mcswell

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by mcswell 4y ago
"Saying "this won't work in this area that it was never designed to handle" and the answer will be "yes of course". That's true of any complex system, AI or not." This isn't about design, it&#x2
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by mcswell 4y ago
You missed the point. ChatGPT trained on a gazillion words to "learn" a language. Children learn their language from a tiny fraction of that. Streamed visual, smell, touch etc. don't help learn the grammars of (spoken) lan
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by mcswell 4y ago
That's exactly the problem: the learned "concept" is not general purpose at all. It's (from what we can tell) a bunch of special cases. While the AI may learn as special cases cavities inside carboard boxes and barrels
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by mcswell 4y ago
That sounds to me like "most contemporary scholars" are suffering from a misunderstanding of what "teleological thinking" would be (or else it's setting up a straw man). Teleological thinking would mean that there
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by mcswell 4y ago
I would find such a book worth reading, I think. I came to this book expecting to learn about pre-history. I did learn some of that, but I also got a heavy dose of what seems to me to be ax grinding, along the lines of "Most people o
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by mcswell 4y ago
This sort of argument--that those reports must be inaccurate, because--well, I'm not sure why you you think these reports are inaccurate, except that you think they must be. And that's not a reason. I'm also pretty sure any
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by mcswell 4y ago
First, I suspect that every group you've been part of has been composed of mostly or entirely white people around your age who speak English. The contention of the book, and from what I understand that of many anthropologists and arch
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by mcswell 4y ago
My understanding from listening to anthropologists talk about this sort of thing is that some cultures do not have either fixed leaders or priests. By "fixed leaders", they mean someone who is the recognized leader in most any co
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by mcswell 4y ago
"Pigs are known to have ~150 words": Citation needed. I very much doubt that pigs have any words, in the sense that words are known in human languages (repeatable, pretty much the same from human to human in any given language
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by mcswell 4y ago
Au contraire, best defense is to hide all desktop icons. Right-click on the desktop, choose View and look at Show Desktop Icons. If there's a check mark next to it, click on it to remove the checkmark.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Some things this article doesn't touch on (although maybe the complete book does), which come up when translating into other languages. I'm not saying there are no solutions to these, but they are interesting (and for those who b
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by mcswell 4y ago
That's > or < what the Amplified Bible does.
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by mcswell 4y ago
He was doing the best he could, given Babel. The whole thing, going all the way back to the Fall, was necessarily and inescapably imperfect. Why would an omnipotent and omniscient God create such a mess, you ask? A lot of theological ink
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by mcswell 4y ago
Almost no translations are based on the Latin. Possibly some Catholic ones are, I don't know. Some translators might have looked at the Latin, particularly in hopes of clarifying some of the Hebrew, since we have almost no non-Biblica
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by mcswell 4y ago
"> ChatGPT isn't sentient Perhaps, perhaps not." I'm pretty sure it's not, but I have to admit that it does a reasonable job in many situations of passing a Turing test. (Not all, it fails for example at countin
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by mcswell 4y ago
"Your metaphor fails to indicate the dependence of AI on data." I'm not sure how you conclude that; the post you're responding to says exactly "...conditioned on some historical data." No historical data, no
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by mcswell 4y ago
Indeed, or balloons or drones with active radar transponders. Here's what I mean. Suppose you have a line of drones, each with the ability to communicate with the drone next to it (very short range radio) and to emit a pulse that emul
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by mcswell 4y ago
My mother had memory problems in the last years of her life. My sister would take her to a coffee shop, where she would order a latte or some such. To my mother, it was new and delightful every time--and she would exclaim over how she&#x2
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by mcswell 4y ago
There was such a theory, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, I think, although I can remember neither the name of the linguist (I don't think it caught on broadly, so it really was just one researcher) nor the name of the theory. I think
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by mcswell 4y ago
There is an obvious solution which never gets discussed: re-draw the boundaries between the time zones a half hour or so, and stay on "standard time" all year. Move them further east, and sunrise and sunset are earlier by the clo
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by mcswell 4y ago
Not an answer to the original question, but Prolog later became a popular programming language for AI (mostly outside the US). It instantiated a particular search mechanism in a reasonably efficient way.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Two space is alive and well. At least it is for me.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Nor does one spacing increase legibility. I will continue to two space, because I think it looks better (and alas for those tools that ignore what I want because they thing they know better).
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by mcswell 4y ago
"...principles of good design change much more slowly than computer technology does." Tell that to the UX people. New, refreshed, clean, round corners, and a bunch more buzzwords.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Amen, preach it! But I suppose that's true of any filing system that I didn't create.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Now we know why the Rolling Stone Magazine doesn't use Sharepoint.
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by mcswell 4y ago
From the article: "One element behind the high quality of the sponge iron produced is the high-quality iron ore from LKAB’s mine..." So would this process produce high quality sponge iron from iron ore of lesser quality from othe
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by mcswell 4y ago
Did they find the Beta Stargate?
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by mcswell 4y ago
Conference proceedings. When I was at a computational linguistics conference back in ~2004, I was appalled when another attendee checking out from the hotel left his printed conference proceedings there, saying the electronic form (CD then
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by mcswell 4y ago
Agreed, it could work that way (but doesn't). As a computational linguist who has worked a lot in morphology, I support this :).

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