losteric

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by losteric 3y ago
There's a difference between an idealist in a cynical world, and lying about things proven and admitted to be lies for personal gain.
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Gwynne Shotwell deserves all the thanks, she's brilliant
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Debatable, a full HQ brings sizeable direct and transitive economic influence over city politics that typically cannot be countered by residents.
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Why? I wouldn't pay you for marginally improving my baking skills either. It is an interesting question. I would have no qualms paying for a textbook or university course for curated learning (worth noting OpenAI has paid datasets too)
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Lab grown beef has sure had a major impact on clear-cut ranching
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Fresh grads, interns, and apprentices typically uproot their lives to move to tech hubs, as do older populations. That is the terrible effect - getting dropped in a strange new location with minimal network. Of course letting "locals
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Posting for Cunningham's law :) * Green energy suddenly becomes way more viable. Megaprojects in the most efficient sites can send energy long-distance and store it with effectively no loss, somewhat mitigating regional variations (esp
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Elon's timeline predictions in both of those industries for his own companies have been consistently wrong for years. (FSD when??) Given we're talking about hardware for software, let's at least look at his track record in
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I understood the prior post differently, in that they tied capacity planning to biz metrics rather than TPS. For example, businesses in HR might have metrics like average case correspondence count, open rate per day, idle status, etc. The d
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The older folks typically also benefited from getting into housing when it was less scarce, riding one or more waves of progress, at a time where healthcare ROI was much higher. My generation faces a different economic situation. I know peo
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Amazon and Google are hardly innocent players. One could go on to point at the effects of Uber, Yelp, AirBnb, Palantir, so on... all "Big Tech".
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yeah, it's trivial to show self-reflection simply doesn't work. Here's a toy prompt for the OpenAI chat sandbox ``` System Prompt: Assistant's instructions are as follows: - You are a helpful assistant that follows exact
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by losteric 3y ago
Here is one of many articles covering RFK's antivaccine conspiracy stance: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-robert-f-kenn... I use that phrase because it is an accurate descriptor. He has literally p
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Develop a set of queries for the use-case with human review of outputs. My team has an internal (corporate) tool where we drop in an S3 file, complete text over K models, then evaluate the completions with appropriate humans labor pools. Ea
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That only suggests you were reaching further than your grasp. To stretch the metaphore, knowledge is the strength of one's grasp and the edge of the wheel is the hardest to hold on to. Most start further in, where things are known and
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OpenAI API is not ChatGPT UI And the prior poster is right, OpenAI API eula/tos clearly state data is not retained by default. I've been involved with legal counsel reviews, on that point there's zero ambiguity.
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I was imagining system-prompt-based tool use, where the LLM "knows" it can call some calculator to get digits of pi
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Is it possible some of these LLMs actually have internal tools / calculators? ie blackboxing what ChatGPT has as explicit plugins
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How does this differ from challenges around distributing executable binaries? Wouldn't a signed checksums of the weights suffice?
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> I still wonder what makes GPT-4 so much better than its contemporaries. OpenAI have had many years to craft their dataset down from the noisy public datasets, and GPT4 is (supposedly) a mixture of 8 "expert models" each of wh
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by losteric 3y ago
As the world warms, the jet stream gets wacky and wavey. Regional temperature variations are be orders of magnitude higher than the global average change. Changing climate also means different new pests, funguses, bacteria, etc. Resulting d
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Why would a robust testing process prove to be untenable? We have a fairly high bar in medicine. For all it's flaws on the care and payment side, the medical research process seems robust without shortage of innovation.
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The right model depends on the specific use-case. One should always robustly test available technology before committing to a solution. eg summarization of scientific articles, cooking blog posts, news articles, and racing events are all co
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What kind of updates are you looking for? They have an official website with blog posts: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates
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Not sure why this post is getting down voted? It's spot on - the limitation lies in relatively small text encoders within stable diffusion/mid journey. Larger language models contribute to better image generation (see: DeepFloyd).
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> Let’s be honest, though — this is just whataboutism. This is classism. Shockingly, institutions can have both classist and racist discrimination - let's be honest, they're both bad and need to go.
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> staff self-declares 98% liberal Citation? That'll be interesting, asking 10 Americans to define "liberal" will probably result in 12 definitions... If you want to have a meaningful discussion, what do academic staff say
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all gone :(
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Skyrocketing rent demonstrates the strong demand for such environments. Prices would fall if there were more competitive cities.
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Are you referring to individual employees or the companies? Clearly many companies are mandating RTO despite remote/self-determined hybrid supported by a strong majority of employee sentiment (and often performance data)

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