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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Was thinking about this recently. The author misses the importance of timing in the unity of perception. It would be rather easy to conduct an experiment and ask people, “did X and Y happen at the same time?” where X and Y are different sti
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Top AI/ML Companies Hiring Now (September 2024)(tryexponent.com)
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
One thing I noticed going through school is that math concepts are usually taught first before physics and other subjects —- precisely because the math is viewed as a prerequisite for the other material. But this always seemed entirely back
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I know it’s not a completely fair comparison, but to me this question is kind of missing the point. It’s like asking “Why take a cab if you know where you want to go?”
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
The paper linked here starts off by asking whether LLMs can “solve complex problems in ways that resemble human thinking.” Why would we try to answer that question without discussing how humans think?
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
For starters, the naming is much less confusing. But the behavior also appears to be enforced/validated at some layer (hopefully?), which function calling did not seem to be. I was experimenting with it a couple weeks ago and it would
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Ask HN: Remote Code Execution APIs
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Oh wow didn't know that existed. You should try cmd-p too! If you hold down Cmd and press P repeatedly, it acts like ctrl-tab, but you also have the option to search files at the top. I suppose you could remap it to ctrl-tab and then y
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
This is cool - I haven’t really thought much about the spatial organization of my IDE before. Reflecting on it now, I realize I don’t even use the tabs in VS Code anymore because I have way too many files open. I just look at one file at a
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Thanks for following up - just saw this!
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Sorry I know what you mean - I’m just having trouble finding any data source / website that shows useful comparisons going back that far - what website are you looking at? These are the 10 year returns I’m seeing according to S&P:
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I don’t know for sure, but I have a hunch this strategy has done below-average for the past 10-20 years, because most of the above-average returns have been driven by growth stocks with low dividends. Stock buybacks have also become a reall
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Do you have data to back that up?
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
The best approximation I’ve found is S&P has this Top 10 index[1]. Over the last 10 years it has performed 18% annually vs 11% for the overall S&P 500, but that’s obviously been a historic bull run in large cap growth stocks. I can’
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Yeah to clarify, I don’t necessarily recommend (or even follow) this strategy, I still mostly invest in passive index funds.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
One of my big brain investing ideas is to pick the stocks at the top of the index instead of buying the whole index. If index funds continue to rise in popularity, the stocks that are at the top will benefit most from passive investment vol
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I admire what the Langchain team has been building toward even if people don’t agree with some of their design choices. The OpenAI api and others are quite raw, and it’s hard as a developer to resist building abstractions on top of it. Some
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Wow so funny to see this post and comment right now, I’ve been writing out a lot of thoughts/theories on consciousness the last few days, and came to a very similar conclusion as you.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I don’t follow you. I’m saying we haven’t discovered any inorganic consciousness, so it isn’t a given that we will be able to create it with digital computers. Not sure how that breaks the laws of physics.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I agree but even if you take materialism for granted, we’ve yet to uncover the exact biological mechanism. It’s entirely possible that it is unique to carbon-based and/or analog brains.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Yeah don't see how domains would be that much better than IPs but it would be easier to understand. It's already quite common for email senders to use multiple domains when they're concerned about deliverability, and domain r
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Oops you’re right!
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
You can still do this with classes in typescript: class Hash extends String {} https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/MYGwhgzhAEASkAtoF...
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
The demo they posted demonstrates how to do it. But I don’t think it’s a generally good solution to the problem, it feels like it solves this specific case where the type is a string hash. I think the evolution of this for other types and o
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Is Google significantly behind? I would say from a technological perspective, they're very closely trailing or even surpassing OpenAI in many ways; they've built a formidable ChatGPT competitor in Gemini—not to mention they have
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
Very exciting, would love to read more about how the architecture of the image generation works. Is it still a diffusion model that has been integrated with a transformer somehow, or an entirely new architecture that is not diffusion based?
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I couldn’t quite tell from the announcement, but is there still a separate TTS step, where GPT is generating tones/pitches that are to be used, or is it completely end to end where GPT is generating the output sounds directly?
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but I think the concept here was inspired by all the viral hydraulic press videos on Instagram and TikTok. Here’s a similar video showing random objects and consumer products being crushed in slow mot
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
I’m hugely supportive of the new factories and investments, but I’m curious why they decided on Phoenix which seems to be affected dramatically by climate change and incidentally has a very different climate and culture from Taiwan.
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by jacobsimon 2y ago
But is this lookup mechanism available from one token prediction to the next? I’ve heard conflicting things, with others saying that transformers are stateless and therefore don’t share this information across prediction steps. I might be m

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