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by mpoteat 5y ago
Agree. A one off tool that detects pirated links seems odd to pay for. Either a monolithic tool for handling moderation automation in general seems good, or better yet a marketplace where I can buy automation plugins for Discord in general,
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I am unsure whether or not GPUs are good at work involving arbitrary precision numbers. My intuition was that they excelled at doing massively parallel operations for which accuracy is not a high concern. I would probably look into using so
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by mpoteat 6y ago
The generation quality observed will reflect the overall quality and personality of the prompt the transformation model receives. I would've been more interested to see the output associated with high quality internet content rather th
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Why would you assume that years of exposure isn't terabytes of data? At least we can train language models in hours or days rather than years. If you view it that way we've made quite a bit of progress!
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by mpoteat 6y ago
This made as little sense to me as it did when I was talking the Finite Element Methods class during graduate school. Still don't quite understand why you can't just use Runge Kutta methods to numerically solve these problems. I b
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by mpoteat 6y ago
This has been widely discussed on this site and is a pretty contentious topic. For my view, consider a very bright problem solver, who bursts into tears every time a person watches or criticizes their code. Do you think that's relevant
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by mpoteat 6y ago
A much more salient and important point is generative models relationship to music. Right now, covers are legally protected as derivative works. I predict commercial usage of generative music to avoid royalties within the next decade. Philo
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by mpoteat 6y ago
If true, what implications does this have for P = NP? My intuition for a long time has been that P = NP only in the limit of an "infinitely sophisticated" algorithm. Such that as we do more research (or I suppose train larger mode
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Certainly depends on your utility function and the degree to which the ends justify the means. Is it good to steal from an apothecary to treat your ill wife? etc. The underlying issue with Pareto optimal scenarios like this is that we end u
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by mpoteat 6y ago
The theory is that nobody will invest in e.g. researching how to build a complicated lumber cutting machine if they don't have protections against their competitor copying the results. Let's say this research costs 1 million dolla
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by mpoteat 6y ago
If freely wired neutral networks are DAGs, I wonder how cyclic graphs of neurons behave, or even if that model would be theoretically meaningful, or computationally feasible.
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Thank you for keeping Hacker News a clean and a productive environment for rational discourse. I see you a lot across posts and I'm not sure how much automation you use, but it's clear that you put in an extraordinary amount of ef
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a bizarre Escher painting of deployment deployers stacked on an infinite pile of bespoke libraries that all clamor and scream that they are the "one true solution to reduce all complexity"
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I think the idea is that if we continue to print money, the dollar will eventually collapse as the world's reserve currency, and nations will use the yuan or euro instead - having a material effect on American persons life outcomes. I
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Enter a JSON wrapper format for specifying assembly applications, compete with a NodeJS transpiler toolchain a la Babel. Seriously though, it's been a while since I've had to work with assembly or IDA but JSON is great as an inter
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Correlation is soft evidence for causation if one signal leads the other. Correlation is one of the only ways we have as humans to understand phenomena through observation. From where I'm standing the article makes a cogent thesis as t
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by mpoteat 6y ago
"Red motivation" is definitely the sort of apt polite allusion people would use refer to that subject matter. Chilling!
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by mpoteat 6y ago
My push back comes from the claim that DLLs are intrinsically different than npm code when it comes to security / complexity / etc. In the bad old days you would find some random GLUT binary off of the Internet and stick it in you
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I've followed up and verified that indeed, most all VR displays have a static focal distance. Thank you for taking the time to correct my and others misconception on the topic!
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by mpoteat 6y ago
In the future there may be an integrated display technology that physically cannot display an arbitrary combination of pixels at high speed, but can only do so for the space of "images which humans are likely to see" which I suspe
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by mpoteat 6y ago
It is obviously saliently true just via direct experience. Your eyes focus at different distances when looking at 3d objects in VR. You can feel it! I am not a physicist by any means, and I am not sure what a "light field" exactly
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I just wanted to say that this resonated with me, as a former grad student involved in protein research who is now doing dev work. I hope you're doing well these days!
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Isn't modern human intelligence widely considered to be the result of evolutionarily optimizing complex iterated social games?
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I respectfully disagree - I believe this is a philosophical viewpoint that shouldn't be presented as a straightforward truth. Unless you are a dualist, I would say that it's reasonable to view that it is in principle possible to p
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by mpoteat 6y ago
From my perspective, the only fool proof way of removing all audio watermarks from a conversation is to run individual speaker detection, STT detection, and voice cloning algorithms to "recreate" the conversation from scratch. Eve
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Does this mean if a sports fan comes into my forum about programming and starts making sports threads, I cannot moderate that away, or else face legal action? Does it also mean HN could face legal action according to its current rule set?
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by mpoteat 6y ago
If only we had a decentralized way of allowing people to host their own content and draw their own users, without having to rely on a centralized platform... Of course, I'm talking about the Internet itself. Mastodon at first glance it
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Chained Tuple Types(mpote.at)
8 points by mpoteat 6y ago|1 comments
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by mpoteat 6y ago
I for one find this fascinating, please work on this!
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by mpoteat 6y ago
Not a physicist, but why isn't the simple explanation that light loses energy over cosmological distances not also a valid explanation of redshift? We already know that energy isn't conserved at those scales.

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