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by glial 9mo ago
Maybe, but probably not. For me, an early goal of writing is to get my thoughts in order. A later goal is to discuss the writing with people, which can only happen in a high-quality way if my thoughts are in order. Achieving goals is fun. W
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by glial 9mo ago
Yesterday I had semi-coherent idea for an essay. I told it to an LLM and asked for a list of authors and writings where similar thoughts have been expressed - and it provided a fantastic bibliography. To me, this is extremely fun. And, rea
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by glial 10mo ago
All very true. This is why I think the concern about harm reduction and alignment is very important, despite people on HN commonly scoffing about LLM "safety".
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by glial 10mo ago
Agree with you. I heard someone say that LLMs don't need to be as good as an expert to be useful, they just need to be better than your best available expert. A lot of people don't have access to mental health care, and will ask
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by glial 11mo ago
https://danijar.com/project/dreamer4/ "We present Dreamer 4, a scalable agent that learns to solve control tasks by imagination training inside of a fast and accurate world model. ... By training inside of it
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by glial 1y ago
See also: "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life" https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-body-electric-rob...
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by glial 1y ago
Suppose we simplify the scenario and think of experiences as draws from a discrete probability distribution, e.g. p=[0.1, 0.1, 0.7, 0.1]. Suppose further that all events are a draw of type 1, 2, 3, or 4, and that our memory kept a count and
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by glial 1y ago
In terms of being useful, it depends on the field. In reinforcement learning, for example, the entire field is divided into 'model-free' and 'model-based' approaches. Model-free approaches are learning state-action mappi
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by glial 1y ago
> nobody questions it ever Seems like anyone who buys or sells gold at any other price is questioning it.
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by glial 1y ago
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis by John Kruschke (get the 2nd edition). The name is even an homage to the original.
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by glial 1y ago
Yes, but the overall framework - that our thinking can be broadly divided into habits/reaction and deliberation/forecasting - still holds, with a ton of supporting neural evidence.
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by glial 1y ago
From his Wikipedia page: Wolfe wrote in a letter, "My definition of a great story has nothing to do with 'a varied and interesting background.' It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with
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by glial 1y ago
I'm increasingly of the opinion that ad-driven media is the root cause of many of our social problems.
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by glial 1y ago
The incentive of all psychology researchers is to do new work rather than replications. Because of this, publicly-funded psychology PhDs should be required to perform study replication as part of their training. Protocol + results should be
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by glial 1y ago
This is neat - potentially - but the authors should include some benchmarks where this added complexity increases system performance. Otherwise it could be a solution in search of a problem.
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by glial 1y ago
Just leaving this here: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/large-concept-mode...
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by glial 1y ago
Interesting, will check it out. A persistent issue I have with Cursor et al. is that they hallucinate function arguments when using a function or method from a library. It seems like automatically pulling the library's documentation in
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by glial 1y ago
I had someone from a bank call me and ask for my SSN to confirm my identity. The caller ended up being legitimate, but I still didn't give it...like, are you kidding me?
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by glial 1y ago
My wife and I put parental controls on each others' phones. I turn them off for travel (in case I need something unexpected) and then back on when I get home. It sounds crazy but it works great.
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by glial 1y ago
So much mathematical modeling is based on systems of differential equations. It's difficult to understand the conceptual approach without some basic understanding of calculus. You CAN model predator-prey dynamics or disease spread usin
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by glial 1y ago
> No other animal is capable of going beyond the confines of this planet, and the fact that only humans can enable such thing is quite exceptional. One thing humans seem to be uniquely good at is picking goalposts that separate us from o
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by glial 1y ago
This is wonderful, thank you for sharing! Do you have any sense of whether this type of model would work with children's speech? There are plenty of educational applications that would value a privacy-first locally deployed model. But,
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by glial 1y ago
And "pasta" is just the Italian word for paste.
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by glial 1y ago
The idea is very close to ideas from Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving [1]. "Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Lovin
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by glial 1y ago
“Selling the F-35, or American systems for that matter, will certainly become more complicated for American companies,” said Gesine Weber, a Paris-based fellow at transatlantic think tank German Marshall Fund. “An important factor in the pu
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by glial 1y ago
Because the value always goes up and managing renters and repairs is a PITA.
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by glial 1y ago
Hopefully someone better educated than me can answer this - several of the definitions in the link feel constructivist, i.e. they describe constructions of of real numbers. It seems easy to think of methods of constructing non-rational numb
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by glial 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure it's so simple. LLMs are called causal models in the sense that earlier tokens "cause" later tokens, that is, later tokens are causally dependent on what the earlier tokens are.
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by glial 1y ago
You asked for a thorny problem, and that is one. Whether it's significant by some other metric you didn't specify is a separate question.
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by glial 1y ago
I'd be curious about your friends' Youtube viewing habits.

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