tananan

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by tananan 2y ago
Too much! hope it's not marketed like that.
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by tananan 2y ago
A pilgrimage whose completion you are rewarded for by an ultra rare pasta, love it.
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by tananan 2y ago
> Is this controversial in some way? It’s not “controversial”, it’s just not a given that the universe is to be thought a deterministic machine. Not to everyone, at least.
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by tananan 2y ago
> Unless you believe in determinism and an overseeing god Or perhaps, determinism and mechanistic materialism - which in STEM-adjacent circles has a relatively prevalent adherence. Worldviews which strip a human being of agency in the se
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by tananan 2y ago
Many people probably do this already, somewhat intuitively. If you look around, descriptions of such problems and similar advice is found in many contemplative traditions. I've heard an sermon recently that was named something like &qu
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by tananan 2y ago
Sometimes you just have to weather the storm. I don’t think it makes sense to speak of therapies in such times.
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by tananan 2y ago
If this treatment is “surprising”, it might point to a unskilful way of conceptualizing the disease in the first place. I wonder how many people make things worse for themselves by worrying that they’re going crazy, which ends up feeding th
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by tananan 2y ago
This definitely resonates but I'm left wondering why there hasn't been a collective "sobering up" on this front. Not on a personal/team/company level, but just in terms of the general push to cram AI into every
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by tananan 2y ago
I don't really buy this line of reasoning. Nature can be immensely colorful yet soothing to all the senses. You don't need to stuff your house with psychedelic rugs, tapestries and color-changing LEDs for it to have color. Includi
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by tananan 2y ago
You don't seem to be replying to the actual take in the podcast. They aren't worrying that it's going to take their job - it's a somewhat snarky lament that none of these transformative changes for the good are happening
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by tananan 2y ago
You may not be ignorant - there may be an analogy there. But the post does come off as a bit tone-deaf.
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by tananan 2y ago
It would surely just be fluff in the prompt. The model's ability to generate chess sequences will be bounded by the expertise in the pool of games in the training set. Even if the pool was poisoned by games in which some players are tr
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by tananan 2y ago
Might wanna preface with a spoiler - for the people who want to have a proper go at the game.
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by tananan 2y ago
Biology is messy, quite hard to fit into neat lock-and-key paradigms. Furthermore, the data we do collect on relationships between drugs and X (whether fine/coarse grained toxicity, activity, preference for a target, etc.) is disorgani
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by tananan 2y ago
Hard disagree ;)
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by tananan 2y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful response. The view you are elaborating has a logic to it. You could argue it's the zeitgeist, at least among educated and STEM-adjacent circles. Hence my comment of it being cliche: you see variants of it all
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by tananan 2y ago
If all one has is hammers, one can start seeing nails everywhere. A screw? That's just a nail which will damage the wood. A tomato? That's just a soft screw which splatters. Etc. What purpose does seeing everything through the len
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by tananan 2y ago
You are right that relevant memories and analogous experiences come up and are used as building blocks in our evaluation/exploration of a problem, but it doesn't seem to me an algorithmic procedure at all. You can trace out your j
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by tananan 2y ago
Not sure I track. It would help to know where you're coming from. Given a long enough life-span, a lot of pencil and paper, and some dice, I could do the forward passes of GPT and "write novel code", without there having been
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by tananan 2y ago
It's not about (in-)determinism really, it's about the algorithm part. An algorithm that does something can in principle be ran by someone who doesn't know what the algorithm does. You could have a kid calculate an integral b
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by tananan 2y ago
The notion is AFAIS that a deterministic algorithm is obviously not reasoning, and a deterministic algorithm interspersed with dice rolls is obviously not reasoning either. Of course, some would beg to differ. It's quite common nowaday
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by tananan 2y ago
I hope that these drugs pull people back from nasty habits such that they eventually build the strength to do without them. As of yet, I do not see why it has to be a win-lose situation one way or the other. Crutches aren't evil - they
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by tananan 2y ago
The thing with available ligand + protein recorded structures is that they are much, much more sparse than available protein structures themselves (which are already kinda sparse, but good enough to allow AlphaFold). Some of the commonly-us
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by tananan 2y ago
In both academic and industrial settings, I've seen an initial spark of hope about AlphaFold's utility being replaced with a resignation that it's cool, but not really useful. Yet in both settings it continued as a playing ca
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by tananan 2y ago
Haven't gone through the paper fully, but just looking at the functional form of their attention, it seems more like a constraint on a standard MHA than an architectural discovery. Take a vanilla MHA, tie the V projection between conse
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by tananan 2y ago
Now I'm wondering, isn't there usually a `num_heads x value_dim -> model_dim` projection that goes after a MHA? The W in `softmax(QK)VW`? That one can play the role of this subtraction in a vanilla transformer, no? So I wonder
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by tananan 2y ago
> Orch-Or appears to be based on a misunderstanding of Godel's Theorem and computationalism, as has been pointed out by mathematicians and computer scientists. When I was looking for this, I failed to find or agree with anything con
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by tananan 2y ago
Happiness is a valid goal. If one perceives it’s not reasonable to expect it, then you may arrive at this conclusion. But imo that’s because we short-circuit happiness to sources of pleasure that we see aren’t that reliable. Hell, even this
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by tananan 2y ago
On point article, and I'm sure it represents a common sentiment, even if it's an undercurrent to the hype machine ideology. It is quite hard to find a place which works on AI solutions where a sincere, sober gaze would find anyth
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by tananan 2y ago
That’s fair, and I’m sure it can be done tastefully. I gave an earnest answer and it got an overall positive response. But there was an air of “putting me in my place” and making it clear that this is not “fun and games”. When I mentioned m

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