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by mindcrime 4d ago
As you would expect, the Play Store is the primary source of apps for Googlebooks, and there will be some limits on sideloading. Google has confirmed to Ars that Googlebooks will enforce developer verification requirements for apps similar
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by mindcrime 6d ago
It's hard for me to imagine a stateless operation as intelligence per se That's an interesting point. My take would be to say that we shouldn't think of the AI as being just the model , but should include the harness. At t
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by mindcrime 6d ago
Modern neuroscience knows quite a lot about what is happening inside neurons. Is it "properly" understood? I don't know what you mean by "properly", so I can't answer that. If an acceptable rephrasing would be
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by mindcrime 6d ago
I keep being confused about how people's understanding of the models get stuck at next token prediction. Heh. A lot of anti-ai hucksters I see posting on LinkedIn just LOVE to use the phrase "next token prediction" and th
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by mindcrime 6d ago
For example if there’s a strongly held belief that models are independent intelligent entities we’re more likely to lay blame upon them instead of their user. This sentence, to me, illustrates a great example of why it's so hard to t
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by mindcrime 6d ago
Famously, the criteria for intelligence seem to slip with each advancement in technology. Yep. The "AI Effect" in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by mindcrime 6d ago
And just to expand on why I reject the line of thought laid out in this article, let me share something from my own life as an illustrative example. I'm working on a project, with a lot of help from ChatGPT, involving an "artifici
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by mindcrime 6d ago
(EDIT: I, like some others, just noticed this is an older post from 2023. That changes nothing in particular in my response here, but I would be curious to know if the OP's views have shifted at all in light of subsequent developments)
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by mindcrime 8d ago
You may be correct.
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by mindcrime 9d ago
> and most of the content is SEO optimised ad ridden crap. That was the case long before LLM's even existed though.
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by mindcrime 9d ago
Check out the story about the personalized cancer vaccines. I think AI stands to play a significant role in enabling things of that sort going forward. https://www.pymnts.com/healthcare/2026/modernas-ai-built-can..
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by mindcrime 10d ago
Just take the whole OpenAI / Huggingface thing for a starter. Remember, I only said "cause great harm" not "eliminate all humanity". Within that rubric, I think that incident, and other recent similar incidents, alr
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by mindcrime 10d ago
I don't consider this a "yes/no" question. It seems quite clear to me that the idea of "AI doom" is neither certain (100% probable) nor impossible (0% probable). The question is where on the continuum is the tr
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by mindcrime 12d ago
I've been doing a bunch of stuff with using a PUT[1] to simulate an IF (Integrate and Fire) neuron[2]. Right now I'm experimenting with variations of pulse-width and frequency of the input spike train, seeing how that affects when
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by mindcrime 13d ago
And when I say "back" I mean, really, truly back, and uploading fresh new content. This isn't just another false-start, "Hey I'm back" announcement. No, this is the next video in his ongoing Differential Equati
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Professor Leonard is back [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mindcrime 13d ago|1 comments
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Virtualized Conversations (Vcon)(datatracker.ietf.org)
3 points by mindcrime 16d ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 17d ago
I didn't "trust" OpenAI with anything sensitive to begin with. I use ChatGPT quite heavily, including for research. But if things start pushing into the territory of something that I think has actual potential to be genuinely
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by mindcrime 17d ago
Great. And you felt the need to scream this to the entire world? Look, if you don't like Generative AI, then don't use it. This isn't rocket science, and you're not making yourself look hip, cool, edgy, informed, suave,
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by mindcrime 21d ago
If you hear a payphone ringing... DON'T ANSWER IT. Especially if there is no payphone in the room!
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by mindcrime 24d ago
This is fine with me. Like many of the other comments said, my fear when I saw the headline was "OMG, is LWN shutting down or something???"
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by mindcrime 25d ago
Rap's Law of Inanimate Reproduction[1] strikes again! [1]: "If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times, eventually you have two if it."
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by mindcrime 25d ago
There isn't just one specific "plan B", but I have a few things in mind for potential ways to make money if I lose access to my current career. Unfortunately reality collides with some of the possibilities... I am a certified
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by mindcrime 27d ago
FWIW, ICQ was being discussed here less than a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167258 OK, OK... to be fair "discussed" is an over st
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by mindcrime 29d ago
I think it's a judgment call. Sort of like the way "derivative works" work vis-a-vis copyright law. If a work is "substantially transformative" or whatever the phrase is, then it's considered an original work.
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
There is still work on symbolic and hybrid AI A tremendous amount of work. The annual AGI Conference[1][2] was just a couple of weeks ago, and was the most heavily attended one in the event's history (which goes back about 19 years,
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
I guess on balance this is a positive development. But I still have pretty much the opposite of the "warm fuzzies" in regards to Qualcomm. I have a very hard time imagining a world where I actively seek out any of their products,
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
Hack The Planet!!
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Solid State Transformer(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mindcrime 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
You'll love this one then: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ Just, whatever you do, do NOT press the red button!

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