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by puttycat 11mo ago
Game theory or Bayesian inference?
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by puttycat 11mo ago
Agree that there's something fishy/missing in this story. Never say never, but I find it extremely unlikely that Google/Amazon lawyers, based in the US, would agree to such a blatantly mafia-like scheme.
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by puttycat 1y ago
What is inconsistent between banning hate speech and banning advocacy for terrorism?
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by puttycat 1y ago
Not proof (if there is any such thing for intelligence) but a very strong indicator, yes.
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by puttycat 1y ago
This is a strawman argument. No anti-AI sentiment was involved here. Simply the fact that finding and matching text on the Internet is several orders of magnitude easier than finding novel solutions to hard math problems.
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by puttycat 1y ago
One of the most informative and eye opening articles I found on HN. Thanks for posting.
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by puttycat 1y ago
This was actually shown to not really work in practice.
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by puttycat 1y ago
Seems very incremental and very far from the pompous 'superintelligence' goal.
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Iran reports bird flu outbreak in poultry(reuters.com)
4 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 1y ago
What is nonsense about this story?
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by puttycat 1y ago
> “It can’t be understated what this system is capable of doing,” said Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office. I want that name.
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Reality Check – AI/real photo quiz(realitycheckk.com)
3 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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Anthropic to pay $3k per book in AI copyright settlement(axios.com)
18 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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Fractal Compression(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 1y ago
Thank you brother. This has been driving me insane for years. A remarkable lack of attention to details.
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by puttycat 1y ago
Lowball: to calculate something at a price or level that is unfairly low. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lowball (I did not know the expression and admittedly understood it in a completely obs
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by puttycat 1y ago
> OpenAI has figured out RL. the models no longer speak english What does this mean?
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by puttycat 1y ago
The videos are great: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415... https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415... https://static-content.springer.com
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The Changing Politics of Masks(nytimes.com)
4 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 1y ago
https://nitter.space/sama/status/1943837550369812814
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by puttycat 1y ago
> compression tends to increase the entropy of a bit stream. Does it? Encryption increases entropy, but not sure about compression.
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by puttycat 1y ago
If LLMs can't even do basic arithmetic [1,2,3], why should anyone trust them with what they put in their mouths? [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02356 [3]
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by puttycat 1y ago
For passwords: Enpass is also a wonderful local-first password manager (with optional LAN or cloud sync options)
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by puttycat 1y ago
Thanks for the good vibes. Did it occur to you that the original question might have been posted before the rejection?
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by puttycat 1y ago
Some time ago I asked on HN "will you go work for Meta?" [1]. I'm so glad I didn't pass their (ridiculous, redundant) set of interviews. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935199
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by puttycat 1y ago
https://archive.is/JEUnS
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by puttycat 1y ago
That's also the beauty of evolution–there's no goal in that search algorithm, just open-ended incremental exploration which eventually grows beautiful things. See Kenneth Stanley's book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The My
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by puttycat 1y ago
What a joy to find a plaintext HTML page (and such a wonderful text of course).
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Iron Beam(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by puttycat 1y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 1y ago
Multilingual LLMs dont have a clear boundary between languages. They will appear to have one since they maximize likelihoods, so asking something in English will most likely produce an English continuation, etc. In other circumstances they

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