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by rytill 1y ago
The phrasing “<statement> — no X, Y, Z, just <final simplified claim>” is cropping up a lot lately. 4o also ends many of its messages that way. It has to be related.
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by rytill 2y ago
Dozens? Don't you mean, probably hundreds of trillions in the observable universe? Not that the number of planets really implies anything when we don't know the probability of life arising on one of them.
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by rytill 2y ago
There are many effective ways to argue against what you're saying, but I'll choose the easiest. You said "perhaps" it doesn't matter. Well, perhaps it does matter. If there is even a small chance it does matter, we
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by rytill 2y ago
So, your argument (ignoring the appeal to authority) is: 1.Social rights can be reduced entirely to obligations on others. Dubious. Ignoring that maybe the value to the person granted the social right could outweigh the obligation to others
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by rytill 2y ago
How is “losing weight is simple: eat fewer calories than you burn” unhelpful? I’m genuinely asking, and want to understand how to empathize better. It seems like a lot of people don’t make weight loss progress because they never internalize
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by rytill 2y ago
When and how would one use binary vectors for encoding in ML? Do you have to make your model work natively with binary vectors or is there a translation step between float and binary vectors to make it compatible?
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by rytill 2y ago
What went into creating the color scheme?
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by rytill 2y ago
AWS is so anti-customer with respect to GPUs right now. They have the highest prices of any cloud. What happened to “your margin is my opportunity”? And, as far as I know, customers are unable to allocate a VM with fewer than eight A100, H1
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by rytill 2y ago
I’m an ML engineer who’s spent more than 5 minutes thinking about this idea and would not have automatically rejected the pitch.
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by rytill 2y ago
As you noted below, it depends on the industry. But for software, and my impression is that it is even more like this in most other industries, a huge amount of tech ventures never receive any funding. Many of these are never even properly
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by rytill 2y ago
Only a small percentage of tech companies raise a series A or beyond. To me, this just seems like a capital-efficient alternative to the founder increasing their salary that could be negotiated. I had no such perception that this was some “
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by rytill 2y ago
> You’re using these terms in a way that seems unorthodox I don’t think so - see https://chatgpt.com/share/507ca1a4-43a3-4b30-afaf-08273ed54d... (I just tried once) This is of course not meant as proof or knowledge
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by rytill 2y ago
Because while self-awareness may be fertile ground for interesting emergent behavior, it is not mysterious. There is no “hard problem of self-awareness”. We basically know what’s going on at the ground level. Whereas with sentience (awarene
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by rytill 2y ago
Why do you find self-awareness to be the more fascinating area of study? It makes complete sense that something could be self-aware if it could be aware of anything at all. What more do you need to research/understand about self-awaren
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by rytill 2y ago
That’s LoRa. This is LoRA.
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by rytill 3y ago
Hey, about your clone of https://generals.io - why not make it a better designed version of that game instead of just a clone? Perhaps you have plans to. There are things about the original that kind of suck. 1) Spawning closer
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by rytill 3y ago
You would be right about selling naked options. But call/put credit spreads have bounded downside, just like buying options. Selling cash secured puts or selling covered calls would be less risky than just holding stock.
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by rytill 3y ago
Then be the options seller. You can sell cash secured puts, or a put credit spread, or a call credit spread. Calls are even more expensive than puts right now.
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by rytill 3y ago
To add a perspective I haven’t seen yet in this thread, I’ve been riding one of these for 6 years and it’s basically my favorite way to get around. For me, it has more utility than a bike. I usually go around 15 mph and I’m careful to not n
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by rytill 3y ago
I’d read it! That sounds really interesting.
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by rytill 3y ago
I wonder why that is. Maybe they’re A/B testing assistant prompts, or there’s noise built into the architecture somewhere.
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by rytill 3y ago
Can you share such articles?
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by rytill 3y ago
If you get 2 dollars on the first head, 4 dollars on the second, etc., then the probability of receiving each dollar amount multiplied by the dollar amount is 1 dollar. 1/2 * 2 + 1/4 * 4 + 1/8 * 8 ... = 1 + 1 + 1 ... = ∞ Of c
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by rytill 3y ago
I’ve found this API useful. It’s a classifier: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation
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by rytill 3y ago
Which quantized version?
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by rytill 3y ago
I don’t, but for most HN readers, the latest user-facing model’s capabilities are most relevant.
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by rytill 3y ago
I just tried this, and GPT-4 said: Based on the information provided, Mable was alive at noon. Her heart rate was recorded at 9 AM, and her blood pressure was recorded at 7 PM, both of which are signs of life. She was reported to have died
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by rytill 3y ago
They are only 1% off. They’re trying to say “there are two independent 10% probability events that imply RTSC”. You can’t add them, but you can multiply 90% by 90% and get an 81% chance of not RTSC, or a 19% chance of RTSC according to this
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by rytill 3y ago
I don't think you really disproved anything. You're just saying another hypothesis. Often, LLMs produce impressive results on domains that aren't in the training set.
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by rytill 3y ago
As someone with little knowledge of wine, how are wine and money closely linked?

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