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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
I should have clarified what I meant. The training data includes roughly speaking the entire internet. Open source code is probably a large fraction of the code in the data, but it is a tiny fraction of the total data, which is mostly non-c
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
for a book that surveys pretty much all of it, see "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
seems to me when this kind of stuff happens, there's usually something else completely unrelated, and your comment was simply the first one they happened to have latched onto. surely by itself it is not enough to elicit that kind of re
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
open source code is a miniscule fraction of the training data
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
i think your comment actually mostly makes sense, except the part about neural network guys needing to familiarize with Chomsky, which is not the case at all
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
yeah, your parent comment appears to be just nonsensical name-dropping. happens a lot here. A different type of comment is the "X is just Y" comment that is kind of annoying, like "all of AI is just curve fitting", which
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by xdavidliu 11mo ago
when Elon bought twitter, I incorrectly assumed that this was the reason. (it may still have been the intended reason, but it didnt seem to play out that way)
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by xdavidliu 11mo ago
is there a more accepted connotation of the lone word "computation" that means something different from "theory of computation" (in the sense of turing machines, computability, decidability, complexity classes, Sipser) e
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by xdavidliu 11mo ago
One time in around 2008 when I was in undergrad, I got facebook requested by a guy named David Liu (same name as me) who was going to a school many thousands of miles away, and I noticed that he had facebooked about 20-30 other David Liu&#x
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
I got the same impression as well. I think I've become so cynical to these kinds of things that whenever I see this kind of thing, I immediately assume bad faith / woo and just move on to the next article to read.
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
i watched the lecture series during the pandemic and commented on many of the youtube videos. in at least one instance, a library function is used on the board that is not compatible with the current function signature in mit scheme.
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
i was messing around on hackerrank a few years ago and one of the problems involved implementing Huet's zipper tree, which I did in haskell. it was quite fun https://github.com/xdavidliu/fun-problems/blob&#x2F
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
this is the meme you want: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harry-you-dont-need-to-sell-i...
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
nit: the grippy friction is actually static friction, which is different from kinetic friction, which is closer to what the article is referring to. Kinetic friction dissipates energy from objects in motion, similar to how when we're t
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
> Dopamine is often portrayed as a pleasure chemical, but it isn’t really about pleasure so much as the expectation that pleasure will occur soon. I noticed this as well. One time many many years ago, I was in grad school and doing resea
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
I don't know F#, but even if that were true, I'm guessing you need a list of the data in memory in the first place in order to fold or map over. That's still a disadvantage, since with tail recursion you don't, and thus
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
it's not entirely true that it does the same thing: even if it gives the same result. For many programming languages, fold and map can only act on non-lazy data structures, so require O(N) memory for the data that needs to be folded ov
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
ok but what does "goo between the prickles" refer to?
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
> The plus c when you integrate. Those missing harmonics and back-channel data that get inaudibly cut out of MP3s. The goo between the prickles come again?
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
I changed my default search engine on iOS from Google to DuckDuckGo for this exact reason.
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
this comment reminds me of that Feynman quote about others thinking scientific knowledge removes the beauty from a flower. of course Feynman disagreed
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
first time in 93 because of burnout from three peat, and allegedly a gambling problem. second because of the lockout and krause pushing phil out. third because too old
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
I wonder how this setup compares with Mira Murati and Greg Brockman.
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
The paper's title is "Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers"
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
I believe I first encountered this problem while working through SICP. Was confused why it's called Linkedin queens, since this problem is a classical one in CS that definitely pre-dated the existence of Linkedin.
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
i also was surprised at this and don't exactly remember one, but i were to guess, its one of the scenes of Jigo (short squat guy in sandals) eating porridge and laughing too hard maybe?
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
i'm pretty sure this saying is well agreed upon by the mainstream medical community. (not a medical pro myself, but follow a lot of articles and podcasts from mainstream sources)
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
i thought most cheese has way less lactose, if any, than milk?
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by xdavidliu 1y ago
yudkowsky would probably disagree with that statement these days; as I understand, he thinks that short of miracle, these efforts won't amount to much
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
https://bulletin.gwu.edu/courses/istm/ Information Systems and Technology Management I've also never heard anyone say this though, but I'm guessing that's what they meant.

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