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by gwern 1y ago
> This style of writing is a welcome change from all the AI slop or self promoting blogs out there. Dude. This is AI slop. And quite obviously so! You think all those EM DASHes are there naturally? Or the constant use of reversal? No o
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by gwern 1y ago
I think writing fiction with LLMs is fine. "based on a true story" or roman à clef fiction is also fine. I would have no objection to this if it were clearer that this was a "movie treatment". (As LLM fiction goes, this
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by gwern 1y ago
One of the problems with undisclosed and thoughtless use of LLMs for writing, like ChatGPT in this case, is that it undermines trust. Take the many quotes in this article, which all sound like ChatGPT. Obviously, none of those people said t
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by gwern 1y ago
> I characterized coding agents as camels in RotJD, and that metaphor still has legs. Four of them. But I find it difficult, as a writer, to convey the siren-song allure of coding agents when I'm describing them as a bunch of camels
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by gwern 1y ago
Achmiz argues that it makes more sense to define each page as 'new' vs 'old', and disable the black-stars based on that, rather than on whether it's a blog or not. This is more work, but makes more sense (and we mig
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by gwern 1y ago
https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#great-thoughts-fr... You can think of it as a RL problem, and there are some interesting algorithms which achieve good performance by periodically 'breaking out&#x27
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by gwern 1y ago
"My sealed, postmarked, and notarized certificate stating that my nickname for pinball playing is 'DDOM' is raising a lot of questions about my pinball nickname I really thought I had already addressed."
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by gwern 1y ago
I agree it's not helpful. The star marks a 'new' link (ie. seen for the first time recently in the website corpus). It's useful for helping flag recently-modified writing or new additions in my essays, where I might have
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by gwern 1y ago
No, it's not. As should be obvious from the writing style alone - no LLM writes like that, and you should easily see the absence of the usual markers like the ChatGPT twist ending or the repetitive triplets... If you're that bad a
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by gwern 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia maybe? Could lean into that as an esthetic - everything is always misaligned carefully by 1 pixel, using trypophobia fonts which overload ligatures to punch tiny holes into eac
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by gwern 1y ago
Thanks for checking. It sounds like the C compiler isn't doing a great job here of 'seeing through' the logic gate operations and compiling them down to something closer to optimal machine code. Maybe this is an example of ho
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by gwern 1y ago
How much of a speedup is the C compiler optimization able to achieve in terms of compiling it down to a hand-written C equivalent vs the -O0 non-optimized assembler? What does the optimized C/assembler do which isn't actually nece
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by gwern 1y ago
See also hunting lions using math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106064
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by gwern 1y ago
Likely AI-written. OP sanitized some of the most obvious tells, or perhaps the blogging software added those spaces to the em-dashes, but when a dev who is as gung ho on GenAI as https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/10&#
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by gwern 1y ago
This is Iran, so the researchers are often not great, or it's just straightup fraudulent. It's one of the epicenters of developing-world science fraud. So always worth keeping that in mind - there may not, in fact, be any facts th
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by gwern 1y ago
Crazy how often it backfires, too. I wasted 15 minutes a few weeks ago checking a user report that a PDF I hosted was missing exactly half its pages. Eventually, after walking it through my workflow step by step and it not breaking, I reali
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by gwern 1y ago
> In a world chasing ever-bigger models, small ones are quietly doing more with less—and that's exactly what makes them powerful. 100%. It has enough technical details that maybe a human did something. But who knows.
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by gwern 1y ago
On a stylistic note, I was surprised to see David Friedman letting ChatGPT write his posts when he is a perfectly competent writer himself, and then I realized this is Dav e Friedman. Turns out to be rather different!
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I did skim it, but it didn't help me much, because I didn't see any comparison to the supposed other cohorts, and even if they had done those, an online convenience sample is almost certainly going to differ a lot in many ways fro
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by gwern 1y ago
A better question would be, why would you do an online survey of only black men, if your goal is understand "the unique challenges of brain health and cognitive decline faced by Black men"? Surely you would want to leave it open t
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by gwern 1y ago
Have you noticed the most recent one, gemini-2.5-pro-0506, suddenly being a lot more sycophantic than gemini-2.5-pro-0325? I was using it to beta-read and improve a story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998269 ), and
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by gwern 1y ago
OP's workflow might be much more efficient with use of https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/ It can handle most of what they describe for things like private/paywalled pages or media enclosures o
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by gwern 1y ago
Those studies never 'control for those'. What they do is a crude statistical approximation (sometimes extremely crude - eg most studies will 'control for education' by counting up 'years', which equates 4 years
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by gwern 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma
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by gwern 1y ago
> Work in progress (or 404) I think it would be a lot politer if the target page was clearer. As it is, I could be 'voting' on a draft or it could just be plain broken and the intended page somewhere else. Personally, I think
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by gwern 1y ago
> It felt like the first 3 (or 2.5) paragraphs, which were arguing that Bjork needed an official website, were a bit of a tangent from the main argument of the article, which was that we need more professional critics, but social media h
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by gwern 1y ago
It would be more convincing if they did an exhaustive enumeration and verified that for every possible 3x3 Life the learned NN was correct. How do I know looking at a speckled screenshot that it is exactly correct and there's not a l
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(I wondered if I overdid it, but I was also thinking that it's necessary to overdo it at least slightly because that's the fake-out ending, and you don't want it to slide by the reader unnoticed. "And everyone thought th
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by gwern 1y ago
There are a number of variations. You might actually be thinking of https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/my-favorite-liahtml or possibly https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/prediction/2022-gelma
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by gwern 1y ago
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736172

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