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by mcswell 1y ago
There's a scene in the 1983 movie "Never Cry Wolf" about that. Apparently they taste better with ketchup.
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by mcswell 1y ago
This semantic variability in the relation between the two nouns of a compound is pretty common in compound nouns: "Y made of X", like "tomato paste", "Y used (somehow) for X" (like "toothpaste", &quot
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by mcswell 1y ago
The details were released previously in the Cell paper I link to a couple posts above this. It is behind a paywall (my university allowed me access).
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by mcswell 1y ago
Hold on, you're talking about something entirely different from what stephc (the person you are responding to) was talking about. He (or she) was talking about LLMs, and GPT5 in particular. The MIT article you're referring to is
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by mcswell 1y ago
More than half would be nice, but: these tests were run on "individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment." One could expect that it would be even more effective on p
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by mcswell 1y ago
"fake understanding" is exactly the right term. And the image is just fine, it's the labeling that's bonkers. What it illustrates is that the LLM can repeat words, but it has no idea what it's saying. Whereas any
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by mcswell 1y ago
Listing and explaining is essentially repeating what someone else has said somewhere. Labeling a schematic requires understanding what you're saying (or copy-pasting a schematic, so I guess we can be happy that GPT-5 doesn't do t
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by mcswell 1y ago
Maybe that's a good term to use for GPT-5: it's a supplement.
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by mcswell 1y ago
"I don't see anything interesting." MMMV.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Humans do many things that are not remembering. Every time a high school geometry student comes up with a proof as a homework exercise, or every time a real mathematician comes up with a proof, that is not remembering; rather, it is thinki
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by mcswell 1y ago
That's not at all what Marcus is saying. He admits that it does remarkably well, but says (1) it's still not trustworthy; and (2) This version is not much better than the previous version. Both points are in support of his claim
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by mcswell 1y ago
But Marcus is decidedly NOT anti-AI, he's just against the idea that LLMs are the be-all end-all of AI. He may be right about that, or he may be wrong, but describing him as anti-AI is just wrong.
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by mcswell 1y ago
Sounds like a good idea, but that was six years ago. What's happened since? While I'm at it, the article says "The average American family throws away 25% of groceries purchased." I've heard similar statistics bef
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by mcswell 1y ago
A "solid object". But it's not clear how solid a comet is (or more to the point, this or any interstellar comet). If it were a fuzzball of snow, maybe 20 km across, you could in theory decelerate through it more slowly, may
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by mcswell 1y ago
Question: I know that our planetary probes often use planetary gravity to boost their speeds. That only works for prograde speeds, right? Because you're subtracting a miniscule amount of orbital speed from the planet and adding it to
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by mcswell 1y ago
If you can build two, then build three. In fact, always do things in threes.
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by mcswell 1y ago
What about Cheshire cats? When only the smile is left, are they still distracting? Enquiring people want to know!
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by mcswell 1y ago
How does the LLM know what the "nonsensical" (I think you meant irrelevant) parts are? It requires world knowledge to know. And in any case, I'm pretty sure the AI is built to think that all the parts of a query are relevan
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by mcswell 1y ago
Ideally, yes. But probably because of our world knowledge, we humans know that cat-facts don't affect mathematic facts (unless of course the cat is walking across the keyboard, in which case all bets are off). LLCs don't know th
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by mcswell 1y ago
I get the "must have agenda" rule, and I'm all for enforcement of that rule, but how did they ensure that the agenda was contentful and meaningful? Not "(1) Convene and take roll, (2) Talk about projects, (3) Set do-out
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by mcswell 1y ago
Wow, that is expensive electricity. Ours (Maryland) is around 12 cents/kwh. As I say, we have solar panels, so we have not paid anything for electricity for the last five years, except for a $6/month connection charge (I think
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by mcswell 1y ago
No, it tries to maintain a full tank of hot water, like other 50 gallon water heaters. I think the just-in-time ones are under your sink. They have their advantages too, I guess. It's 240v, uses a double circuit breaker, so you need
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by mcswell 1y ago
"A direct-vent natural gas-fired water heater is probably the simplest, most reliable appliance you could own. It requires no electricity." I won't address the legality issue, but: First, I'm not sure about the no elect
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by mcswell 1y ago
If I know what you're referring to, the motion blur is the stars, not the comet. That's because Hubble is tracking (pointing at) the comet, not the stars. The comet is therefore not blurred in its direction of travel, while the
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by mcswell 1y ago
Agreed, it would be cool, but. From that article, with my commentary (disclaimer: IANAA, I Am Not An Astronomer): 1) "The retrograde orbital plane... of 3I/ATLAS around the Sun lies within 5 degrees of that of Earth... The likeli
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by mcswell 1y ago
About the bigger one that doesn't seem to move: I think it does move, it's just that it's so bright (for Hubble) that its brightness overwhelms the slight elongation of its image. In other words, it's (apparently) movin
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by mcswell 1y ago
Economist Paul Samuelson: "When events change, I change my mind. What do you do?" Unfortunately--as you say--most of us don't.
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by mcswell 1y ago
You're absolutely right about the abortion debate; the entire pro-life argument makes sense only if you deny that "life begins at conception". But I don't believe I've ever heard the pro-choice camp attack that axi
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I resemble that remark.
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That idea suggests there might be another way to get to the desired goal, if that goal is renewable energy adoption (quite aside from whether that goal results in reduced emissions). We have solar panels on our house, and recently installed

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