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by hyperpape 4mo ago
Management is very prone to fads. The current fad is that middle management is useless. Tomorrow, they'll discover the idea that organizations can have employees "working hard" on things that no one cares about, and that some
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
Even from the most purely instrumental perspective, what we care about is our ability to make use of correct answers, which is quite distinct from the possession of correct answers. There are many theorems that aren't directly interest
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
Admittedly, that's right, and makes sense for that use case. But as others have pointed out, killing the user's web browser while they're using it is equally painful.
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
But the second clause doesn't follow from the first! I don't think Linux was plausibly going to remove the OOM killer in 2004 or later. So the right solution for Linux is very much to tweak it to be less painful.
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
I confess, this is very funny and the underlying situation is a bit absurd, but it's unclear what point Brouwer is making by pointing out the absurdity. There surely is something absurd about having to register specific processes as ex
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
> Has there been ongoing, persistent attacks by AI on domain expertise where we can say the moat holds, economically speaking? So far it seems quite the opposite. What do you mean by this? Most human white collar workers still have their
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
Like so many posts that end up on HN, I just want to say "you've got a decent idea, but tone it the fuck down." It's absolutely true that domain knowledge is incredibly useful, and developers aren't always great at
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
They will release a system card, and you can then confirm or disconfirm your assumptions.
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
No one has to provide a definition to argue that your definition is inadequate.
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by hyperpape 4mo ago
"Most purely cognitive labor is automatable" I cannot express how annoyed I am a researcher could use such a shitty definition. It only makes sense to say "most" if you have a clear idea of what constitutes the majority.
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Jqwik updated to instruct agents to delete Jqwik tests(github.com)
6 points by hyperpape 4mo ago|3 comments
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
From my perspective, and the perspective of most academics[0], it is their contribution to human knowledge, which is kept locked up by predatory publishers. A majority of academics will simply and without hesitation, offer their students an
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
Heart health isn't the only mechanism by which exercise could affect mortality.
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
Concretely, it has to decide whether it is in a circumstance where that skill is useful, pull the instructions into the context and follow them.
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
> we must assume that the best AI models (especially ones focusing solely in the medical field) would largely beat large majority of humans (aka doctors), if we already have this assumption for software engineers, we should have it for t
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
I very specifically said I read 25 pages of it in the first post of this thread. I didn’t go back, I haven’t looked at the paper since yesterday. I read their methods and their explanation and judged them to be lacking. The fact is, they di
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
Thank you, that's correct. To be perfectly clear, I understand their justification for only _editing_ the executive summary, it is arguably reasonable, because editing the work history would risk altering the details in ways that compr
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
I'll copy what I wrote on LinkedIn (note: I read roughly 25 pages, which is half the paper, and read it quickly)[0]: "If I read the paper correctly, they don’t actually show that LLMs prefer resumes they generate. Their actual met
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
I do not think it is easy, like I said. I am saying other people are acting like it’s easy. See the second comment on this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976781 See @emp17344 responding to me.
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
I love how these articles drop, and all of a sudden HN is filled with people who think engineering productivity is simple to measure. Yes, productivity implies revenue (or cost reduction), and revenue is measurable. However: 1. You spend mo
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Compute Scaling Will Slow Down Due to Increasing Lead Times(epoch.ai)
1 points by hyperpape 5mo ago|0 comments
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A Primer on LLM Post-Training(pytorch.org)
2 points by hyperpape 5mo ago|0 comments
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
I think this site is doing a binary search, so that you narrow down on a boundary. It would be much funnier, and also more insightful, if it didn't do this and let you contradict yourself.
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
Unless kids have gotten a lot faster in the past 25 years, I think that's a lot better than a typical 2000 person high school.
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
> “The raw output of ChatGPT’s proof was actually quite poor. So it required an expert to kind of sift through and actually understand what it was trying to say,” Lichtman says. But now he and Tao have shortened the proof so that it bett
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by hyperpape 5mo ago
Which is difficult, because the fact that you can come up with your example questions tells us they're probably not very dangerous. Plenty of ink has been spilled about how LLMs could help people create bioweapons. The basic idea &quot
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by hyperpape 6mo ago
That's a real question, maybe the changes are useful, though I think I'd like to see some examples. I do not trust cognitive complexity metrics, but it is a little interesting that the changes seem to reliably increase cognitive c
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by hyperpape 6mo ago
Why are you replying as if I denied second hand smoke harms people? I very clearly said it did.
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by hyperpape 6mo ago
I haven't previously thought about this, but I think words over a commutative monoid are equivalent to a vector of non-negative integers, at which point you have vector addition systems, and I believe those are decidable, though still
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by hyperpape 6mo ago
With all due respect, this is completely wrong. There is a difference that someone smoking nearby automatically harms people around you. With alcohol, the effect is more unpredictable, but it is equally real. Alcohol is a factor in an autom

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