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by nerdponx 3y ago
The market expects infinite growth. Imagine what would happen if a publicly-traded company announced that they would stop pursuing growth.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
That's because literally the entire world is betting on their technology right now. I can't imagine that being located in the US is the cause for Nvidia being in the right place at the right time with CUDA.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
You would have an anti-trust problem if somebody went out and bought all of the promising AI startups. So at what point in their buying spree do you cut them off? Do you wait until they've bought 90% of AI startups? 50%? Does it matt
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Homebrew has been doing it for a long time. It's not known for being fast , but without profiling the application I'm hesitant to blame the file layout.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
You can have one database for passwords and another for OTP.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Also if people are starving or otherwise suffering, they probably aren't innovating. We already have plenty of people. We have a lack of people with the means to live comfortably and invent stuff.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I don't see how this is different from any other dynamically- and strongly- typed programming language with some kind of "contract" framework, like Clojure or Python.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Not sure I agree in general. Grinding through hours of research and teaching yourself things from scraps of info is a lot harder than reading it out of a well-structured book. Can't speak for this particular domain but I certainly woul
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> you discover the evidence wasn’t actually true Not really going to vouch for the normative Bayesian approach, but you might just consider this new (strong) evidence for applying an update.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I've had doctors literally just Googling medications and reading whatever page from Healthline (or similar) that came up.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I'd have liked to see the distribution of generated model performance.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I actually really like my social status score. I used to be very insecure about my communication skills, intelligence, ability to make an impact on the world, etc. Seeing my score go far higher than I ever imagined it would go provides a ni
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I'm surprised it's here as well. Of all the interesting questions on CV, I would not consider this one of them. I wonder if this was sent through the second-chance pool.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's better than "it works well in practice". The question is misguided as stated. It's like asking why chemists care about density for measuring mass. If you are looking at the likelihood of any particular outcome of a
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by nerdponx 3y ago
This is the one example I had in mind because of all the pretty pictures: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09913 Hao Li, Zheng Xu, Gavin Taylor, Christoph Studer, Tom Goldstein. 2018. "Visualizing the Loss Landscape of
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by nerdponx 3y ago
They're comparing two probabilities within the same distribution. KL divergence is for comparing two probability distributions. The difference between the probability of the top choice and the probability of the 2nd-top choice is their
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by nerdponx 3y ago
In this case I think the word "tribe" is referring to the Ute Mountain sub-group of the Ute people. But it's certainly nothing like the primitive society you are imagining, and that's partly why I think a lot of American
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> Doesn’t that imply that there is some topological structure to the hallucinations? What does that topology look like? Maybe! I'm not an AI researcher or mathematician, so I don't know if anyone has pursued this idea. The prob
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Not if you're piping it to sed though, right?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Sure. It might be impossible to actually set up a combination of model, training data, loss function / reward procedure, etc. that produces a perfect result. But who ever said it would be perfect?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> Sure, but you'd be more frustrated if your app just crashed. I don't know about that. If it crashes, I might not try that thing again.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Can Ohm grammars be translated to Tree Sitter grammars? If so, this would be an extremely useful tool for developing the latter.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Any LLM/GPT system is fundamentally stochastic, so yes, kind of? But it's hardly a "trick" to come up with a way to make them work the way we want them to work. An LLM is based on the idea that there is some very complic
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I found that `main` was actually easier to type and say than `master`. You should keep doing what you're doing of course. But now that the change is becoming popular, I'm happy to keep using it, even in the absence of any particul
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I use this to get a list of my configured aliases. [alias] ls-alias = config --global --includes --get-regexp 'alias\..*'
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> fairly simple That's your definition of a fairly simple identity?!
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I haven't been keeping up with the Roxbury shelter debacle, but this is a welcome change of strategy.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
They probably did some user studies and found out that even users who disable it end up scrolling more when it is enabled. The only way to win is to not play.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Do we even have a clear sense of how densely-populated North America was 7000 years ago? Were there just not enough people? Was the climate suitable? Was it harder to domesticate American plants for agriculture than Eurasian plants? Etc. I
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Bob's Red Mill made a huge difference in my life after my celiac diagnosis, and subsequent explorations around elimination diets beyond just gluten. Gluten-free baking is mostly junk food of course, but the ability to bake something th

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