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by macleginn 4mo ago
Ok, cool, depends on application, probably.
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by macleginn 4mo ago
Yes, they do have money to burn, and this will bring some improvements for sure, but active learning has never really worked out, has it? And even 10% of the educated population doing this for, like, 50 years is not that much data, while
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by macleginn 4mo ago
Not the worst way to make money, but if internet-scale data were not enough to reduce errors to a somewhat tolerable margin, how much data do they hope to collect in this manner?
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by macleginn 4mo ago
> Noone is really caring about hallucinations on point facts these days though, it is much more about complex reasoning tasks. The boundary is pretty thin there though. E.g., Gemini recently told me that a certain papers claims that two
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by macleginn 4mo ago
The main problem here is that hallucination suppression doesn’t generalise. We can penalise models for incorrect answers on a wide range of questions, but this doesn’t lead to the emergence of a coherent worldview, which, coupled with logic
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by macleginn 4mo ago
It's been 63 euro for some months now.
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Surprising Usefulness of Amazon's Quick Desktop(theregister.com)
4 points by macleginn 4mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 4mo ago
TL;DR: "Your body passes through a ring of underwater sensors, each acting like a dolphin, using its echolocation. The sensors send ultrasonic sound waves through your body from every angle. With enough waves, and enough angles, we for
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by macleginn 4mo ago
The actual paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638
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by macleginn 5mo ago
In many places, there is a distinction between "master's through research" (a gateway to PhD) and "master's through study" (more coursework, less independent research, a gateway to r-n-d-level positions in the
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by macleginn 5mo ago
But nobody has 4 + 4? The traditional system was in Europe 5 + 3, now we mostly have 3/4 + 2 + 3 (Europe) or 3 + 1 + 3 (UK/Ireland). I don't have a lot of experience with the US system, but from my experience after 3/4 y
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by macleginn 5mo ago
There may be issues with the implementation, but masters only programmes are absolutely commonplace in Europe. Some are better, some are worse, but good ones are genuinely helpful for people to, e.g., upskill before going into industry or d
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NHS to grant Palantir contractors unlimited access to patient data(ft.com)
13 points by macleginn 5mo ago|1 comments
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by macleginn 5mo ago
https://archive.is/nu26P
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by macleginn 5mo ago
An old C++ library using a related approach (DAWG) was seemingly created by a Japanese programmer: https://code.google.com/archive/p/dawgdic/ It was later used to power a popular Python package for processing
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by macleginn 5mo ago
It doesn't really matter if the model cannot make a good educated guess about calories in the food if it cannot give a consistent response given the same input.
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by macleginn 5mo ago
Matt Levine: "Which honestly is a little bit cool? I mean, bad, whatever, correlated and predictable and manipulable. But also, like, everyone who runs the big frontier artificial intelligence labs is going around saying that in a few
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by macleginn 6mo ago
Years ago I ordered Ninja 2 from Japan and was sadly expecting to pay another 20% or so in customs fees, but the price was given in yen, and the customs probably couldn’t figure it out, so they released it to me for free. It’s still going s
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by macleginn 6mo ago
TokenExpiredError
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China lures home its top AI talent from Silicon Valley(ft.com)
13 points by macleginn 6mo ago|1 comments
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by macleginn 6mo ago
https://archive.is/sV8Yq
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by macleginn 6mo ago
If the author sees this: it's "whose old Apples", not "who's". Only mentioning this because it's very prominent on the landing page. Also the feedback form doesn't work in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
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by macleginn 6mo ago
Surprisingly, this seems to be not true. Moscow, a city of 10+ million people, has huge forests inside or adjacent to the city limits. People leave rubbish here and there, but unless forests are rezoned and actively developed as "recre
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by macleginn 6mo ago
This is very nice, but unfortunately, it will take forever (in human-life terms) to bring "real" forests back. (In my previous post, I forgot to mention stunning rainforests near Sintra in Portugal.)
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by macleginn 6mo ago
A lot of areas in Western Europe are either completely deforested or have very weird low-density half-dead wooded areas, especially Germany. One has to go all the way to Poland/Serbia/Bulgaria to get a real forest experience again
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by macleginn 6mo ago
How are they different? If you "know" something, you are 100% confident in it, which gives you an easy 0 for this question (or a surprising 1). Philosophically, the problem is more that there is no difference between confidently a
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by macleginn 6mo ago
The Brier score is pathological when the guess is 0.5: regardless of the outcome, it will be equal to 0.25, so if you define "better than random" as having a score < 0.25, actually acting randomly makes you "overconfident&
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by macleginn 6mo ago
So it's like HMM but the whole map is in battle mode?
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Tiny Corp's Exabox(twitter.com)
54 points by macleginn 6mo ago|17 comments
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by macleginn 6mo ago
https://archive.is/DmiOw

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