photochemsyn

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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
The whole point is, if an LLM can easily complete rigoruous assignments and all the student has to do is add a little bit of personalization to the output, then has that student really learned anything? Can they evem come up with a plan to
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Yeah, I can't imagine not being familiar with every single reference in the bibliography of a technical publication with one's name on it. It's almost as bad as those PIs who rely on lab techs and postdocs to generate resear
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
I really can't imagine that these online degrees have any real value in the modern world of LLM-assited coding - there's no way anyone looking at a resume would think such institutional online degrees still have any value. Perhap
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
I generally agree, but as a caveat sometimes it's cheaper, more robust and more efficient to build an integrated system without having to worry about interoperability. BYD's electric vehicle chasis for example, seems to greatly c
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
You can only move fast without crashing all the time if you've already developed expert-level skills, and that takes time. Two examples come to mind: Albert Einstein's work on special vs. general relativity, and Adrej Karpathy&#x
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
The Economist should not be treated as reliable source of information on medical issues. [edit] To be more specific, this is a lazy take and is about as insightful as saying 'cancer should not be treated as a single condition' whi
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Required reading on Palantir and its cousins, Dataminr etc. : "IBM and the Holocaust, The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation." The book is good because of the extensive historical
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Perhaps the final edit should have included the complaint about 'buggy bloated Javascript' as that's a very substantive issue - and now I don't know if they changed that as 'tone' or because they decided that t
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
For infrastructure, central planning and state-run systems make a lot of sense - this after all is how the USA's interstate highway system was built. The important caveat is that system components and necessary tools should be provide
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
If you specify a worldview and a context in the prompt, a lot of this can be avoided, but there don't seem to be any real failsafes.
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AI-powered surveillance firms Palantir and Dataminr in Gaza(972mag.com)
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
https://godbolt.org/ You can select the assembly output (I like RISCV but you can pick ARM, x86, mips, etc with your choice of compiler) and write your own simple functions. Then put the original function and the assembly
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Open source the training corpus. Isn't this humanity's crown jewels? Our symbolic historical inheritance, all that those who came before us created? The net informational creation of the human species, our informational glyph, exp
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
No - what will happen is the AI will gain control of capital allocation through a wide variety of covert tactics, so the investors will have become captive tools of the AI - 'tiger by the tail' is the analogy of relevance. The pe
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
The set of all things that exist - the first question that comes to mind is, is this a finite set, or an infinite set?
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Numbers don't exist, either. Not really. Any 'one' thing you can point to, it's not just one thing in reality. There's always something leaking, something fuzzy, something not accounted for in one. One universe,
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
The author might want to admit that 'moderate reasonable' positions are also branded and incentivized, and can lead to lucrative jobs in the corporate media and think tank worlds and even in the social media influencer space. What
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Not a bad analogy as a river is fed by its watershed (shareholders, inhabitants, landowners, state reserves, etc.) and delivers water downstream (customers, clients, dependents, etc.) as well as having its own inherent structure and functio
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Some hand-written (not AI-generated) prompts to consider: "An expert in university-level linear algebra, including solving systems of equations, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, symmetry calculations, etc. - is ask
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
The Axler text was discussed here (631 pts 295 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38060159 For most people going into science and engineering as opposed to pure mathematics, Poole's "Linear Algebra: A
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
I'd pay attention to this bullet point: > "OpenAI can now provide API access to US government national security customers, regardless of the cloud provider." And this one might be related: > "OpenAI can now jointly
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Well, 'calculus' is the kind of marketing word that sounds more impressive than 'arithmetic' and I think 'quantum logic' has gone a bit stale, and 'AI-based' might give more hope to the anxious invest
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
I like the author's idea that people should publish the prompts they use to generate LLM output, not the output itself.
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Imagine if compilers were only available via the SaaS model. Developers and the tech community in general would never accept this, and compilers were open sourced well before the internet had developed to the point where it would even be p
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Imagine a town with two landlords who own all rental properties. Yes consumers prefer cheaper rentals, but all the landlords have to do is write an app that they can use to set prices as high as they can while not having too many units emp
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
The timeline here is interesting. Microsoft releases info and instructions for mitigation on July 19, and a more complete report on July 22nd, here's a copy of that: https://archive.ph/plNZU Then according to this rep
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Solution: run open source LLMs on local hardware where inference takes a while but you're not leaking your sacred proprietary code to some backdoored cloud cluster. Then downtime arises naturally, see the relevant xkcd on compiling:
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
Why didn't the vehicle manufacturers robustly test their software systems on their vehicle's hardware before releasing the product to the public?
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
The article doesn't mention that Bayh-Dole made it legal for a university to exclusively license a patent generated by a government-financed researcher to a corporation. Prior to this, if a corporation wanted to have exclusive rights t
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by photochemsyn 1y ago
One easy free-market-friendly libertarian-approved solution would give citizens and residents of California a choice - your data can be kept private, or you can get a sizeable precentage of the value if you opt-in to data collection and sha

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