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by samus 3y ago
If you get what you ask for without fuss, then it's not an issue. It becomes an issue if you have to slog your way through corporate bureaucracy^H^Hzy to get basic things.
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by samus 3y ago
You guys get coffee? /s
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by samus 3y ago
Sure. Mentioning anything more than that will lead to trouble. But many people are not aware of how thin the line is and mention they are also going to work remote for a few hours. Or meet with colleagues for a hacking session. That's
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by samus 3y ago
NAL, but I believe that phrase is intentionally unclear to ensure people cannot easily game the system and immigration authorities have maximum leeway to say 'nope'.
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by samus 3y ago
Plenty of people are unaware how delicate the line is though and talk too much and the wrong things at the border.
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by samus 3y ago
Immigration officers will ask your purpose of stay, and if your answer is not clear and they start questioning in more detail and you blurt out you're gonna do something which is technically not allowed by your visa, then you have a pr
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by samus 3y ago
Well, there is one to fast food: it's fast and uncomplicated to prepare.
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by samus 3y ago
Did people ever expect any apart from the dopamine hits experienced during consumption when you find something that interests you?
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by samus 3y ago
The problem still applies even when the user only sees a UI, but in a less explicit way. Power users usually customize a lot of settings that they expect to still find in updated versions. If there is no sane way to export those settings*,
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by samus 3y ago
The bottom line seems to be that such ad-hoc configuration mechanism should be considered to be part of the public interface, which requires managing backwards compatibility when changes become necessary. Developers usually don't like
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by samus 3y ago
We are quite far in a meta-discussion. Even less useful.
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by samus 3y ago
Nobody in their right mind expects truth from sales person. You deal with them to negotiate about price, not to inform yourself about a topic. Computers might very well one day count as "intelligent" (whatever that even means), ho
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by samus 3y ago
Aren't they still faxing documents all over the place? (AFAIK, you might have to do that from time to time in Germany as well)
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by samus 3y ago
Either kind of discussion is useless since the "evidence" (timezone IDs in strings that are not required to have any relation whatsoever with reality) is flimsy to begin with.
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by samus 3y ago
They will give that answer because they are forced to give it. The softmax amplifies whatever marginal outputs of the model head to a probability distribution. This means that if they don't have an answer, they are quite likely to &q
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by samus 3y ago
I agree that the biggest difference is the missing ability of an artificial neuronal network to adapt.
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by samus 3y ago
Companies usually offer a service or a product. If the company doesn't deliver what was agreed upon, then the customer can demand correction. If a taxi driver takes a needlessly convoluted route, charges too much, or doesn't bring
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by samus 3y ago
LLMs are idiot savants that can do a few things very well and fail horribly at others. And they require careful prodding to correctly process tricky logical questions, exposing what they are at the core: text expanders and parroters. Highly
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by samus 3y ago
LLMs are definitely here to stay. Even if they don't turn out to be the road to AGI, they can be used by all sorts of sub-AGI agents as a "language centre". An encoder can be used to extract meaning from input, and an autoreg
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by samus 3y ago
The attention mechanism is in practice implemented using three linear layers. The matrix multiplication to average the output and to implement the masking is the only non-neuronal part of that computation, but it can be seen as an activatio
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by samus 3y ago
Tokens aren't a necessary differentiator here. There is no fundamental technical reason why tokenization is used, it just has certain practical advantages. And the distinction almost disappears when we look at multimodal transformers,
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by samus 3y ago
We are all speculating .
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by samus 3y ago
There is nothing of value to gain from such analysis. Even if evidence turns up, it would be even more flimsy than graphology.
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by samus 3y ago
If it is known to belong to a widely deployed backdoor that can't be patched away in time, then it is worth to recover the key by brute force using supercomputers. Of course, such capabilities are rather restricted to nation states.
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by samus 3y ago
VPNs still make it possible to access everything. Gotta have to ban these as well. It seems like regulatory overreach into something which in the grand scheme of things is a very small problem. Today it's porn sites, what will it be to
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by samus 3y ago
Even assuming that an age check can be done in a privacy-preserving way*, it is naive to assume that such measures are effective prevent people from getting access to porn. Sex is one if the strongest human drive and we are not in the 80s a
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by samus 3y ago
Constitutions are supposed to prevent laws like this. Because it is all too easy to make people forget the principles their democratic system is based on and without which it will degenerate into a tyranny of the majority.
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by samus 3y ago
Nor is it provable that you weren't. Which is the point of the previous comment. Anyways, enjoy the nosebleed material...
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by samus 3y ago
Sadly, this way a company also gets rid of people who can speak uncomfortable truths when the need arises. Long-term only the desperate and the spittle lickers persist. If management is unable to deal with people that rock the boat (as in f
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by samus 3y ago
That's the curse of being a scientist: building and validating theories knowing that in the worst case you'll never live long enough to find out how wrong they actually are. Getting disproven is a lucky outcome. Please tell us if

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