mcswell

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by mcswell 2y ago
Why do LLMs (or rather similar models that draw pictures) keep getting the number of fingers on the human hand wrong, or show two people's arms or legs merging? Or in computer-created videos, fail at object preservation? It seems to
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by mcswell 2y ago
Nonhuman predators don't do math, or most of the other cognitive things which (I presume) the author of this article investigated in aphasics.
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by mcswell 2y ago
You may be right, but there is another hypothesis that would need to be rejected: at question is whether LLMs "do" language the same way we do. For certain they learn language much differently, with orders of magnitude more inpu
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by mcswell 2y ago
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but Fernando Pereira's dissertation included a natural language (English) program for querying a "database". Both the NLP part and the database were written in Prolog.
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by mcswell 2y ago
Unless of course a streaker does a long run.
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by mcswell 2y ago
French and Farsi (Persian) are both IndoEuropean languages. So yes, they are related. If I'm reading it right, the Proto-IndoEuropean word for "who?" is /kwis/.
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by mcswell 2y ago
But do people still steal copper to sell for recycling? (I suppose I should ask whether they ever did, but I think it's been documented.)
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by mcswell 2y ago
"... a lot of snarky articles written about how certain countries or companies were not Y2K ready..." I know you're talking about articles written after Jan 1, 2000. But there were a lot of articles written before then that
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by mcswell 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't see your question before. I think there's an article in wikipedia about it, but from what I recall: there were studies that said most people drown in water just over their head, not in deep water. Drown proofing
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by mcswell 2y ago
No, I understood perfectly well that they were talking about coming up from a deep(ish) breath holding dive (snorkeling). But I learned this in the context of a SCUBA course, for which at least at that time the first half was snorkeling.
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by mcswell 2y ago
You're probably right. But given that all this plastic already exists, what should be done with it, if not burning it? If it can be truly recycled, that's one thing, but it's not clear it can be (although I don't kno
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by mcswell 2y ago
I wish. There's a park on the east shore of the Potomac as it's widening below DC. A Boy Scout troop could literally pick up a ton of plastic in half a mile of shoreline (just go at low tide). Occasional metal (like a water hea
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by mcswell 2y ago
Most metals in common use are recyclable. Whether they actually are recycled or not probably depends on what they're attached to. A washing machine, for example, contains plastic and rubber, and those have to be separated from the me
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by mcswell 2y ago
I learned about shallow water hypoxia when I first took up SCUBA diving (before most of you were born :)). It occurs during ascent, for two reasons. The most obvious is that you've been holding your breath longer when you're asc
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by mcswell 2y ago
But why? Isn't most of the information you can extract from those tags stuff that's pretty obvious, like title and author (the examples the linked page uses)? How do you extract really useful information using that methodology
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by mcswell 2y ago
Exactly. Afaik, there are certain corners of the Web that benefit from some kind of markup. I think real estate is one, where you can generate searches of the MLS on sites like Redfin or Zillow (or any realtor's site, really) such th
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by mcswell 2y ago
My cat says sunbathing on the back of his (it's our, but I don't tell him that) couch is how he's reached his advanced age. He'll be 22 in a couple weeks.
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by mcswell 2y ago
Did you (and those who so far responded to you) actually read the article? The Vitamin D question is addressed throughout, e.g. "Linear regression models were fitted for the UV exposures and vitamin D serum levels, adjusted for the sa
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by mcswell 2y ago
I just finished off a blueberry bagel, the taste is still in my mouth. Maybe the universe is torus-shaped?
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by mcswell 2y ago
Dunno about Mark Twain, but it appears the best time to launch men to the Moon was more than half a century ago. The second best is now...ok, a year from now...I mean a few years from now.
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by mcswell 2y ago
I suppose there could be a gradual change over distance, i.e. the first derivative of this change never varies.
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by mcswell 2y ago
As I've said before, if there are two sides to an argument, I see all three of them. But all seriousness aside, I do have trouble making my mind up about some things--I think. I'm still trying to decide whether that's true..
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by mcswell 2y ago
"...if people respect yellows." Of course they respect yellows! Yellow means "go faster so you can make it through the intersection."
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by mcswell 2y ago
Fiction... indeed, science fiction. There was a short story (I believe in Analog) in the 1960s about this, later amplified by the author into a book. But getting to your real point, about the use of an MMU safety monitor: I'm sure thi
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by mcswell 2y ago
The paper is not talking about verifiable synthetic data generated by some means other than LLMs.
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by mcswell 2y ago
Yeah, I raised the same issue before reading your post; ninja'd I am. I like your "cheese and chalk".
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by mcswell 2y ago
The question (which I raised in a top-level comment before reading your post) is whether there is any such thing as "discriminate" use of web data. Synthetic data created in the same lab as the LLM is discriminate, but what the a
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by mcswell 2y ago
I must be missing something. Training on the output of your system as if it were validated input seems like an obvious no-no. I'm not talking about using synthetic data (however that might be created in this situation), but rather
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by mcswell 2y ago
Your first paragraph is sort of what I expected. I'm not sure how the Bank thing fits today, but slavery is gone, the appointment of postmasters and military commanders is seldom an issue (once you get past a certain obstructionist se
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by mcswell 2y ago
Can you turn all the lights at a given intersection green at the same time?

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