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by obblekk 4y ago
This is a good use case for deep learning. The entire human knowledge of converting cursive to normal could be learned into a (probably) compact model and then the utility/culture of older writings would be accessible forever. Like a m
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is incredible. Unlike sql injection, LLM-injections will not be easily solvable. Any code that is written to "sanitize" an input will either need to be less "intelligent" than gpt3 or at least as intelligent. If it&
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by obblekk 4y ago
What does this mean: "repeals the tax deduction for tertiary injectant expenses" ? If I'm an oil driller and I spend $25 on "tertiary injectants" to produce $200 of oil, my real income is $175. So, the government sh
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by obblekk 4y ago
I have to say, this is cool and surreal in some way. It's just surreal to think of international treaties as being objects with a "last updated time." Given the massive human apparatus constantly parsing this information from
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by obblekk 4y ago
Interesting point that RAM has basically not moved up in consumer computers in 10+ years... wonder why. The article answers its own question by pointing out SSDs allow better swapping, bus is wider and RAM is more and more integrated into p
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by obblekk 4y ago
1. This is obviously a (funny) joke (pretty great article stav!) 2. Any image generated with stable diffusion, could be distributed as prompt + seed leading to 99% compression 3. Image -> downsample –> super-resolution model -> ren
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by obblekk 4y ago
Great read, thanks. Large babble models indeed.
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by obblekk 4y ago
After playing around with GPT-3 a bit, I've started to suspect a lot of humans are actually very good at manipulating semantic sentences, without necessarily understanding their content. It would explain why so many "smart" p
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by obblekk 4y ago
This even shows up in countries that had lax lockdowns vs. strict lockdowns: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2020... This data next year will be very telling to see the true efficacy of strict l
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by obblekk 4y ago
This doesn't just ban A100s. It bans those and "any future NVIDIA integrated circuit achieving both peak performance and chip-to-chip I/O performance equal to or greater than thresholds that are roughly equivalent to the A100
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by obblekk 4y ago
I think the fraud is asymmetric. It's relatively easy for me to hire someone to perform the work the employers wants for X hours one time (i.e. interview), but relatively difficult for me to subcontract it reliably for 40 hours every w
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by obblekk 4y ago
That's interesting and something I hadn't heard before. Any pointers to further reading on why deep learning might be a dead end?
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by obblekk 4y ago
Before people jump on this with super negativity... mistakes happen. What is Krebs' false positive rate? I think low enough that a simple, clear explanation of why it happened is sufficient. There's no weasel words or evasion here
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by obblekk 4y ago
1. Subsidized federal loans: It's crazy that anyone with stable income can walk into a bank and get a __30__ Year loan to buy a house, at below the cost of inflation. The only reason it's possible is because the federal government
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by obblekk 4y ago
Have we considered just building new cities? It would be cool if the state could run a contest, have a rural county sign up to reform their zoning laws, and in exchange receive 100 year tax relief guarantees from the state to build a new ci
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by obblekk 4y ago
I’ve definitely been at a point where notifications got overwhelming to the point I had to turn off the phone to get a mental break. But eventually I found a system that makes me like them. Contrarian take: I now prefer an app offering the
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by obblekk 4y ago
Vercel never stops impressing me. They're shipping huge new features consistently every 3-6 months. The quality of their product (we're a user) is generally very high. Seemingly every startup I know (other than those creating core
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by obblekk 4y ago
Aneutronic fusion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion ) - some fusion reactions simply don't result in many neutrons being created, rather all protons and electrons being created. When a neutron is cre
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by obblekk 4y ago
For all the hollowness of crypto, AI finally feels like it is building toward something meaningful. Large Language Models like GPT-3 definitely aren't sentient (or even coherent often), but it's definitely more than what I could f
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by obblekk 4y ago
I generally believe Apple, Google and others should be able to profit from creating some of the most useful, innovative and technically challenging products in human history (remember multi touch was not an affordable thing before Apple). B
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by obblekk 4y ago
You've missed the following: Take rate ~40% = $6 - payments -0.7 (correct) - servers -0.2 (correct) - refunds -1 (driver is indemnified, not in cabs) - shared rides -1 (on avg, not in cabs) - insurance -1 (drivers and riders get genero
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by obblekk 4y ago
I didn't realize this until recently, but we don't actually know every chemical compound that's in our blood. As in, I don't believe there has been a study that takes 1 liter of blood and just documents every chemical st
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by obblekk 4y ago
All of the sudden articles about the negatives of textile fabrics in the last 3 days feels like a Paul graham style submarine.
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by obblekk 4y ago
10,000Gs is probably too much for electronics, but fine for raw steel. Probably useful to have a low cost way of shooting a lot of working material into space.
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by obblekk 5y ago
414 companies invested = ~25 companies per YC group partner (including visiting partners), assuming 40hrs/wk + no prior batches also competing for time. Seems like a phenomenal resource for those who are new to tech mindset/hyper
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by obblekk 5y ago
Interesting that they're targeting media publications - those users (journalists) are probably less technical / security hardened than operators of critical infrastructure, but have a great deal of influence over the country'
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by obblekk 5y ago
According to MAD game theory, if a true doomsday style nuclear war were to happen, the initiator would need to deliver a crushing first strike to have any hope of surviving (by preventing a significant counterstrike). The hypersonics that R
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by obblekk 5y ago
Why don't Apple & Google spend a few billion dollars over a few years to rewrite their (non-crypto) unix stack from scratch? It seems like that would be an enduring competitive advantage, good for their users, and reduce future lia
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by obblekk 5y ago
I suppose we've come full circle and stopped trusting in free markets to fully solve all problems. Does anyone know of hybrid central planning / market approaches? Maybe a central planner with a market trying to predict whether th
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by obblekk 5y ago
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