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by viccis 2y ago
Given all the em dashes in his essay, that's probably LLM on LLM violence lol
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by viccis 2y ago
This is the guy who's been whining on X about not getting into elite colleges despite his essay being radioactively bad, right?
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by viccis 2y ago
I'd imagine the people who want the hardcore undetectable stuff are making money by charging others to boost them.
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by viccis 2y ago
Crackpot millenarians have always been a thing. This crop of them is just particularly lame and hellbent on boiling the oceans to get their eschatological outcome.
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by viccis 2y ago
This is basically what everyone said would happen with Yang's proposed UBI in 2020.
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by viccis 2y ago
There's definitely a Pierre Menard joke in here somewhere
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by viccis 2y ago
I've said this in another comment but an example would be to train an LLM on a corpus with ALL mathematic content removed. Nothing at all. Then ask it what the shortest distance between two points is. That's an example of syntheti
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by viccis 2y ago
If anyone here hasn't read Borges, I'd strongly recommend him. Pretty much everything he wrote was short, <20 pages, and so it's really easy to sit down and read one of his stories over a lunch break. The common recommenda
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by viccis 2y ago
It is so hard to reconcile my view of Karpathy as a world class instructor who does great things like making you work out gradients via the chain rule even though you don't need to anymore with this version of Karpathy.
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by viccis 2y ago
Instead of complaining, why don't you click the link that was spoon fed directly to your cursor for the canonical answer within 3 seconds?
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by viccis 2y ago
>What is the external pressure on you or the dean or university to make things easier for these people? Mostly that students are all giant piggybanks that spit out tuition every year. And, from experience, a lot of administrators view th
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by viccis 2y ago
I think most professors are plenty happy with something that shows a bit of thought and analysis. They're not giving PhD quals, we're talking undergrad coursework here.
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by viccis 2y ago
>This professor that authored this post is complaining that students don’t have original thoughts. For undergraduates, classes are primarily about competency. Having an original thought is really hard work. You have to have a breadth of
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by viccis 2y ago
The discussion in almost every post on HN that's about humanities topics reminds me how much they do, most of all to those who think they don't.
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by viccis 2y ago
>When they lose (and especially when they lose to foreigners) they get extremely resentful and behave as if something has been taken from them. I you even know how often I've heard students complain about "having my A taken awa
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by viccis 2y ago
>But that said, I don’t believe this author is complaining that students generally don’t attend lecture. They’re complaining that absenteeism has increased, implying that it has increased substantially recently. And that this sudden incr
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by viccis 2y ago
That sounds like an abysmal philosophy education. Sorry you got that. The main purpose of a philosophy class is to read some material, engage with it critically in a guided dialogue in class time, and engage critically by yourself with it i
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by viccis 2y ago
UHC is responsible for thousands of cases of underinsurance, including some heinous ones that involved denial of coverage for life saving procedures in the ER. It's the number one provider in denials of coverage, and it has used algori
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by viccis 2y ago
My comment wasn't an implicature. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion other than a desire to make this discussion more inflammatory.
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by viccis 2y ago
>What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? No one's setting it. Things have been that way in the past. A lot of laws now are des
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by viccis 2y ago
To be fair, some of the ways the real Family Feud groups answers are really weird and seemingly incorrect.
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by viccis 2y ago
I think there is likely a difference between what the FBI does to someone they want info pretty badly from vs what <insert state actor> does to someone that they have determined is a keystone to one of their national adversaries. If t
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by viccis 2y ago
This is true. I've also found that there are perverse incentives when it comes to (especially upper) management. Building up enough political clout in your organization that aren't answerable to many people, and managing your imag
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by viccis 2y ago
Martha Argerich has a similar anecdote when it came to learning a very difficult piano piece. Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is notoriously difficult, even for accomplished pianists. She learned it (along with another tough one) in 5 day
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by viccis 2y ago
In my experience, the worst of them are lodged in there tighter than trichinella larvae.
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by viccis 2y ago
This was almost certainly done by Makeworld, not Katie, which makes the top comment even more pointless and needlessly vitriolic. Katie might read these comments, but Makerworld's UI people are not likely to take orders from an irate H
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by viccis 2y ago
No, the analogous thing in this case, if you understood the metaphor, would be "propaganda".
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by viccis 2y ago
You still don't seem to understand the meaning of the metaphor. The analogous thing for people wouldn't be "wind"
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by viccis 2y ago
It's incredible to me that you would parse that as a metaphor about breathing.
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by viccis 2y ago
It's not, but a lot of fish don't realize they're swimming in water.

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