randcraw

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by randcraw 2y ago
Could you learn everything needed to become fully human simply by reading books and listening to conversations? Of course not. You'd have no first person experience of any of the physical experiences that arise from being an embodied
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The right question is, what should the role of federal vs state vs local government be in natural disasters, especially those that occur often in an high-risk area? Personal insurance must cover 100% of personal property loss, not governmen
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It's helpful to know the dissertation hails from UTexas' department of advertising. In that context, 'creativity' is not about artists using imagination, cognition, and innovation to surprise or enlighten or edify. I
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by randcraw 2y ago
You're bored, and your coworkers are bored too (or boring). This job isn't what you thought it would be. You know there's no future in this job or this company, none that you want anyway. You have an offer for a better job el
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Of course there's a range of transitional states between waterfall and [whatever miracle cure is in vogue today]. Like all historical revisionists, today's techies like to impugn the old and laud the new. ('How could they
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The OP is 30 years away from retirement yet is posting on how to do it right... That's bold. For me, retirement is imminent (I'm 67), but I can't imagine how ugly those prospects would look now if I'd not prepared for
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by randcraw 2y ago
The conclusions of the authors that LLMs can reason inductively very well runs counter to what I've read elsewhere. A big part of doing induction is the ability to generalize a shared pattern from multiple disparate examples, recogniz
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I like to think of abductive reasoning as the basis for science that explains natural processes that happened in the past -- like astronomy and geology and evolution -- where experiments are too big to conduct or processes too slow to obser
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Except he'd feel the need to inject himself into way too many stories.
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That's an excellent essay. I especially liked this part: " Active learning and deliberate practice will be covered in more depth in later posts, but below are some key points: - Effective learning is active, not passive. It is no
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I think much of that 'daunt' comes from the lack of instructional resources needed to support a solo journey through higher math. Yes, there are some great illuminating sources (like Kahn Academy and 3blue1brown), but if you&#x27
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My preferred solution to this is to enforce common carrier constraints against any business that has access to your personal data -- from communication to purchases to telco messages to tracking your geolocation. Alternately, we could deman
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I've worked in AI for the past 30 years and have seen enthusiasm as robust as yours go bust before. Just because some kinds of narrow AI have done extraordinarily well -- namely those tasks that recognize patterns using connections be
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How to repair a 100 year old house: - replace window sash cords - repoint a rubblestone foundation and exterior brickwork - replace the surface of a deck - rebuild a rotted cellar door - till my yard where a large tree was removed - lots mo
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I can't imagine why this case should succeed if this same practice has long been tolerated by telcos or Facebook -- any company that provides no opt-out to collection and sale of personal info. If Texas had real guts, they'd pass
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by randcraw 2y ago
There's not much profit in treating parasites, and profit funds research. Like bacterial infection (before the rise of resistant bugs), you treat a parasite with a few doses and you're done. No more disease means no more revenue
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by randcraw 2y ago
I thought that honor belonged to viruses.
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by randcraw 2y ago
Unsolicited opinion is just noise. If someone wants advice, in addition to the conclusion, they need to hear the reasoning and contextual facts that make that advice useful and reliable. Everyone knows that 95% of advice is opinion. So th
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Trivial to do in Brave (for MacOS or iOS).
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This would be really useful if it could take a descriptive phrase or a compound phrase (like SQL 'select X and Y and Z') and match against the semantic cluster(s) that the query forms. IMO that's the greatest failing of toda
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by randcraw 2y ago
Part of the problem in AI is the lack of useful benchmarks that show progress is being made in skill areas where AI will truly be useful and transformational. I mean, who cares if a LLM can pass a bar exam or real estate license test?
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by randcraw 2y ago
Unlike cloud servers, AI isn't embedded into the cost of doing business (pretty much anywhere). Until it's essential it's not going to earn the kind of ROI that's needed to continue the current investment rate.
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And I understand the upper time limit for each question was 4.5 hours. So it solved one question almost immediately, two well over the allotted time (60 hrs), and two not at all. No medal for you, Grasshopper.
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by randcraw 2y ago
Data created automatically is not the same as human curated data, though both are synthetic. Auto-created data often suffers from a host of demerits (duplication, bias, error, unnatural distribution, irrelevance to learn the intended domai
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by randcraw 2y ago
I think the major lessons from the success of LLMs are two: 1) the astonishing power of a largely trivial association engine based only on the semantic categories inferred by word2vec, and 2) that so much of the communication abilities of t
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by randcraw 2y ago
Not an especially insightful article. BS is an imprecise term that's no improvement on hallucination and actually suggests a hidden agenda from the LLM. 'Hallucinate' captures rather well a state of blissful ignorance of h
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by randcraw 2y ago
I've been coding professionally for 40 years and especially don't care for how the management of software projects has evolved. Rather than design, I've seen the emphasis shift to process and testing, necessarily in the guis
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by randcraw 2y ago
The water table in Houston is less than a foot below ground, making line burial impossible, and with almost 7 million residents, economically infeasible. Trees are not the problem since Houston has few trees. Like most underprovisioned (an
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OK. They're legally blind.
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My annoyance is that _anyone_ would write a book on a technical subject who knows absolutely nothing about the subject. LLMs aren't a philosophical concept; they're a software mechanism with myriad constraints and design limitati

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