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811.
by gwern 3y ago
This is very silly in part because it would be vastly more effective to, instead of dropping billions of dollars on buying overpriced obsolete hardware from Nvidia to try to wastefully train a duplicative model which will be beaten by open-
812.
by gwern 3y ago
Surely this just incentivizes the existing elite who own Rembrandts to get rid of the pest and enjoy a bonus of their own valuable art becoming even more valuable...?
813.
by gwern 3y ago
> High risk, high reward. Which usually means no trade because for many transactions, the required sufficiently high reward would outweigh the intended gains. So you get deadweight loss. Think of a lemon market for used cars. Yes, ther
814.
by gwern 3y ago
I don't know about that: is it 'not complex' or did he succeed at the design? Implementing core components of a file system in a few pages sounds quite complex to me - I'm getting a bit scared just reading that comment e
815.
by gwern 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela_Community_School > and achieved among the best GCSE results in the nation among its first cohort of students.[9] In both 2022 and 2023 the value-added (progress) score at GCSE
816.
by gwern 3y ago
The rationale here doesn't seem very compelling. In exchange for being so inefficient, evolutionary methods are good at some things, like non-differentiable losses (eg. novelty search where 'new' would be hard to define in an
817.
by gwern 3y ago
The pictures seem rather generic: they hold a place, but they don't do anything beyond that. It would be better to approach it more in the spirit of typographers using pangrams & texts composed to have problematic letter pairs. Ran
818.
by gwern 3y ago
"During this time there were also plenty of negative experiences. GitLab suffered from terrible performance, frequent outages (almost every week some), poor management, and many other problems that startups face. This lead to "Git
819.
by gwern 3y ago
If the Transformer was 'just' memorizing, you would expect width scaling to work much better than depth scaling (because width enables memorization much more efficiently), and you also wouldn't expect depth to run into proble
820.
by gwern 3y ago
> Foreign investors have snatched back nearly 90% (!!!) of the money they put into Chinese stocks this year (2023) So, they left in China 10% of the money that they sent to China? I'm still not seeing how this equates to a net decr
821.
by gwern 3y ago
introducing the new utility, 'hed'. hed ("HTML ed") is the standard CGI text editor! hed, the greatest in-browser editor of them all! hed, which requires only HTML 2 forms, and is compatible with every browser since Nove
822.
by gwern 3y ago
> New investments in China by Taiwanese companies declined 10.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year (2023) to US$758 million...That follows an almost 14 percent decrease in such investment last year How's total
823.
by gwern 3y ago
Eh. The Epicurean arguments are heavily empirical; Lucretius throws in a lot of examples or familiar observations. I'm not sure how many I would describe as purely 'thought experiments'.
824.
by gwern 3y ago
Note: open access fulltext link "Do Chinese Citizens Conceal Opposition to the CCP in Surveys? Evidence from Two Experiments", Carter et al 2024 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly&#x2
825.
by gwern 3y ago
Isn't the point of this to show that the subjects look like they all differ in their ability to taste, and any single individual's ability (or even an average) wouldn't generalize very well?
826.
by gwern 3y ago
Epicureans were atomists ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism#Physics ), so if you explained it to him, he might not be nearly as shocked as most people of the era would be. Epicureans also tended to invoke extre
827.
by gwern 3y ago
"As much as such prices might set a gold digger's heart racing, they are not usually what motivates book collectors, whose relationship to their objects of desire is varied and complex. At a Boston fair in October, I heard a deale
828.
by gwern 3y ago
I'm not surprised ChatGPT can answer it - I'm not sure why, but _Rainbows End_ is one of the most commonly-asked about SF books like that. Everyone remembers the book-tornado doing shotgun sequencing, but they can never remember i
829.
by gwern 3y ago
Yeah, I can't give the King's men much credit here. They destroyed a lot of scrolls, and it was only because they weren't getting much of anything that they stopped and abandoned excavations or focused on digging out sculpt
830.
by gwern 3y ago
(Well, not necessarily, which is why I framed it as training from scratch, to make it clearer that it doesn't have anything necessarily to do with SGD or HMC etc. In theory it shouldn't matter via the likelihood principle, but in
831.
by gwern 3y ago
You take the action which you computed to be optimal under the hypothetical of your posterior sample; this then yields a new observation. You add that to the dataset, and train a new NN.
832.
by gwern 3y ago
No transcript.
833.
by gwern 3y ago
Maybe link straight to the report instead: https://www.polygon.com/c/2024/1/22/24034466/anime-is-huge-a...
834.
by gwern 3y ago
You can find 2 copies in GS ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=43547960006237251... ) but here's another just for you: https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/probability/2009-labby.pd
835.
by gwern 3y ago
Mirror of "International Art English" since the original website was broken for me: https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2012-rule.pdf
836.
by gwern 3y ago
Have you ever done that?
837.
by gwern 3y ago
Always fun to see people making their own dropcaps! I haven't seen 'Alde Night Caps' before. Works well in context. Self-advertisement: the reason you don't see many dropcaps like this is that making fonts is a specializ
838.
by gwern 3y ago
Indeed. "Please pay us 100 rubles for house tax." "But house tax was abolished last year thanks to the AI revenues!" "Er..." > The removal of taxes is good because the country can't properly collect tax
839.
by gwern 3y ago
If it was the same guy, why wouldn't he have constant connectivity problems if he has any problems? I know with my home Internet, when it's flaky, it's often flaky for days or weeks at a time. (The real question of course is
840.
by gwern 3y ago
The reason you wish they didn't require a 2-year prepayment is the same reason they probably want to impose that requirement.

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