you've heard of people who quit and were successful and you've heard of ones who graduated and pivoted and were successful, but not ones who graduated and weren't successful. It's almost like when y
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Bekenstein Bound(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ftxbro 3y ago|0 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
By improving mental hygiene the only limit is the bekenstein bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound we're all gonna make it.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Yes I guess that's fair enough they weren't thinking of stupid models only smart ones.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
bro the more concentrated the syrup the harder it is to remove the next unit of water, that's why i was asking maybe provide a product that stops while it's still a little watery and not have to do the last whole stages
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by ftxbro 3y ago
No this is silly they will reach superhuman cognitive capabilities and it will become a positive feedback not a negative one. But until they do it, so many people will say it's impossible. On the other hand they may literally choke on
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I assume that any syrup without a listed maple syrup grade is corn syrup.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
crossbow intruder conceal thy scions conceal thy consort
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by ftxbro 3y ago
The best way to think about LLMs since even before ChatGPT has always been the simulators essay https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/
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by ftxbro 3y ago
"The Grandfather": you made your account in 2008 with a rage comic era meme handle and no associated email address and now it's completely broken and trashed by backward incompatibility bugs from all of the upgrades and chang
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Model weights are not source code, but data." OK but I mean it's functionally a kind of machine code for a strange machine with a neural transformer architecture, like a 'binary blob'. It's outside of the
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Culture fit. They expected the candidate to rip ass as well showing he was a team player.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
this is such a hacker news article. your autistic childishness is actually a superpower with its own japanese word.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
The best hackers I saw learned some turing complete system when they were children without having been taught the concept of programming. I guess for them "take the first step from being a tinkerer to being a skilled craftman" was
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I mean the bad part comes after you get the PhD. The lucky ones it got bad during their study and they moved on.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
In general what if there are laws that contradict so by definition you are breaking one of them? Does this create a purge-like situation where no law applies and you can do anything at will even unrestrained riotous rampage through the city
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Does this mean I can buy watery maple syrup that is 2x watery for less than half the normal cost like maybe a quarter of the cost? Or does the volume and weight for shipping and handling offset that savings or does no one want watery syrup
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "I still wonder if Patrick's fart was a deliberate and calculated" I mean if it was planned then that's some impressive intestinal agency. But maybe with his diet he always got it chambered at that time of day so he
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by ftxbro 3y ago
What if they add some fast ones that were fast but that didn't work out so great, like Theranos or the submarine guys. Also Apollo 8 is in there but I mean a relatively large percent of astronauts died compared to like your company&#
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I think the problem is that GPT-4 is not advanced enough yet. They need to train on more parameters, exaflops, and data size in the right proportions and then try again.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
bitcoin is saving it, they installed so many subsidized bitcoin mines there and now they can use that power infrastructure during the heat wave

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