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Cool. Stereoscopic diffusion images coming soon.
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Sounds interesting. Another recent paper on efficient architecture for long context lengths: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866
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"Please continue without explanation." Usually works for me.
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> To behead Ma Su (name) while crying. [...] I wonder how much further ahead of western cultures, eastern asian cultures would have been if they didn't kill (or commit suicide) every time someone made a mistake.
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> GPT does not model subjects. GPT does not even model words! It models tokens. The first and last layers of a transformer decoder model tokens. The hidden layers don't have this restriction. There was a paper recently showing that
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If you're creating the normal maps yourself, perhaps you would benefit from generating the image from that using https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet#controlnet-with-nor...
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Your conclusion is not supported by your premise. Reversion to a mean implies convergence to a stable, unmoving equilibrium. This requires that all forces are restoring forces in the vicinity of that equilibrium. While Earth's climate
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> IME Rust is slower to write For a backend webservice prototype, that's probably true. It's not true for everything, though. Especially if there are performance requirements or you need to handle errors properly. I've fou
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> the solution is not limited by cost I'm not so sure... The valuation seems a bit absurd to me. Using the same valuation system, what would be the valuation of Earth? Cost of extraction and transportation is still (and always) a co
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Ion escape might be a significant consideration, but given the plasma density and magnetic field strength, I'm guessing it wouldn't degrade the efficiency too much. Presumably they've done the calculations. I have not. As for
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Helion as already demonstrated recovering 95% of the energy from non-fusable plasmas and Q << 1 plasmas. Thousands of times. It's perhaps worth noting that the high speed, high power electronics required to implement their approa
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For AR passthrough, you would need some fairly complex processing to get video from an event-based camera. Event based cameras are definitely exciting for machine learning applications, though.
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If they succeed to the degree they aim to (and there's reason to believe they will), electricity from their generators will be an order of magnitude cheaper than any existing source.
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Depends what you're prototyping. Rust is hard to beat for prototyping an interpreter, for example.
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Not that I'm aware of, but that's a very interesting idea. If you had one that maps from ui to html with inline styling, you could automate turning image mock-ups into html with inline styling. It's not clear exactly how you
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It's not inherently bad. It measures what it measures. It's just a terrible measure of prosperity. See, for example https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/gdp-frog-matchbox-dav...
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Agreed. But I don't think it would take a herculean effort to do better than GDP.
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Private debt dwarfed public debt until very recently, and it's still significany higher: https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-what-is-the-role-of-pu... Also GDP is a terrible proxy for economic prosperity. A broken wi
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I agree that ChatGPT's ability to generate convincing arguments for complete BS is concerning. But I'm not convinced it's a clear negative, in the long run. Humans have been concocting convincing arguments for complete BS for
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Yeah, I've found the C4 model helpful for finding the appropriate level of abstraction for architecture documentation: https://c4model.com/ Code documentation, in contrast, should be auto-generated from the code.
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> it could be used to keep cold drinks cold and warm drinks warm The classic dad joke: So if I put my cold beer and my hot soup in there, how does it know which is which?
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I'm not sure that's entirely true. Scientists have successfully sliced, imaged, and analyzed (i.e. determined the connectome for) the entire brain of very small animal, the common fruit fly, Drosophila. We're still a long way
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Copyright != Trademark. Independently generated images of Mickey Mouse are litigated under Trademark law, not Copyright law. Disclaimer: I am not an IP lawyer and have roughly no idea what I'm talking about.
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Agreed. This is overblown. but they haven't even begun to apply RLHF (or at least they haven't published anything). I think it's safe to say that combining an LLM with RL, all existing techniques, would result in a much stron
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I'm curious, have you considered using PyTorch or JAX for tensor processing? ML libraries seem to be much further along when it comes to performing compute-intensive, hardware-accelerated operations on Tensor's. And you get gradie
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> As participants recalled the images, the receptive fields in the highest level of visual processing were the same size they had been during perception — but the receptive fields stayed that size down through all the other levels painti
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He clarifies that infinite sequences are valid, but all infinites are countable. It's an appealing view. Rather than the reals being uncountably infinite, they're countably infinite. Irrational numbers are uncomputable, but all ra
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> But neither ChatGPT nor some larger descendent model will ever be able to write the most difficult pieces of our software given natural language descriptions of desired functionality. Strong assertion that I think will be proven wrong
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Plutonium is definitely able to go critical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core A plutonium sphere of roughly 10 kg is sufficient.
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Yeah, its really bad. I keep having to disable 5G.

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