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by thorum 2y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this: > In biology class, biology wasn’t presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing. We were nowhere acquainted with real biologists, the real questions they had, the re
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Drake releases diss track with AI Tupac, Snoop Dogg voices(rollingstone.com)
4 points by thorum 2y ago|2 comments
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by thorum 2y ago
Can embeddings be used to capture stylistic features of text, rather than semantic? Like writing style?
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by thorum 2y ago
For most kinds of human systems, evolution selects for resilience, flexibility and ease of communication instead of logic and efficiency. So we end up with things that are kind of weird but somehow remain dominant for thousands of years, wh
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by thorum 2y ago
> And here’s the thing – we all know that GPT-3 was vastly better than GPT-2. And we all know that GPT-4 (released thirteen months ago) was vastly better than GPT-3. But what has happened since? Other models have gradually caught up to G
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by thorum 2y ago
As alternative perspective in terms of power dynamics: The Kagi CEO is a somewhat powerful figure as the CEO of a well-known tech company. The blog author is a random person from outside the tech startup culture. The internet levels the pla
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by thorum 3y ago
Someone probably said the same thing to Van Gogh during his life.
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by thorum 3y ago
OpenVoice currently ranks second-to-last in the Huggingface TTS arena leaderboard, well below alternatives like styletts2 and xtts2: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena (Click the leaderboard tab at th
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by thorum 3y ago
Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky), The Expanse (James S. A. Corey), Broken Earth (N. K. Jemisin), Locked Tomb (Tamsyn Muir), A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine), Murderbot (Martha Wells), The Light Brigade (Kameron Hurley), The Wayf
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by thorum 3y ago
The article’s premise is based on a linked Washington Post survey that shows 12% of readers read scifi in the last year, fantasy 15%, and romance 11%. This is not compelling evidence that scifi is unpopular. Perhaps people are just more div
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by thorum 3y ago
> the researchers collected a sample of 1,920 video clips from Twitch.tv. These clips were selected based on their popularity within the most frequented categories of the platform. The sampling process was carried out from September to O
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by thorum 3y ago
Note that the benchmarks used for comparison are basically measuring the model’s ability to understand financial content. In other words, reading comprehension for English, just in a specific domain. It shouldn’t really be surprising that a
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by thorum 3y ago
I don’t know what the people who say Claude 3 is better than GPT-4 are using it for. It’s been consistently worse for everything I’ve thrown at it. Debugging a Python function this morning. Claude 3 Opus failed completely. GPT-4 found the b
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by thorum 3y ago
That might be true for finetuning ChatGPT 3.5, but if you can finetune a small model (7B or less) to perform on par with GPT-4, while being faster and private, that’s a different story.
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by thorum 3y ago
> The research team demonstrated the system’s accuracy by having the participants pronounce five sentences — both aloud and voicelessly — including “Hi, Rachel, how are you doing today?” and “I love you!” (…) Going forward, the research
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by thorum 3y ago
My first thought on seeing this was, I can’t believe the Belters never thought of this in The Expanse.
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by thorum 3y ago
The 2012 surgeon general report linked in the article goes into depth about the debate on this topic and the research that has been done into the effects of smoking in films on children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books&#x
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by thorum 3y ago
I’d be fine living in a world where nobody bothered to invent non-consensual mind reading tech. Or, if that’s too much to ask, where we invent everything else that needs inventing first.
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by thorum 3y ago
From the article, > The present work demonstrates that it is now practical for patients to undergo a single MRI scanning session and produce enough data to perform high-quality reconstructions of their visual perception. > Such image
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by thorum 3y ago
It’s impressive how well the T5 family of models has aged, even compared to newer LLM architectures.
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by thorum 3y ago
The submitted link works for me, but maybe it’s a regional issue. Here’s an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329042339/https://www.colum...
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What Is Enlightenment? (1784)(web.archive.org)
70 points by thorum 3y ago|53 comments
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by thorum 3y ago
Is it not possible (yet) to return them to the surface in a controlled manner via a SpaceX capsule of some kind? (Or just not seen as worth the expense?)
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by thorum 3y ago
I’m not a quantum computing expert, but surely it’s more likely the algorithm is less original than the authors’ believed, than it is that Opus is doing original scientific research.
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by thorum 3y ago
If this were correct, it would be a bit less impressive than OP’s claim, but still a monumental leap forward for translation of low-resource languages - a task which all previous LLMs fail at.
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by thorum 3y ago
Full benchmarks vs other Mistral models: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/endpoints/#benchmarks-resul...
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by thorum 3y ago
Supported file types: https://github.com/google/magika/blob/main/docs/supported-co...
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by thorum 3y ago
xtts2 is great, but it looks like this model is probably more consistent with its output and has a better grasp of meaning in long texts.
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by thorum 3y ago
So how many of these would you need to match the brightness of a lightbulb?
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by thorum 3y ago
I asked it to do a natural language processing task and it said it couldn’t because it was only a language model.

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