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by kenjackson 4mo ago
One way to fix that issue that I’ve seen is a daily quiz to start the class. The key is the quiz is super easy. Even if you were confused by the lecture, if you watched it at all you’d likely get a 100 on the quiz. If you didn’t watch it
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by kenjackson 4mo ago
ELIZA has never done well in conversational tests. GPT-4.5, for example, tends to out-human humans. Like I could never ask ELIZA this question and get anything close to a decent response: "Give me three points that convey the impact
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by kenjackson 4mo ago
The issue is that before GPT models basically were useless for any conversation. We are literally in science fiction realm. From a text conversation perspective the gap between where we are at and what’s left to get to is relatively small
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by kenjackson 4mo ago
I had a 42s, which to this day is my all time favorite calculator. I later “upgraded” to a 48sx, but never had the same love for it.
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by kenjackson 4mo ago
I have the same issue. It’s absolutely stressful. Id also love some way to mark them as malicious.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I said this either in late 93 or early 94. I was in a class when someone demo'ed Lynx to me, and I tore into it and the WWW. Looking at the timeline it seems that Mosaic came out right after Lynx, but my memory of it has Mosaic coming
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
If it makes them feel any better, I told people in the 90s that the WWW didn't make sense because we already have telnet, archie, gopher, veronica, and ftp. What can WWW give me when I already have those tools to connect with...
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I don’t agree with them. I should’ve been more clear. I was trying to say - putting ideology aside…
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I really don’t understand how so many people can support this admin. It’s not that I ideologically disagree with them, but they are so corrupt that they appear incompetent. They actually aren’t incompetent, they just don’t care about what
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
This is it. I've had a similar experience in just playing around I asked it to clean up some code it wrote to increase maintainability and readability by humans. After a few iterations it had generated quite solid code. It also brok
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I think you’re right that "true in all models but unprovable" is not accurate. By Godel’s completeness theorem if a FO sentence is true in every model of the axioms then it is provable from those axioms. But I don’t think incomple
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
"new kind of math" Well I think the point is there is no "new kind of math". There's just types of math we've discovered and what we haven't. No new math is created, just found.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
This is the whole Dhar Mann genre, which is so cringe, but it definitely tickles something in us.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I'm an AI optimist. But AI video is probably the one thing that does depress me. Seeing that we can make anything visually, there's nothing that impresses me visually. I watch a video that two years ago I would've thought
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
Actually a simple flow-chart works for a large number of use cases. That said, there are a lot of use cases where we don't have a simple way to run a linear regression model to get reasonable results where "AI" does seem to
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
Again, I wasn't reacting specifically to you (as noted, I wouldn't be surprised if so, but I also wouldn't be surprised if not). I was making a more general statement.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I have seen it too. The answer is easy - they don’t like AI. I've seen similar things with some people that don’t like women in tech or certain minorities - they suddenly critique at an extremely high level. I also haven’t looked at
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I thought it was done to keep the video from getting taken down due to copyright (with automatic scanners). I also noticed sometimes videos will have a horizontal line that runs through it -- I've assumed that it wouldn't get fla
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
Honestly, would’ve been much better to just let the LLM write the whole thing.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I'm learning that while Windows has a bad rap in some tech circles, its surprisingly still pretty well regarded. This past school year my daughter and niece both moved from Windows to Macs. A couple of weekends ago I asked them both
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
It's technically not illegal, but often is. You can't pay terrorist organizations or specially sanctioned orgs. See https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov Probably should consult an attorney before paying a ransom (
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
I feel like people forget that they're still allowed to program. You're still allowed to create workflows tying together LLMs and agents if you want. Almost all the tools and technology that existed before LLMs are still availab
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
"what do you mean "likely neither did he", I literally linked you the piece in which he said it." Saying an explanation it and actually knowing why you did it are two different things. That's exactly my point. And
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
That is absurd as a suggestion of it being the entire point of programming. In fact, it goes back to my original point - I have no idea why Djikstrs would say something so non-sensical, and likely neither did he.
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
The fallacy here is the assumption that humans know why we do what we do. Much like modern LLMs we have an explanation, but it’s just something we cook up in our brain. Whether or not it’s the truth is far more complex. Oddly, despite LLM
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by kenjackson 5mo ago
Who is using this on the SAT when there is Desmos?
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
So is this a 2400% reduction in the number of NSF board members?
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
> At some point, because these models are trained on existing data, you cease significant technological advancement What makes you think that they can't incrementally improve the state of the art... and by running at scale continuou
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
I agree the article is smarter than the title makes it seem. And honestly, much better than comments on HN. The articles keeps diving deeper and asking questions. The comments here take hold of a single theory, without even thinking abou
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
What does this mean?

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