robbedpeter

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1081.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Various reasons - capitalism, the degraded ability of bureaucracies to manage things compared to agile private enterprises as technology improves, conflicts of interest between nation states, and so forth. Government is not a great mechanis
1082.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams
1083.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
At any given moment the distribution is similar, and we track and regulate the orbits, leaving swathes of space open. Everything about the satellites is engineered, including their orbits. Other countries have less stringent standards, resu
1084.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
There's likely a decade+ tail after the end of active particulate injection. If there is too much to begin with, you piss off all the electorates with years of chaotic weather, threatening food production, financial markets, and ecolog
1085.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
No, there wouldn't be an implication toward performance by "not formalized." I mean the function is obfuscated by its encoding in the model. To formalize, you'd need to pick apart those encodings and derive explicit form
1086.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
I'm not sure if it'd be creepy. It looks to be pretty solidly out of uncanny valley territory... I think I'd believe it was biological. These guys did a phenomenal job.
1087.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Fascinating to think of the unfolding of complex systems from DNA to brains and nervous systems to instincts - programs decompressing over many iterations into programs that contain all the functions living things use in the world. And then
1088.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
I love how animalistic it looks - you could readily give it a realistic dog costume and convince people you had a live pooch (maybe a bit weird, but breeding has produced far less grace in motion than this thing.) I'd like to see it go
1089.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
It's likely that many of the patterns it learned are encoded understanding of the form you mention, but not at a formal level of explication. The architecture of the system and design of the training methodology are laid out to specifi
1090.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Correlation is not causation. More co2 and favorable conditions lead to more vegetation. Large ecologies may have dynamic mechanisms that tend toward homeostasis, but the systems are chaotic and fundamentally unpredictable. That climate cha
1091.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Why would tires last longer in an ICE vehicle? I don't think tires care what makes them spin.
1092.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Yes, it is possible to do things ass- backwards. The first way is better for consumers, the second way exploits consumers at a subconscious level, and is more often leveraged to maximize profit than to benefit consumers. E.g., Imagine all t
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by robbedpeter 5y ago
Anti cheat is the excuse used to collect saleable or exploitable private data, and as a mechanism to perpetuate walled gardens. Centralizing accounts and identities to enforce ban lists, associate payment methods, target advertising, enable
1094.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
They're all terrified that if they do ask, they'll be declined, or held accountable for misuse, abuse, or leaks. It's much better to hide "telemetry" in the fog of tos or eula walls of text. Maintain your customer&#
1095.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pedalo In german, "Brother must go!"
1096.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
If so, then that decision should be enacted by you, and only you. The only reason to hide things like this is to get away with a lie, elsewhere. Consumers need to be given total control of the devices they use - the idea that they can'
1097.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Not trying to be snarky or rude, just letting you know the phrase is "pray tell", for your future reference.
1098.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/ There are several easily found resources like this, and previous hn threads contain papers, documentation, and guide links spanning the spectrum from beginner to PhD researc
1099.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
0 books. The huggingface hosted gpt-neo 125 model is capable of doing basic question/answer analysis to a sufficient level for most moderation. No finetuning needed if you have it work out yes or no zero shot answers to things like &qu
1100.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Transparent and competent automated content moderation, maybe, easily available for anyone to run their own communities by their own standards. Once matured, you can easily envision people sharing policies and templates, or providing modera
1101.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
There's no unified underlying intelligence in the model that could be called racist, sexist, or bigoted. These "bots" are not, because they cannot, be such. The output is dependent on the patterns, context, and content of 800
1102.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
The model and attention mechanism produces Bayesian properties, but transformers as a whole contain non-Bayesian aspects, depending on how rigorous you want to be in defining Bayesian.
1103.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
For an absurd definition of the word ethics, maybe. It's thinly veiled corporate ass covering pretending at ethics, at best. Anyway, It's not quite good enough at coding to prompt an intelligence explosion, and the resources to r
1104.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Transformers do learn and abstract. Not as well as humans, but for whatever definitive of innovation or creativity you wanna run with, these gpt models have it. It's not magic, it's math, but these programs are approximating the h
1105.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
The most fascinating thing about these programs is the undeniably imaginative, dreamlike nature of the output. Spend time actually using them and you will be continually surprised and engaged. Any human nuance you can interpret visually can
1106.
by robbedpeter 5y ago
The lab leak hypothesis was seen as fringe just 4 months ago. The problem with what you're saying is that you're setting yourself up as an arbiter of reason, or sanity, or safety in the realm of ideas. This is a fine aspiration,