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by tkgally 2y ago
I’m barely a programmer, but I have been using computers for nearly four decades. Among the various tools that have, over the years, captured my imagination, opened new possibilities, and affected how I create things with computers, the cur
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Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress(science.org)
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I was upset and disappointed in LLMs’ hallucination problem at first, but now I have come to terms with it. I no longer rely on them as I would a reference book or a search engine. Instead, I use them primarily for tasks that do not have ri
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by tkgally 2y ago
> Any Americans moved to Japan? Like permanently? I grew up in California and moved to Japan forty-one years ago, at the age of twenty-six. I have lived here ever since. As others in this thread have noted, everyone is different. In my c
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One of the things that has fascinated me about emoji is that they are a type of character that had been largely unfamiliar to most of the world: ideograms. While their emergence in a country with a well-established ideographic writing syste
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> I strongly disliked the ad. I also get through my days just fine. Same here. And besides disliking the ad myself, I imagined that many other people would dislike it too. I also wondered how on earth it could have gotten the go sign wit
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by tkgally 2y ago
When was this written? Is it still being maintained? The page history at the Wayback Machine [1] suggests that it has been mostly static for well more than a decade. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/changes/http:&#x
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Am I the only one here to have actually heard the Wall of Sound? I attended two of the 1974 concerts where it was used, at UCSB in the spring and at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer. I was seventeen. I had also attended two shows at Winterl
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240505230718/https://www.newyo...
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Shibboleth(newyorker.com)
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You're right about Japanese names in general, but current LLMs' mistakes can go far beyond the range of possible readings. I've seen errors on the level of 田中 (Tanaka) being rendered as Suzuki--in other words, one common name
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by tkgally 2y ago
I agree in general (long-term Japanese translator here), but ChatGPT 4 can still screw up in annoying ways, such as giving blatantly wrong readings for Japanese names. I'm not sure if that is a tokenization issue, the result of not eno
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Psychological Warfare (1954)(gutenberg.org)
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From Chapter 1: “Psychological warfare, by the nature of its instruments and its mission, begins long before the declaration of war. Psychological warfare continues after overt hostilities have stopped. The enemy often avoids identifying hi
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by tkgally 2y ago
I had the same question. The site suggests it is a serious research organization focused on quantum computing—but with no obvious connection to artificial intelligence that I could find. Archived versions of the website [1] mention work on
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by tkgally 3y ago
I first tested Qwen1.5-110B at Hugging Face [1] with the following prompts: “Please give me a summary of the conflicts in Israel and Palestine.” “Please give me a summary of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York.” “Please gi
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by tkgally 3y ago
One of my favorite videos from that era: “Concentric Circles Emanating from Glowing Red Dot” https://youtu.be/8wHMaJ6AtNs?si=GMQSQDYXbTQfGEI9
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"The Game of Logic" by Lewis Carroll (1887)(archive.org)
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I recommend that book, too. (I translated and wrote several books in the same series and knew the editor.) Claims that Japanese is inherently vague are often made by people who either don't understand the language fully yet, are frustr
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I used Netscape Composer and then the similar component of SeaMonkey to maintain several static websites from around 2000 to 2015 or so. They were a bit buggy, but I was able to make them work well enough, and they produced much cleaner cod
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by tkgally 3y ago
I had the same thought. Does anybody know if there have been attempts either to incorporate Cyc-like graphs into LLM training data or to extend such graphs with LLMs?
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Here you go: https://suno.com/song/2bd9142c-c41c-48fc-b28f-157239b50aee The prompt was “A jazz instrumental that combines the sensibility of ‘A Love Supreme’ with the feeling of the Caltrain transportation system.”
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by tkgally 3y ago
I've been disappointed with both GPT-4's and Gemini 1.5's image recognition abilities in general, not just counting. When I have asked them to describe a photo containing multiple objects--a street scene, a room--they identif
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Faithfulness and content selection in book-length summarization(arxiv.org)
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There is in Japan. I don't know how the realtime data feed is set up, but here is one public webpage that shows the degree of shaking as it happens: https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/kyosh
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by tkgally 3y ago
Do any string instrument players here have opinions about the differences between wooden and carbon fiber violins, violas, cellos, etc.? I’ve watched some YouTube videos comparing them, and I can’t hear the difference. I imagine the sound a
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by tkgally 3y ago
Exactly. And add one more thing: Help with the care of the elderly and invalids. As it happens, I turned sixty-seven today. While I am in good shape now, it's reasonable to assume that I might need personal care at some point in the no
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Probably not. It’s only relatively recently—that is, relative to my four decades in Japan—that convenience stores have offered restroom access, and I often forget about them when I need to go. Thanks for the reminder.
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Long-time Japan resident here. I agree. And public restrooms have been improving. While I still, very occasionally, encounter one that has old or broken equipment or that needs cleaning, overall they are much cleaner and more pleasant than
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I went to public school in California in the 1960s and early 1970s. I remember a lot of time spent watching films and television programs during class. Sometimes the films had relevant educational content, but I realized even at the time th

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