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by samvher 4y ago
Interesting - if you do manage to formulate it I'd be curious to read that. I like how they're taking a proactive approach in trying out what role ChatGPT and the like can play in generation and exploration of knowledge. I like th
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by samvher 4y ago
I'm Dutch so I don't know to what extent my experience applies here and what it will do to your expectation on outcomes (teacher is a decently paid job with us, though definitely not high paying). The people I know in education ar
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by samvher 4y ago
> as attested by actual professionals usually taking the top comment to correct the majority of Got a bit confused here, what is this sentence? I agree that the band on HN is somewhat narrow, though I feel it is a distinctly different ba
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by samvher 4y ago
It's not obvious to me why it would be very beneficial to have a data center close to an Intel plant, but it sounds a bit like it might not be a coincidence that they're close together. If someone knows why this pairing makes sens
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by samvher 4y ago
I wonder when we will get to a point that network effects start to dominate in this space, rather than tech/research. It does seem like (a) ChatGPT being publicly available, (b) it learning from user interactions and (c) it having gene
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by samvher 4y ago
No offense but this approach worries me - it seems like a novel mechanism to (perhaps inadvertently) generate and spread false information. It takes a lot of fact checking to make sure everything is right, and if you do the research yoursel
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by samvher 4y ago
Software Foundations is a series of interactive books where you work through proofs in Coq, gradually increasing in complexity: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/ This is a bit on the edge of the domain that you&#x2
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I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months in Manhattan(arstechnica.com)
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by samvher 4y ago
Any link you could share to check this out? Quick search leads to a youtube video of his, but the audio is so bad it's unwatchable (to me at least), maybe there is something better out there?
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by samvher 4y ago
If you think the money can come from outside of the system (a new source specifically and only for this purpose) by all means it sounds great, people paying less for school, and people being able to treat studying as a job that brings food
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by samvher 4y ago
The money has to come from somewhere. If person A (the person you responded to) and person B (someone who has no trouble attending all classes) both pay $1000 dollars tuition, and person B gets $200 back because of the incentive scheme, you
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by samvher 4y ago
Of course it's a zero sum game - the reward is coming from the tuition people pay. Disadvantaged students end up sponsoring the advantaged ones.
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by samvher 4y ago
As a student who used to get good grades with low attendance, I would have found such class refunds very annoying and patronizing. It also gives students who are well-off a lot more flexibility in how they structure their time than those fo
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by samvher 4y ago
I'm not convinced that paragliding is inherently safer. The speeds are lower, and it's not "head-first". But at least a hang-glider is a solid device that can't randomly collapse (a common cause of paragliding accid
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by samvher 4y ago
I've also read this article a number of times in the past - I used to fly sailplanes, and did a paragliding course at some point. Somewhat regularly I feel a strong urge to pick up paragliding more seriously - I think flying is one of
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by samvher 4y ago
I'm confused - how much has changed since February? The DeepMind blog post [0] seems to suggest not much. When I saw this headline on the front page I thought there were some major advances, again, but it seems not? [0] https:/&#
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by samvher 4y ago
Can you say more about the ways in which fusion reactors need to surpass stars, and why people believe it's feasible that we can sufficiently get to that point? (Also - thanks for sharing one of the most interesting comments I've
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by samvher 4y ago
Yes that’s the one. Good to know, thanks for making me aware!
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Maybe I'm biased specifically because of the book I mentioned. For me it's providing a theoretical basis for many things that earlier I learned in a hand-wavy way (e.g. way back I took Hinton's NN course and Ng's ML cour
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by samvher 4y ago
There is a lot of transferable knowledge to gain from learning this stuff properly, even if you don’t expect to do core AI work in a commercial setting. Optimization, function fitting, probability/statistics, GPU programming… My impres
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by samvher 4y ago
Feeding back the error you're getting, or the way in which expected behavior is different from observed, can get you pretty far. The bot is fairly graceful at taking feedback. (Your mileage may vary - it works sometimes, but not always
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by samvher 4y ago
I'm pretty confused trying to connect all the reports online with my own experiences as well. From what I've tried, ChatGPT does not _understand_ code at all, and there are many inconsistencies in what it says. The "confident
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by samvher 4y ago
Yeah I had a slightly similar experience as OP, though simpler. I asked it to automate a basic task, something I hadn't done before. I managed to do it with ChatGPT only, no other resources. That said - ChatGPT did make mistakes, there
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by samvher 4y ago
It could be that it was trained on leetcode content? I.e. that it has seen this problem more or less verbatim. Any information on whether that would be the case? I'm not so familiar with what OpenAI do and don't use for training.
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by samvher 4y ago
I did read the article - some of the problems with judgements of work quality also come up with (hypothetical) well-intentioned truth-seeking non-political long-term-optimizing managers who just don't happen to be stats experts.
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by samvher 4y ago
> Nobody knew or even cared what the difference was between good and bad data science work. Meaning you could absolutely suck at your job or be incredible at it and you’d get nearly the same regards in either case. In my experience it&#x
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by samvher 4y ago
Gotcha - I read it as Sussman didn't want to program his preconceptions into the network (for which randomness seemed suitable, which is why I was confused). Your explanation makes more sense.
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by samvher 4y ago
Maybe I'm naive - but I don't get it. Closing your eyes doesn't make the room empty. And in the same way not programming preconceptions into the neural net doesn't make the preconceptions go away? I realize explaining a
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by samvher 4y ago
Any idea if worked out exercises are available anywhere as well?
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by samvher 4y ago
In my experience refactors and big-O thinking tend to show up in pretty different places. Refactors are more about which components are talking to each other, and what is the content and shape of that communication. Big-O is more about how

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