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by kilgnad 4y ago
I am getting it. I am simply saying that you can't completely hide those details. They leak through.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>Unless you went to a very small school, the prom queen always had lots of options. No, C was really the only available systems options. C and C++. >Tinder is irrelevant. The winners are the people who eventually she chooses. In the d
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by kilgnad 4y ago
To see immutability on huge state in action see git. That is essentially what must be going on under the hood to model mutable state. Every mutation made to a variable is a commit. The only commits that are saved are the ones that have exis
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Bit my company in the ass recently we uncovered a bug that was causing us to lose 20% of our data for a year. sqlite C libraries apparently still do this. The person who wrote the code was both not very good and had no idea that an error wa
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Code matters, it's hidden technical debt that bites you in the ass later, kind of like contracting HIV. Guess where I'm taking that prom queen analogy
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by kilgnad 4y ago
The prom queen fucked the only thing that was available. Nowadays the prom queen has tinder, loads of competing options and is woke.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Then why do zero cost abstractions exist? Languages like rust and C++ make the trade off on the application side rather then the compiler side.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
> You might want to do some research into the words “science” and “pedantry”, since the former is just meticulous application of the latter. Calling a scientist pedantic is a compliment. Not only am I extremely well versed in the definit
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Lambda calculus machines can't exist in reality though. Only the von Neumann machine can be actualized. Thus from a practical perspective the foundations of actual computing must be built on mutable state. You are wrong about the gener
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by kilgnad 4y ago
That's the point. This hand waving allows the user to build more complex systems. The cost is efficiency but make no mistake not thinking about the heap allows people to build much more complex programs. It's a trade off between c
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by kilgnad 4y ago
No. Pure functions are more modular. It allows you to treat your logic like bricks and building blocks. Pure functions are composable purely off of types. Combinators are actually the proper term here. Mutable state does not do this. Your i
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Pedantic arguments hinder useful discussion. That's what you're doing here. It took me a couple minutes to "figure out" just what you mean and even now I don't fully get it. Are you in actuality complaining about th
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by kilgnad 4y ago
The argument is descending into one about the definition of "crap theory." I have a low bar for crap theory. As long as it doesn't have evidence that confidently supports it, it's crap. The other guy has a high bar for c
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Nowadays people are so sophisticated that we recognize internal biological mechanisms for bias. Optical illusions are a form of bias within our visual system that natural selection has optimized for a very biased use case. We see this bias
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by kilgnad 4y ago
What you quoted from the paper literally said what I said. There's no difference. The forward computation is computing gradients. These new gradients are applied to the model, to build the icl model via "attention". What I sa
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by kilgnad 4y ago
- GPT style language models try to build a model of the world: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382 - GPT style language models end up internally implementing a mini "neural network training algorithm" (gradient
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by kilgnad 4y ago
No there are ways to establish causation separate from correlation. It's easy. Imagine, you observe someone with his hand on a switch. Every time he flips the switch the light turns on or off. This is correlative. You observe a correla
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by kilgnad 4y ago
No this is categorically wrong. There is science showing that LLMs build actual models around the subject it is learning. It is akin to someone looking over the shoulder at your math homework and deriving understanding just from that. This
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Exactly. The science is starting to realize the emergent effects of LLMs. These things can literally learn simply by "looking over your shoulder". We thought that you had to explicitly program hierarchical structures of causal rea
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Wrong. There is science around the fact that chatGPT builds higher level macro structures in the neural network. These structures have been shown to be an actual model of things within the world. This isn't even a debate anymore betwee
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by kilgnad 4y ago
chatGPT does have causal awareness and even awareness of self and understanding of the things you ask it. There is proof of this in many examples and there is even scientific research that displays this. It is not conscious or "sentien
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by kilgnad 4y ago
This is just vocabulary. If you can't find evidence to support a theory confidently... I call it a crap theory.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
This entirely depends on the total amount of theories. It also assumes the known theories cover all possible origins. Saying COVID evolved from nature is sort of a catch all. It's like saying all possible theories in aggregate except f
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Good luck? The whole point of that headline is to get the American populace to completely miss all the nuance and hate china more then they already do. Then when they are taken to court for outright bullshitting, that's when they point
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Imagine you have a bunch of crappy and unrealistic theories about why something occured. What those phrases mean is that the lab leak is simply the least crappy theory.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
No. Low confidence means they have a bunch of crap theories. The lab leak theory is simply the least crappy theory. That's the nuance.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
You have a point. Anyone can develop software for windows. It's not walled off at all. There are security prompts in place when you start doing unsafe things but you can pretty much do anything. The only thing walled off is the source
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Don't be rude? You compared me to a 9/11 truther. We're done here. I'm rude in response to your rudeness. I'm wrong though, I shouldn't be rude in response to you.. The proper thing to do is to end the conversa
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>Here you’re revealing your ignorance of the situation. I'm asking a hard question. When you ask a question you explicitly REVEAL ignorance.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I missed that sentence. Skimmed to quick. I readily admit my mistakes because I treat this thread as a discussion not a holy war. Next time I recommend you do the same instead of assuming something is "inflammatory" because you&#x

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