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by simonkafan 6y ago
> that it’s possible for a model to someday reach human levels of generalization in NLP Fully disagree. There is no evidence that we are now closer to human level text understanding than before GPT-3. Yes, GPT-3 produces grammatically co
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I agree that the text generation has improved dramatically. But there is a big gap between "generating gramatically correct sentences" and "sentences that express an elaborated idea". For example: > I was thinking of
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Well, the same is true for lawyers. I know attorneys that have to look up everything in books. And I know attorneys that can cite basically any supreme court verdict from the last 10 years out of their head.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Not sure if anyone here has heared about the case Claas Relotius before. Relotius was a German journalist mainly working for "Der Spiegel" and well known for his remarkable, well-written articles. He wrote primarily about civil wa
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Impressive how much power the USA has over UK. It is known that Cisco has backdoors in their routers - and UK politics doesn't care. Now the Trump administration is spreading the rumor that Huawei hardware _might_ have backdoors (when
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by simonkafan 6y ago
In Austria there is a law in place saying if a company has a monopoly (e.g. public transport) or a quasi-monopoly (e.g. only supermarket in a 100 miles radius) the company is required to serve any customer and is not allowed to turn any dow
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I can think of a trivial motive: Pastime. Bill Gates loves to play Bridge, Warren Buffett enjoys playing Ukulele and Maxwell likes to spend time on Reddit. But I agree, it makes no difference.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It's truly remarkable how ignorant the US now acts towards foreign students and talents given that a lot of world class scientists, artists and innovators are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants. I hope this will give Europa and Asia the
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Why? VW earned 13 billion EUR after taxes in 2019, Tesla is still negative for 2019 in total. And yet the market cap of Tesla is 187b USD while for VW it's 80b USD. Stock prices have apparently nothing to do with company earnings and p
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I recently visited Uber's engineering blog ( https://eng.uber.com/ ) and I can't help but it seems they have engineers goofing around with new technology completely useless for their core business ("Look, we no
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I don't want to sound like an old man yelling at playing kids but sometimes I feel that SC startups are like a horde of locusts flying over a well-functioning industry, pretending to improve it positively but all they do is destroy the
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I wonder how many companies in the world are basially built on warm words without any real value behind. I made the experience that a lot of people don't really care if a company has positive revenue streams anymore, they don't ev
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I wonder how many companies in the world are basially built on warm words without any real value behind. I made the experience that a lot of people don't really care if a company has positive revenue streams anymore, they don't ev
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I read the paper and I find it highly unserious how frivolously they assigned some probability to the question how many intelligent civilizations there are in the universe. Their key assumption is: "We assume that if an SP remains in t
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Isn't this a good example of "feature creep"? I dont see any reason why it makes a browser more useful when the URL is partially hidden. It reminds me of a company which developed a product which was more or less done. So the
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by simonkafan 6y ago
GPT2 being "too dangerous to release" was a marketing stunt from the very beginning.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Like any social network, the value you get out of it is the cumulative value your connections bring in (through news postings, recommendations, leads). If you don't have much connections and the few you have are basically just celebrat
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Status of Stadia? Well, you still have a little over 3 years to try it out... http://stadiacountdown.com/
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Large corporations use their market power to gain competitive advantages - fully understandable from Amazon's point of view. However, it is completely incomprehensible why the authorities do not intervene in the market in a regulating
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by simonkafan 6y ago
It is irrational to compensate a negative event now incoherently with positive discrimination. It's like saying: Germany started World War 2, now Germany must send soldiers to stop Syrian war to compensate its bad karma.
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Wait, isn't exactly this discrimination? Selecting or not selecting someone based on his/her skin color?
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Why you will never become rich and famous like Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs(allagora.wordpress.com)
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Peer review is broken. More than once I've learned that papers get easier through peer review if you cite the paper of a reviewer (of course you don't know in advance who reviews it so it's basically luck). I often got commen
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by simonkafan 6y ago
I've never heared of this term before and it's interesting to read people's interpretation before they knew what it means. I thought this may be a colloquial expression of IT infrastructure admins when all their Docker hosts
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by simonkafan 6y ago
To underline this statement, take a look at this "Spotify for AR" concept: https://mixed.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/spotify_magic_le... Did someone at Magic Leap seriously think, people wil
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by simonkafan 6y ago
Bird, just in case you haven't seen (heard) it: https://youtu.be/wxTYKCOnRe4
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by simonkafan 7y ago
My feeling is that a lot of companies think: "We need a data scientist because all the big players also have one!" In fact, they actually don't need a data scientist. At best they need someone who cleans data, creates pie cha
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by simonkafan 7y ago
Kubernetes was released in July 2015. And given that no one would have directly jumped into using Kubernetes in production in 2015, how many people do you think have 3+ years of production-level experience now in early 2020?
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by simonkafan 7y ago
What essential product offerings is Azure missing that AWS have? My experience is that once AWS offers a new service that gets attention, a few month later also Azure offers it - and vice versa.
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by simonkafan 7y ago
It's not so much about an additional fee (honestly, 0.10$ per hour are nothing) it's more about Googles practice of suddenly charging services, shutting down services as they like, not giving a shit about us customers. Azure and A

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