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by lossolo 3y ago
> This is super interesting because you’ll end up with different people with different opinions on “what is the best answer” if they all have different experiences. In context of grandparent comment it's code, so while we can have d
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by lossolo 3y ago
It seems that statistics and the most probable outcome are both a blessing and a curse at the same time for these models. This is exactly the same issue I'm facing with many programming tasks that don't have typical Stack Overflow
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by lossolo 3y ago
> entirely novel and original ideas They are not novel if there is an equivalent pattern in the training dataset. I guess you are not really trying anything that isn't available already on github or google in some form. If you think
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by lossolo 3y ago
How is the situation currently in Sri Lanka? I'm considering going there for a vacations.
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by lossolo 3y ago
What OP likely intended is that our Western axioms, such as considering human life as the most important value, may be arbitrary because there are other cultures where it holds a lower position in the hierarchy of values. In Western culture
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by lossolo 3y ago
> One must also believe that more than one set of morals can be right or that no one is right or wrong. Exactly. There is no universal right or wrong, it's all relative based on hierarchical system of values in every society.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Has anyone used or is currently using 7B models in a production or commercial product? How was the performance? What kind of tasks were you using it for? Was it practical to use the small 7B model for your specific use case, or did you swit
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by lossolo 3y ago
ChatGPT: > The first baby boomer president of the United States is Bill Clinton. He was born on August 19, 1946, which places him within the demographic cohort known as the baby boomers.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Don't worry, you are not alone, there are hundreds of millions of us around the world, maybe even billions (all the jobs that could be replaced by AI in the next 10-20 years). We will just need to do what we always do, so vote for a sy
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Do you even need ai? Doesn't matter if you need it, AI is used here as a magnet for VC money.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Piece of paper is here used as metaphor for memory or stack on which you store results of your computation, not as outside world physical object.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Sure, in case of cure for cancer in context of current models it's totally true, because they don't have access to outside world. I addressed your argument in next paragraph, in which I acknowledged exactly this and proposed an ex
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by lossolo 3y ago
It's pretty obvious that LLMs are not human like intelligent but are just statistical models. They can't produce anything novel in the sense of finding a cure for cancer or solving millennium problems, even though they have embedd
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by lossolo 3y ago
I feel like there is a notion in your comment that I fit the stereotype of a radical left person, but I assure you I'm not. Of course, it's a good thing when people can find jobs instead of being unemployed. > Lots of ways to c
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by lossolo 3y ago
> The richer countries need to help the poorer ones Of course they need, but I'm not arguing they shouldn't, I'm arguing that we will again exploit them in the process as we always did in our entire history, the only thing
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by lossolo 3y ago
First, we created colonialism and robbed the Global South of their resources and their future. Then, we exported most of the pollution from our production to the Global South. Now, due to our lifestyle, we are making the Global South pay fo
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by lossolo 3y ago
> That said, it is almost comical they'd not unleash what they keep saying is the better model. Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAi) said that they had GPT-4 model trained around 18 months before they released it. Seems like things like these
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Ask HN: Have you noticed huge spam/scam campaign on YouTube?
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by lossolo 3y ago
There should be a standardized API so people can easily move their data from one provider to another, proving that they are person X on platform Y and transferring all their content (tweets, posts, videos, etc.) with just a few clicks using
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by lossolo 3y ago
And how much did it cost? It didn't collapse because we printed trillions of dollars, but now we have a huge debt and inflation, which has made poor people even poorer, especially in poorer countries where food insecurity has resurface
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Can't believe this comment is top rated. Same. I think it's just helplessness, they feel something bad is coming, and they can't do anything about it, so they try to propose radical solutions that will not fix anything b
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Since that time, context switching changed from a O(log(n)) operation to an O(1) one. I'm not sure how that's relevant here, if for example something takes 1ms and I do it 1000 times a second, I'm using 1000 ms of CPU ti
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by lossolo 3y ago
> The context switch for threads remains very expensive It got even more expensive in recent years after all the speculative execution vulnerabilities in CPUs, so now you have additional logic on every context switch with mitigations on
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by lossolo 3y ago
> but it is enforceable through technical means What you mean by that? Currently it's not enforceable by any technical means, as I can scrape Twitter without any limitations.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Indeed, if you look at the first Git commit, you can see that it's around 1k lines of code, and it's so basic that you can't compare it to today's Git. Much of it is also devoted to memory management in C, rather than ac
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by lossolo 3y ago
In many cases they don't have agency because of economical reasons, in some of them because of other reasons (religion, culture). But most of it is because of no economical power, making it relevant. The biggest (by population number)
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by lossolo 3y ago
You clearly didn't read anything I cited. It supports exactly what I wrote, read more than the title and in two cases more than abstract. Unless you think children are marrying older man in these countries (Africa and Asia) because the
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by lossolo 3y ago
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291... https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2013/retrieve.php?pdfid=13... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art
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by lossolo 3y ago
> I don't know what bizarro world you live in, but this is not the general case. So called "west" is not the whole world, it's actually minority of the world. What you describe as "general case" is probably
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by lossolo 3y ago
> richer person's need for control over the relationship Sometimes, it's not necessarily about control, as a sexually attractive female alpha may not be controlled by a male beta, the dynamics can be the other way around. Howev

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