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by nhecker 8mo ago
I'm genuinely ignorant of how those red teaming attempts are incorporated into training, but I'd guess that this kind of dialogue is fed in something like normal training data? Which is interesting to think about: they might not e
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by nhecker 8mo ago
An excerpt from the abstract: > Two patterns challenge the "stochastic parrot" view. First, when scored with human cut-offs, all three models meet or exceed thresholds for overlapping syndromes, with Gemini showing severe profi
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by nhecker 11mo ago
... and then listen to it debate whether or not mere humans are "truly conscious". (Said with tongue firmly in cheek.)
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by nhecker 11mo ago
I read a paper long ago (so there's no chance of my recalling the source!) and one of the takeaways was that in a cockroach one of the neural ganglia basically had a binary "run!" mode that was flipped on instantly if sense n
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by nhecker 11mo ago
No, I think the human holds a smartphone, is standing 38m away from the board, and is still able to connect to the distant board via the open Access Point it makes available. It's a testament to the communication between the Access Poi
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by nhecker 11mo ago
How (or to what end) would Facebook want to directly DoS someone?
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by nhecker 1y ago
However, aren't there now a lot of job openings out there for LLM-whisperers and other kinds of AI domain experts? Surely these didn't exist in the same quantity 10 years ago. (I'm just picking nits. I do agree that this &quo
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by nhecker 1y ago
Hold on, really? That seems wildly crazy to me, but sadly I'd believe it. I'd love it if you had a source or two to share of some of the more egregious examples of this.
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by nhecker 1y ago
Or, expressed as commands you could act on to guard against these regrets: 1. Live more for yourself, and less for the expectations of others. 2. Don't work so hard. 3. Express your feelings even when doing so is difficult. 4. Keep in
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by nhecker 1y ago
> dynamically assign precision to the layers that need them Well now I'm curious; how is a layer judged on its relative need for precision? I guess I still have a lot of learning to do w.r.t. how quantization is done. I was under th
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by nhecker 1y ago
Neat. This method also assumes constant ambient pressure and temperature, and an ideal ziplock bag. (I.e., not stretchy, completely convex, and zero leaks.)
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by nhecker 1y ago
>imaginary voices On the other hand, I can imagine that when things get quiet and the signal-to-noise ratio gets close to zero, random background audio (or randomness introduced in the transcription model) will be enough to tickle a crit
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by nhecker 1y ago
I don't think this changes the way the second is defined. Rather, that definition describes some theoretical ideal where the cesium transitions are all perfectly equally spaced over the course of the second. I think this new clock is s
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by nhecker 1y ago
I think this is really close. My hunch is that agricultural land is just simply cheaper to acquire and convert, as compared to industrial land which may or may not have all kinds of remediation or razing that needs to happen to it first.
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by nhecker 1y ago
Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) uses a similar Web of Trust, if you want to see a real-life example in action. Maybe Freenet still uses a WoT as well, I'm not sure.
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by nhecker 1y ago
As dijit (above this comment) has noted, this is somewhat possible and automated today. For example, one method has the attacked IP get completely null-routed, and the subsequent route is advertised. Upstream routers will pick up the null-r
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by nhecker 1y ago
I like to imagine that they don't jump, they _teleport_. It's fascinating to watch them blip out of existence in one spot, or one orientation, and appear in another location in the same instant. Forget what it must be like to be a
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by nhecker 1y ago
And then some people will bring their healthy pets into the clinic for euthanasia because they're going out of town for a while and don't want to arrange for care of the animal in the meantime. Or because keeping the animal even i
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by nhecker 1y ago
In case anyone else is wondering, "TDS" is Total Dissolved Solids. I had to look that one up.
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by nhecker 1y ago
Reading his book as a kid was what got me into computers and networks. After some years I finally got a few of his bottles as gifts for my various mentors along the way (plus one for my desk as well.) He's a special human. I didn'
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by nhecker 1y ago
Photochromatic coatings -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochromic_lens -- have existed for a while and are sold on safety glasses, at least according to a cursory look at a large online retailer's site. That s
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by nhecker 1y ago
My shallow understanding is that utilities and grid operators need to manage the supply/load ratio carefully to keep the grid's operating frequency in a very narrow band, centered around 50 or 60 Hertz. If supply outstrips demand,
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by nhecker 1y ago
Data is a toxic asset. -- https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t...
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by nhecker 1y ago
As I understand it, Signum (nee Burstcoin) is indeed the Proof of Capacity blockchain thingy that was using hard drives to store data with no external value. This is related to but different from to Proof of Storage schemes likes Filecoin w
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by nhecker 1y ago
TLDR: do things that are meaningful to something other than just a ranking algorithm. I have Heavy Things I have started to make years ago, and I think about them every day, thinking "one day" I'll finish them. I'd never
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by nhecker 2y ago
I guess I can't really refute your experience or observations. But, just a single anecdotal point; I use the arena's voting feature quite a bit and I try really hard to vote on the "best" answer. I've got no clue if
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by nhecker 2y ago
Interesting. I bet a candle-flicker LED or two in series would add a nice bit of random (or psuedo-random LSFR?) AM noise to the IR LEDs.
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by nhecker 2y ago
You would need not only to cut out and implant the chip itself, but the sizeable loop antenna that runs in a rectangle close to the perimeter of the NFC card. It'd be a hassle!
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by nhecker 2y ago
May I ask if you have a recommended style or material that you prefer for sensing? The idea of sensing EM fields is fascinating to me but I've never quite made the leap to an implant. I didn't realize these kinds of rings exist.
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by nhecker 2y ago
I like this.

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