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by heyitsguay 2y ago
I've been seeing this too. Always hard to tell what's a real change vs the rolls of the dice lately but I've been having weird python inconsistencies too, in very short snippets doing pretty simple things.
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
At first i thought this was going to be about social media influencers and disinformation. But no, just schizophrenia. You should talk to a professional! Share your thoughts with them in a safe and trusting place.
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
From looking at the summary, I think it's a bit more measured than this statement implies. They talk about concrete risks of spam, scams, and deepfakes. They then go into possible future harms but couched in language of "experts a
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
I see articles about common (mis)management practices come up on HN semi-regularly, and I have to wonder if I've had uncommonly good experiences or if we only hear from the people who've had uncommonly bad experiences. In my curre
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
Well, for example, my (sighted) cats have a toy that spins a wand in a circle, but does so at a constant speed for a few minutes then turns off. I'd like to build one that moves in less predictable patterns, sporadically, over a longer
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
I've been thinking about creating some more interesting interactive cat toys like this -- wiring the hardware and doing the programming are pretty easy, but where I'm stuck is building the actual cat toy bits that the electronics
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
Certain rules do, though the exact analog rule of Conway's Game of Life is a bit boring as i recall. In general it was a lot easier to find interesting behavior in Brian's Brain rulesets.
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by heyitsguay 2y ago
Nice!! I had a lot of fun with a project like this with some more generalized rulesets. This video got the most views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Q0qMc2Xc (just running 3d Brian's Brain) but I like this one the
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
I tried it this year, thought it was great! It could indeed be made still more convenient, but it was pretty convenient already.
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Seems to me the article is more pointing out that when discourse on a digital platform starts broadly diverging from what's happening in the real world, lots of people gradually catch on and stop paying attention. Understanding what&#x
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Likewise, was very sad when picturesforsadchildren went offline! Can't believe no archive survived.
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
What if all of their serious coding was done as part of previous employment and they can't just walk you through it?
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
To my knowledge as a math-turned-ML guy, there are currently no useful geometric characterizations of deep net latent spaces that are both "deep" (in the sense of using advanced mathematics) and "useful" (in the sense of
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
But if you're in a competitive market and there's more work to do than you're addressing with 100 people, your 91 people doing the work of 100 will be outcompeted by 100 people doing the work of 110, no?
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Also if anyone wants my Monocle to hack on themselves, I'd be happy to send it off for the cost of shipping! Edit: Claimed
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Does anyone have any interesting Monocle use cases to report? I ordered one and tried hacking around with it, found very little in terms of durable utility or even hackability for interesting computer vision/AR applications, so would b
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
As someone who has been using pgvector for a while and is vaguely curious about alternatives without having the bandwidth to investigate -- is there anything out there that offers truly differentiated advantages over pgvector? I'm extr
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
I don't think that comment was an indictment of anything. As someone also in the space, it reads to me as a thoughtful explanation of why catching up to the CUDA ecosystem is so hard, even when the goal is "just" matrix multi
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
My comment was about wanting to see more (nerds) -> (public) communication, not about anything (public) -> (nerds). I understand they're not good at it, it was just an idealistic lament. My bone to pick with Musk and Altman and t
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
They're talking about shit that isn't real because it advances their personal goals, keeps eyes on them, whatever. I think the effect on funding is overhyped -- OpenAI got their big investment before this doomer/e-acc dueling
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
This piece frames this as a debate between broad camps of AI makers, but in my experience both the accelerationist and doomer sides are basically media/attention economy phenomena -- narratives wielded by those who know the power of co
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Completely agreed. Legalizing drugs and gambling is important for cutting off the flow of money and social legitimacy to criminal operations, but the "nice" thing (from a marketing perspective) about addictive substances and activ
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
My understanding is that this project has been around for at least 3 years (going by reddit posts). Are there any tangible accomplishments that anyone can point to? For instance, I googled "OriginTrail is enabling frictionless internat
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Because there are no intermediate internal registers with values that can be altered by a prompt, it's prompt in -> pass through deterministic computations with fixed trained weights -> token out. Context-dependent planning (beyo
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Only for a month, could believe it's about making sure it's polished. More generally though, the fact that matching GPT-4 is the marketing blurb as opposed to a GPT-3 -> GPT-4 level transition has me wondering: are we seeing th
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
In general I'd agree that's the right response to engagement farming, but in this case if that image really was faked, it's probably important to make that clear -- there are major implications for photos-as-evidence between
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
Kind of an odd blog post -- is this AI generated? Or maybe written by someone who isn't a native English speaker? The writing feels off. In any case, maybe worth linking directly to the paper, it's an easy read and more informativ
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
If you read "Attention Is All You Need", you'll see that was actually the motive behind the original Transformer too! Bit of a Jevon's paradox situation.
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
So... Not just crime, but also the digital infrastructure that facilitates it.
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by heyitsguay 3y ago
How would you define "new best HW"? Seems challenging, particularly if it's for generation N+1 ML models that haven't been created yet. Also, while there is work underway to use ML models to guide HW design, it's no

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