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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I recommend clicking through to the links on copyrighted training data - my favorite prompt being "blank-184": https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-is-a-music-ai-co... Also Udio: https://www.musi
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I know user agreements are a bit of a punchline, but when you created an account with SO presumably[1] you also agreed to waive certain copyright/ownership claims on your contributions, and in general you voluntarily agreed to benefit
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In the literal context of my comment, we can say that when the UN establishes a stock exchange :) Obviously I am kidding, I meant "via the American economy" in a literal sense, via Wall Street (or Silicon Valley). I agree it makes
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
The thing that makes me so sad about this: when I steal an answer from StackOverflow I always put a comment linking to where I got the answer. I could pretend that I do this because it's a good software maintenance practice. Truthfully
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
In addition to mytailorisrich's comment, this is a vacuous description of Sweden's economy because many of its new billionaires are operating in a global technology and finance economy that wouldn't exist without US capitalis
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Apparently it's not a painting: > The artwork, commissioned in 2016, is rendered in metal mesh by renowned South Korean artist Seungmo Park. Park also created a larger-than-life depiction of Olympic sprinter Sebastian Coe for Nike’s
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
That's not a fair or relevant comparison. The OP is about ancient Greek music : the choir is singing a song derived from very old sheet music. The link you have is contemporary music inspired by Greek tunings. It's not at all the
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
From the article: Meikeisha Scott-Parker, out of work as a project manager since January, recently cleared a second-round interview and believed an offer was imminent. But she didn't get the job because she was overqualified and to
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
> What bothers her most is the way some employers seem to relish being able to string candidates along. One flew her in for several hours of face-to-face interviews and never followed up. I am sure a lot - maybe most! - of this "gho
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This seems like a strawman. I am not aware of any serious LLM critics who object to using transformers for machine translation or cleaning up English prose. LLMs are quite reliable at purely technical translation, and decent at editing prov
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Beyond the bad acoustics, I think the real issue may have ultimately been the conductor. Those movements are more confusing than helpful, and seemed out of sync with the song. But like everyone else, I don't want to be mean to research
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I suspect it's legal. The focus seems to be on face and speech recognition and I am sure MSFT's internal metrics on the AI's ability to recognize non-white faces/accents/etc are very bad. Even with LLMs, the existen
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
That is interesting, but my concern is a bit different than that article - I'm worried about what happens when the astronaut stops. After they are done running, they will be at rest in a low-g environment (unlike this experiment), but
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
One question I have that I didn't see addressed in the article: how does the inner ear work in low gravity? I wonder if this might make astronauts unusually dizzy on the moon because of differences in the vestibular system. This articl
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
In the past we used the word "sentience" for this, but sci-fi confused "sentience" with "sapience," and now we have four terms that are meaningless, causing pointless arguments because different people interpre
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Yes, it was client-side JavaScript making the range requests, asking for a string of genomic data to render in the browser. It was only to give the scientists a pretty picture :) The EC2 costs were largely ElasticSearch for a different func
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
> Microsoft has placed a major bet that customers will embrace its effort to incorporate AI into its security product platforms. Microsoft said, after months of testing with customers, that Security Copilot helped security analysts be 22
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
This must be a regression bug in AWS's internal system. At a past job (2020) we used S3 to store a large amount of genomic data, and a web application read range requests to visualize tiny segments of the genetic sequence in relevant g
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Trying to come up with a grand unified theory of infidelity is just setting yourself up for heartbreak and confusion. People cheat for tons of different reasons under tons of different circumstances. A very common circumstance is called &qu
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
No: it knows what "Jesus" "feet" "washing" "disciple" etc. look like but it doesn't know what they mean. If it understood what they meant it wouldn't have any trouble parsing an unambigu
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I would never purchase this myself, but it seems most people are buying it as a toy or trinket, not as a productivity device. I can't judge them too much considering how much actual grownup money I've spent on Legos...
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
Maybe look at it another way: ask GPT to complete the following Bananas are yellow due to a Bananas are yellow due to an In the first case it might respond Bananas are yellow due to a pigment called bromelain. In the second
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I haven't read the paper in full detail yet, but I do have a minor editorial comment: while the appendix L.2 was satisfactory, I thought the condensed argument in 5.2 was a bit too sloppy. In particular, H(X) + H(Y) = H(X | Y) + 2I
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Obviously the real answer is "AI doesn't understand what 'Jesus' or 'feet' actually mean." But I did a quick Google Images search of Jesus washing feet, and noticed that a lot of Western art depicts Jesus
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
To be clear there’s a distinction between the quality of the results and the determinism of the results. If a low-precision LLM is wildly stochastic but the variation is mostly linguistic rather than factual or deductive (e.g. coin toss
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I guess the root cause of my claim is that OpenAI won't tell us whether or not GPT-3.5 is an MoE model, and I assumed it wasn't. Since GPT-3.5 is clearly nondeterministic at temp=0, I believed the nondeterminism was due to FPU stu
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by nicklecompte 2y ago
I had a very similar comment last month - albeit more ignorant and less helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957153 Basically, none of these agentic / MoE / etc papers have actually compared their resul
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It's because floating-point arithmetic isn't deterministic, which becomes salient when (speaking loosely) the difference between likelihood of two different tokens is less than the precision of the FPU. I am not sure to what exten
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This wasn't a "metric." It was a test to see whether or not this LLM might actually be useful to me. Just like every other LLM, the answer is a hard no: using this chatbot for real work is at best a huge waste of time, and at
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I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am aware that commercial offerings are much better trained in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili. > You can d

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