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by mchaver 3y ago
There are language with even smaller sets of unique sounds that do not have tones like Hawaiian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_phonology There are many common homophones in English that are distinguished by co
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That is similar to Taiwan and Spain (if you use private hospitals, but it is still comparably affordable). However, these systems are going to be under a lot of pressure with aging populations and potentially decreasing number of medical pr
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Languages often lose features but they also gain features. Complexity of language is hard to compare, but we can still find many examples. Modern English has less complex verbal morphology and noun declension (as you mentioned, only in pron
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by mchaver 4y ago
There's a certain hubris in many engineers and software developers because we are used to having a lot of control over the systems we work on. It can be intoxicating, but then we assume that applies to other areas of knowledge and stud
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I guess they all agreed it was a great name. Nvidia: my cuLitho brings all the boys to the lab and they're like it operates at the limits of Physics!
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The important difference is that humans are trained on a lot less data than ChatGPT. This implies that the human brain and LLMs are very different, the human brain likely has a lot of language faculties pre-encoded (this is the main argumen
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Government employees in Spain have an option to use MUFACE which gives them access to private health centers. Some companies will offer private health insurance as a benefit. Most residents of Spain should have access to the public health s
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On the other hand, if OpenAI is successful and predictions are correct that it will be used to generate a massive amount of spam and turn the internet into gloop then the entirety of Y Combinator's mission ages poorly. I guess offline
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People might not call them AIs, but the big AIs of the 2010's are definitely recommendation algorithms and they have had a huge influence on society (facebook, youtube, twitter, tiktok, instagram, etc.).
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I studied and researched NLP at the beginning of ML but before Deep Learning and it was pretty unimpressive as someone interested in Linguistics. Before I started I had some high expectations about what computers could do with human languag
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by mchaver 4y ago
> And eventually it will be just machines debating meaning of life. That's the plot of Yoko Taro's Nier Automata. Here is a summary if anyone is interested and doesn't want to play the game: https://www.youtube.
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by mchaver 4y ago
I think this is a common cultural practice in many places in the US. It is nice to say nice things that are not necessarily true or make friendly invitations that are not firm invitations. In other cultures it is better to say true things a
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That is the way language learning books were written before the days they could provide audio recordings. Now with modern technology it is much better to learn the sound system of your target language then try to find comparisons with your
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> How do you verify if what ChatGPT returns is actually correct? A bit ironically, if it is regarding a fact, I perform a search on DDG or google and find an authoritative website or paper to corroborate it. So it still feels like search
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Thanks for the response. My hope for AI Alignment studies is that it would be something rigorous and theoretical and be testable in current AI safety issues. Much like studies of abstract algorithms can be compared and contrast with the run
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OpenAI mentions AI Alignment and they are currently at the forefront of pushing AI on the world so it is not just that community, though I wouldn't be surprised if many employees at OpenAI participate there. https://openai.c
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I think even if governments around the world abolished time zones, tried to ban their use and forced a universal time, you would still end up with folk implementation of time zones that ends up being worse where people translate the univers
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It sucks and I suppose things will only get worse as AI improves. The unfortunate thing with computers is once easy automation is available and there is a reward for winning, then these systems will attract cheaters, spammers, etc. Spam ema
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by mchaver 4y ago
It's quite common in Europe for communities that live near the ski areas or have convenient public transport to them. You see lots of kids racing in the Pyrenees. Ski areas here often offer discounted season passes for kids and local r
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> it's well established that language shapes thought I don't think is necessarily true. There is empirical evidence for linguistic relativity, but my intuition is this is often culture getting encoded in the language and then p
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Rescript and its standard library Belt are great. I have been using BuckleScript/ReasonML/Rescript since 2018. It gives better guarantees than TypeScript and has a stronger focus on the functional approach to problems. The only dr
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What is your source or personal experience for that? I don't think the typing system has any correlation. In fact you can actually type pretty fast with modern keyboard software, there are lots of shortcuts. I type in Chinese with frie
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Unfortunately cold emails are generally ignored. The general etiquette in Spain is that you have to establish a relationship with someone in the business before they respond to emails, and then it also depends on the individual if they like
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Hi kinow, I'm a Haskell developer from Barcelona. It would be nice to get in touch. My email is in my profile.
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The border is just the first step. Afterwards you have to get medical licenses certified which can take years and may require extra coursework. For example, Spain makes it easier for citizens of ex-Spanish colonies to access citizenship. If
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Here is another ongoing discussion about healthcare in US vs Canada and Europe. Overall, I think the situation will get worse with demographic changes (more retired people that need more access to doctors and less medical staff) and higher
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That is not how I read it. I understood if you only have X people licensed as nurses you cannot hire X+Y people to be nurses where Y is greater than zero, even if you increase wages for all nurses.
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If we assume the names were pronounced with Middle English, they would sound quite a bit different compared to Modern English. You can hear a few words here. https://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/enm/ I was l
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I agree with what you say that their appearances and behavior do not seem to fit the role, but that is part of the narrative that plays into the interests of Sam Bankman and company that will help them get lighter sentences. Their image as

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