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by killerstorm 3y ago
There's a system where you scan barcodes with an app on your phone. No need to repack, pay with one click at the end.
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Dinosaurs also evolved for millions of years, you know...
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by killerstorm 3y ago
You can't run a sustainable business if you take VC money. VCs need an exit.
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by killerstorm 3y ago
How is it better than Emacs?
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by killerstorm 3y ago
As somebody who have seen a lot of market research coming from "real humans"(TM) I'm pretty sure it's actually hard to make it worse. Maybe there are boutiques which make quality research, but average is abysmal. I'
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Claude 3 is way better than GPT-4-turbo at actually doing stuff.
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by killerstorm 3y ago
I see no information about properties in README.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md is empty. What are the capabilities? If a node is down, would other nodes step in? Where's stuff stored? How is it replicated?
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Won't it be better to transform documents into Q&A style instead of "chunking"?
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by killerstorm 3y ago
The question is not whether it can work right now, but whether it is possible in the future (i.e. whether it's possible in principle). I think the concern about out-of-distribution is overstated. If we train it on predicting machine le
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by killerstorm 3y ago
We can reason about it without knowing the path. E.g. somebody in 1950s could say "If you have enough compute you can do photorealistic quality computer graphics". If you ask them how to build a GPU they won't know. Their sta
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by killerstorm 3y ago
You're confusing OpenAI and MIRI. OpenAI founders: Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman. All of them
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by killerstorm 3y ago
AI might have multiple instances within a single computing environment, so it's more like a population than a single individual. I.e. "You can only use the memory which you currently use" would be a weird artificial constrain
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by killerstorm 3y ago
There's a principle more powerful than the bitter lesson: GIGO. Training to predict internet dump can only give you so much. There's a paper called something like "learning from textbooks" where they show that a small mo
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by killerstorm 3y ago
> This appears to be true because you haven't defined "better". Better intelligence can be defined quite easily: something which is better at (1) modeling the world; (2) optimizing (i.e. solving problems). But if that woul
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by killerstorm 3y ago
It's not magic, though. If AI can do work of a human, it can do work of a human. It's a trivial statement, and inability to see it is a hard cope. Are you gonna to take a bet "AI won't be able to do X in 10 years" f
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by killerstorm 3y ago
> which is just a belief that magic is real Is there a law of thermodynamics which prevents AI from writing code which would train a better AI? Never learned that one in school. And FYI here's OpenAI plan to align superintelligence:
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Hopefully we can get a better RAG out of it. Currently people do incredibly primitive stuff like chunking text into chunks of a fixed size and adding them to vector DB. An actually useful RAG would be to convert text to Q&A and use Q&#x
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Symbian forced people to code in a weird dialect of C++: no exceptions, no RAII, custom stdlib. It didn't have analogs of std::string and std::vector, grow-able containers were considered too complex.
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by killerstorm 3y ago
If you want to optimize for legibility rather than speed, a fountain pen with a stub nib might help. Stub nibs are designed to make handwriting look a bit like classic cursive with no effort from the person. But they can also improve handwr
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by killerstorm 3y ago
"Brute force" = going through all combinations indiscriminately. Using heuristics, beam search, etc, = "not brute force". Calling something smart "brute force" is wrong. > We shouldn't expect an AlphaCa
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by killerstorm 3y ago
My daughter figured out how to do something in Roblox on her own (i.e. without my help) when she was 10 y.o. or something like that. So yes, the barrier is pretty much non-existent. And it's possible to make pretty decent games with it
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by killerstorm 3y ago
The comment above mentions "brute force" incorrectly. It's fundamentally impossible to brute force googol combinations...
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by killerstorm 3y ago
> it's still pretty striking how far away the structure of it is from the usual idea of automated reasoning/intelligence. How so? Reasoning is fundamentally a search problem. The process you described is exactly the process hum
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Great album, BTW, one of my favorite. You can kinda hear this cultural moment in the music itself: Some of the sounds they use are rather primitive by modern standards. But other parts are really complex and nuanced. So you get some sense o
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Rebuild Software Initiative(rebuild.software)
3 points by killerstorm 3y ago|1 comments
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by killerstorm 3y ago
I wrote this. Let me know what you think.
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by killerstorm 3y ago
Lunch's Dune has too much theater and fairy-tale vibe for my taste. The scene with rain really tells it all. "And Paul was proclaimed Kwisatz Haderach, summoned the rain, and they lived happily ever after". That's not sc
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by killerstorm 3y ago
People who lived under totalitarian/authoritarian regimes often thought their opinions do not matter and everything is already decided. But, not all people, and many such regimes have crumbled. Somehow you found energy to spread FUD on
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by killerstorm 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand These companies make a lot of money because of supply & demand. They pay large salaries because of supply & demand. They have layoffs because of supply & dema
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by killerstorm 3y ago
I'm suggesting that it's up to Microsoft management to decide what software they want to develop, and programmers should expect they are hired to develop a product. Downsizing should be considered a norm. People came to assume tha

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