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by tovej 1y ago
Really happy about oklch. You do have to learn the hue numbers, but once you do, everything is more intuitive.
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by tovej 1y ago
Ah, self-modifying code, the more things change the more they stay the same. Wasn't SMC one of the LISP-associated AI fields a few decades ago? iirc it's been mostly abandoned due to security issues, but some of it survives in dyn
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by tovej 1y ago
Does this also support Rmd? That would be pretty cool if you could publish an rstudio notebook and have a flow to edit a copy of the notebook straight in the web.
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by tovej 1y ago
The median does not move if the upper tail shifts, it only moves if the median moves. The fact that they do not report the mean is concerning. The mean captures the entire distribution and could actually be used to calculate the expected va
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by tovej 1y ago
I would personally never. Do I want to spend all my time reviewing AI code instead of writing? Not really. I also don't like having a worse mental model of the software. What kind of software are you building that you couldn't bef
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by tovej 1y ago
While this may help VCs get richer, this is definitely putting software quality and software safety at risk. If an AI-boosted startup makes it, the tech debt inside the company will be worse than in a "traditional" one. That seems
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by tovej 1y ago
This seems like nonsense to me. The results are clearly incoherent, both the text generation and punctuation. Seems like the idea is to sample words at fibonacci intervals and use those for generating new text. Obviously these word will be
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by tovej 1y ago
Citation needed, and I call bullshit. Unless you mean that they hallucinate useless algorithms that do not work, which they do. LLMs do not have an internal model for manipulating mathematical objects. They cannot, by design, come up with n
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by tovej 1y ago
Oh there's definitely a market but it's not as big or worth as much the AI market. Gamers don't need GB200s or H100s, and AMD beats Nvidia on price in most segments. Nvidia isn't going to die, but gamers won't fill
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by tovej 1y ago
The shovel business is good as long as the gold rush lasts. Once the gold rush is over, you're going to have to deal with a significant decrease in volume, unless you can find other customers. Crypto's over, gaming isn't a la
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by tovej 1y ago
IMO this strengthens the case for luck. If the probability of winning the lottery is P, then trying N times gives you a probability of 1-(1-P)^N. Who's more likely to win, someone with one lottery ticket or someone with a hundred?
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by tovej 1y ago
I like it, make the bot developers play whack-a-mole. Of course, you're going to have to verify each custom puzzle aren't you.
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by tovej 1y ago
The human biomass and its byproducts do grow at an exceptional rate, that's true, we are exceptional. But being exceptional in one way should not be mistaken for being supreme or better, which I feel like a lot of commenters are sugges
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by tovej 1y ago
That's easily true. 75 billion chickens are slaughtered every year, and the estimate for total historical human population is a little over 100 billion, most of whom died for reasons other than animal attack.
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by tovej 1y ago
You can reconcile these points by considering what specific context is necessary. The author specifies "outside" context, and I would agree. The human context that's necessary for useful summaries is a model of semantic or &q
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by tovej 1y ago
Good article, it's been told before but it bears repeating. Also I got caught on this one kind of irrelevant point regarding the characterization of the Matrix: I would say Matrix is not just diguised as a story about escaping systems
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by tovej 1y ago
Certain parts of what we call AI will definitely be used more in the future: facial recognition, surrogate models, video generation. I don't, however, see LLMs as consumer products being that prevalent in the future as currently. The c
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by tovej 1y ago
Thanks! This is a really useful source for computer science history, I was just thinking to myself that I keep reading UNIX history, but that I know very little about Multics. Looks like I can keep my evening busy for quite some time with t
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by tovej 1y ago
Very nice! I do wonder if it would be useful to be able to skip even more smaller segments, maybe a ctor argument for the minimum segment size. Or maybe some housekeeping functions to collapse the smallest segments into one. Mostly the thin
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by tovej 1y ago
If you use a prepared lesson plan it at least has some structure to it that students can learn to expect, and if you search for information from the internet, you are still compiling it yourself, which again means structure, a structure _yo
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by tovej 1y ago
Was it? I don't remember ever running into anyone preferring long documents. Also, anything added by the LLM is pure noise with the possibility of a hallucination or two. If, for some reason, you might even add some relevant informatio
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by tovej 1y ago
How can you ensure that the exercise actually teaches the students anything in this case? Shouldn't you be building the exercise around the kinds of issues that are likely to come up, or that are difficult/interesting? If you&#x27
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by tovej 1y ago
Using LLMs to produce material is not a good idea, except maybe to polish up grammar and phrasing. As a former teacher, I know you need to have a good grasp of the material you are using in order to help students understand it. The material
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by tovej 1y ago
Thanks for elaborating, this puts things into perspective, although the complexity of the end product is still unclear to me. I do still disagree with your assessment, I think the syntactic tokens in programming languages have a kind of imp
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by tovej 1y ago
Could you at least mention what the video game was, or why it was such a good implementation? Also, what was "perfect" about the code? "Perfect" is not a word I would ever use to describe code. This reads like empty hype
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by tovej 1y ago
That part we also agree on, generating hypotheses is done on the basis of existing literature, lit review (& related reasoning) is done on the basis of existing literature. The blog author is talking about reasoning in the context of a
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by tovej 1y ago
No, helping with chores is not the same as "performing research", it has limited utility for minor tasks, it is not essential and it does not even necessarily have a positive productivity impact. To illustrate the point, when I us
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by tovej 1y ago
This paper centers "novelty" but also finds that human ideas are more feasible, and that LLM-generated ideas are not diverse and that LLMs cannot reliably evaluate ideas. None of the ideas were actually evaluated by performing exp
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by tovej 1y ago
This comment would be more useful if you actually provided those examples. I'm also a researcher and agree wholeheartedly with the article. LLMs can maybe help you sift through existing literature or help with creative writing, at most
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by tovej 1y ago
5000x is hilarious (as is 5x and 100x). When you make outlandish claims, at least provide a reference or analysis.

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