patcon

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by patcon 1y ago
Same
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by patcon 1y ago
I don't suppose you're using LLMs for coding? The number of my older friends who've found energy for side-projects since LLM coding became a thing is very notable In the most extreme case: a new father of twins just uses his
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by patcon 1y ago
Ooooo I will definitely check it out! It's strangely hard to find any comparisons in youtube videos -- it seems TDA isn't actually a dimensional reduction algorithm, but something closely relayed, maybe?
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by patcon 1y ago
This does not surprise me. I've had the sense that the French government has been really forward in open source thinking since my interactions with ETAlab back in 2017. They were tracking some really bleeding edge civic tech stuff befo
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by patcon 1y ago
PaCMAP (and its descendant localmap) are comparable to t-sne at preserving both local and global structure (but without messing much with finicky hyperparameters) https://youtu.be/sD-uDZ8zXkc
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by patcon 1y ago
I see that you're looking for clusters within PCA projections -- You should look for deeper structure with hot new dimensional reduction algorithms, like PaCMAP or LocalMAP! I've been working on a project related to a sensemaking
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by patcon 1y ago
Yeah, I think you're onto something. I'm not sure the performative motivation is necessarily bad, but def different Maybe AI is like Covid, where it will reveal that there were subtle differences in the underlying humans all along
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by patcon 1y ago
Monopoly behaviour. If they refuse to invest in the burden of due diligence required to allow others to operate exactly as they do, then they don't deserve to be managing the field. It's costly to supervise? Ok, then charge compan
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by patcon 1y ago
Thinking of the complex systems terms of "coarse-graining" (moving up into higher level systems/astronomical/above scale) and "fine-graining" (moving down into human/biological/below levels). Utility
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by patcon 1y ago
Why is anti-trust not kicking in? Come on Britain, why not keep your companies locally-owned. We do not need all these rent-seeking companies buying one another. Enter the market as a competitor or fuck off
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by patcon 1y ago
Even paying a college grad to babysit a server costs more than their yearly rate. I assume you're speaking as someone who loves to host everything for themselves, but the logic is surely different in enterprise/government, no?
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by patcon 1y ago
This woman founded Creative Mornings, which has been one of my most well-respected and beloved quasi-centralised organizations (I tend to have a bias for loving humane decentralized/horizontal orgs/movements, and Creative Mornings
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by patcon 1y ago
I love your comment! I can tell that you're a tangential referential thinker, and I assume the downvotes are more from people frustrated that the bounds of the thought-space are being fuzzed in ways frustrating to their minds. Metaphor
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by patcon 1y ago
I hear you. Though I doubt our minds are made to withstand that indulgence as much as we want to believe. Creatures like us have mostly evolved to survive in a world of realtime comms. Forgetfulness is evolved. If we remember everything we
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by patcon 1y ago
Sincerely, I respect your response to how arbitrary it seems in this form. But... I'd like you to take a moment and think really hard about whether this is truly novel behavior for LLMs, or rather something that has always been part of
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by patcon 1y ago
I'd read the link. It was the comment framing or maybe the understandable default assumption for readers living in this outpaced world, that one can't keep up with breaking news. Your response is kinda shitty toward the very part
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by patcon 1y ago
Holy shit librarians are fucking wonderful. Many of my coolest collaborators have been library science or information studies people. They are just the people I trust the most to have a sensible balanced worldview between theory and action,
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by patcon 1y ago
Heh you're interacting with the author. The "last week" is the family emergency from the article (I had the same thought as you at first :)
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by patcon 1y ago
Sorry, I was admittedly lazy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722576
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by patcon 1y ago
Specifically, this gave me the reaction, bc it seems in bad company with other ideologies: > I am unapologetic about obeying biological imperatives to eat other animals. Deep history exists in our "biological" context and is cr
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by patcon 1y ago
I feel for this. There's a "bothness" that's important for organizing from the center and from the edges. Either approach in isolation would utterly fail. Either approach overrepresented beyond the other fails to a lesse
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by patcon 1y ago
Wat? I'm left and for decentralising power, lots of ppl I know in my political circles love Ostrom. Leftist people who think concentration of power is the solution don't fangirl over her. Her whole jam is about "downloading&q
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by patcon 1y ago
No. It's a Sybil attack on subsidy to help ppl of different means equally make room for education in their lives. No one is "making money" unless they are committing fraud. They are being put on an equal playing field -- the
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by patcon 1y ago
Ooooooo I love the way this person uses language EDIT: made my comment more specifically about writing style
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by patcon 2y ago
Agreed, this is what's infuriating: insistence on control. They will utterly fail to build for a community of users if they don't have anyone on-hand who can tell them what a terrible idea that was To the cofounder: hire someone (
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by patcon 2y ago
Gross.
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by patcon 2y ago
This was the push back on parent comment that I was hoping to find, against the misguided qualifier. Thanks. Strongly agree. All weaknesses are strengths in the right context. Yea, perhaps the context simply doesn't exist in the world
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by patcon 2y ago
> for fresh graduates who know effectively nothing at all about what they talk about Assuming they are akin to grad students, these "fresh graduates" likely have more intersectional knowledge than long-time deep domain experts.
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by patcon 2y ago
Agreed. Yes, a bit roundabout, but it's pretty wild that we live in a spot in the universe where the distance we need to travel to "confirm plausibility" of a "deep truth of the universe we just heard about" is just
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by patcon 2y ago
We cant define the beginning and end of human life/consciousness, and we've regulated it for thousands of years. That it is hard to define does not make it impossible to control

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