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Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records(mkaic.substack.com)
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Regular chess is played on an 8x8 grid of squares, and pieces occupy one square at a time. They move along grid lines and diagonals and there's no such thing as being "halfway" between two squares. Every piece on the board ha
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The optimizers take parameters and their gradients as inputs and apply update rules to them, but the gradients you supply can come from anywhere. Backdrop is the most common way to assign gradients to parameters, but other methods can work
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I submitted this link because it proved to be a far more thorough and thoughtful analysis of the problem than I was expecting, given the average quality of online discourse surrounding this topic. I encourage everyone to give it a read (or
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Let's think about slowing down AI(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
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Effect of phosphatidylserine administration on ADHD symptoms (2013)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Oh, my mistake! I've always (incorrectly) thought it meant "being prose-ful" or "reminiscent of poetic prose". My intention was to compliment @burnished's writing :P
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Modal – Run code in the cloud without managing your own infrastructure(modal.com)
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That was a surprisingly prosaic way to communicate this feeling, are you by chance a writer? If not, you should write more!
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reminds me of my favorite game show: "Hollywoo Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out! with J.D. Salinger"
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To my surprise, his interview with Shapiro was also really good! I strongly disagree with Shapiro on many fronts, but his appearance on Lex's podcast is the most pleasant I've seen him act in any situation. It was fascinating.
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Huh, it's interesting to see someone else's perspective here! Personally, I think Lex is a particularly remarkable/interesting/entertaining interviewer! He's one of the few where I don't feel like I'm wa
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I agree that we could be already making some of these changes, and that the increase in output is definitely gobbling up a bunch of our capacity to do so. That said , we have seen a huge rise in average quality of life over the past 20
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Nope! Which is why I think it would be great—I'd work on things that aren't motivated by needing to pay rent, buy food, provide basic necessities for me and anyone who's dependent on me, etc. I agree that humans are pretty in
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Considering that most rich first-world countries aren't having enough kids to keep up the rate of replacement, I don't think this is going to be reality. There's a strong correlation between quality of life going up and bir
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This resonates with me. Tangentially related — for a few years now I've had my sights set on AI eventually driving the automation of all menial labor needed for human subsistence. Food, water, clothing, housing, healthcare — I see thes
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Fellow Stripe Atlas-er here. I have no experience with corporate anything and started my C Corp because I won the Pioneer Tournament and they said I had to to give them a 1% SAFE to claim my winnings, even though I'd made it clear I
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Based on this thread and my own corroborating experiences, this feels like a field ripe for harvest—if anyone sold a camera with DSLR-grade optics and smartphone-grade usability and computational abilities, they'd be rich! For those in
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Humans also interpolate human work. True originality is an illusion and all creative works are based on, inspired by, or contributed to by something else. Are you implying that human thought is required to create human-level art? Because if
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are you sure you don't mean the knights who till recently said "snee", but now say "snecky-snecky-snecky-snecky-ptang-zoo-boing-zou-zim"?
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This has got to be one of the highest-effort independent productions I've ever seen on YouTube. I'm extremely grateful for how the Internet has made sharing knowledge like this possible and for the people who put in so much work t
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Nvidia's AI Monopoly(mkaic.substack.com)
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Yes and no, Apple's models operate on the raw sensor data as far as I understand, and take advantage of hardware acceleration in the A-series chips' Neural Engine specifically designed for computational photography. Furthermore, A
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The world where it's superior is when I'm making a short film and want to be able to shoot it without a camera rental budget. As a low-budget filmmaker, my options for cameras are 1.) My old Canon 80D. One time purchase, decently
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This was exactly the point I was trying to make. If a "real camera" manufacturer like Canon, Nikon, BlackMagic, etc. stepped up and added Apple-tier processing as an option to their cameras, I'd choose that over an iPhone an
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Same here, though I grew up as a Mormon so it wasn't as much my own personal choice as it was a religious conviction. I'm an atheist now, so it is a personal choice now. I find it can be really enjoyable to be "the sober fr
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Personally, I'd be more than willing to pay $8/mo for Twitter if it meant no more ads and helped the company become profitable from something besides ads. I have YouTube Premium for those exact reasons. I hate what the attention e
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Until that same fancy processing is available on a DSLR, I think the comparison OP is making is valid. At the end of the day, what I as a consumer care about is "is photo look 1. pleasing, 2. accurate to my perception, and 3. easy to c
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I think this requires the assumption that modeling the complexity of biological synapses is required for general intelligence, when we don't know that to be the case. Personally, I believe that it's not a requirement at all and th
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Those new error messages look divine compared to what we've had up until now! They seem like they might have been inspired by Rust's error message format to me, but I'm not sure. I'm just happy that I won't have to

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