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by philipswood 2y ago
A is for apple, B is for bear, ... And then you use the picture of an apple, bear, etc. It's one of those simple solutions that anyone could have, but not often do.
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by philipswood 2y ago
A book that gives a nice view of these some of these memory technologies is The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly I can't get myself to link to the marketing blurb inspired summaries, but I love the book. This wikipedia heading gives a less b
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by philipswood 2y ago
The Inca had Quipu.
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by philipswood 2y ago
> Any self-consistent body of knowledge can be reduced to a number of clear elementary postulates from which everything else logically follows. I'm not sure why the author thinks this would be true. Or why by implication the inverse
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by philipswood 2y ago
An interesting paper suggesting that while LLMs produce seemingly human-like output, they use very un-human-like computational approaches with significant weaknesses. Suggesting that, while they are not stochastic parrots - they're now
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LLM language comprehension task tests reveal insensitivity to underlying meaning(nature.com)
1 points by philipswood 2y ago|1 comments
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by philipswood 2y ago
> _...in this work we tested 7 state-of-the-art LLMs on simple comprehension questions targeting short sentences, purposefully setting an extremely low bar for the evaluation of the models. Systematic testing showed that the performance
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by philipswood 2y ago
Perfect! Thanks
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by philipswood 2y ago
No idea what I'm looking at. Is there an about page somewhere?
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by philipswood 2y ago
My take: The meta move at play here would be China positioning the use of Meta's models for "military use" (when they could full well independently build their own better models) to force a knee-jerk response in the West tha
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by philipswood 2y ago
Earth: Human population: 8.2 billion humans. Ant population: 20 quadrillion ants. I'm not sure they need to take over the world - it looks like it is already theirs.
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by philipswood 2y ago
They have decades long experience with managing elephant populations - maybe they know what they are doing?
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by philipswood 2y ago
Biology is insanely complicated. Simulating that to any degree of fidelity is really, really, hard - at least in medically interesting domains. (E.g. we don't even have a simple model that given some parameterized human as input and a
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by philipswood 2y ago
Selection criteria are strict because the supply is limited for the demand. Imagine an alternative result: Anita had every chance to live if given a new liver, but she was 2nd on the donor list and they gave it to some ex-alcoholic woman in
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by philipswood 2y ago
So if you build systems using messaging middleware you get to choose upfront whether you are going to use XA with exactly-once semantics and pay the performance penalty for that or whether you will implement your business logic idempotently
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by philipswood 2y ago
The lede is slightly buried... This is plant vision: > With the discovery that the B. trifoliolata is able to mimic the leaves of the nearest plant,we have been given a rare opportunity to test plant vision in more detail. The simplest w
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by philipswood 2y ago
This is probably better as a blog post - or some social media post.
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by philipswood 2y ago
Thanks, I think the linked article is worthy of its own submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344613
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How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)(apmreports.org)
89 points by philipswood 2y ago|119 comments
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by philipswood 2y ago
This IS visible. Just not very interesting. Looks a bit like someone trying to promote something.
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by philipswood 2y ago
I had one of these in an outside room as a teenager and in the winter it was terrible: You can only heat water so much for the available wattage and when it was cold the water was so cold that only a thin trickle could be heated to a comfor
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by philipswood 2y ago
> so much in the PS is indicative of how I would not really trust this person much for their decision making That escalated fast. If he is this reckless with toasters - imagine the dangers he poses to his students! OTOH I find few people
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by philipswood 2y ago
Imagine removing Schrodinger's contributions to physics or Haber's contributions to chemistry. Deeply flawed human beings have made valuable contributions.
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by philipswood 2y ago
Also not sure. I'm guessing it's some kind of Lisp bracketectomy - i.e. Lisp without the parentheses.
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by philipswood 2y ago
This stood out for me: > On a couple of occasions, I agreed to fill in for the kitchen manager and front of house manager. This was an interesting experience and it worked out well: I got to try doing the job, in a way that was helpful t
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by philipswood 2y ago
Are you sure? Why? And with what statistics?
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by philipswood 2y ago
I think a longer runtime for a terminating program will require more state to be kept. Every step needs to keep extra reversibility information. So I don't think this gives any edge on NP. I suspect that even if you waited for the univ
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by philipswood 2y ago
Energy is expended when you zero or set a bit. If you compute reversibly you need use special logic gates to not throw any bits away during the computation, like the Toffoli gate. All your operations need to have the same number of input an
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by philipswood 2y ago
I don't think think the concern in this case is any perceived possible human danger, but the actual real danger to the pets.
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by philipswood 2y ago
Everything Is Written In Title Case. And the content is inane and trivial.

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