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by jfoster 4y ago
Regarding the point about LLMs being trained and then frozen for inference, it seems that might not be the case for LaMDA. According to Blake Lemoine, it reads Twitter (and the broader internet?) to accumulate knowledge. https://
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by jfoster 4y ago
Can you explain what ahrefs have done wrong prior to this? Not challenging it, but not aware of anything.
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by jfoster 4y ago
If they don't require anything, that's even better than verifying, yeah. What should be out of the question, though, is taking an email or phone number and using it without any verification. That's spam.
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by jfoster 4y ago
What do you think about the approach taken? ("I summarized the entire timeline into three sentences. I provided no evidence. I didn’t want to give my hand away before arbitration.")
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by jfoster 4y ago
It's great if they don't require any email, but if they get one & intend to use it, what prevents them from spamming someone who doesn't even control the account?
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by jfoster 4y ago
Yeah, usually, though when I tried to sign up to Doordash my account already had someone else's details filled, and even though I corrected them to my details, I could never place an order; Doordash had pre-banned me. Many calls to cus
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by jfoster 4y ago
Services that allow sign-up without proof of email (eg. by clicking a link in a verification email) ownership are just obnoxious in general. I have a gmail address that simply represents my name, and tend to get something intended for someo
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by jfoster 4y ago
> But some scientists theorize that this virus may have always been responsible for a portion of the small number of unexplained pediatric hepatitis cases that happen every year. This doesn't feel like something that needs to be the
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by jfoster 4y ago
I've heard so many stories about people being locked out of their accounts, but I've never heard about what happens if taking legal action to regain access. How is that not a thing yet? Or does it just work so well at getting huma
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by jfoster 4y ago
The sad thing is that these types of hit pieces about [insert hot name here] tend to work in terms of being an article that people both click on and discuss. I try to avoid clicking into them now, and if I do happen to, I might try to block
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by jfoster 4y ago
In fact, this kind of reverses things, doesn't it? Open source is built on the assumption that you can do more with source code than with binaries. In the case of AI models, the computed weights of models are what's valuable, and
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by jfoster 4y ago
Yeah, it makes sense for the results to simply reflect reality as closely as possible. No bias in any direction is desirable.
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Given that there's already many competing models in this space prior to any of them having been brought to market, it seems more likely that it will be commoditized.
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In a way, if the model brings back an image for "criminals in the United States" that isn't based on the statistical reality, isn't it essentially complicit in sweeping a major social issue under the rug? We may not like
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by jfoster 4y ago
I also don't know much about virology, but one thing I have heard is that some types of viruses (eg. RNA) are more prone to mutation, whereas some others (eg. DNA) essentially include something like the biological equivalent of a check
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by jfoster 4y ago
Google has been moving in the direction of exercising ever greater control over the web. These little Chrome features aimed at "protecting users" are just parts of it. They control discovery (Google Search), the infrastructure (Go
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by jfoster 4y ago
There's no possibility of controlling the distribution channel anymore. Some think that web is it, but it isn't. Google Chrome is by far the majority browser, and all they have to do is decide that your website is unsafe: https:&
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by jfoster 4y ago
On YouTube, the ads block the entire experience until they're done. Search ads are relatively unintrusive, even if some users take offence.
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by jfoster 4y ago
The most secure supply chain is no supply chain, but the relationship is linear or better. A thousand dependencies is more than 100x worse than ten dependencies.
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It's actually a human thing. When bad things happen, we strongly prefer that they don't happen as a result of something that we did.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Here's an article (+video) about a non-electric bus that caught fire. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-12/cctv-captures-sydney-...
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by jfoster 4y ago
For the form field "List the query terms", shouldn't it be a multi-line field? The instruction is: "Please enter one query term per line (max 10000 lines)"
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by jfoster 5y ago
Does OpenAI cede copyright to works created by Dall-E? I realize they may encounter some challenges in trying to claim copyright over the images, but will that stop them from trying?
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by jfoster 5y ago
You're only diluting the unit value of a click. Plus there is the possibility that one day you will click and end up being enticed by whatever it is you're clicking through to. You're not busting the model, you're just s
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by jfoster 5y ago
You would still have to wait for each captcha to be solved, which might be more frustrating than doing it yourself.
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by jfoster 5y ago
It feels to me like it could be "IP" from multiple angles: The name could be a trademark. The UI treatment could potentially be trademarked. The implementation could be copyrighted. The game mechanics could be patented. (not 100%
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by jfoster 5y ago
I'm always surprised by how confused people get about various types of "intellectual property" because they're actually quite different. I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure it varies from one part of the world to ano
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by jfoster 5y ago
Agree with you, but also, for how many decades should they wait for browsers to get their shit together? It's not as though input type="number" is particularly new.
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Feels really wasteful that Australia would try to come up with the same thing rather than just using the UK one, if that's essentially the goal anyway. https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ It's even published und
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by jfoster 5y ago
What's very disappointing about many of these problems is that it's browsers being really dumb & hostile to users. Chrome suddenly changing the number format, Safari trying to "auto-correct" numbers. No one asked for

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