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by mckirk 2y ago
I'm sorry, but this encyclopedia analogy really doesn't say anything at all about the argument I raised. An encyclopedia is the work of individual authors, who compiled the individual facts. It is not a tool that produces text bas
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by mckirk 2y ago
I'll just link here to another comment I made that sums up my argument quite well, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246168
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by mckirk 2y ago
Definition of plagiarism, by the Cambridge Dictionary: "the process or practice of using another person's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own" What I am objecting to is the "another person's" part.
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by mckirk 2y ago
So let's say you are not a native English speaker and write a passage of your paper in your native language, then let DeepL translate this and paste the result into your paper, without a note or citation. Is that plagiarism?
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by mckirk 2y ago
'Someone else's work' -- exactly. Not 'the output of some tool'. I'm not saying what the guy did wasn't wrong or dumb, I'm saying: Plagiarism has a strict definition, and I don't think it can be
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by mckirk 2y ago
But the text itself is not someone else's work verbatim. A translation tool like DeepL is presumably trained on a huge amount of 'other people's work'. Is copying its result verbatim into your own work also plagiarism th
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by mckirk 2y ago
I truly don't understand the tone of your comment. I'm not grasping at the furthest of straws, I see a distinction between 'verbatim copying someone else's work' and 'verbatim copying the results of a tool that
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by mckirk 2y ago
Is it clearly plagiarism? I wouldn't say it is that clear-cut, since in a sense the output of an LLM to a prompt you give it could still be seen as something you produced -- albeit with the help of a magical matmul genie.
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by mckirk 2y ago
I did click the link, as I said.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Well, I stand corrected, thanks. Apparently there are too many things called 'The Incredible Machine'. I just clicked on the video for a second and the first image it showed still seemed to fit the 'human body' topic, be
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by mckirk 2y ago
Note that this is about a documentary about the human body from 1975 (according to Wikipedia), not the video game that was released in 1993. (Though for me the game definitely also was the first association.)
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by mckirk 2y ago
I think there would be a few people that would see research as a great way of enjoying the now -- but ironically, I suspect those are exactly the people that get burned by the current system and often need to escape it so they don't lo
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by mckirk 2y ago
I literally could care less. If people cant handle this alternative way of communicating, thats there problem.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Did you take a look at Lucia? If so, what were your thoughts on it?
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by mckirk 2y ago
To be fair, that question is one of the suggested questions that OpenAI shows themselves in the UI, for the o1-preview model. (Together with 'Is a hot dog a sandwich?', which I confess I will have to ask it now.)
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by mckirk 2y ago
So far I haven't, nope, though it might be worthwhile to look into, given that I basically need 8+ hours of sleep to function well. I do have a fitness watch though that can (supposedly) measure SpO2, and while that showed the occasion
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by mckirk 2y ago
I wonder if they tried to correct for 'exercise intensity' for that, because (fun fact), exercising regularly is negatively correlated with regularly taking all kinds of drugs -- except for alcohol, where the correlation is appare
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by mckirk 2y ago
I pretty definitely can't breath through my nose as well as I should be able to (deviated septum), and have been wondering for a while how much this actually impacts me. What was your experience like?
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by mckirk 2y ago
I'd never heard of that fourth-power-law, fascinating. In fact I can't think of any other relationship in 'nature' scaling with the fourth power, and it seems that that is indeed rare, given the fact that the Wikipedia a
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by mckirk 2y ago
If this does what it says it does I'll be a very happy user. Playing RPGs 'together' with somebody over the internet isn't that much fun if they are a second or more behind in what's going on. I've actually loo
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by mckirk 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer so thoroughly :) In that case I stand corrected, I'd just assumed you hadn't used Copilot because, to me, it was so more effective at aiding with programming that ChatGPT. But I suspect that ve
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by mckirk 2y ago
Sorry, but this 'benchmark question' really isn't all that useful. Asking an LLM questions that can only be answered at the letter level is like asking somebody who is red-green colorblind questions that can only be answered
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by mckirk 2y ago
Something I learned only recently: Weather forecasts don't actually directly use sensor data. Instead, a physically consistent model is first fitted to all the available sensor data, and then the forecast is made based on the values th
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by mckirk 2y ago
Maybe it's a new PR move to seem more approachable, by buying high and selling low like the rest of us.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Maybe it's just me (or maybe I've invested too much money into headphones), but I actually liked the Opus sound better at 6 kbps. The MLow samples had these... harsh and unnatural artifacts, whereas the Opus sound (though sounding
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by mckirk 2y ago
That's a good point. Thinking about this a bit, it might be a bit late actually to start to guide an LLM towards curiosity only at the fine-tuning stage, since this 'exploring unusual-trains-of-thoughts' is precisely what the
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by mckirk 2y ago
I think you _can_ make an LLM 'have' curiosity, for all practical intents and purposes. I'm e.g. thinking of the 'have the LLM research a topic' task, such as the 'come up with suitable search terms, search the
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by mckirk 2y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the rating of 10 here (I know anything about the actual impact of this vulnerability), but please note that CVSS really isn't a perfect system, and it is quite easy to reach ridiculously high CVSS
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by mckirk 2y ago
'The little flap that could'... Watching the stream and hearing the excitement of the whole team in the background honestly made me tear up a little. Congratulations!
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"No dude, the bribe you offered was too much so the LLM got spooked, you need to stay in a realistic range. We've fine-tuned a local model on realistic bribe amounts sourced via Mechanical Turk to get a good starting point and the

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