getnormality

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by getnormality 5mo ago
> To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena. But the problem is that we cannot truly observe infinity, and so we ca
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by getnormality 5mo ago
I don't know why people buy smart glasses. Maybe they buy them for video capture. If so, the videos go to Meta's servers and Meta might do things with them. They might be criticized for not reviewing them in certain cases. That&
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by getnormality 5mo ago
What specifically do you mean? It is by design that smart glasses see the things happening in front of their users? Yes, it is. That is why people buy them.
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by getnormality 5mo ago
Well, yeah. If I went straight to the press to trash the reputation of my client's product, rather than communicating internally first to help them proactively address the issues, I would expect to get fired. Not that I am remotely int
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by getnormality 6mo ago
> I think most ML people now think of neural-network architectures as being, essentially, choices of tradeoffs that facilitate learning in one context or another when data and compute are in short supply, but not as being fundamental to
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by getnormality 6mo ago
Coffee modifies physiology and cognition? You're telling me this for the first time.
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by getnormality 6mo ago
If the solar panels are movable we can go back to the Middle Ages formula where some of the land is left fallow each year to improve yields!
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by getnormality 6mo ago
I skimmed the article for an explanation of why this is needed, what problem it solves, and didn't find one I could follow. Is the point that we want to be able to ask for visualizations directly against tables in remote SQL databases,
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by getnormality 6mo ago
Sometimes you fuck the cloud, sometimes the cloud fucks you
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by getnormality 6mo ago
In what way is AI 2027 coming true? AI 2027 predicted a giant model with the ability to accelerate AI research exponentially. This isn't happening. AI 2027 didn't predict a model with superhuman zero-day finding skills. This is wh
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by getnormality 6mo ago
It's a little funny that "system/model card" has progressively been stretched to the point where it's now a 250 page report and no one makes anything of it.
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by getnormality 6mo ago
I was thinking the same thing, but then I decided to embrace the frustration of the image. It's reminding us that the pictures we have in our heads are kind of fragile. They don't prepare us for a live encounter with Earth from so
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by getnormality 6mo ago
If you're confused what you're looking at, turn it upside down.
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by getnormality 6mo ago
dplyr straightforwardly transpiles to SQL through the dbplyr package, so it's semantically pretty close to a port, even though the syntax is a bit different (better).
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by getnormality 6mo ago
On reflection I think it's possible I may have missed the potential positive value of the post a bit. Maybe analyzing pandas gets you down to a set of data frame primitives that is helpful to build any API. Maybe the API you start with
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by getnormality 6mo ago
I agree, sometimes data comes to you in a state that is beyond the point where rigor is helpful. And for some people that kind of data is most of their job!
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by getnormality 6mo ago
Do what you gotta do, but most of my job for the past decade has been replacing data pipelines that randomly duplicate data with pipelines that solve duplication at the source, and my users strongly prefer it. Of course, a lot of one-off da
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by getnormality 6mo ago
Duplicates in source data are almost always a sign of bad data modeling, or of analysts and engineers disregarding a good data model. But I agree that this ubiquitous antipattern that nobody should be doing can still be usefully made concis
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by getnormality 6mo ago
Hmm. Folks trying to discover the elegant core of data frame manipulation by studying... pandas usage patterns. When R's dplyr solved this over a decade ago, mostly by respecting SQL and following its lead. The pandas API feels like
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by getnormality 7mo ago
There is no general purpose harness.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
> Transformers are the dominant architecture in AI, yet why they work remains poorly understood. This paper offers a precise answer: a transformer is a Bayesian network. Why would being a Bayesian network explain why transformers work? B
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by getnormality 7mo ago
No True Novelty, No True Understanding, etc. The problem with these bromides is not that they're wrong, it's that they're not even wrong. They're predictive nulls. What observable differences can we expect between an ent
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Interesting. The post would have benefitted a lot from talking about this background instead of just name-dropping Perelman once and by last name only(!!). That's the sort of sloppiness you get when you have a conversation with an AI,
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by getnormality 7mo ago
This AI-written post is part of an insight porn genre that attempts to draw a sharp distinction between two words that mean basically the same thing in real life. We read it, we politely agree that sure, you could use those two words to rep
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by getnormality 7mo ago
It's AI for sure.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
The evidence "actually supports the null" over what alternative? In a Bayesian analysis, the result of an inference, e.g. about the fairness of a coin as in Lindley's paradox, depends completely on the distribution of the a
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by getnormality 7mo ago
> something happened to the model in training (RLHF?) that forcefully degraded its reasoning performance I've been seeing more people speculating like this and I don't understand why. What evidence do we have for RLHF degrading
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Didn't we recently see another hack, where you could get better performance by repeating the prompt? I wonder if they work for similar reasons.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Good time to stand up, shake hands, say "we'll be in touch!" and leave. Sometimes you gotta fire your interviewer.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
This is for their own good. Nobody cares about imperfect language online so long as you are trying to express real human thoughts. But if it smells like AI then everyone will hate it, rule or no rule. The rule just makes the will of the com

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