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by mlsu 2y ago
Consider that the algorithm cannot evolve without human interaction. That's what I'm saying, it's a symbiote to us. If you consider "weights in the Instagram recommendation algorithm" to be "the machine",
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by mlsu 2y ago
Human me just thought it was a good word for this. It implies some irreversible process of mixing, I think that characterizes this process really well.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Oh no, it's been here for quite a while. Our culture is already heavily glued to the machine. The way we express ourselves, the language we use, even our very self-conception originates increasingly in online spaces. Have you ever seen
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by mlsu 2y ago
But you can already see it with Delve. Mistral uses "delve" more than baseline, because it was trained on GPT. So it's classic positive feedback. LLM uses delve more, delve appears in training data more, LLM uses delve more..
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by mlsu 2y ago
Safety and security is not why they are not showing chain of thought here though. Profit is. They cite "Competitive Advantage" directly. He admit it! [1] "Safety and security." Probably the two most warped and abused wor
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by mlsu 2y ago
While we're in this thread suggesting comic-style monospaced fonts, I can recommend Monaspace Radon: https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ (go down to variants, it's 4th) It actually works! I actually really like Comi
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by mlsu 2y ago
At 1.5%, you should strive to make the absolute minimum payment on your loan. That is pretty much free money.
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by mlsu 2y ago
My fiance takes a lot of videos on her phone. She has become a pretty talented video editor. Watching her “work” is actually a wild experience because it really is a whole different way of using a computer. She is comparably fast to someone
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by mlsu 2y ago
This seems like the right answer, because in theory couldn't you get more efficient while consuming the same amount? But in practice, it's never the case. Having energy available to consume always increases your quality of life, b
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by mlsu 2y ago
I would be dying to know how they square these product decisions against their corporate charter internally. From the charter: > We will actively cooperate with other research and policy institutions; we seek to create a global community
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is the way. I've had this experience many times: - hey, can you write me a thing that can do "xyz" - sure, here's how we can do "xyz" (gets some small part of the error handling for xyz slightly wrong) - c
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by mlsu 2y ago
They are not _the best_ at making chips -- sure. But don't get it twisted, they are damn good at making chips. There are only 3 companies out there who are even in this race; Intel is still one of them.
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by mlsu 2y ago
I prefer total energy use as a measure of human progress. At the end of the day, money is a proxy for energy consumption. By people in their labor, by machines, by the processing of information. Fortunately, it is steadily increasing.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Of course they are competitive. Look at benchmarks for AMD on TSMC and Intel. They are pretty close, close enough to be worth consideration both for consumer and b2b even today in 2024. Just because they are second place, doesn't mean
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by mlsu 2y ago
That would be an argument for splitting Intel into two, the contract fab business and the design business. It's tough to make a partnership with Intel to fab your chip design if their other arm is competing with you on the same thing.
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by mlsu 2y ago
The Evoque! Good choice. But the king of butt-ugly cars, imho, is the Mercedes Benz AMG GLE 63s coupe. Had to look it up. That car blows me away. It appears bulbous, expensive, paradoxically small in cargo space and utility yet large in app
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by mlsu 2y ago
Wow, what a gem of a post. I knew about the Navajo codebreakers but didn't ever hear about the Shiprock connection. I also am admiring how deftly the author was able to weave in (heh) little bits of low-level computer knowhow. This is
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by mlsu 2y ago
Could is certainly a better word, yes. There is no guarantee that it will happen, only that it could. The existence of LLMs is proof of that; imagine how large and inefficient a handwritten computer program to generate the next token would
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by mlsu 2y ago
With enough computation, your neural net weights would converge to some very compressed latent representation of the source code of DOOM. Maybe smaller even than the source code itself? Someone in the field could probably correct me on that
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by mlsu 2y ago
It's because the primary purpose of these institutions is cultural filtering. The only reason we have name brand unis is to sort and filter people into a very small (i.e. 1%) cultural/economic elite. The point is for you to go &qu
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by mlsu 2y ago
The need for this sort of disappears if the thing being displayed (client) is actually coupled to the application state. Toasts are bad UX, yes. But the reason they exist is that we have one state on the server and then another pseudo-state
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by mlsu 2y ago
Once you notice it, you can see that this tradeoff is everywhere, and is probably encoded in a mathematical law of nature somewhere * Robustness vs efficiency. A few examples: Supply chain. If you store a week's worth of inputs as a bu
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by mlsu 2y ago
Incredible. One of the winning human made video submissions says: "There's something almost poetic about working with your hands. In a world where everything has gone digital, where things get solved with a click and a swipe, ther
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by mlsu 2y ago
The AI boom that lead to Nvidia's market position is still, 3 years on, almost entirely speculative. The only products that are currently driving value (i.e., that are providing consumer surplus, for which businesses and individuals ar
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by mlsu 2y ago
It is fascinating for sure. I don't think there's anything in chemistry like it. It depends a lot on the geometry. A chemical reaction can be sped up or slowed down by the shape of something, but that's just because of expose
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yeah but they can pick their clients. Big miss to be involved imho, although maybe it doesn't make a difference to their market.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Maybe. Nerds saying "agi just around the corner" and doing demos of humanoid robots "powered by AI"? that ain't helping.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Jury is still out on whether they can do that though. Chip fab requires a skilled and specialized manufacturing workforce, which does not exist here in the US. They can build the fabs, but they will need to import the talent to run them. I&
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yes. But with so much competition between foundational models out there, there's no way any of these companies will be able to charge more than that. Llama is out there for the electricity cost of FLOPS. On top of that. It's sad t
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by mlsu 2y ago
Because so much money has been invested into LLM tech, they have to at least try to shove it into everything. There already is substantial consumer backlash forming, because a bunch of nerds just got too excited & made too many promises

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