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by smokel 8mo ago
The author introduces the term "Supervision Paradox", but IMHO this is simply one instance of the "Automation Paradox" [1], which has been haunting me since I started working in IT. Interestingly, most jobs don't in
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by smokel 8mo ago
> single bit neural networks are decision trees. I didn't exactly understood what was meant here, so I went out and read a little. There is an interesting paper called "Neural Networks are Decision Trees" [1]. Thing is
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by smokel 8mo ago
Don't trip over words. The course offers quite a range of knowledge that is suitable outside LLMs. It's an introduction.
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by smokel 8mo ago
I suggested that the _understanding_ is outdated, not the principles. Many people used to say that LLMs were no more than a stochastic parrot, implying that they would be incapable of forming novel ideas. It is quite obvious that that is n
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by smokel 8mo ago
This is probably an outdated understanding of how LLMs work. Modern LLMs can reason and they are creative, at least if you don't mind stretching the meaning of those words a bit. The thing they currently lack is the social skills, amb
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by smokel 8mo ago
The NPR article seems to confuse causation and correlation. The actual paper doesn't, and merely implies correlation. Which is fascinating (and well-known) and might still prove useful in one way or another. [1] https://jam
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by smokel 8mo ago
This is new. You are citing FPGA prototypes. Those papers do not demonstrate the same class of scaling or hardware integration that Taalas is advocating. For one, the FPGA solutions typically use fixed multipliers (or lookup tables), t
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by smokel 8mo ago
Well, Python is largely written in C, so there's that.
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by smokel 8mo ago
How was that not the case? As far as I understand it ChatGPT was instrumental to solving a problem. Even if it did not entirely solve it by itself, the combination with other tools such as Lean is still very impressive, no?
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by smokel 8mo ago
People who like building new things, like building new things.
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CodeSpeak: A next-generation programming language powered by LLMs(codespeak.dev)
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by smokel 8mo ago
While this advice may work for some, I would like to point out that this person is making very popular art. This type of art is most likely easier to sell than what most contemporary artists produce. Also, this remark is giving away a fair
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by smokel 8mo ago
> They are all just token generators without any intelligence. Maybe, but "intelligence" doesn't have a clear, agreed definition. And calling them "just token generators" skips over how complex that generation
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by smokel 8mo ago
Besides being a bit of a shallow comment, what exactly do you imply here? That capitalism logically implies that the rich become richer? I don't think this is necessarily the case, it just needs a stronger government than what the US
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by smokel 8mo ago
AI is a hype, Al Lowe is a legend.
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by smokel 8mo ago
Work being done in offices is changing over time. I find myself writing less documents for printing and more for collaborating and sharing directly. Even though many formal processes still require printable PDFs, we are slowly migrating to
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by smokel 8mo ago
I'll bite. The benchmark is actually pretty good. It shows in an extremely comprehensible way how far LLMs have come. Someone not in the know has a hard time understanding what 65.4% means on "Terminal-Bench 2.0". Compari
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by smokel 8mo ago
What about n log n?
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by smokel 9mo ago
ChatGPT is quite different from GPT. Using GPT directly to have a nice dialogue simply doesn't work for most intents and purposes. Making it usable for a broad audience took quite some effort, including RLHF, which was not a trivial
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by smokel 9mo ago
> Pre literate peole could memorise vast texts It seems more likely that there were only a handful of people who could. There still are a handful of people who can, and they are probably even better than in the olden times [1] (for ex
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by smokel 9mo ago
Assuming that modifying the minimal user interface is unwanted, a simple confirmation interaction could fix this.
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by smokel 9mo ago
An interesting paper in this context is "Structural Inertia and Organizational Change" by Hannan and Freeman, 1984 [1]. A quote from the introduction: "...selection processes tend to favor organizations whose structures are
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by smokel 9mo ago
If they use unmodified Linux, then they only have to provide (a link to) the source code to that kernel on request. No source code is required for proprietary add-ons, unless they are kernel modifications. The GPL also does not state that
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by smokel 9mo ago
I don't trust this for one bit. For the owners there is quite the incentive to label this as the work of a genius. But in reality, this is just pretty complex for a 12 year-old to produce by yourself. Edit: as others have pointed out
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by smokel 9mo ago
That is slightly unconvincing. Durer is indeed a similar genius, but the complexity of that drawing is an order of magnitude lower than the painting. Source: know how to draw really well.
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by smokel 9mo ago
Ha, this made me think of Viznut's Micro$oft - Simulaattori [1]. [1] http://viznut.fi/demos/msdos/ (pick mssim.zip) or on Pouet https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=21174
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by smokel 9mo ago
The core issue is not that people cannot think with nuance, but that nuance is costly and poorly rewarded.
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by smokel 9mo ago
One of the more inspired design choices of the parking ticket devices in my area is the inclusion of a key repeat feature. If you keep your finger on the touchscreen for just long enough, it helpfully repeats the keystroke while you're
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by smokel 9mo ago
And Castlevania [1] (also from 1986) and don't forget about Pac-man, who probably started it all :) [1] https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Food
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by smokel 9mo ago
Agreed, but I'd say these would be artists in the "grey area". They are capable of drawing furry art, for example, and have the choice to monetize that, even though they might have become bored with it. I was mostly consider

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