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by xpe 1y ago
Ok, but you are moving the goalposts relative to my original quote: “Their daily practice leaves little time or incentive for keeping up with studies.” My first point is that software developers (generally, more often than not) have the tim
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by xpe 1y ago
This isn’t software to be installed, though, is it? I am likely to think this will be a network service and therefore available via a browser. Connectivity may be better than you think.
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by xpe 1y ago
Don’t you think the standard you mention is too low? I do. The comment didn’t advance the conversation. It was a relatively shallow level of engagement; something I’d expect to see in a silly Reddit back and forth. We deserve better here. A
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by xpe 1y ago
Two responses. First, CME is criticized as being largely influenced by industry rather than primarily intended to advance medical learning. [1] Second, assuming medical continuing education is something like 20 to 40 hours depending on the
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by xpe 1y ago
> In recent times I had to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, WASM, Java and C# for various projects, and I wouldn't delegate this learning effort to an AI, even if it saved me time. Either/or fallacy. There exist a varied set of ways
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> Unfortunately these claims are just based on the perception of the subjects themselves, so there is no hard data to back them up. Did the author take their own medicine and measure their own productivity?
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by xpe 1y ago
Is this substantive engagement with the earlier comment? I’m not seeing it. You probably know the examples are different (long term R&D on a telecom protocol followed by government implementation and standards and industry adoption … ve
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by xpe 1y ago
I respect doctors (and people in general), but I don’t give the medical profession a passing grade. To speak in generalities (there are exceptions), their training is somewhat insane: long hours, sleep deprivation, knowledge cramming, and m
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by xpe 1y ago
One thought -- more of a question -- and I'm not the first person to ask it -- How can we design a 'smaller' kind of internet? One that is less data hungry, less commercial, but still sustainable (how?), more of a community v
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by xpe 1y ago
> No, I'm just tired of constantly seeing a torrent of misinformation from people who don't know much about how these models actually work nor have done any significant work on their internals, yet try to write about them with
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by xpe 1y ago
> Sorry to be a downer but basically every statement you’ve made above is incorrect. You don't need to apologize for being a "downer", but it would be better if you were specific in your criticisms. I welcome feedback, but
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by xpe 1y ago
> LoRA does exactly the same thing as normal fine-tuning You wrote exactly so I'm going to say "no". To clarify what I mean: LoRA seeks to accomplish a similar goal as "vanilla" fine-tuning but with a different
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by xpe 1y ago
I can hear the whooshing sound accompanying the snark... I'm talking about how this is communicated. I'd suggest that Apple say something like "200+ developer frameworks" rather than counting up the number of individual
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> including over 250,000 APIs that enable developers to integrate their apps with Apple’s hardware and software features. This doesn’t sound impressive, it sounds insane.
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> The entire comparison hinges on people only making simple factual searches ... on both search engines and LLMs. I disagree, but I can see why someone might say this, because the article's author writes: > So let's compare
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> Data from paid API queries will also typically not be used for training or tuning the models... Extremely unlikely in my opinion. I would expect some forms of customer data are used for some kind of value or competitive advantage. If n
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by xpe 1y ago
I agree… the public and leaders need to know how the training data is generated: a combination of sensors and physics-based simulation models. Lacking this context could lead to poor decisions around research prioritization and funding.
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Sorry, I can see why you might take that the wrong way. In my defense, I consciously wrote "generally speaking" in the hopes you wouldn't think I was referring to you in particular. I wasn't trying to accuse you of anyth
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> Just as I don't need to understand the finer points of extreme bigotry to be opposed to it, we don't need to be experts on LLMs to be opposed to the well-heeled and breathless hype surrounding it, and choose to not engage wit
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by xpe 1y ago
In case it got lost from several comments higher in the chain, there is/was an "if" baked into my statement: >> If one is motivated by ethics, I think it is morally required to find effective ways to engage to shape and
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I'm a regular user, and I highly recommend it. / Here are some things that I'm not clear on (admittedly because I haven't researched them yet): 1. Are recordings shared with Cornell? By default? 2. Is it "recommende
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by xpe 1y ago
Fair points. Generally speaking, I find it suspect when someone points to failed predictions of disruptive changes without acknowledging successful predictions. That is selection bias. Many predicted disruptive changes do occur. Most import
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by xpe 1y ago
Right. Too often people conflate (a) risk-loving entrepreneurs and their marketing claims with the (b) realities of usage patterns and associated value-add. As an example, look at how cars are advertised. If you only paid attention to marke
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by xpe 1y ago
Almost by definition, one should be skeptical about hype. So we’re all trying to sort out what is being sold to us. Different people have different weird tendencies in different directions. Some people irrationally assume that things aren’t
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by xpe 1y ago
I’m outside the edit window, but I have one thing to add. To restate #5 differently: Banging one’s head against barely movable reality is not a wise plan; it is reactionary and probably a waste of your precious bodily fluids — I mean energy
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by xpe 1y ago
Five points. First, a moral code is a guidestar, principles to strive for, but not necessarily achieved. Second. People can do what they want? This may not even be self-consistent. Humans are complex and operate imperfectly across time hori
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Some people make these kinds of claims for ethical reasons, I get it. But be careful to not confuse one’s ethics with the current state of capability, which changes rapidly. Most people have a tendency to rationalize, and we have to constan
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by xpe 1y ago
I agreed with this comment until the second half which is just one scenario - one that is contingent on many things happening in specific ways.
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I personally care a lot about people, but if I was running a publicly traded for-profit, I would have a lot of constraints about how to care for them. (A good place to start, by the way, is not bullshitting people about the financial realit
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I find this plausible. Is the data starting to show this?

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