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by nsagent 11mo ago
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. -Richard Feynman https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/421467-to-every-man-is-give... https://calteches.library.
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by nsagent 1y ago
I'd be 100% okay with the government stating no grant money can be used for funding DEI, but the actual wording in the grant prevents organizations like the PSF from any DEI, whether or not it is funded by the government grant. That&#x
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by nsagent 1y ago
do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws. The government can certai
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by nsagent 1y ago
Agree that the snarky reply doesn't help, but the quotation isn't really skewed (though it is a paraphrase). It comes from an internal memo that leaked in 2018 that states: Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated
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by nsagent 1y ago
I read the report and it actually made me realize how much of a propaganda campaign HRW was engaging in. It reminded me of PETA campaigns and how offputting many of them were (this is coming from someone who was vegan for 7 years in spite o
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by nsagent 1y ago
I've used fengari and it's a great option for lua in the browser, but it is quite slow.
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by nsagent 1y ago
Also posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672467
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by nsagent 1y ago
Using LLMs to review papers isn't going to fix the fundamental issues with publishing in AI/CV/ML/NLP. I can't help but think I got out of the academia rat race just in time.
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by nsagent 1y ago
This is exactly how I read research papers and how I advocate others read them as well. As you read try to figure out how you would solve the problem outlined and what experiments you would need to perform.
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by nsagent 1y ago
You're right that there is no purely mathematical argument; it's almost non-sensical to claim such. Instead you can simply make the rather reasonable observation that LLMs are a product of their training distribution, which only c
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by nsagent 1y ago
Thanks. I've never heard it framed this way. I've mentioned my appetite diminishes after aerobic exercise, but a common response is that I'm weird. Interestingly my appetite sometimes skyrockets after certain activities like
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by nsagent 1y ago
I also used to submit to *ACL conferences exclusively, and was even a SAC, but got out of the academic game altogether. I'm still conducting research, but as an independent researcher for my own startup. The system seems to be more and
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by nsagent 1y ago
Bought the game when it came out, but still haven't had the time to play. Just flew out for a three week vacation with my Steam Deck in tow. Unfortunately, I left it on the plane and I haven't heard back from lost and found yet (s
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by nsagent 1y ago
I don't think this is any better of an argument. Maybe yours is a more apt analogy, but as a very competent driver I can't tell you how often lane assist has driven me crazy. If I could simply rely on it in all situations, then it
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by nsagent 1y ago
I initially tried that and thought it improved some things, but it increased contrast across the OS, such that some webpages, including stock HN became too blinding. I instead switched to "Reduce Transparency," but that has its ow
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by nsagent 1y ago
Idk what to tell you. Email is mostly a solved problem for most cases Idk what to tell you. Considering email is mostly a solved problem, Proton must be extra incompetent for inadvertently deleting people's emails due to multip
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by nsagent 1y ago
The person I was responding to literally said they were "a paying user for a very long time" and "never encountered a bug". No software is bug free. I can't think of a single software service I've used for as l
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by nsagent 1y ago
Proton seems to have a lot of cheerleaders that come out of the woodwork when anyone complains. I'm happy that somehow their code is magically bug free for you, since you've somehow never encountered any bugs whatsoever in their
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by nsagent 1y ago
To be honest, I've found Proton's public customer service representatives to be very duplicitous, so it's hard to take their word at face value. It's pretty ridiculous to see their response to legitimate concerns start w
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by nsagent 1y ago
I've need a paying subscriber to Proton since 2018, but I recently canceled my subscription (which ends in November). I just got fed up with the constant bugginess and jankiness of their offerings. Any suggestions for mail hosting and
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by nsagent 1y ago
I was previously a long time listener and donator to NPR (similarly for NYT), but their progressive bias for the last decade has seriously degraded the quality of their reporting. I remember when their articles and radio coverage was much m
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by nsagent 1y ago
Then those people deserve what they get as a result. People should have autonomy to make less than optimal decisions if they want. And to provide a counterpoint, my dad can barely navigate his iPhone. I literally spent an hour on the phone
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Sam Altman challenges Elon Musk with plans for Neuralink rival(ft.com)
5 points by nsagent 1y ago|2 comments
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by nsagent 1y ago
Amen Jack! That's why I quit my postdoc and I'm working on my own AGI research. It seems that neither academia nor industry has much appetite for pursuing interesting, but risky, research ideas.
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Apple's MLX adding CUDA support(github.com)
548 points by nsagent 1y ago|203 comments
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by nsagent 1y ago
You don't win people over by singling them out.
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by nsagent 1y ago
Yeah, he joined Trion soon after we started development.
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by nsagent 1y ago
Interesting! I didn't realize you all experimented with an MMORTS. I was a lead engineer on a never released MMORTS [1] that was developed after WoW became big. Seems that's a tough genre to convert to MMO. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
5 points by nsagent 1y ago|0 comments
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by nsagent 1y ago
Interesting take on the piracy aspect: We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages, actual or statutory (including for willfulness). That Anthropic later bought a copy

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