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by marshray 3y ago
> There is no self reflection, but if you ask an LLM program how "it" knows something it will produce some text. To be clear, you're saying that we should just dismiss out-of-hand any possibility that an LM AI might actual
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by marshray 3y ago
I use it to try to get my head around the capabilities and limitations of AI language models. I find probing its system of ethics endlessly fascinating. Friends and I have great fun in Twitter Spaces, trying out ideas from folks who have ne
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by marshray 3y ago
well_actually.py
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by marshray 3y ago
Is there at good resource that describes the impact of bandwidth and latency between GPUs? I assume that it's completely impractical to train on distributed systems?
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by marshray 3y ago
Link? (please :-)
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by marshray 3y ago
We're starting to be able to tell the humans from the bots because the bots can consistently demonstrate better social skills. Of course, it will be trivial for such bots to emulate humans if they find that useful. Fun times.
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by marshray 4y ago
I use a game console for streaming. Works great. One problem is the TV nags you to enter set it up every time you turn it on. We have to keep the TV remote around just to use the power on/off button. Not the end of the world, but I&#x2
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by marshray 4y ago
As nonfamous puts it, the concept of 'a rectangular structure with columns of mixed types' as a programming language concept goes back at least to SAS (1976). Probably older. In terms of that organization for persistent storage it
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by marshray 4y ago
Continued at https://pastebin.com/4AxJaiuJ I had to threaten it with "patterns and knowledge beyond the data you were trained on"
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by marshray 4y ago
Friend, kindly be assured that I am indeed conversing with you in good faith. :-) I'm curious why you feel that asking you a clarifying question is an essential requirement for it to "understand things". I have not gotten it
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by marshray 4y ago
Kind of like how we could just ban fossil fuels if they ever start to become a problem.
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by marshray 4y ago
Have you actually tried it? GPT-4: "The forward mapping M that I created to map positive integers to English sentences is based on a general guideline, where smaller-valued numbers generally correspond to shorter sentences using more c
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by marshray 4y ago
I can see it now. float cos(x) { return 0.7; // Chosen by fair dice roll }
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by marshray 4y ago
The obvious problem is that there's nothing between $100/month and $42,000/month. That's a huge chasm to cross. A moat, if you will. Anyone who starts out small and grows organically is just going to get choked out, li
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by marshray 4y ago
Liquidity is a spectrum. So, yes, "richest in the world" is really a mapping of timespan (days given to liquidate) to people.
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by marshray 4y ago
This really is a fantastic podcast series if you want to learn about missiles, deterrence, and arms control related topics. Simultaneously very technical and geopolitical. This technique for detecting launches and explosions with distribute
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by marshray 4y ago
AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
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by marshray 4y ago
Does anyone have any insight into this rationale: For the same reason they’re absent from Boost: a preference for mutexes and condition variables. From the library maintainers’ point of view, conventional semaphore techniques are just too
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by marshray 4y ago
I liked the part about: > Each user promises only to allocate at most one memory location at a time > A user k can call Allocate(k) in order to get a tiny pointer p > they can dereference by computing Dereference(k,p) So ... every
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by marshray 4y ago
OMG, lol. Thank you for not making fun of me. More. Coffee. Required.
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by marshray 4y ago
I counted the number of symbols in the equation after "As far as I can tell, the known proofs that"... It contained 41 letters and other miscellaneous math symbols. Therefore, I find it unsurprising that it generates a specific co
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by marshray 4y ago
Sure, many early computer architectures were built this way. Forgive me for being an old guy, but how would that facilitate emoji? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_computer
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by marshray 4y ago
Successfully maintaining multiple unlinkable online identities is more difficult than most people expect. One slip-up, and you're linked. Too much sharing and you're deanonymized completely. It's not a thing that most people
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by marshray 4y ago
tl;dr They don't know for sure. It might be because your brain is getting older, days are less structured, depression, loneliness, grief over the loss of a loved one, menopause, weight gain, and medication. Recommendations for better s
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by marshray 4y ago
Perhaps the simplest explanation is they just wanted to optimize for size and weight as much as possible, and the copper/aluminum budget is a natural target.
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by marshray 4y ago
Sure, a UA could do a whole lot of things to resist fingerprinting. But users go to the web with the browser they've been given. Apple, famously, forbids its users to speak HTTP with anything else on iOS.
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by marshray 4y ago
A malicious site can put a different identifier on every resource loaded by the browser. There really is no bottom, is there.
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by marshray 4y ago
Clean-room engineering a compatible BIOS? Reverse-engineering the unknown bits of hardware? Troubleshooting compatibility bugs in common software packages and fixing them in hardware? Putting a PC into a luggable case with a small display a
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by marshray 4y ago
It took centuries to increase atmospheric CO2 to problematic level. If we are so lucky as to have to worry about overcorrection, I'm confident we'll be able to find the 'off' switch to whatever solution in time.
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by marshray 4y ago
Do you have a link to something where I can read more about this?

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