l33tman

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by l33tman 3y ago
QFT is the most well-tested physics theory mankind has developed and certainly is not a "haze" as the pop-sci articles write. What they mean by the "haze of probabilities" is that you need to iterate over all possible co
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by l33tman 3y ago
It sure is, but the theme in the sub-thread was about if OAI in particular can afford to do that (i.e. wait) while there are literally dozens of other companies and open-source projects showing they can solve a lot of the tasks GPT-4 does,
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by l33tman 3y ago
Emad hinted here on HN the last time this was discussed that they were experimenting with exactly that. It will come, by them or by someone else quickly. Text-prompting is just a very coarse tool to quickly get some base to stand on, Contro
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by l33tman 3y ago
Just a terminology comment here. "Latent space" means a lot of different things in different models. For a GAN for example it actually means the "top concept" space where you can change the entire concept of the image by
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by l33tman 3y ago
It's only patterns and textures for 8x8 images, so I guess it could make sense, you're not going to need every conceivable pattern of 8x8 pixels in normal images.. If you quantize those 4 floats per 8x8 block, is that encoding bet
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by l33tman 3y ago
The idea is that the system as a whole should be resilient to a certain degree of this, as it will be caught in other places or at least reported at a (hopefully non-fatal) aviation incident that leads to a report and analysis, at which poi
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by l33tman 3y ago
This is awesome. But it makes me sad to think that our current DIGITAL artifacts might not survive even 20 years, unless explicitly archived. I'm pretty sure a harddrive or SSD thrown on a landfill won't be able to be resurrected
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by l33tman 3y ago
I didn't know that! However the CD32 was at that point in history (1993) a blip, it was far too little far too late. It sold 125,000 units, while the PC clone market was shipping 37 million units in 1993. I agree fully with the OS is
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by l33tman 3y ago
I hand coded asm demos and music trackers for Amiga since 1986, and there is no need to be rude on HN.. keep that to reddit :) This was ages ago, but as far as I can recall, the main obvious limitation of the AGA chipset compared to the PC
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by l33tman 3y ago
I sold my 6 months old Amiga 4000 when I realized the PC VGA cards coming out around then were cheap, had 1024x768 resolution, blazing DOS pixel writes and nothing of value had happened with the Amiga chipset from 1985 to 1992.. Remember TS
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by l33tman 3y ago
I find at least a little bit funny that it seems that completely new people now "discover" what you can do with VR, as if this hasn't been a thing for almost 10 years and certainly for the last 5 years (although with slightly
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by l33tman 3y ago
Yeah the 2/8 combo was probably what we went with in the product as well. The 512k was more like a shoehorned concept demo in an existing product. The next thing we did was make a version of our CPU with an MMU, designed to work optima
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by l33tman 3y ago
I had the Linux kernel and some simple user-space tools like busybox running on an embedded platform with 512 kB RAM and 2MB flash back in 1999! Those were fun times. To be honest 512 kb was possible but very on the limit, I think the produ
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by l33tman 3y ago
My 2012 car has no spare tire, you are instead mandated to use run-flat tires (on those, you can still drive 80 km at a lower speed). This is pretty common.
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by l33tman 3y ago
Please see https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05720 Beyond Surface Statistics: Scene Representations in a Latent Diffusion Model "... In this work, we investigate a basic interpretability question: does an LDM create and
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by l33tman 3y ago
It has been shown that at least still-image generators learn a 3D representation internally and uses it to bootstrap their generation. If you think about it this is the only way they can be so good at shadows and reflections, perspective an
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by l33tman 3y ago
LAION is good
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by l33tman 3y ago
I know what you're saying, and for sure existing models can be difficult to force into the really weird corners of the distributions (or go outside the distributions). The text interfaces are partially to blame for this though, you can
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by l33tman 3y ago
You're wrong in your concept of how AI/ML works. Even trivial 1980's neural networks generalize, it's the whole point of AI/ML or you'd just have a lookup-table (or, as you put it, something that copies and pas
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by l33tman 3y ago
I sometimes use it to start the machine remotely when I'm away the whole day, so I can time it to be ready when I get home and can switch over the clothes to the tumbler immediately.
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by l33tman 3y ago
Hacking them to fit another purifier reminds me of the Apollo 13 incident, which included the astronauts having to do a McGyver hack to fit a square CO2 filter into a socket designed for a round one... using tape, hoses and other plastic it
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by l33tman 3y ago
Do any of you happen to have any thoughts wrgds to OR-tools vs optaplanner? I've been trying to use OR-tools for a vehicle routing problem (with lots of constraints) and found it is really bad at finding solutions in our case, and it h
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by l33tman 3y ago
Sounds similar to the lawsuits against Google by the newspapers of the world for them providing excerpts of their articles on the search result page or so. So essentially you can ask chatgpt to fetch and summarize a paywalled article, becau
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by l33tman 3y ago
Creepy analogy available here with our universe-as-a-simulation
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by l33tman 3y ago
It doesn't have to be 200k above in a single transaction to upset the "poorer" market. When you've just sold your house at a big capital gain, you're more willing to pay just a little bit over the average market val
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by l33tman 3y ago
What the OP suggested was that "it is a scam". It clearly isn't, there is nothing in QC that isn't traditional QM which is a 100 year old incredibly well-tested theory. As far as we currently know, it's an engineeri
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by l33tman 3y ago
Just vaguely reminds me of: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
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by l33tman 3y ago
They never released Imagen 1 either, why do they even do these "releases"?
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by l33tman 3y ago
There are a lot of reasons you might have to open and the close the door while driving, for example if your jacket or something got caught in the door and you don't realize it until you're on the road. Done that many times, it&#x2
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by l33tman 3y ago
The "it's an illusion" part is a piece of rhetorically toxic language that usually comes up in these discussions, as its a bit provocative. But it's equally anthropocentric to say that someone without a body can't h

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