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Quite frankly, no one expects that and that is not where the disappointment comes from. The disappointment comes from the fact that doctors are mostly clueless and follow checklists, and thus prescribes measures without having a deep unders
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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. If an article/research quality is assessed by if it appear on pubmed, then appearing on pubmed becomes target for all research. And thus appearing on pubmed stops from be
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>you bet there are 10x and 0.1x doctors But sadly, with doctors, someone who provides 10x value to the patient might not be the same ones that provide 10x value to the Hospitals that employ them. Which means real 10x doctors might be le
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>I don’t know, using Vim and Exuberant Ctags can give you a significant part of these features for a very lower footprint. 100% true. Also, the problem I have with these magic thingies is that I don't know what to do if the magic st
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Why would they want to do it when the people paying them would do the same for them?
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> just repeatedly saying "keep going" to ChatGPT >What a world we live in. Not sure, it sounds pretty boring to me...
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I do this, or in other words, I had to do this to go on. I think everyone comes up with some philosophy to keep on going. Even a street bum might have come up with philosophy on par with some of the greats that keeps them going... In fact,
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Was hoping to contain more in-depth content...
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>There is no form of evidence generation, real or hypothetical, greater than the randomized controlled trial. Wrong. You are lying by omission. Randomization and controlling are essential. But the version of RCT that we currently employ
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I am not sure, but the claim was that there is some date based correlation when this drug started being used, and rise of some health issues kids...
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>Why would it need to? Because that is what everyone (I mean, not if you are pharma) is interested in...
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>highest quality evidence generation system we could possibly have, which is RCTs. The "best we have" does not mean it is good enough for the task at hand. Just saying. Basically what I am saying is that qualifying something by
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clean chit!
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They can spot contradictions in the the prompt. But not in their own training data.
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>biased where AI does not. AI can be totally biased... The fact that it can spout bullshit all day long to a human who can be tired and would actually act on the said bullshit, is not very comforting... For example, an LLM could confid
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>what stops an LLM from applying similar lines of thought* in a manner that results in a novel conjecture? One thing is that an LLM can never assume, or find out, an inconsistency in its training data. Novel ideas often require correctio
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From the post lol >So I wouldn't really say that this result is using or creating some fundamentally new techniques in convex geometry or optimization theory. What this means from my perspective is that if a result is attainable wit
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>because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff. Where did the joy for doing it came from, before LLMs? I mean, did people stop playing with LEGOs because we now have 3D printers? Either you didn't really &q
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>It literally takes the point away since folks will simply say "oh, who cares? Look at this shit I made in AI instead" But that does not make any sense what so ever. Who cares how you did it. I think people are going to me mo
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>I've been coding since I was 11 and loved every minute of it Can you share some of the stuff you have made (before LLMs)?
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>Those were all potential futures we imo thankfully and carefully avoided! I am not so thankful. But it is coming from my view of the current world. I think open Internet for business is good. But open Internet for communication was bad.
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I think it is better to have some elitist communities, than to drag everyone down to some least common denomination... I think that was one of the big mistakes/oversight that came with the Internet..
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Honestly, horrible example.
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>Can we really be sure that thoughts, opinions, taste will still come out sharper and faster after five, ten, 20 years of using these tools almost every day? After 5 years, I think the thought profile every power user of the LLMs would b
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The concrete issue is this. We seem to want to give every incentives to these companies as possible to get them to drive the EV transition as soon as possible. Even when these incentives are in the form of free pass in terms of lax regulati
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>There could be some unknown unknown which makes these actually bad.. No, it is not the unknown unknowns that worry me. It is a very much known aspect. It is "human behavior" and the collective short shortsightedness that goes
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> you should be worried about the fumes released every time you start up a fossil fuel engine... I am worried about both. Why are you picking sides? At lease fossil fuels started slow. Here we are switching to an unknown solution(s) on a
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But scale matters too. I wouldn't be too worried if we are not going to eventually replace all fossil fuels with batteries. That is a lot of batteries..
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>LLMs be able to coordinate their understanding I think the next time I see "LLMs" and "Understanding" in the same sentence, I am going to lose it....
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You paint a happy path. But the devil is in the details that often come to light only much later. Sure, we could end up with a tech that have really no pollution potential. But there is much higher chance that we would end-up with something

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