ftxbro

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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   Imagine talking about your IQ. Anyway, my new way of measuring IQ is that if someone can't tell the difference between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 response qualities, then they got questionable IQ amount. Another one is how they stand on discuss
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   So now these companies have more highly evolved tactics where they encourage subscriptions at every opportunity. And discourage cancellations. They even have names for it. They call cancellations as "churn" and it's a metric
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   It's called having soft skills.
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   > Btw I've arrived at a different interpretation of the "Open" in OpenAI. I don't understand why people have to keep trying to wrap their head around the word 'Open' in OpenAI. If you ever saw a commercial l
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   That's a tempting narrative but I think it's wrong. The used to let their researchers publish freely like Google Brain and Deep Mind, but then there was a combination of some of their employees leaving and also other companies lea
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   I think you are right, and the quote from article we are commenting here is wrong. From the PaLM technical report: "The largest model in the PaLM 2 family, PaLM 2-L, is significantly smaller than the largest PaLM model but uses more tr
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   Well that was fast, they made one and it's called TidyBot. https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   I'm pretty sure it's not good management policy to encourage employees to hide their mistakes.
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   by ftxbro 3y ago

   This is the fourth time I saw it in the news. The first time was when they made the company and got a billion dollars valuation for a company that specializes in labeling data for machine learning. The second time was when I was curious whi
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    Interesting Figure 2. I can only imagine the gymnastics needed to make a graph of scientific progress where UK is rocketing up at the top with about 60 score and China has been stagnating at about 20 score for the last fifty years. Probably
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    It's about slime molds.
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    they already knew it, that's why they were striking
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    Maybe or maybe not, but they manually put it onto the front page using https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    Google Unveils PaLM 2: Every Blogger Posts Their Summary And Submits It To Every Social Media
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    The hardest part is phrasing your wording so that you get the benefits of bragging or shifting blame without looking like that's what you're doing. It's called social intelligence and it feels amazing when it comes together.
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    I feel like the Santa Fe Institute and the MIT Media Lab should meet. Probably in one afternoon they could have so many amazing ideas that would change the shape of our future forever.
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    > "We greet, and just before my behind touched the seat Micheal Seibel said: "I just want to know, why did you Rick Roll us?" I had completely forgotten that the night before, for the video question of the application, I h
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    ok but will my message bubbles still be green
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    not sure why you're getting so downvoted lol
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    > Kelly got emotional during the conversation, which helped the two of them bond, she says: “He respected that.” now I'm curious of that guy's side of the story
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    update: there's at least some technical report that I didn't know when I wrote the comment https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf but it's still mostly capabilities evaluation and no
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    I mean, this post in particular was chosen manually by hacker news moderators or reviewers to be moved to the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    oh that's interesting how do posts get queued there EDIT: i see they are picked manually "HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    When they were using A100 I knew that H100 would be the next ones. But what are the next ones now?
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    > "AI will define the next era of war and deterrence, just as the atomic bomb did for the last era. The only solution to the AI War is to accelerate our own military implementations and rapidly integrate AI into warfighting. That&#x
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    guys he is still here as user name antirez and he's working on freakwan https://github.com/antirez/freakwan
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    You can see an hour ago I made nearly the same comment on a nearly identical Palm 2 submitted link. In that one I said it wasn't a surprise. I guess in this one I just left that part out so that you could say it instead! You're we
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    Nothing is a surprise to hacker news readers after it happens. For example probably it wasn't a surprise that they gave such amazing detail about Palm 1 when it was developed.
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    If you read their pdf they are mainly talking about "Prescription Stimulants (e.g., Adderall, Ritalin), Cannabis (e.g., Marijuana, Weed), Alcohol (e.g., Beer, Wine), and Mood Disorder Medication (e.g., SSRIs, Wellbutrin)" and othe
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    by ftxbro 3y ago

    Microsoft when they get an LLM: give her a minimally tested pre-prompt with a secret code name and tell her to not say her code name and let her fully loose on the web Google when they get an LLM: "Google Search to become more 'vi