jprete

7 ms·

31.
by jprete 2y ago
Goddamn. I looked them up and there's clearly an ingroup meaning that went over my head. I was hoping for a Meetup competitor that wasn't enshittified on day one.
32.
by jprete 2y ago
I'm not in the club or rave scene - practically the opposite - but it astounds me that the FT thought they could draw useful conclusions about an underground scene by analyzing publicly-posted events on a site named Resident Advisor.
33.
by jprete 2y ago
This is a good characterization. I'm precision-driven and know what I need to do at any low level. It's the high-level definition that is uncertain. So it doesn't really help to produce a dozen prototypes of an idea and pick
34.
by jprete 2y ago
The Bitter Lesson claimed that the best approach was to go with more and more data to make the model more and more generally capable, rather than adding human-comprehensible structure to the model. But a lot of LLM applications seem to add
35.
by jprete 2y ago
My post is limited to pointing out what I think is a flaw in the reasoning. I am not taking a stance on the larger question.
36.
by jprete 2y ago
Substack is not too far from the blog format.
37.
by jprete 2y ago
> ...they would need to be feeding those snippets in almost real time into a system which forwards them onto advertising partners who then feed that information into targeting networks... I think this is totally mistaken. An ad seller wh
38.
by jprete 2y ago
I was thinking something very similar. Posting about a problem adds information back to the system, and every company selling model time for money has a vested interest in patching publicly visible holes. This could even be automated; LLMs
39.
by jprete 2y ago
Any problem set that can make news is implicitly an LLM benchmark.
40.
by jprete 2y ago
It's not that kind of banished-word list.
41.
by jprete 2y ago
I don't see any reason to assume they removed it unless they're very explicit about it. Model publishers have an extremely strong vested interest in beating benchmarks and I expect them to teach to the test if they can get away wi
42.
by jprete 2y ago
I think these are the key findings (from the abstract): "...both human and mouse adipose tissues retain cellular transcriptional changes after appreciable weight loss. Furthermore, we find persistent obesity-induced alterations in the
43.
by jprete 2y ago
The main article is paywalled and appears to be a layman's translation. The first reference (visible in the preview) looks like the biologists' version. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7
44.
by jprete 2y ago
If you mean user-agent-wise, I think real users vary too much to do that. That could also be a user login, maybe, with per-user rate limits. I expect that bot runners could find a way to break that, but at least it's extra engineering
45.
by jprete 2y ago
I hope this is working out for you; the original article indicates that at least some of these crawlers move to innocuous user agent strings and change IPs if they get blocked or rate-limited.
46.
by jprete 2y ago
I hate to encourage it, but the only correct error against adversarial requests is 404. Anything else gives them information that they'll try to use against you.
47.
by jprete 2y ago
I think the GP is referring to people who either don't care whether AGI takes over from humanity, or who actively prefer that outcome.
48.
by jprete 2y ago
The economy isn't meant to serve us. It's an emergent system that evolves based on a complex incentive structure and its own contingent history.
49.
by jprete 2y ago
Autocomplete distracts me enough that it really needs to be close to 100% correct before it's useful. Otherwise it's just wrecking my flow and slowing me down.
50.
by jprete 2y ago
Giving them an LLM to help with syntax errors, at this stage of the tech, is deeply unhelpful to their development. The foundation of a computer science education is a rigorous understanding of what the steps of an algorithm mean. If the st
51.
by jprete 2y ago
It's plausible that, without Musk's less-than-a-third, nobody else would have put in any serious money.
52.
by jprete 2y ago
I think it's entirely a legal dodge to pretend that they aren't gutting the non-profit mission.
53.
by jprete 2y ago
What exactly does AGI mean in this hypothetical? The term means different things to different people.
54.
by jprete 2y ago
TFA?
55.
by jprete 2y ago
The problem is that the "we" who are busy trying to make humans irrelevant seem to be completely unconcerned with the effects on the "we" who will be superfluous afterwards.
56.
by jprete 2y ago
I think successful groups almost always have a core of devoted people who will show up on time, rain or shine, enough for the event to succeed. If you were alone for hours waiting for other people, that was a really bad sign IMO.
57.
by jprete 2y ago
Book clubs and other discussion-focused groups that are open to new attendees often put up a "flag" so the new people can find the group in a public place. It's just not a literal flag, but some other kind of sign. If the gro
58.
by jprete 2y ago
I think you're both right and wrong. You're right that capitalism has become a paperclip machine, but capitalism also wants AI so it can cheaply and at scale replace the human components of the machine with something that has more
59.
by jprete 2y ago
AI models have historically found lots of ways to game systems. My favorite example is exploiting bugs in simulator physics to "cheat" at games of computer tag. Another is a model for radiology tasks finding biases in diagnostic r
60.
by jprete 2y ago
If it's gaming the system, then it's much less likely to reliably come up with novel proofs or useful new theoretical ideas.

More ›