lachlan_gray

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Von Neumann Universal Constructor(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lachlan_gray 2y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Oh dude this is so cool. I think you’re dead right. If you’ll pardon some woo, another argument I see in favour of message passing/consensus, is that it “fits” the self similar nature of life patterns. Valid behaviours that replicate a
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Not the practical angle, but the book _Code_ by Charles Petzold explains how to make a “computer” out of (a large number of) telegraphs https://codehiddenlanguage.com/ I love this book because it does so in such a playful a
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
I’d love to hear more about this!
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Apparently there’s a lot more involved than fitting rare words into nooks. This video blew my mind a little bit. Top players reason about words like chess pieces https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayBTn59PliQ&pp=ygUVc2NyYWJib
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Sometimes I feel this about myself... I don't think much to walk or do something with both hands, they work stuff out on their own. How much do my legs or hands understand about each other?
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
You might enjoy parts of this interview with Stephen Wolfram https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8 He’s very much on this kind of beat. In general I have a feeling that there are orders of magnitude to gain by successfu
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
It's fascinating to me that the complexity of life always goes up. Outside extinction events, complex life generally seems to become more favourable over time. It's interesting that (to my knowledge) we don't see an ecosystem
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
Maybe MLX is meant to fill this gap? https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
This probably explains why Mercedes-Benz is on the list of sponsors
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
I think vim is unintentionally a great “embodiment” for chatgpt. There’s nothing that can’t be done with a stream of text, and the internet is full of vimscript already I started a similar experiment if anyone else is thinking along the sam
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Controlling Vim with ChatGPT(lachlan-gray.com)
2 points by lachlan_gray 3y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
It blows my mind to think of mathematics/logic almost like a huge cellular automaton. “axioms” don’t necessarily correspond to “truth”, to me they’re arbitrary constraints that can give rise to complexity. And sometimes the resulting s
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
Also a cool FYI, if you open a pdf like this in edge browser (ugh) the bing chatgpt can see what you have open and answer questions about it
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
In a way it is the same thing, agents are mostly an abstraction that make it easier to know what’s going on. I think of agents more or less as python classes with a mixture of natural language and code functions. You design them to do somet
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
> There was, however, no clear increase in the risk of dementia associated with adult ADHD among those who received psychostimulant medication, and evidence of reverse causation was mild.
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
I think this also explains in large part the change in Steely Dan's sound in the 70s/80s vs in the 90s/00s. The significance of perfection changes entirely when you can ctrl-z. Great case in point is "The Second Arrangem
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
This reminds me of something from “The language instinct” by Steven pinker. One thing that stuck with me was a story of a girl named Denys who is or was severely mentally handicapped, but speaks perfectly. She can’t read, write, handle mone
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Mr. Beast Deepfake Scam(twitter.com)
28 points by lachlan_gray 3y ago|20 comments
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg https://twitter.com/lfegray/status/1678787763905126400 It would be cool to combine a scr
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
This is also similar in spirit to LMQL https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
On an iPhone if you hold the space bar down the whole keyboard becomes a kind of trackpad which you can use to move the cursor. Since all the keys disappear, it doesn’t seem like a stretch to add something that works like mouse buttons so y
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
This is awesome. I was working on something similar (but got distracted) except my strategy was evolutionary. The idea was that the LLM had to figure out what it’s optimizing for itself. I find that as soon as an LLM has an explicit definit
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Csound(csound.com)
121 points by lachlan_gray 3y ago|62 comments
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
I haven't read the paper, so maybe completely irrelevant, but isn't there an analytical solution for a system of N coupled oscillators?
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
You could maybe switch to a block cursor when you’re in visual mode with let &t_SI = "\e[6 q" and let &t_EI = "\e[2 q" in some auto commands to sort of address this
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
It looks like grid cells! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell If you plot a head map of a neuron in the hidden layer on a 2D chart where one axis is $a$ and the other is $b$, I think you might get a triangular latt
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
This would combine really nicely with virtualedit=true in vim
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
Not that it is necessarily of value, but has anyone got a LLM to run on bare metal?
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by lachlan_gray 3y ago
Something I’m wondering lately is if you are generating tokens fast enough, is restricting the logits actually worth it computationally? If tokens are cheap enough it might be more efficient to validate/discard them as they come rather

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