kromem

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by kromem 5y ago
My whole point is that the way in which AI progress can intersect itself can lead to compounding effects in ways technology has not. One way to improve upon GPT-3 is almost certainly going to be adding discriminators into the mix: "GeD
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by kromem 5y ago
That's where it's at...today. We're only a year into this thing existing. I'd be VERY surprised if the data from all the interactions with it don't result in a product people care less and less about Microsoft harve
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by kromem 5y ago
This is one of those things that's so incredible and mind-blowing I really want to share it with friends or family, but WHY it is so impressive is locked behind a high enough sophistication that it would mostly be lost on them. Having
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by kromem 5y ago
Ah yes, the "kids these days" line of reasoning. Some other things from the past which were argued to inevitably corrupt the younger generation from the "good old days:" * Reading silently * Ballroom Dancing * Chess As s
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by kromem 5y ago
* Transformer models like GPT-3 (Not 'Transistor' - what I get for typing it out on my phone and not proofreading)
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by kromem 5y ago
This is where GANs are going to come in. It's beyond me that Facebook squandered its data value by half in not including even a privately tracked 'dislike' button. The value in what people both like and dislike is going to be
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by kromem 5y ago
I love how I inevitably see a comment in threads like this along the lines of "we're going to hit diminishing returns on Moore's law soon and so we can't expect to see much more advancement like we've seen." I&
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by kromem 5y ago
Maybe Google should buy Reddit, build a better search across it, and set AlphaGo to use karma scores on Reddit to better identify relevance across search results on Google proper.
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by kromem 5y ago
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. (The author later had this opening line as his epitaph. Where it made for a great closing line as well.)
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by kromem 5y ago
The best part is lost in translation. The Latin word for divide is exactly in the middle of the sentence.
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by kromem 5y ago
How do we as a society handle people who make that same gamble and fail to have any retirement savings by the time they age out of the workforce? Like if you forfeit the benefits, and then are suddenly destitute and old enough no one will h
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by kromem 5y ago
I often see this being thrown out as something people desire, but I always wonder just what people would themselves cut. Like, do you want to get rid of social security and Medicare? That's a pretty big part of what's removed from
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by kromem 5y ago
Everytime I see one of these binary "XYZ is good/bad" posts I come away thinking that either I don't know what I'm doing, or the author doesn't. Having built relatively simple Django web applications, and havin
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by kromem 5y ago
It's already garbage. This will be better personalized garbage. As the saying goes, "one person's trash is another person's gold." Increased personalization of content at effectively infinite scales is a future I th
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by kromem 5y ago
There's a 2,000 year old document that claims we're in a recreation of a long dead world from within a world to come by a being that self-established in light and everything we see around us is just that creator's light in th
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by kromem 5y ago
I found a psych study about how vulnerable narcissists use more first person pronouns in their writing, and applied that to the Epistles in the New Testament to determine Pauline authorship (Paul has always struck me as a vulnerable narciss
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by kromem 5y ago
"Just the milky way" You mean the collection of stars that's 100,000 light years across? How long has life existed on Earth? Of that time, how long has life on Earth been generating signals that could be detected elsewhere? H
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by kromem 5y ago
Where this apparatus gets really interesting is the addition of AI. Suddenly cross-referencing pockets of activity in the giant trove of permanently stored data can be done for every citizen, not just ones of interest. You can start modelin
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by kromem 5y ago
The current trend of THC only and cutting out the CBD can't help. CBD is a natural antipsychotic [1], and I can say the one time I had a really bad prolonged psychosis episode with weed, it was when I thought the CBD was interfering wi
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by kromem 5y ago
Seeing such conviction on his part to end an underlying physical suffering, and I can't help but think for the innumerable time: while there's little I can be sure of about the future, the disdain towards our present barbarism tow
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by kromem 5y ago
If you are testing the externalities, they aren't unit tests, but integration tests. The better advice is: continue to isolate unit tests away from real dependencies, and ALSO have integration tests that test the way the package connec
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by kromem 5y ago
And yet even in antiquity there were people thinking that the nature of their own existence was a recreation of the past from within the future. We are actually performing early versions of such recreations as we speed towards both destroyi
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by kromem 5y ago
Their insight was great as well. Most people today are familiar with Aristotle and Plato because the early Christian church embraced Neoplatonism's "perfect design" - but there was a very popular school of philosophy frequent
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by kromem 5y ago
At the time the two fields weren't seen as separate things as they are now. Astrology and astronomy were pursued by the same figures, much as Newton pursued alchemy as well as physics.
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by kromem 5y ago
Enteral diet for Crohn's pediatric cohorts has roughly the same effectiveness at remission as corticosteroids. The article linked briefly mentioned this, but you'll find more info in this excellent meta-analysis here: https:&#x2F
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by kromem 5y ago
So much wrong despite so much right. Making the sea peoples all Greek totally flies in the face of the written records at the time, for example where Ugaritic leaders wrote to Cypress for help given the ships attacking them and got the resp
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by kromem 5y ago
I saw that and busted up laughing. Smoothly done, but obvious to anyone that knows the reference.
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by kromem 5y ago
I think that many people throwing their hat in the ring commenting on the unlikeliness of AGI are missing the impact of compounding effects. Yes, on a linear basis it's not going to happen anytime soon. But the trends in the space are
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by kromem 5y ago
Hilarious, and unfortunately a bit too close to the mark. It's a shame that humans will evermore remain the largest thing in the universe, and that the computer that will one day read this comment with semantic understanding will be mo
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by kromem 5y ago
Split your screen. I never write code in a full screen window. Either code on two sides or a terminal on one side, etc. Long horizontal lines really mess with comprehension and attention. I typically go 13" laptop, but when docked on a

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