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by time_to_smile 3y ago
What about blog spam written by human content writers? The trouble is we've already had a web flooded with "ai content" long before GPT was public. Plenty of young writers have been trained to churn out thoughtless streams of
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
The problem lies with carbon's essential role as part of the energy cycle that powers the majority of this planet. H2O + (Solar) Energy + CO2 => Useful hydrocarbons (everything form sugar to gasoline) O2 + Hydrocarbons => Useful
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Strong agree on the remote training being entirely possible. My first dev job was remote (long before the pandemic) and onboarding was not a problem at all. In fact because you need people to get set up remotely, I find the documentation te
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Not to mention the added hypocrisy that at nearly every company I've worked at, big and small, C-levels are almost never physically in the main office building. Sometimes they're traveling the globe to work on making deals, but
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance. My experience is that all of the really intelligent people interested in crypto did leave after the ~2012 wave of excitement. A
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
For those curious what the big deal is here: PyTrees make it wildly easier to take derivatives with respect to parameters involving a complex structure. This makes it much easier to organize code for non-trivial models. As an example: if yo
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
A good chunk of this comes directly from Richard Hamming's incredible The Art of doing Science and Engineering (a video of the specific lecture on n-dimensional spaces can be found here[0]) and yet I see no mention of this talk anywh
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Problem is that everything needs X powered by clean energy, which means we need both a lot more clean energy and, if we want to slow/stop climate change, to massively reduce our use of fossil fuels... which requires a lot more cl
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I'm still not entirely convinced that pipes aren't an anti-pattern. Absolutely an improvement over nested function calls: a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a but I'm not convinced pipes are better than more verbose code t
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
It's open source in the sense of OSINT [0]. Clearly confusing on a site like Hacker News, but this has been standard usage of the term for that community for a long time now. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-s
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I'm surprised how long the "solution in search of a problem" trend has dominated tech product design, despite obvious and repeated failures of this approach to produce results. AI/ML products fundamentally don't mak
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
You can implement SVM, gradient boosted decisions trees, and almost all classical models using the techniques of differentiable programming and it will have 0 impact on the amount of data required. Massive Neural Nets do require a lot of
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of classical AI, and adore PAIP, but this isn't really true if your goal is anything other than a deep understanding of AI in the most general sense. While it would be great if everyone interested in the topic was w
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the use case here? It seems like if the goal is to "play around with vector databases", why not just install it on your local machine? Part of using these tools is learning how they work and configuri
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> Gone is the naive belief that rare/valuable skills secure higher salaries over a long period of time. While I agree that this is a naive belief to have (at this point in my career I think there's almost a slightly negative
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Personally I think this is a strength of Haskell that many people don't really recognize and appreciate. It's a language the provides a lot of flexibility. If you want it to be a pure research language, it's happy to do t
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I worked for a travel startup for a bit and after that experience I only book airfare and hotels directly. Specifically with airfare, a 3rd party is not allowed to sell for less than the airline directly, so it's always better option
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I have a hard time believing you have serious experience working in a tech company anywhere near leadership. I've worked at a pretty wide range of tech companies throughout my 15+ year career. When I was young I would ask myself "
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
oh I fully agree. I'm just pointing out that even the defining example of "moonshot" took some serious dedication of resources and time. What's really wild is that the entire Apollo program cost ~$25 Billion in 1973 (of
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Metaverse has already been deprioritized, and Meta is shifting to generative AI [0]. I was always a huge skeptic of the Metaverse conceptually, but it was a moonshot project (and I'll be the first to admit, skeptics are often proven
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Don't love it, it's not correct. > what the reward / punishment system really equates to Nothing, and least as far as neural network training goes. This is an extremely poor analogy regarding how neural networks learn. If
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry It's not that it leaves out details, it's that the articles metaphors are not actually correct in regards to the way deep learning works. This post mostly confuses
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> This is how neural networks work: they see many examples and get rewarded or punished based on whether their guesses are correct. This description more closely describes reinforcement learning, rather than gradient based optimization.
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Leetcode is also just an awful signal. It would be fine if it was only problems with false negatives, but the false positive rate is through the roof. I'm consistently shocked by coworkers I've had, who I knew had to pass challeng
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
"Tech Bosses" are dictators and I'm always surprised that most people have absolutely zero intellectual challenge suspending the values of democracy for 8-12 hours a day. Virtually all of the rights we learn about in grade
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Whenever I see this comment on HN I always am a bit surprised: Do you not have any friends from/in China? This conspiracy theory always gets a good chuckle out of me and my Chinese friends whenever it comes up. I have a good chunk of m
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
I fully agree and came here to post something very similar. Advanced (or even non-trivial) prolog requires such a deep understanding of what prolog is doing under the hood that, at that point, you should be able to implement whatever you&#x
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Because humans (and your language is confusing here between individual humans as models and human society as the model) are constantly receiving new information. Even before humans learned "some berries are bad" they initially tho
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> You prompt the LLM to generate a bunch of arithmetic questions, prompting it to show its working. Then you take that output, remove the intermediate steps, and train on the results. Removing or editing the output of the model is provi

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