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by gweinberg 1y ago
Well, one of the first posts I saw was just a repeated ethnic slur, so not all "bad words" are prohibited.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Exactly. The article is kind of sneaking in the claim that the LLM ought to be ignoring the "irrelevant" facts about cats even though it is explicitly labelled as interesting.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I can see the advantage of using common words, but isn't it pretty silly to insist on them all being one syllable? The very first words (most people) learn are tow syllables (albeit the same one repeated), right?
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I don't understand what they are saying at all. If I have a computation that requires going through a loop n times, why should the memory requirements increase with n at all?
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Sure, because most Christians don't take Jesus' teachings too seriously. You shouldn't slap a Christian (or anyone) on the cheek for no reason, but if you were to, the odds of him responding by inviting you to slap the other
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by gweinberg 1y ago
These are just models, and not necessarily good ones. They seem "robust" in that you can diddle with the parameters all you like and you always get a collapse, it's justa question of when. But the basic assumptions going int
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by gweinberg 1y ago
This was one of the the wacky inventions featured in Parker Brothers' Inventors board game. As I recall the game itself wasn't very good, no real strategy. At the time I thought the parachute hat was most likely to actually prove
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I got a bunch of red stuff also. I imagine the author cached embeddings for some words but not really all that many to save on credits. I gave it mermaid - woman and got merman, but when I tried to give it boar + woman - man or ram + woman
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I'm sorry, I don't get your point at all, and have no idea what you mean by "did this". If you asked for an embedding, you would have gotten a 768 (or whatever) dimensional array right?
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I don't understand why some people consider the concept of many dimensions to be so mysterious. It's numbers specifying something like degrees of freedom. If I wanted to specify the position of my body sitting at my desk, I might
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by gweinberg 1y ago
It's not at all a nit. If one of the dimensions did indeed correspond to gender, you might find "king" and "queen" pretty much only differed in one dimension. More generally, if these dimensions individually refer t
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by gweinberg 1y ago
It is quite strange. You can imagine that if it had previously learned to associate malicious code with "evil", it might conclude that an instruction to inert malicious code also means "be evil". But expressing admiratio
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Materials that are strong under compression aren't necessarily strong under tension, and vice-versa. I would think teeth (just) need to be really strong under compression, and spider silk really strong under tension.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Ok, but given that the phys.org writeup is crap, we poor readers who have been kicked out of our universities with nothing but a degree to show for it have no clue what the paper actually says, and no way to find out. Except perhaps by spen
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I've read 3 felonies a day. The title is pure bullshit. The book is mostly about the feds targeting mob lawyers for being mob lawyers. Maybe a mob lawyer really does typically commit 3 felonies a day.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
You're missing the meaning where the display uses the symbols we call digits (rather than hands). I don;t think most people would call an electronic watch "digital" if the display was hands, even if the "hands" are
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I think the basis of the claim is that glass doesn't have the same kind of phase transition that a crystalline solid would. It just sort of gradually becomes more liquid-like as you heat it.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
It would be absurd to say an analog electronic computer was digital.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
As I recall, in my calculus class it went like this: ln(x) (+ a constant) was defined as the integral of 1/x. Then we proved than ln(x) was a logarithm to some base. Then e was defined as the base of that function. Nobody ever said any
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by gweinberg 2y ago
There are good reasons to object to using "literally" as a meaningless filler word instead of, say, to mean "this sounds like hyperbole but it isn't". First, there are times when you need to indicate "this soun
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I do. I couldn't care less about passenger pigeons though. To each his own.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
There should be.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I disagree. I think it's more like the rules are there for a reason, but most of them can be broken if there is a good enough reason.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Will you settle for an anecdote? Before cars came in all colors, they were all black!
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Tastes are by nature subjective. But if 99% of people think X is beautiful and Y is ugly, and 1% think it's the other way around, there probably is an objective reason the ratios are as they are.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
It doesn't make sense to me that the piece should start with a 17 month rest. Surely it doesn't really start until the first note is played?
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by gweinberg 2y ago
I've heard of that variant but I think it is very seldom played. I don't know if it has a name.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Certainly not if it is done by randomly giving one player a substantial advantage.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
My understanding is that selling appliances without plugs was done to make work for the electronic shops. People attaching their own plugs would seem to defeat the purpose.
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by gweinberg 2y ago
Pretty much the only thing I could find in the whole list that I thought anyone might believe is "every language has words for yes and no". But here's another myth that I find it hard to understand how anyone could believe: &

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