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by glial 2y ago
> The Founders were more concerned about facing a duel than a criminal conviction. This is because "their class of people" were an honor-based society, in which reputation was the currency of power, and people with honor were e
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by glial 2y ago
> if it becomes really-good and 100's of millions of kids start using it If it actually works, this is the ideal outcome.
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by glial 2y ago
I asked GPT-4 to estimate how much CO2 this likely emits, in units of "typical car usage in a city." It suggests this emits roughly as much CO2 as Reno or Des Moines. That's staggering, but there are about 100 cities this siz
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by glial 2y ago
I found it surprisingly approachable -- yes it discusses convolutions, but it also teaches you what that means in a very step-by-step manner, with nice illustrations.
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by glial 2y ago
No. Their implementation so far leaves something to be desired. Agents enable iterative changes to the environment. In contrast, LLMs are just "one shot" outputs and cannot edit what they have already done. I think this "iter
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by glial 2y ago
Maybe they use the "Siri is waking up and the screen wabbles" animation time for loading the model. That would be clever.
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by glial 2y ago
> RAM is literally the cheapest primary component Is that still true for Apple's integrated memory? It might be - I just don't know.
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by glial 2y ago
People already use words like 'product', 'content', 'feature', and 'vehicle' in everyday conversation. It makes me shudder every time.
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by glial 2y ago
I thought it was interesting that the only image generation they support are sketches (that look like a photoshop styling) and goofy 3d cartoons -- not really competition with most creatives.
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by glial 2y ago
Siri will have ChatGPT integration (for free, apparently)
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by glial 2y ago
You can also type 'caffeinate' in the terminal and it'll turn off sleeping.
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by glial 2y ago
You can also take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard with ctrl+cmd+shift+4 (for a selection) or ctrl+cmd+shift+3 (for the entire screen). The same keys but without the 'ctrl' key will save them to file. It seems like a ridi
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by glial 2y ago
That's very interesting food for thought, thanks!
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by glial 2y ago
> Closer to the minimal amount of information I need It makes me wonder what this 'need' is that can be filled by memetic drivel.
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by glial 2y ago
This is a cool idea!
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by glial 2y ago
I have not yet read Pale Fire, but I loved Lolita and hope to read it soon. Nabokov's writing is so rich, the writing itself (aside from the story!) is worth lingering over and savoring. I've only found a few other writers with a
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by glial 2y ago
I second this recommendation!
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by glial 2y ago
This is pretty amazing -- and a practical application of a solution to a notoriously tricky problem called the "cocktail party problem."[1] For a small subset of researchers, writing an algorithm to isolate a voice in a crowd is o
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by glial 2y ago
Arithmetic
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by glial 2y ago
Perhaps, but then what's the point of symbolic systems at all?
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by glial 2y ago
So is St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_neighborhood#Routing_of_...
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by glial 2y ago
I think LLMs will need to do what humans do: invent symbolic representations of systems and then "reason" by manipulating those systems according to rules. Here's a paper working along those lines: https://arxiv.or
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by glial 2y ago
The US is not the only country who has experienced high inflation since COVID.
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by glial 2y ago
The relative ranking of the US has changed drastically within the past decade. I wonder why. It seems like many factors that we blame for rising costs - inflation, supply-chain issues - would affect other countries as well.
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by glial 2y ago
Yes - prairie dogs. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/magazine/can-prairie-dogs...
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by glial 2y ago
It's more a de facto definition than an official definition. Finding reasons that animal communication is not "Language" seems to be a hobby of linguists, in my experience.
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by glial 2y ago
A forest has more sequestered CO2 than a field, probably. Individual trees die and decompose but new trees replace them.
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by glial 2y ago
There is also an iron air battery project in Minnesota: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/10/rusty-batteries-cou...
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by glial 2y ago
I had a Chrysler van and had to replace the transmission twice. Glad to hear you've had better luck than I.
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by glial 2y ago
> LLMs are radically unlike organic minds. I used to think this too, but now I'm not so sure. There's an influential school of thought arguing that one of the primary tasks of the brain is to predict sensory input, e.g. to take

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