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by renjimen 1y ago
A decent share of US food [1] and construction materials [2] are imported. So yes, this is going to impact everyone. [1] https://www.traceone.com/resources/plm-compliance-blog/foods... [2] https://www.n
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by renjimen 2y ago
Lawrence of Arabia may be the influence of the character, but the Nabataeans, of Petra fame, are surely the main influence of the Fremen. (excuse the LLM summary) Economic Foundation - Nabataeans controlled lucrative frankincense and myrrh
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by renjimen 2y ago
Largest was the Tsar Bomba at > 50 megatons! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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by renjimen 2y ago
Parent mentioned Monte Carlo simulations, which allow you to simulate across a range possible scenario parameters and see what % result in some outcome (like a collision with Earth or the moon).
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by renjimen 2y ago
For real? Someone gives you a powerful tool for free and you don't ask what the catch is
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by renjimen 2y ago
Ditto. My non-tech friends ask what benefit AI has to society and I struggle to give them concrete examples that outweigh the opportunity cost of this kind of investment in more meaningful endeavors. Let alone the downsides of an algorithmi
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by renjimen 2y ago
Fusion research has had less than than tenth of this investment, but a viable fusion reactor would have far more impact than a tenth of what Stargate will likely deliver. Not to mention efforts for mitigating climate change and ecological c
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by renjimen 2y ago
Exactly! Whatever world model LLMs have is like this crippled view through the lens of the internet. They are really like savants. It's annoying the AI companies are still touting their performance on all these metrics for domain knowl
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by renjimen 2y ago
I don't know about groundbreaking. It's just more academic questions. We already have a lot of those benchmarks, this is just a bit harder, but at this point these models are so glaringly bad at so many other areas APART from acad
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by renjimen 2y ago
The real question is why is so little of our media about climate change? Even reporting on extreme weather typically fails to mention climate change as a contributing factor in most news outlets.
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by renjimen 2y ago
I agree, but most of us here live in a democracy, and people get mad when their short term standard of living is impacted without a basic understanding of how their long term standard of living is improved. So this is a pipe dream until peo
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by renjimen 2y ago
Some pretty smart animals care about as much as we do when their habitat disappears.
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by renjimen 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12854
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by renjimen 2y ago
I’ve been to those industry ML conferences and they are often just dressed up product pitches. Most talks are 5 mins of methods followed by 15 mins of sales.
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by renjimen 2y ago
As a consultant data scientist who attended NeurIPS this year I was surprised at how few of the talks and posters covered innovations practically applicable outside of niche domains. Those that did (DL for tabular data, joint LLM training w
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by renjimen 2y ago
Their apparent superiority is just a product of massive investment in marketing to maintain their status. If it tastes the same as Pepsi or no-name cola, then what else could it be?
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by renjimen 2y ago
You're not wrong, but what's interesting to me and the author of this article is that many products are completely interchangeable, yet their creators enjoy market dominance anyway. As an aside, I don't think wine is necessar
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by renjimen 2y ago
But regulation typically only affects one country, and the USA doesn't appear to like regulation since neoliberalism became the politics dejour
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by renjimen 2y ago
But most people actually can't tell the difference https://daily.jstor.org/the-coca-cola-wars-can-anybody-reall...
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by renjimen 2y ago
I frequently turn notes about infrastructure, pipelines or databases into diagrams with an LLM to ground my team's understanding. The VSCode Mermaid plugin and the GH integration make this very simple to do.
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by renjimen 2y ago
I don't know why you're being down-voted. The societal implications of Meta's products are profound and as yet poorly understood. I always encourage friends and family to remove social media apps from their phones. The though
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by renjimen 2y ago
Good rant. The dominant global ideology is neoliberalism AKA free market economics, which has regulatory laxness as its bedrock. That's why fixing this basic shit is an uphill slog, rather than common sense. Neoliberals look at GDP ris
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by renjimen 2y ago
More like demagoguery: emotionally fueled fear-mongering.
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by renjimen 2y ago
It's only an offense if you watch live TV [1]. They could have just lumped it in with your taxes, like they do in many other countries with state TV, but this approach in theory lets you opt out, even if they like to check up on you al
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by renjimen 2y ago
Switch to Brave on iOS. I didn’t experience any of that on this site (though a shame they chose that many ads)
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by renjimen 2y ago
Post training includes mechanisms to allow LLMs to understand areas that they should exercise caution in answering. It’s not as simple as you say anymore.
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by renjimen 2y ago
Models are often wrong but sometimes useful. Models that provide answers couched in a certain level of confidence are miscalibrated when all answers are given confidently. New training paradigms attempt to better calibrate model confidence
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by renjimen 2y ago
Maybe with vanilla LLMs, but new LLM training paradigms include post-training with the explicit goal of avoiding over-confident answers to questions the LLM should not be confident about answering. So hallucination is a malfunction, just li
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by renjimen 2y ago
Takes one to know one? The point is to help folks understand how significant this fine is. Take from it what you will.
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by renjimen 2y ago
That's fair. I guess I should have said "unregulated lobbying". Lobbying can be beneficial provided it is transparent, which it is not in the US.

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