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by nsagent 2y ago
I've lived (not just visited, but spent at least a year) in places as small as Nome, Alaska and as large as Atlanta, SF, Dallas, and Las Vegas. I just moved from rural MA to rural NY (from one small college town to another). Growing up
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by nsagent 2y ago
What's old [1] is new again... without citing prior work. It's not like it's an unknown work. It was published in ICML and has ~250 citations. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03249
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by nsagent 2y ago
I frequently recommend MIT's missing semester to students [1]. I agree it sucks they don't teach this material, though to be fair they also neglected it when I was in undergrad a quarter century ago. I remember learning it on my o
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by nsagent 2y ago
> Each time I hear (paraphrased): "It is different this time.", I try to imagine the world 25 years ago. Then think: Is this really that different? Most of time, I think, "No, it isn't that different." Just be ca
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by nsagent 2y ago
Considering how often my three-year-old niece wants to play around with my Apple Watch, including at bedtime, it seems like it can be just as big of a distraction.
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Search online for beware of dog lawsuits in the US as an example of liability. The problem is that these laws vary by jurisdiction, so for example in California those signs do not protect the homeowner if someone is bitten on their land [1]
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The consumer costs are significantly lower for software. For example, the cost of ChatGPT is minuscule in comparison, while the R&D costs are still quite high. The real difference between the two sectors is that for medicine, you have a
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by nsagent 2y ago
I'm not sure what the right solution is, but making 160x the manufacturing cost seems a bit obscene. Not sure what the total cost of R&D was, but at that rate of return those R&D costs have to be recovered relatively quickly an
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by nsagent 2y ago
A number of people in my lab do research into long context evaluation of LLMs for works of fiction. The likelihood is very high that Moby Dick is in the training data. Instead the people in my lab have explored recently published books to a
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by nsagent 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience at Apple. It's really valuable to understand exactly how decisions are made at big tech companies, especially for sensitive issues like this. That said, I'm saddened that the approach seems short
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by nsagent 2y ago
The extra parenthetical is very much clickbait. The doctor received surgery and care from other doctors using a protocol developed in an institute he helps helm. That's quite different than saying he treated himself.
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by nsagent 2y ago
Reminds me of the Louis CK bit about internet: https://youtube.com/watch?v=me4BZBsHwZs
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by nsagent 2y ago
For those who prefer videos, my PhD advisor puts all his class lectures online and updates his course materials to cover the latest trends in NLP. Here's the playlist for the current Spring 2024 semester of the course: https:/&#x
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by nsagent 2y ago
I've also done research in the use of LLMs for RPGs, using Disco Elysium as a testbed (rather than the small made up scenario seen in this paper). https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.151/ https:/&#x
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by nsagent 2y ago
https://aireviewlottery.com/
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The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores(arxiv.org)
2 points by nsagent 2y ago|1 comments
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Everyone seems to love equation 1. It really sells the work. Great job ;-P
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Great job! A lot of folks from my CS PhD program are really into climbing (including me), but none of us has conducted research that explored climbing. Rather climbing is our respite from research. Anyway, I think this could work really wel
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by nsagent 2y ago
You might like, the Infinigram paper then. It was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266791
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DeepMind: Learning Robot Soccer from Egocentric Vision(sites.google.com)
1 points by nsagent 2y ago|0 comments
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DEI is applied broadly, for example here's a list of demographics targeted for DEI from one of Biden's executive orders [1]: The initiative will advance opportunity for communities that have historically faced employment discr
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by nsagent 2y ago
In this case, "outreach" means [1]: the extending of services or assistance beyond current or usual limits | an outreach program [1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outreach#dictiona...
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by nsagent 2y ago
It's not about treating students differently. Rather it's about where you spend your limited resources for outreach. For example, during my PhD I did outreach in both elementary and middle schools where teachers said there were sk
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Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens(arxiv.org)
142 points by nsagent 2y ago|58 comments
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Really great article! I'm definitely going to use that in the future. Thanks for sharing.
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Apparently not enough to prevent it from being repeated... One of Trump's former lawyers did it months after the first case made national news. https://text.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222273745/michael-cohe
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by nsagent 2y ago
Yeah, DDG quality seems abysmal for many of my searches now. I'll then switch to Brave, which sometimes finds what I'm looking for. I rarely ever check Google or Bing as a fallback, but when I do it feels like a screenful of ads a
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by nsagent 2y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the heads up! Turns out my recovery key was also invalid... That's something Apple really should have notified people about. These kinds of slip ups without notifying users is terrible.
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Responding to something in your visual field unconsciously is very reminiscent of split-brain studies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
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> Ex-Microsoft software developer Igor Ostrovsky believes that soon, there won’t be a developer who doesn’t use AI in their workflows. I'm really curious about this. I honestly don't see a case where I would use a coding assist

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