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by qnleigh 10mo ago
You're asking good questions, but it's unreasonable to expect one paper to answer all of them. Probably the article should have emphasized more strongly that mouse models are imperfect, but they do show efficacy in two different m
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by qnleigh 10mo ago
All I want for Christmas this year is evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Is that so much to ask?
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How Money Is Born Out of Public Spending and Dies by Taxes (2023)(scottsantens.com)
2 points by qnleigh 10mo ago|4 comments
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by qnleigh 10mo ago
I would be very curious to hear about the state of your codebase a year from now. My impression was that LLMs are not yet robust enough to produce quality, maintainable code when let loose like this. But it sounds like you are already havin
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by qnleigh 10mo ago
Fair. No benchmark is perfect. I do pay special attention to what the most negative comments say (which in this case are unusually positive). And people discussing performance on their own personal benchmarks.
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by qnleigh 10mo ago
This model is breaking records on my benchmark of choice, which is 'the fraction of Hacker News comments that are positive.' Even people who avoid Google products on principle are impressed. Hardly anyone is arguing that ChatGPT i
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by qnleigh 10mo ago
Thankfully I've yet to see a 'smart projector.' Highly recommend as a replacement for a standard TV; much bigger screen size, more portable, more 'cinema feel,' plus it can't connect to WiFi even if you wanted
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Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?(nature.com)
4 points by qnleigh 10mo ago|1 comments
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Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?(nature.com)
2 points by qnleigh 11mo ago|0 comments
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
And below the social credit score: > © 2035 Springer Nature Limited. A division of The Amazon Basics™ Science Corp.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Actually thinking a bit more, this doesn't prove anything. The ad was showing on many fridges, and apparently it said 'Carol' everywhere (it wasn't actually personalized).
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Yes it was made up. A post from two weeks earlier [1] showed a fridge ad saying 'We're sorry we upset you, Carol.' That post now has an update: > EDIT 2: Hello, I am the original poster of the carol AD image from a month
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
I've had sales clerks at stores say that when I asked basic questions about their products, including questions about subscription pricing.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
LLMs can count other objects, so it's not like they're too dumb to count. So a possible model for what's going on is that the circuitry responsible for low-level image recognition has priors baked in that cause it to report u
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
It's not obvious to me whether we should count these errors as failures of intelligence or failures of perception. There's at least a loose analogy to optical illusion, which can fool humans quite consistently. Now you might say t
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
An interesting thing related to these questions in the context of physics: there was an interesting discussion on Scott Aaronson's blog a few years ago about why the universe should be quantum mechanical. One idea that was brought up i
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
The typical example people use to illustrate that energy isn't conserved is that photons get red-shifted and lose energy in an expanding universe. See this excellent Veritasium video [0]. But there's a much more striking example t
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
There's an amazing way to derive Maxwell's equations, and the equations for 3 of the other fundamental forces of nature, directly from Lie group symmetry. You try to write down a theory that is symmetric under -local- symmetry tra
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
> but then it gets compared to the entire industry’s projected $8T capex, which makes the conclusion meaningless. Aren't they comparing annual revenue to the annual interest you might have to pay on $8T? Which the original article e
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Interesting. And these people weren't mostly techies? My impression has been that the further someone is from tech, the more likely they are to think that ChatGPT is synonymous with LLMs.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Maybe there's no tangible moat still, but did Gemini 3's exceptional performance actually funnel users away from ChatGPT? The typical Hacker News reader might be aware of its good performance on benchmarks, but did this convert a
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Is a 10" screen that fits in your pocket really useless? There's so much more you can do comfortably on a screen that size than on a regular phone.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
$2400 is... surprisingly inexpensive? The Z-fold 7 retails for 1600-2000, and an iPhone now retails for up to $2000. This tri-fold is a phone and a full-size tablet. You could easily pay more than $2400 for a phone and a 10" tablet. Pr
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
One of the answers links https://www.tricki.org/ , which describes itself as a 'Wiki-style site with a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving techniques.' no longer maintained, but looks neat.
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Oh wow that's a very good point. So there are probably farms of chatbots participating in all sorts of forums waiting to be sold to scammers once they have been active for long enough. What evidence have you seen for this?
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
There's a post there in response to another recent New York Times article: https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/comments/1oq5bgo/a_... . People have a lot to say about their own perspectives on d
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
I've always wanted a news source with a 4 week delay. This would filter out so much of the noise: rage bait articles about what a politician said, articles about what -may- happen that just promote doomscrolling... Wikipedia sort of do
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
Of course 3 nines of reliability in directly processing information is not very useful; after ~1000 operations you would be very likely to have an error. But quantum computers do not process information that is stored in single qubits. They
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by qnleigh 11mo ago
From the comments section, Scott says > To clarify — if, before the 2028 presidential election, a fully fault-tolerant Shor’s algorithm was used even just to factor 15 into 3×5, I would view the “live possibility” here as having come to

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