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by jebarker 2y ago
Definitely captures the feel of a ski resort. I really like the feel of controlling the skier too. Performance on my iPad was great in Safari. Nice job so far.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Colorado is bad, especially around Denver, but nowhere near the depths of California or several East Coast cities in my experience.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I understand much better what you mean by "scientific generalization". I can't tell whether you're suggesting that LLMs are a dead end for modeling meaning or just that LLMs as estimating pr
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by jebarker 2y ago
I don't really follow what you're saying here. I understand that the use of language in the real-world world is not sampled from a stationary distribution, but it also seems plausible that you could relax that assumption in an LLM
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Do they merely memorize training data and reread it out loud, or are they picking up the rules of English grammar and the syntax of C language? This is a false dichotomy. Functionally the reality is in the middle. They "memorize&q
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Being Productive(furidamu.org)
67 points by jebarker 2y ago|17 comments
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by jebarker 2y ago
There's so many researchers working in AI now that we can afford to explore all avenues. This probably isn't going to lead to a fully generative AI game engine, but I bet there'll be useful learnings along the way.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> My longest dream was nine years compressed into a 12-hour sleep period. Does the brain change in response to that sleep period? Or is there no change because there's no new information input?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I am part of a plan that discharges my batteries to the grid. I don't initiate this happening, it is based on a pull from the grid upto 60 times per year when demand is high. Full disclosure that I received a rebate on my batteries for
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by jebarker 2y ago
You still pay service fees to maintain a grid connection. Not to mention that many people with these setups contribute excess generation back to the grid or allow their batteries to discharged by the grid during demand spikes.
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by jebarker 2y ago
What type of toilet allows this?
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by jebarker 2y ago
Wealthy people pay much more in taxes than poor people. One use of taxes I am in favor of is "nudges" to achieve desirable outcomes for all. This is an example of that. Bringing up plane travel is "whataboutism".
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Taking one single family home solar does not provide a measurable environmental impact in aggregate. In order for large numbers of homes to go solar, individual homes need to go solar. Are you saying we just shouldn't bother with
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by jebarker 2y ago
With this kind of setup you can stay connected to the grid. In the event that your solar and storage fail unexpectedly you can still pay for grid electricity.
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by jebarker 2y ago
We need both. There's plenty of wealthy people that can afford to go solar and could arguably have a bigger environmental impact if they did since they often also have large homes, big cars etc. If they don't feel strongly about d
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by jebarker 2y ago
Wouldn't that be more expensive than just building on undesirable land?
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by jebarker 2y ago
Because they're there
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by jebarker 2y ago
What happens once you hit L5? You just need to perform satisfactorily each year?
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by jebarker 2y ago
> maximizing the value of your business means optimizing for promotion Until the actual business you work for goes down the pan because everyone is optimizing for promotion
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by jebarker 2y ago
It's also probably the best way to build a following for an indie game that'll otherwise just be a drop in an ocean of games released everyday
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by jebarker 2y ago
Stephen Wolfram talks about computational irreducibility and I think of that as essentially the same as the halting problem. I like his description that science advances by finding problems that we care about that are also computationally r
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by jebarker 2y ago
Under 100: Guitar lessons. I've played guitar for nearly 30 years, but one year of focused lessons has seen me improve more than the past 15 years combined. Under 1000: Shark Hydrovac. We have hard floors throughout our house, this mak
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by jebarker 2y ago
I don't think that's always correct when you're talking about operators in neural nets. E.g. the sin and cos in rope embeddings would get more precise, large sums like softmax would become more precise, potentially attention
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by jebarker 2y ago
More generally than "unlearning", I wonder if taking any fp16 model and running it in fp32 or fp64 does anything positive to it? e.g. exposes knowledge that isn't accessible at the lower precision
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by jebarker 2y ago
That doesn't feel correct. I think we push the boundaries on hardware because we aspire to scale up computation. If all those aspirational computations were faster we'd still develop faster hardware and have bigger ambitions. Unne
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by jebarker 2y ago
This seems both pessimistic and conflating two issues. It's entirely possible that generating code is a bad idea but LLMs can be effective at finding vulnerabilities in human written code. Also, this is an applied research project, you
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by jebarker 2y ago
I actually don't mind if it's not integrated with the editor. I'm fine with a debugger being a standalone application. What I want is the ability to see the source, set breakpoints and navigate the code efficiently inside the
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by jebarker 2y ago
Unless you need a graphical debugger, then vi/vim/nvim/emacs all start to get creaky. That single requirement keeps me on vscode. I'd love a terminal based alternative.
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by jebarker 2y ago
I really wish there was a good alternative to vscode for remote debugpy
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by jebarker 2y ago
Your framing is accurate. But since much of the reporting about AI breathlessly talks about all the emergent capabilities and "thinking" it does rather than just saying it mimicks human text on average, it's reasonable to do

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