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811.
by sdenton4 3y ago
There's a huge amount of work on model pruning, especially with an eye towards model reduction for on-device deployments. I've done a bunch of work in this space focused on getting speech synthesis working in real time on phones.
812.
by sdenton4 3y ago
A significant subset of my questions are basically, 'here's the weird statistics thing I would like to do; what are the academic jargon keywords I should look into?' All of the LLMs are pretty good at this, and when it halluc
813.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Old growth forward have a range of incredible ecosystem benefits, including a big effect on river health. The 'Timber Wars' podcast was a six part story on the Pacific Northwest, including a lot of the history of the science on lo
814.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Sadly, nonogram solving is in general NP-complete, which limits its usefulness as a compression algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram#Nonograms_in_computin...
815.
by sdenton4 3y ago
I didn't say that we should give up medical privacy at all. Simply that there is, in fact, a trade off, and that the current regime looks to me both overly restrictive and poorly implemented. Wholly getting rid of medical privacy is ob
816.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Sadly, I doubt that any of the luddites in the room (or French regulators) will be willing to trust the technical solutions to the problems... Differential privacy has the same problem: users have to trust that it's applied appropriate
817.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Perhaps you should bother to read the rest of the comment. It's not just about a better tomorrow, it's about a better today that we're missing out on because data handling is such a mess in the health sector. I have a higher
818.
by sdenton4 3y ago
There is a real argument on the other side, though. We're dealing with technologies that they've when given access to loads of data. Health data is heavily regulated, and rightly so, but that regulation greatly hinders innovation.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
That's the point though... Suppose there exists a great way to use llms for social networking. The if only openai has llms, Facebook loses their business. But if anyone can llm for free, the Facebook moat on ads and social networks is
820.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Sadly, once you lose focus on a craft in atmosphere it is lost. So shortly after you start piloting the launched probe, the quadcopter gets garbage collected by Kerbin's atmosphere.
821.
by sdenton4 3y ago
I once had a fun week playing Kerbal Space Program building solar-powered quadcopter launch platforms... Basically a quadcopter which is mostly a big platform with a rocket payload in the middle. The quadcopter slowly ascends to the highest
822.
by sdenton4 3y ago
As the Socrates said, one must commoditize the complement.
823.
by sdenton4 3y ago
I have bad news concerning pop music.
824.
by sdenton4 3y ago
On the modeling side, it's compelling to separate the memory from the linguistic skills. Vector search is hella fast and can be very good. So you can off load the memorization part of the problem, and let the language model focus on th
825.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Yah, blogs are already a rounding error in the corpus, and that has nothing to do with llms. Those of us who are still blogging are already doing it in spite of ~waves hand broadly at the world~. I'm not truly sure that llms mean less
826.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Because if you say convex, you better damned well have a proof of convexity...
827.
by sdenton4 3y ago
[strike]Punk's[/strike] SVM's not dead! (More seriously, it's good to find inroads to better formal understanding of what's happening in these systems.)
828.
by sdenton4 3y ago
The arithmetic issues are well documented and understood; it's a problem of sub-token manipulation, which has nothing to do with reasoning. (Similar to calling blind people unintelligent because they can't read the iq test.) And t
829.
by sdenton4 3y ago
What barbarous society makes people pay for education?
830.
by sdenton4 3y ago
It's not totally clear what, exactly, you're unhappy about here. Should the government also not be allowed to use newspapers to transmit information? What's special about using social media as a communication medium? There ha
831.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Arizmendi spun out of Cheeseboard in 1996 and now has six locations... Also, Mondragon exists. Coops can expand.
832.
by sdenton4 3y ago
As I recall, Arizmendi spun out of Cheeseboard... So, yes, we also have examples where worker coops beget other worker coops. http://www.arizmendi.coop/about-arizmendi-association.html IMO, the reason you don't see mor
833.
by sdenton4 3y ago
We would force broad changes in human society to conform to the assumptions of our database scheme, same as we always have.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
To be sure, when it's mass die off of one of the planets major carbon sinks we're talking about, it's good to pay more attention to the low end of the confidence interval...
835.
by sdenton4 3y ago
Technically incorrect! The numerical chain rule uses the method of finite difference, which will accumulate errors as you move through the computation. See the 'differences from other methods' section: https://en.m.wiki
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Check out Jax: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/autodiff_cook...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
In this, it stands beside "Bela Legosi's Dead," which simultaneously invented goth and was the perfect parody of goth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY
838.
by sdenton4 3y ago
There's a lovely variety of mosquito-borne diseases, most notably malaria and West Nile virus, which lead to a Real Bad Time. I've been helping out a bit in a project for mosquito eradication in Hawaii, where avian malaria transmi
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I've been having a delightful time these last couple years working with Jax (the machine learning thing), which takes the DOTADIW stance. The philosophy is to get rid of frameworks, and replace them with libraries developed with DOTADI
840.
by sdenton4 3y ago
It's helpful, though. As a cyclist I get a lot of cues from hearing. Humans in cars are basically deaf.

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