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by mkaic 3y ago
I believe the Oscars are a scam, but I was still thrilled when EEAAO swept them this year. That film was darn near perfect and I can't praise it enough. The first and only time I've ever cried in a movie just because of beautiful
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I've always felt like the happy compromise would be a system where everyone lives in healthy, youthful bodies for as long as they like, and then dies whenever they decide to. I am very afraid of death. But I also don't want to liv
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by mkaic 3y ago
There's only one wealth and one knowledge coffer. Both AI and humanity have their own wealth and knowledge production rates linked to the number of GPUs/IQ and population, respectively.
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I don't think we need any more useful data for the AIs to gobble up — we just need to make the architectures we train more data-efficient. In my mind, a few petabytes of text, images, audio, and videos from the pre-AI era should be
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Some cool stuff from the paper: • Earlier SD versions would often generate images where the head or feet of the subject was cropped out of frame. This was because random cropping was applied to its training data as data augmentation, so it
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From hanging out around the LAION Discord server a bunch over the past few months, I've gathered that they're still using LAION-5B in some capacity, but they've done a bunch of filtering on it to remove low-quality samples. I
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Making Infrared Cooling Paint from Grocery Store Items [video](youtube.com)
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Noah Smith[0]. I appreciate his level-headed analysis and how he usually backs up all his claims with sources and statistics. I was never much into economics before I found his Substack, but now I read it regularly and I feel like I've
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by mkaic 3y ago
This is that one meme with the normal distribution from total novice to jedi master: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/035/645/cov...
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My go-to nonsensical sarcastic freedom unit is Bullet Velocities per Football Field
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I find it pretty amusing how well these 3 criticisms apply to both LLMs and United States congresspeople. Dishonesty, frequent uselessness, and charisma—sounds like we've automated politicians!
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The way I see it, if those lonely elderly people's days are brightened by being given a flower, who cares what the intentions of the flower-giver were?
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which killed the stage star!
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He doesn't. He made it clear that he understood why Reddit would charge for their API, and that it seemed reasonable to him. He is shutting down his app because of the amount they are charging, which is outrageous. Additionally, he i
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Agreed. Implementing backprop myself—even if it was a crappy, slow version in MatLab—is what finally got me to understand it. I've worked as an ML researcher for 2 years since then and I'm still routinely happy that I have that
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I always assumed it was something akin to humans cracking our knuckles. Just a pleasurable stretching sensation for their claws or something. I have zero evidence to back this up, but it seems to me like if I had retractable claws I'd
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I'd argue that we absolutely could colonize the south pole if people were as excited about it as we are about colonizing Mars. I think it's less that we "can't" and more that governments don't really care about
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"But... steel is heavier than feathers." "Right, but they're both a kilogram " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOzZ7dnPNU
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Reminds me of a certain sentient bowl of petunias.
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> Why? Because the researchers found it to be an interesting problem. Using an AI to beat Minecraft has been an active benchmark in the ML world for some time now. > Who wants this? Me, as well as the many others who have liked and sh
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by mkaic 3y ago
The phrase "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss" is a tongue-in-cheek expression sarcastically praising the recipient while not actually endorsing them or their behavior. Kind of like "nice work, genius /s". "Girlboss
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It doesn't matter if the robots are sentient or not(mkaic.blog)
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Hmm, I may make a blog post using some of the graphics I made for the presentation. Can't make any guarantees though.
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I'll consider doing it for a living when it can pay my rent, which is unlikely to be any time soon :P
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Yeah, it's had remarkable staying power. I think it says a lot that I can see "Vaswani, et al." cited in a paper and know exactly what the author is referring to lol. I don't usually memorize researcher names but the ori
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So a less unhinged version of [0]? [0] https://xkcd.com/1288/
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Oh, thanks! Though to be honest, my blog does have a good bit of wild speculation on it, as I'm a bit of a hypocrite on that front :) I've added links to both in my bio.
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Given that the largest model configurations are only on the order of ~1-2B parameters, I think you could probably run inference on a 3090. Training might be possible too (it's something I plan to try) but will be very slow on most cons
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If the AI gets that smart, I'd hope it could just build robots to mine the coal for it.
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I think you mean the Constantly Online Meta-Programming Universal Task EnactoR model

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