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by panarky 4y ago
If you want to build a domain-specific classifier that determines whether an image is a dog or a cat, and you have 50 labeled images of dogs and cats, it's much better to start with a large model pretrained on millions of images, and t
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by panarky 4y ago
The P in GPT is for "pretrained". The large pretrained model is a prereq for domain-specific models.
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by panarky 4y ago
When you conjure a national crisis out of a few very rare examples, that puts members of a vulnerable minority group at risk, with the express purpose to frighten your supporters while dividing your adversaries, so that your side can seize
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by panarky 4y ago
Why assume it fails? ChatGPT: "One pound of feathers and two pounds of lead weigh the same, which is one pound or 16 ounces. The difference is in their volume, where a pound of feathers takes up more space than two pounds of lead. This
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by panarky 4y ago
Have you actually tried this, or are you just assuming that ChatGPT is just a hyped-up autocomplete, simply doing statisitcal next-token prediction with no internal representation of concepts and relationships? Prompt: "Write a three-p
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by panarky 4y ago
Do you use a password manager? Do you visit websites for banks or brokerage firms? If so, how do you ensure that none of these plugins and extensions steal your data?
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by panarky 4y ago
Nine out of ten social media posts agree. There are precisely zero people alive who have not heard this many times. Your assessment is solidly conventional wisdom.
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by panarky 4y ago
What's absurd is any tax scheme that takes a larger share of labor income than it does of passive income. People who live off the labor of others should pay tax at a higher rate than people who actually perform the labor.
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by panarky 4y ago
Does the should-not-exist camp say how they would eliminate rationality? Sufficiently powerful governments can sometimes eliminate physical objects in territory they control when the means to produce them are difficult to acquire, such as f
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by panarky 4y ago
As if OpenAI hasn't already thought through this.
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by panarky 4y ago
> at best we can get as good as an average set of humans Whisper is already superhuman, more accurate than experienced human transcribers.
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by panarky 4y ago
It's a tool that's free as in freedom, and it is incredibly useful. How does discovering that it doesn't handle some weird use case diminish its utility as a tool? Hammers are awesome at driving nails into wood. But if you st
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by panarky 4y ago
If the federal budget is $2T and if you paid $100K of that in taxes, your contribution to a $400k wasted missile is two cents. I might suggest that two cents does not justify very much anger.
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by panarky 4y ago
If you find you're angry about a large government wasting half a million dollars, then you'll be really angry when you find out how much it actually wastes. And then when you find out that government waste is a fraction of the was
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by panarky 4y ago
As millions of people interact with ChatGPT, their writing will subtly, gradually, begin to mimic its style. As future versions of the model are trained on this new text, both human and AI styles will converge until any difference between t
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Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT, it had given them my number(mastodon.social)
58 points by panarky 4y ago|9 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
If DDG has their own crawler, then why was DDG unable to find any results for "tank man" searches when Microsoft caved and censored Bing search worldwide?
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by panarky 4y ago
> it's terrible with facts It's terrible with specific facts, and frequently hallucinates dates, math, book titles and citations to sources. But it's awesome with ideas and concepts. Today I spent an hour chatting about
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by panarky 4y ago
It would be much more terrifying if search becomes a single voice with a single perspective that cites zero sources. Today's search provides multiple results to choose from. They may not all be correct, but at least I can see multiple
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by panarky 4y ago
The only thing they know for certain is that they're not aliens, though it's curious how they can be so certain of that when they don't know anything else about the objects.
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by panarky 4y ago
If the price of something falling by 50% means it's a fraud, then does the price of something rising by 50% mean it's not a fraud? Because the price of Bitcoin is up 60% in the last three months, so what does that mean?
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by panarky 4y ago
Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_ predicted cryptocurrency and the metaverse, and it also explored the idea of mind viruses that infect people via their optic nerves. Not too big of a leap to imagine a chat AI that spreads mind viruses no
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by panarky 4y ago
Is it effective practice to shoot targets that don't camouflage, don't maneuver, don't evade, don't shoot back?
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by panarky 4y ago
No. A Ponzi scheme is paying existing investors with the deposits from new investors. That's not what's happening here.
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by panarky 4y ago
What's really curious is that Bitcoin's advocates claim it's the ultimate inflation hedge, "sound money" that will hold its value while "fiat money" is debased. Then at the exact moment "fiat money&qu
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by panarky 4y ago
Maybe it's okay if the AI gets its grammar wrong sometimes, as long as it's less wrong than humans?
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by panarky 4y ago
>> That isn't going to do a thing about CO2 Seems like we're forgetting that the objective is not to reduce CO2, it's to reduce the pathogens in the air. Since it's difficult to measure pathogens directly, we use
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Kitten – A Web Development Kit(codeberg.org)
1 points by panarky 4y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
AI can detect pancreatic cancer better than the best radiologists. The belief that machine learning cannot surpass human intelligence is contrary to the evidence.
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by panarky 4y ago
"Forensic ballistic analysis" that concludes the bullet was 9mm caliber proves precisely nothing when the vast majority of handguns are 9mm, including those fired by police at the scene. Note the distinct absence of any evidence t

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