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by spuz 9mo ago
Thinking more about the "best results". Could this not be done by transforming the ascii glyphs into bitmaps, and then using some kind of matrix multiplication or dot production calculation to calculate the ascii character with th
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by spuz 9mo ago
In the appendix, he talks about reducing the lookup space by quantising the sampled points to just 8 possible values. That allowed him to make a look up table about 2MB in size which were apparently incredibly fast.
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by spuz 9mo ago
> The higher end TV, needless to say, didn't do that Actually it is very much needed to say that. Manufacturers get away with crappy unbearably slow UIs even on expensive TVs because it's not something that gets enough consider
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by spuz 9mo ago
This was really fun. I actually went back to the beginning of the archive to find more puzzles to solve. I think it would be nice if when you have solved one of the historical puzzles it would give you a button to click onto the next day&#x
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by spuz 9mo ago
Very cool. It's fun to see what triggers the "bang" effect when you are at supersonic speeds and in "Moving Source" mode.
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by spuz 9mo ago
My elderly parents asked me to install Linux on their laptops this Christmas after finally getting sick of the adware on Windows. If Microsoft can make them switch, anyone can.
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by spuz 9mo ago
I honest felt like the tide had turned when my elderly parents both asked me wipe Windows and install Linux on their laptops this Christmas. So far they have both had an overwhelming positive experience. They say it's such a relief not
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by spuz 10mo ago
I can imagine this job website implemented this criterion to guard against some kind of abuse but I cannot imagine what that abuse might look like or how this prevents it.
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by spuz 10mo ago
In this case, you'd be judging the AI made assets as simply AI made and the human made gameplay and programming as human made. I'm not suggesting the AI assets would be transformed into art just because they are part of some human
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by spuz 10mo ago
There is a small irony that the Indie Game Awards rejects nominations of games using AI but The Game Awards does not. It is independent teams of developers who are less likely to be able to afford to pay an artists who may be able to produc
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by spuz 10mo ago
The link to the paper I gave is the latest research on contrails and the potential effect of contrail mitigation and answers all the questions you have asked here. The video I gave boils all that information down into an easily digestible f
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by spuz 10mo ago
It does not state that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails. It says half of the climate impact of aviation is from contrails. Soot can have other effects and cause pollution in other ways such as reducing air quality but I suspect
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by spuz 10mo ago
Did you ever find the video again or another like it?
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by spuz 10mo ago
It's uncharitable because the comment purports to summarise the entire paper while simply cherry picking the worst result. It would be like if asked how did I do on my test and you said well you got question 1 wrong and then didn'
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by spuz 10mo ago
That's a bit of an uncharitable summary. In bases 8, 12, 16, 24 and 32 their model achieved 99.7% accuracy. They would never expect it to achieve 100% accuracy. It would be like if you trained a model to predict whether or not a given
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by spuz 10mo ago
I'd recommend you watch the video which is linked at the top of the Reddit post. Everything matches up with an individual learner who genuinely got stung.
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by spuz 10mo ago
> My view is that the approach to building technology which is embodied by move fast and break things is exactly what we should not be doing because you can't afford to break things and then fix them afterwards. - Demis Hassabis &qu
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by spuz 10mo ago
There are a lot of people who don't know stuff. Nothing wrong with that. He says in his video "I love Google, I use all the products. But I was never expecting for all the smart engineers and all the billions that they spent to cr
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by spuz 10mo ago
The earliest use of this term I can find is here: https://andrewbrown.substack.com/p/the-inhuman-centipede It was also used as the title for this post by Cory Doctrow discussing the same problem: https://plu
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by spuz 11mo ago
Yeah, it's also why you should install Windows first and then Linux not the other way round.
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by spuz 11mo ago
> So really, why wouldn’t I blow that up and start over? I really wish more people would mention the option of dual booting. Use another separate SSD to install your linux OS and that way you always have the option of going back to your
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by spuz 11mo ago
Then who are they targeting? Who else would currently be "implementing every single step"?
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by spuz 11mo ago
> Your new focus is architecting the solution, not implementing every single step. So congratulations, you have been elevated to a manager of agents. I'm not sure many engineers will welcome this "promotion".
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by spuz 11mo ago
The whole interview goes into that and talks about the benefits and costs of allowing search and AI crawlers access to Medium articles.
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by spuz 11mo ago
According to the CEO of Medium, the reason is because their founder, Ev Williams, was a fan of typography and asked that their software automatically convert two hyphens (--) into a single em-dash. Then since Medium was used as a source for
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by spuz 11mo ago
I think you are probably right but it's hard to find an example of a piece of text that an LLM is willing to output verbatim (i.e. not subject to copyright guardrails) but also hasn't been widely studied and summarised by humans.
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by spuz 11mo ago
Thanks - seems like I'm not the only one who jumped to the wrong conclusion.
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by spuz 11mo ago
Ah ok, for some reason that wasn't clear for me.
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by spuz 11mo ago
I remember hearing an argument once that said LLMs must be capable of learning abstract ideas because the size of their weight model (typically GBs) is so much smaller than the size of their training data (typically TBs or PBs). So either t
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by spuz 1y ago
Interestingly this is a question I've had for a while. Night brings potentially deadly cold, predators, a drastic limit in vision so why do we find the sunset and night sky beautiful. Why do we stop and watch the sun set - something th

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