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by usgroup 4y ago
Indeed. You need blind luck and lots of it to be a successful first time entrepreneur. Just remember that there are also the people who sell shovels in a gold rush —- or for the modern times, start an exchange during a crypto craze. There a
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by usgroup 4y ago
“We are noise about a zero mean, fighting entropy for a blip of cosmic time.”
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Ask HN: Is the weaponisation of ChatGPT now inevitable?
43 points by usgroup 4y ago|55 comments
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by usgroup 4y ago
Exciting times. The philosophical ramifications of the syntax/semantics distinction is not something people think much about in the main. However, due to GPT et al they will do soon :) More to the point, consistency will improve accura
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by usgroup 4y ago
This reads bizzarely. Awk for creating a server prototype? Haskell as an easy to learn rapid prototyping language? The lines of documentation column -- what is that even? Apparently the lisp version seems to only require 12 lines of documen
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think the basic things to take away from the article are: 1. that LLMs are just a massive “what word comes next given your training corpus” algorithm and scale has lead to the main effects of interest. 2. Surprisingly many human tasks can
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by usgroup 4y ago
Do you guys expect DL to have longevity generally speaking, or is the usurper already on the horizon? There are a few non equivalent universal approximation approaches. I’m not sure I fully understand why this is will end up being the one e
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by usgroup 4y ago
Bare in mind that humans have a fundamental sense of meaning. You write and speak to express meaning : that’s syntax . Your valid sentences map onto valid meanings. You can speak nonsense but you can also tell it’s nonsense. GPT sentences m
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by usgroup 4y ago
Wikipedia is a fine counter example.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well semantics is the gigantic hole ChatGPT can't fill yet .. so make your questions less like "when do you use a decision tree" and more like "fit a decision tree to this data and discuss if its appropriate"
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by usgroup 4y ago
I don’t think clumsiness is related. That galaxies favourably exist along gas filaments is not you .
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’m going to guess this lawsuit will fail mostly because it looked to me like Magnus and Chess.com both made statements that were qualified and sounded like read outs. I’d surmise that a legal red team had hit this in preparation for this c
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by usgroup 4y ago
Google apparently uses BERT to actually answer the question you asked … and an obvious incarnation for this sort of tech is probably going to be further integration into google . Makes sense doesn’t it .
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by usgroup 4y ago
It opens the door to more script kiddies, not more researchers. I really think we need more researchers who understand inference from first principles and make models in view to furthering understanding as opposed to more fit(X,y). I don’t
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by usgroup 4y ago
Sure more data and high signal then you might have a substantial advantage with DL. Lots of data is low signal to noise which again favours parametric models.
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by usgroup 4y ago
This isn’t surprising for those of us who grew up with “Elements of Statistical Learning” (book). Similar in vein: https://emiruz.com/post/2022-11-16-defect-detection/ Extremely simple PCA based defect detection s
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by usgroup 4y ago
There are good research jobs in industry which are serious and mathematical. However they also require you to be serious and mathematical. I’d venture to say at this stage that most “data scientists” are either self taught segues from adjac
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by usgroup 4y ago
I don’t understand —- this isn’t a P2P protocol since it isn’t peer to peer by definition. And the “relays” don’t even relay anything … a “relay” is a server acting as a Dropbox that you have to query.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well I thought that was funny :-)
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by usgroup 4y ago
Perhaps it’s a per customer limit to ration capacity? If so maybe you can legitimately work around it by creating multiple Azure billing accounts.
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by usgroup 4y ago
I expect it all to work better with Musk in charge. He knows how to make scalable software and he knows about performant teams. That he’s not going to realise these totally obvious first order consequences people are raising seems unlikely.
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by usgroup 4y ago
It wasn’t the point I was trying to make. The mind furnishes you not just with objects but also the constraints within which objects (abstract or otherwise) can be analysed. You are trying to work out how the mind works in a box provided to
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by usgroup 4y ago
Beautifully put.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Yes, this is an essential point, and the great circularity is not at all obvious. You can't start by talking about "inputs" and "outputs". At that stage you're already talking about "the mind" in a re
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by usgroup 4y ago
A bit of a basic analysis -- minds are brains and brains are just the go between some inputs and outputs, therefore they are just some sort of mapping, therefore Turing, therefore brains are computers. Conscience is the obvious problem to t
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A beautiful embedding applied to defect detection(emiruz.com)
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A beautiful embedding applied to defect detection(emiruz.com)
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’m not sure this works. What do we mean when we say “bullshit” — the necessary and sufficient conditions. I’d expect ex ante that it’s not reasonable to expect any consistent description to be applicable over speaker or over time. Seems mo
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by usgroup 4y ago
I'm not really sure this is a low value theoretical question. Here is a fun application: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/2955491.2955678 Using SR to find an invertible function which can effectively l
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by usgroup 4y ago
"Begging the question" to someone with no sense of its etymology just sounds like it should mean "necessitates the asking of a question" or "makes clear a question" as opposed to "attempting to prove somet

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