martindbp

9 ms·

91.
by martindbp 3y ago
Am I just old to think names like Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys would be bigger names on that list?
92.
by martindbp 3y ago
People take "Full" as meaning L5, but Tesla uses "full" as in ODD (Operational Design Domain). It can go anywhere, city streets, highways, parking lots, unmarked roads. In that sense it is indeed "full". This i
93.
by martindbp 3y ago
Like Yann LeCun said, Gary Marcus has contributed exactly nothing to the field, he's an influencer that claims to be an expert. Just ignore him.
94.
by martindbp 3y ago
Awesome! I've been wanting to make something like this that I can use with my son and nieces, but haven't had the time. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I expect we'll be spending all summer making little game
95.
by martindbp 3y ago
Or, it's the type of job where a degree doesn't guarantee that someone is a good coder, and that's easier to test with a whiteboard than other kinds of engineering for instance.
96.
by martindbp 3y ago
Yes, what I meant was deep learning is great at deriving those higher level abstractions from low level raw data. Words can be seen as something in between, bag of words can be fairly effective at simpler tasks, but LLMs embed words into hi
97.
by martindbp 3y ago
Deep learning really shines when the input is raw and at a very low abstraction level: pixels, byte pair encodings etc. Using deeply learning for classification on tabular data is just needless complexity, as the variables are often at a ve
98.
by martindbp 3y ago
Great thing to do when you're young, why not. I slept on a mattress in a closet for a year. Standards increase as you age, not just because you can but because you get increasingly tired. I held out as long as I could, sleeping in chea
99.
by martindbp 3y ago
It's interesting how malthusians never take matters into their own hands. It's always too many of "others".
100.
by martindbp 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhxK4OKHhOw My point stands: just because Tesla chooses to make FSD an L2 system at the moment doesn't mean that it's unable to act safely in the same scenarios as for instance
101.
by martindbp 3y ago
That would have an acceptable point to make if FSD was not capable of safely doing what all other ADAS systems can do, but it obviously can. It's just that Tesla has no interest in restricting its features and get L3 approval for such
102.
by martindbp 3y ago
Wow, since Tesla is so behind I guess my Volvo must be able to drive me through LA? https://youtu.be/0kvK_20mNuo?si=ooQj7S98GyCMAJEI No? No unprotected lefts, no roundabouts? Not even turning? Sounds very advanced, Tesla mu
103.
by martindbp 3y ago
As a customer I can't really say that I can tell any difference between all the streaming services, so presumably this type of optimization helps Netflix's bottom line somehow?
104.
by martindbp 3y ago
Then what are you claiming the difference is? Are music labels inherently less greedy? Is it harder to build music streaming vs video that leads to a monopoly? Is it because labels have ownership in Spotify? I don't think the HBOs and
105.
by martindbp 3y ago
I think TV and games are meaningfully different. Most people tend to watch way more number of shows in a year than buying/playing video games. Video games have more replayability, so it's something you need to "own" rath
106.
by martindbp 3y ago
> The services have taken the piss and now they'll get the repercussions of it. Whose fault is it really that all content is not available on a single service? It's nobody's fault, it was inevitable given how things work.
107.
by martindbp 3y ago
I've come to conclude a rule of thumb for (side) projects: if the project includes any form of web app, that part will take 90% of the development time and energy. Since I work in ML and not web stuff (which I don't really enjoy),
108.
by martindbp 3y ago
That observation is completely pointless. Yes, even at 100% adoption it will take a long time to replace the whole fleet of cars, does that mean we shouldn't be doing it? Just the fact they bring this up shows they have an agenda. Tesl
109.
by martindbp 3y ago
Steam Deck OLED. Runs much better than my 3 year old Dell laptop that cost $2k, for $500. Steam for gaming is great value as I already have a library of games, and you can play pretty much the entire switch library as well. Simple enough fo
110.
by martindbp 3y ago
Shall we call it... I don't know, a "win-win"?
111.
by martindbp 3y ago
"A feud over the direction of OpenAI led Musk to step down from the board in 2018" So, voluntary departure, but it's clear that Sam won some kind of battle over the future of OpenAI. Not sure what their differences were, but
112.
by martindbp 3y ago
People hate Musk because he says everything that comes to mind, but it's people like Altman that scare me, because he's actually good at this game and it's difficult to get a sense of his true motivations.
113.
by martindbp 3y ago
I'd be interested in the real reason Dario et al left to form Anthropic, it must clearly have been a misalignment with Altman's ambition. It seems likely that Altman is more of a Steve Jobs type, perhaps even better at politics, m
114.
by martindbp 3y ago
Easy to shit on Ilya right now, but based on the impression I get Sam Altman is a a hustler at heart, while Ilya seems like a thoughtful idealist, maybe in over his head when it comes to politics. Also feels like some internal developments
115.
by martindbp 3y ago
Tesla is running these models on 4 year old hardware to control a car in real time (30 fps). You don't need a full 100B model to control a drone, and it doesn't have to be as good as a car to cause a lot of damage. Reportedly both
116.
by martindbp 3y ago
Open source models in general. Meta has for instance released DINO which is a self supervised transformer model. LLMs are also going multi modal (see LLaVA for instance). The name "LLM" has stuck but they should really be called L
117.
by martindbp 3y ago
I'm not a doomer but I honestly don't understand this argument. If releasing model as open source helps researchers determine if it's safe, what about when it's not deemed safe? Then it's already out there, on the h
118.
by martindbp 3y ago
The whole team that trained GPT1-3 and came up with RLHF left to found Anthropic, perhaps proving that key people are maybe not so key and that other factors are more important. This is a further blow though on top of the previous one.
119.
by martindbp 3y ago
We all know why, but I guess we're not allowed to attribute any success to the tenacity of its founder because of his political views
120.
by martindbp 3y ago
I think at this point we have to ask ourselves if we want these models or not, and who will have them. If you require licensing copyrighted data then it will be so unprofitable to train them that no company will be able to at this point. In

More ›