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by srvmshr 4y ago
I defended my PhD in Computer Science in 2020. My dissertation was on "Rapid & robust modeling on small data regime", hence specifically focused on generalization, network optimization & adversarial robustness. I also work
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> In effect this is how humans respond to prompts no? What's the difference between this and sentience? An interesting line of question & open research is if we statistically learn similarly - why do we know "what we don&#x
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> Is it not possible that our brains are also just "large scale statistical knowledge assimilation" machines? Yes but we do better generalization, with fewer or even zero data & are contextually aware
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If you ask my honest opinion, sentience is a relative concept among living beings : Dogs learn by imitation & repetition. They have a reward function in their brain. And also some emotional response. We go few steps further : We imitate
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Of course there is. In AI domain (and philosophy) for e.g you have associative logic: "Grass is a plant. Plant is green. Grass should be green". There is symbolic logic too where relationships are established based on rules of obs
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A brilliant colleague Janelle Shane works specifically on how language models fail (obnoxiously often). This is her line of research to show how LLMs are overhyped / given more credit than should be. I think her fun little experiments
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LLM are definitely not sentient. As someone with a PhD in this domain, I attribute the 'magic' to large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models - and reproduction to prompts which closely match the inputs' sent
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A long time ago, I saw the documentary "Supersize me" & there was a particular segment where a Latino family was interviewed. One memory that has remaind with me is how non-chalantly they say, " America is a country where
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My apartment mate in NC, took bible study group as a last resort to meet some ladies (and with the end goal of getting laid) Too bad they loved Jesus & chastity
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In my naive understanding, instead of modern SIMD type execution they were using some form of token passing between cores to execute instructions async. That made programming such multicore APUs pretty hard for the programmer. They had a SD
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The challenge was not rigging this up - but making things usable & efficient. The Cell Broadband Engine was notoriously hard in architecture & needed lots of optimization. Part of the reason why PS4 & Xbox later pivoted towards
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Yes. Wholeheartedly agree on both your points
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What is a black company? i am not aware of this nomenclature. Please explain? >[...] these are required to keep most of the solely good things. Which things?
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It is a labor-short economy. But the labor pricing isn't changing because hiring runs like a cartel. Employers don't collude but there is an "accepted bracket" of salaries generally known, which hiring managers don'
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That is the main reason IMHO plaguing the work culture. Changes are slow because of inertia & the fact everyone tries to keep a decorum and play nice / polite
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She does have alternatives in IBM & Tesla. But they functioned the exact same way in interview. And given she's a top biller (~60 million yen per annum for her employer) Oracle wants her by August 1st week which is insane given she
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Okay here's the thing: Let me add some details to dispell that "part-myth". Salarymen do have long working hours & have to go along with those office drinking parties etc. But at the same time, they are treated more perso
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> And even with the terrible quality of life they have now, the Japanese world keeps spinning So it boils down to the working culture, no? The one I referenced initially.. My wife is interviewing for Oracle HR right now (mostly done de
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But Japan has always been a tech labor-shortage economy. That should incentivize employers to be advertising compensation. I am probably understanding your answer wrong. Could you please elaborate?
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Maybe its a cultural thing, but doing that in a Japanese/Asian setup is a big red flag - to the point my recruiter wife has to warn foreign nationals they may not hear back from the company anymore. Salary negotiation is kept at the ve
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Of course, every iteration of technological revolution will bring us better tools - and probably just like how we are wondering about nuclear age in the current information age, the future scientists will wonder why and how we reached the m
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In those times i.e. nuclear age, scientists probably dreamed of every solution in terms of nuclear energy or explosions to solve things quickly, much as we think of ML today. All these technologies have their limitations and it took some ca
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For the record, you have not spoken anything that was any way informative to the current legal dispute of Twitter vs. Musk. Why are you trying to be unnecessarily confrontational?
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If this wasn't vitriol, it definitely lacks much common courtesy afforded to other users here. I did not start this. And I am not sure how you can consider your initial post 'just fine'. As I said elsewhere, I am here to resp
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As someone who uses environment & containers fairly regularly, to this day, I didn't know `virtualenv` & `venv` were actually two different packages. I always used these interchangeably. I saw the difference pointed out in the
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> For someone so concerned with HN guidelines you didn't seem to mind launching a personal attack against him . I didn't. I never said 'f--koff' or 'you're a idiotic fanboy' or the likes. Commentor sid
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> Elon Musk doesn't know you exist and doesn't care what you think about him Sorry. I am trying to engage with everyone here respectfully. I generally feel people who write like this have anger issues or purely dismissive. The
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> Elon Musk doesn't know you exist and doesn't care what you think about him If that doesn't come across unprovoked offensive, what else is. What have I written in OP to deserve such a scathing response. Why can't we
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> when the Twitter board was discussing “poison pills” to stop his purchase of the company. Now, the same board is begging him to complete the purchase. These are two separate incidents although commonly conflated. Poison pill is used
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> Also, reminder: as its largest shareholder, Musk has a greater financial stake in Twitter than the entire board combined You verbatim quoted the actual closing arguments of Rossman (representing Musk in the trial).

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