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by sterlind 4y ago
Statistically significant, but slight (~25% increased risk, on average.) Still not great. Obviously, copper IUDs are an alternative for many, though they have their downsides. One of the big uses of hormonal contraception is managing heavy
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by sterlind 4y ago
I had a similar experience. I wanted it to write code to draw arcs on a world map, with different bends rather than going on a straight bearing. I did all the tricks, told it to explain its chain of thought, gave it a list of APIs to use (w
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by sterlind 4y ago
100%. Most of the people I see posting fake news (as in, rumors from bot tweets/generated pages that I've determined is false from easily accessible, primary sources) are older. Though maybe that's because older people are on
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by sterlind 4y ago
Our niche as a species is complex tool use. I don't think it's a coincidence that tool use emerged in a species with gangly, flexible arms and opposable thumbs. If cats had become hyperintelligent rather than hominids, they'd
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by sterlind 4y ago
holy moly. just two nights ago I used that repo to train the 13B model on my RTX 4090. I thought 30B was weeks away,
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by sterlind 4y ago
People have agency. Set an age of majority and treat those above it like adults. It's a hell of a lot better than infantilizing women and chauvinistically "protecting" us from exploitation. I feel like I'm finally starti
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm a woman. I watch porn. I've made porn (well, I've posted nudes online.) I definitely don't think it's twisted the way I see women (or, like, myself.) I'm pretty done with men deciding what's in my best
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by sterlind 4y ago
can you solve general instances of SAT? can the average person?
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by sterlind 4y ago
this is useless because it doesn't handle context: Q: Name five genres of music. A: Jazz, country, hip-hop, blues, classical. Q: Name a famous artist from the third genre. A: Salvador Dalí. Whereas this one actually supports context:
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by sterlind 4y ago
that's exactly what has me worried about AGI. AGI is going to supercharge the already sociopathic profit-seeking of corporations. it's legitimately terrifying me.
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by sterlind 4y ago
how much of that work requires physical labor? when I think of the work to be done, I think of like, building roads and houses and factories, transitioning to renewable energy, staffing hospitals with doctors and nurses, picking up trash on
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by sterlind 4y ago
why do these LLMs struggle so hard to be concise? is this because the Alpaca dataset is pretty wordy? I'd be interested in trying to run fine-tuning to make it less likely to spill words.
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by sterlind 4y ago
maybe you could slow down the hardware? like, limit the number of execution units GPUs are allowed to have? or slow them down? extremely heavy handed, but maybe better than Skynet?
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by sterlind 4y ago
backpropagation didn't get solved until the '80s, weirdly. before then people were using genetic algorithms to train neural networks. and it was only in the last decade that the vanishing gradients problem was tamed. my impression
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by sterlind 4y ago
do people actually use SVMs anymore? like, regression, sure - because it's a tool to measure how well a hypothesis (polynomial function) matches the data (points.) and CNNs are still foundational in computer vision. but the first and l
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by sterlind 4y ago
it's an overly high bar, but it seems well on its way to competing with experts from every field. it's terrifying. and I'm not so sure it has no model of the world. a textual model, sure, but considering it can recognize what
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm baffled that you've been downvoted. I've been harangued for wearing a mask as well - I don't know why it offends people, I don't make others wear one, I'm just doing me. Also the study of surgical masks bei
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by sterlind 4y ago
> David Salsburg reports that a colleague of Fisher, H. Fairfield Smith, revealed that in the actual experiment the lady succeeded in identifying all eight cups correctly.[6][7] interestingly.
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by sterlind 4y ago
DeepMind invested heavily in pursuing RL as the holy grail for AGI. Which still seems like a plausible approach to me, we're not there yet! But despite inventing transformers, they seemed not to appreciate how AGI-like LLMs could becom
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by sterlind 4y ago
absolutely amazing. I'm stunned how fast quantization was done. do you think there's anything left to trim? like weight pruning, or LoRA, or I dunno, some kind of Huffman coding scheme that lets you mix 4-bit, 2-bit and 1-bit quan
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by sterlind 4y ago
Rap News was wasted on the early 2010s. Such a stable, boring time compared to Brexit, Trump, Covid, the war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, UAP disclosure. Why couldn't Robert Foster have been born a few years later?
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by sterlind 4y ago
Many technologies can lead to physical harm by your standard. Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, but presumably you aren't worried about Discord and Twitter the same way. Moreover, would you have locked down social media with such safe
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by sterlind 4y ago
huh neat. a couple weeks back I had a conversation with ChatGPT where I asked it if it had special control tokens it could emit, and after a lot of coaxing I got it to tell me about <|im_end|>. I wasn't sure if it hallucinated it
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by sterlind 4y ago
jeez, it won't even generate JS to shake up page elements without being broken? that's so painfully vanilla. perversely, they're encouraging jailbreaks and demonstrating the harms of guardrails by being so needlessly Draconia
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by sterlind 4y ago
if the ADA doesn't already cover this, we need to amend it to mandate accessibility. at least for businesses at Amazon's scale.
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by sterlind 4y ago
you'd think Amazon would have to at least pay lip service to accessibility, at the scale of that company. it's infuriating that they don't seem to care.
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by sterlind 4y ago
It's based on GPT-3, right? Is the amount of compute needed to train that factored in?
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by sterlind 4y ago
The only to solve homelessness in a city, definitionally, are getting the homeless to move out, or getting them housing. Given the insane real estate prices in the area, $550K seems accurate to buy them housing. Unless you plan to round the
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by sterlind 4y ago
we're not stochastic parrots, we're reinforcement learning systems. we're motivated by pain and pleasure. we create plans to avoid pain and achieve pleasure. we guide our own learning. that's the reason AlphaZero can bec
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by sterlind 4y ago
Aug 31 is a public holiday in like, Kyrgyzstan. It just got it wrong to start with, then made up something believable in response to you asking "why not?"

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