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by xpe 1y ago
Don't forget the context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_financial_crisis
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by xpe 1y ago
> Unless someone figures how to make these models a million(?) times more efficient or feed them a million times more energy I don’t see how AGI would even be a twinkle in the eye of the LLM strategies we have now. A fair argument. So wh
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by xpe 1y ago
> Decades later people were still suggesting sabotage was the cause. Glad you mention it. Connecting back to AI: there are many possible future scenarios involving negative outcomes involving human sabotage of AI -- or using them to sabo
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by xpe 1y ago
> It is frequently suggested that once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold, they will take off ahead of the rest. That's only one part of it. Some forecasters put probabilities on each of the four quadrants in the takeo
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by xpe 1y ago
To keep a fast feedback loop, build on the fast machine, deploy, test on the slow one.
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by xpe 1y ago
> In what cases does doing from 8-bit bytes to 9-bit bytes result in something like a 2X penalty? Self-correction: In what cases does going from 8-bit bytes to 9-bit bytes result in a penalty, and how much is it?
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by xpe 1y ago
For those that don't get it, I'll explain. Imagine an alternative world that used 7-bit bytes. In that world, Pavel Panchekha wrote a blog post titled "We'd be Better Off with 8-bit Bytes". It was so popular that mo
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by xpe 1y ago
> I contains (sic) factual errors that stand out like lighthouses showing the author had an idea about an article but doesn't actually know the material. Whoops ^ To be fair, technically, I also contain some factual errors, if you c
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by xpe 1y ago
> The moment you feel the need to skip letters due to propensity for errors should also be the moment you realise you're doing something wrong, though. When you think end-to-end for a whole system and do a cost-benefit analysis and
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by xpe 1y ago
Would you lay out your logic (pun intended) a bit more? In what cases does doing from 8-bit bytes to 9-bit bytes result in something like a 2X penalty? One possibility would be bit-indexed addressing. For the 9-bit case, yes, such an index
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by xpe 1y ago
> Open models are going to win long-term. [3 of 3] What would it take for this statement to be false or missing the point ? Maybe we find ourselves in a future where: - Yes, open models are widely used as base models, but they are als
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by xpe 1y ago
> Open models are going to win long-term. [2 of 3] Assuming we pin down what win means... (which is definitely not easy)... What would it take for this to not be true? There are many ways, including but not limited to: - publishing o
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by xpe 1y ago
> Open models are going to win long-term. [1 of 3] For the sake of argument here, I'll grant the premise. If this turns out to be true, it glosses over other key questions, including: For a frontier lab, what is a rational period
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by xpe 1y ago
How many people are discussing this after one person did 1 prompt with 1 data point for each model and wrote a comment? What is being measured here? For end-to-end time, one model is: t_total = t_network + t_queue + t_batch_wait + t_infere
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by xpe 1y ago
Don’t fool yourself into thinking a suboptimal SRS is going to be optimal at the motivational aspect. If a user needs a self-confidence boost during a flash card session, this should be a design choice, not due to poor performance of the co
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by xpe 1y ago
Another idea: have the cubes point an edge straight forward (instead of a face). Then if each cube has two adjacent dark sides and two adjacent light sides, one could setup two ‘simultaneous’ images: one viewed from the left at 45° and an
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by xpe 1y ago
You could order the presentation of a set of images by some distance metric :) - naively: Levenshtein - better: real world edit time based on a model of the display : probably dominated by XY travel distance
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by xpe 1y ago
"I'm not dead yet."
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by xpe 1y ago
Doesn't LadyBird get a lot of support because it is FOSS? Seems useful to lean into that frame of mind then!
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by xpe 1y ago
> You either use Discord or nobody comes. WAT? Not even close to true. A lot of people gravitate to other discussion forums. Some even dislike chat-style "communities" that they steer clear. (Someone can find market research if
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Google indexing ChatGPT convos, potentially exposing sensitive user data(fastcompany.com)
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by xpe 1y ago
> I don’t think people understand the point sutton was making; he’s saying that general, simple systems that get better with scale tend to outperform hand engineered systems that don’t This is your reading of Sutton. When I read his orig
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by xpe 1y ago
> The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. Be careful when anyone, even a giant in the field such as Sutt
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by xpe 1y ago
Obligatory mention of SubEthaEdit: "General purpose plain-text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature." And, as of 2018, is now open source. Looks like it has had commits as recently as 2022: https:&#x2
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by xpe 1y ago
Zed also has interesting collaboration features -- editing + voice: https://zed.dev/docs/collaboration In the early days, Zed's in-editor collaboration features were marketed as a key differentiator. I wonder how
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by xpe 1y ago
This reminds me of Floobits (started around 2013) that offered cross-editor collaboration using centralized servers. It had plugins for Emacs, Vim, Sublime, and others.
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by xpe 1y ago
The end of Pocket is just another sad example. As an April fools joke, Mozilla should announce that they are discontinuing Firefox in order to focus on their core business, which is a beautiful abstraction: the Platonic ideal of discontinui
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by xpe 1y ago
A lot of things look like incompetence at a distance, but get really fascinating up close. Does anyone know care to share what they know about the particular personalities, drives, and visions?
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by xpe 1y ago
I don't understand how you can know this, even if it is true. (I only see downvotes on my comments.)
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by xpe 1y ago
Exactly. How many random computer dongles and power supplies get buried in sundry boxes that are effectively lost to the world?

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