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3y ago
I love that quote too! :) Enjoy!
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3y ago
> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? Because you are using social network to connect/interact with other people? If I'm making a simp
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3y ago
There's a difference between social networks, where a network effect is needed, and why we don't see clones of platforms like Instagram or Reddit. Many of today's 'AI startups' are essentially just a landing page wi
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3y ago
> The field of ML research is moving so fast that people don’t even take time anymore to explain the design decisions behind their architectures Often, they don't fully understand why certain methods work, they simply experiment and
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3y ago
> The dilemma parents are grappling with is this: tablets and smartphones, while beneficial for children's learning and socializing Recent reports from teachers indicate that many children are intellectually behind their peers. A co
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3y ago
Correlated: "The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought" https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/11/23/t...
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The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought
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3y ago
> To me that seems like a great foundation for AGI. It's only one part, predicting text is relatively straightforward because it doesn't require predicting complex sequences like 'a S23mz s.zawsds'. Based on statistic
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3y ago
Open source version of something similar: https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Video-LLaVA
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3y ago
> Maybe 10T? 100T? I don't think we have enough training data to train models so big in a way to efficiently use all the params. We would need to generate training data, but then I don't know how effective it would be.
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3y ago
If that would be the case then LLMs would know how to do math but they don't.
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3y ago
We are already doing it, as all LLMs are fully deterministic. So we are adding random seed to prompts and control temperature.
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3y ago
You can predict performance of certain tasks before training and it's continuous: https://twitter.com/mobav0/status/1653048872795791360
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3y ago
From a strictly evolutionary standpoint, our culture or civilization(however you want to frame it) hasn't adapted to the modern world because other people will pass on their genes. There is no fertility crisis in many places around the
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3y ago
> If I were the CEO of OpenAI, I'd be pretty pissed if a member of my own board was shitting on the organization she was a member of while puffing up a competitor. Considering what's in the charter, it seems like she didn'
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3y ago
Correct, I don't know why this is the top comment when it's so wrong.
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3y ago
> It is just a matter of training data, but it is very difficult to have someone collect these large amounts of data and train on it. It's really not that difficult, they are trained mostly on audiobooks and high quality audio from
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3y ago
> But the truth is that the US doesn't have an history of populist demagogues as rich as 3rd world countries. There is Trump and nothing as him before. The US had a good economy for many decades, while 3rd world countries did not. T
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3y ago
How would you compare mistral-7b-instruct 16fp (or similar 7b/13b model like llama2 etc) to Yi-34b quantized?
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3y ago
Who knows, money is not the only thing that motivates us. Power, influence, fame, ego etc are the thing that drives people too and can blind them.
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3y ago
Well, if it's so smart then maybe it will learn to count finally someday. https://chat.openai.com/share/986f55d2-8a46-4b16-974f-840cb0...
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3y ago
Given how often I see supercars in Monaco, it seems they must be more in active use.
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Why can't we restrict TikTok to the same content only in the west? It's just a matter of regulation, we know it's possible because it's how it's done in China. Now think about it, is it really China here to blame fo
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3y ago
There is a difference between Chinese society and western society. Chinese do not allow kids to play video games for too long because they know effects of games on the youth, they also restrict what can be viewed by children on Chinese vers
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3y ago
So which is it? Reading the last few HN threads about quantum computers gave me the impression that we don't even know if there will be any practical use for them, as they seem super specialized, and there are technical challenges that
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3y ago
It's not about a diamond ring but what is behind that preference. Could be different things but some of them are a huge red flags. It's a lot better to marry someone that do not have that preference.
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Gambling engages the brain's reward system, releasing neurotransmitters like dopamine, creating a pleasurable experience. This reinforcement mechanism, coupled with the unpredictable nature of wins, contributes to the development of ad
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Gambling engages the brain's reward system, releasing neurotransmitters like dopamine, creating a pleasurable experience. This reinforcement mechanism, coupled with the unpredictable nature of wins, contributes to the development of ad
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> Germany's median wealth per adult is a mere $66,000. They should be asking some serious questions. Isn't that because most of that "wealth" is from inflated prices of houses? Over 50% of germans rent so over the med
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It's also worth noting that if you build your business on using OpenAI's LLM or Anthropic etc, then, in the majority of cases I've seen so far (no fine tuning etc), your competitor is just one prompt away from replicating you
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