typon

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by typon 4y ago
It's this fetishization of the seemingly more "rational" position that these people seem to have. It's similarly mind-boggling when people have discussions about free-will and determinism. Free will is quite possibly the
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by typon 4y ago
Maybe research done by linguists and cognitive scientists over decades should be valued more than your observation?
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by typon 4y ago
>Similar to the Chinese room argument, one can always claim the computer is just emulating understanding. And you'd be correct. The point isn't what kind of output ChatGPT can produce, the point is what kind of input it tak
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by typon 4y ago
FAIR has been one of the best AI labs in the world, with one of the godfathers of AI leading it. What do you mean by "bet on the wrong horse?"
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by typon 4y ago
The NSA is the biggest of Brothers in the world and supposedly the country keeps on innovating and big tech power is strongest here. How do you square that circle?
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by typon 4y ago
One thing people generally don't highlight about the transformer architecture, which I think is very important, are the pass through connections. This allows the model to "spread" out it's learnings across the network ra
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by typon 4y ago
I never understood newtonian mechanics taught in high school physics until I wrote a simulator for it. The code is generally ~100 lines in python but you really get the feel for how the equations work.
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by typon 4y ago
Extremely happy to see tech startups engaged in religious services
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by typon 4y ago
It's not very surprising though. Most of Silicon Valley and HN royalty is staunchly libertarian. VCs doing zero labour and getting rich off the backs of workers is a phenomena that cant easily be defended unless you buy into this ideol
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by typon 4y ago
Maintenance of the power inverter, batteries, wiring, and the panels themselves means that marginal cost is not zero, and as long as we don't know the solution to entropy, will never be "essentially" zero.
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by typon 4y ago
Exactly my experience trying to get GPT-3 to produce SQLITE queries. Anything with a CTE, it gets hopelessly wrong. I was super excited to show off this to my team and after one too many false results I just quietly swept this idea under th
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by typon 4y ago
Thanks for the list - I have not heard of any of these products. I would add vimeo to this list as well.
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by typon 4y ago
I think to do this at scale and properly we'd need a replacement for backprop
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by typon 4y ago
How is it weird? The point is to compare to a “safe” investment. A successful startup is supposed to have 10x or 100x returns for investors. A 30% return should be considered a failure.
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by typon 4y ago
Deepmind is high status as well. However with both these companies - they are looking for experienced researchers usually rather than new grads. Google was famous for hiring bright eyed young geniuses and building their careers.
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by typon 4y ago
This should be framed in the the office or every CEO. Although the point of the poem is the inevitability - maybe a good reminder nonetheless.
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by typon 4y ago
This perception changed 5-7 years ago. I actually can't think of a single software company that induces the same level of awe in university students anymore. Places like Jane Street do but they aren't really Silicon Valley tech co
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by typon 4y ago
It's interesting reading all these comments reaching for concepts not quite in peoples vocabularies because they have been stripped out systematically. Its cruel, inhumane, how can they just make a unilateral decision about something I
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by typon 4y ago
You are being sarcastic - but this mindset change should happen in American cities if we are to move towards a sustainable future. We should have regular roads for bicyclists and pedestrians and "car lanes" on some roads, "tr
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by typon 4y ago
Yes, but that's OUR surveillance and we're cool with that
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by typon 4y ago
Zoom out to 5Y - looks like the transaction volume is on average ~10-15% lower than before mid 2021
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by typon 4y ago
It's not a traditional FPGA chip (lots of luts and flip flops). The "AI Engine" is basically hardened chiplets that are working alongside soft logic chiplets and I/O. This is how they're able to get their performanc
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by typon 4y ago
It's really dangerous for AIs and their proponents, actually. Once people start mistrusting these results, it'll be a slippery slope. I've generally just stopped using ChatGPT entirely because of this.
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by typon 4y ago
You don't even need to retrain if you use retrieval transformers. That is the real revolution waiting to happen. Deepmind already unlocked it with RETRO, but I don't know why a public version hasn't been released - hooked int
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by typon 4y ago
If anything that's what makes them more dangerous. I tried Copilot for a month and ended my subscription. It will write a SQL query with all the expected keywords in there: a WHERE for a filter, an ORDER BY for a sort, but the way it c
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by typon 4y ago
If you think humans are equivalent to cameras and artificial neural networks, you are severely wrong.
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by typon 4y ago
Tesla has already dropped 24% since we last talked ;)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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by typon 4y ago
It's not storing any text? The weights are floating point numbers - the "text" is in some extremely high dimensional embedding space.
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by typon 4y ago
You are misunderstanding the situation. Karpathy claimed that sensor fusion of radar, sonar and vision isn’t working well. He made no such claim about Lidar. Lidar is the sensor that is the crucial difference between Waymo and Tesla's

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