AlphaAndOmega0

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by AlphaAndOmega0 2mo ago
I'm a psychiatry resident, and I have ADHD. The myth is, in fact, a myth. More importantly, the dose of desoxyn (methamphetamine) used therapeutically for ADHD is *much* lower than what's consumed recreationally. That's reall
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by AlphaAndOmega0 5mo ago
Agreed. I find that particularly annoying, and I also seem to find that the spatial arrangement or stereo effect is muted for most instruments (or the model simply doesn't use that feature as well as a good human musician).
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by AlphaAndOmega0 6mo ago
I'm a psychiatry resident who has been into ML since... at least 2017. I even contemplated leaving medicine for it in 2022 and studied for that, before realizing that I'd never become employable (because I could already tell the m
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by AlphaAndOmega0 6mo ago
I'm still impressed by the progress in interpretability, I remember being quite pessimistic that we'd achieve even what we have today (and I recall that being the consensus in ML researchers at the time). In other words, while cap
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by AlphaAndOmega0 6mo ago
I'm a psychiatry resident who finds LLM research fascinating because of how strongly it reminds me of our efforts to understand the human brain/mind. I dare say that in some ways, we understand LLMs better than humans, or at lea
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by AlphaAndOmega0 6mo ago
I would be curious to know more precise numbers. My intuition suggests that when Sony sells millions of them, the number diverted for non-gaming purposes is maybe thousands or tens of thousands.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 7mo ago
The programming workspace of the future of the future will have three employees: A man, a dog and an instance of Claude. The dog writes the prompts for Claude, the man feeds the dog, and the dog stops the man from turning off the computer.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 7mo ago
Given that Gemini 3 Pro already did solid on that test, what exactly did they improve? Why would they bother? I double checked and tested on AI Studio, since you can still access the previous model there: >You should drive. >If you wa
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by AlphaAndOmega0 7mo ago
Previous models from competitors usually got that correct, and the reasoning versions almost always did. This kind of reflexive criticism isn't helpful, it's closer to a fully generalized counter-argument against LLM progress, whe
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by AlphaAndOmega0 7mo ago
Gary Marcus successfully predicted all ten of the one AI Winters. He also claimed that LLMs were a failure because of prompts that GPT 3.5 couldn't parse, after the launch of GPT-4,which handled them with aplomb.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 7mo ago
Nanobots are fantasy? Nobody told your cells or bacteria I guess. We have an existence proof right there.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 8mo ago
Same here. I did notice what I think was an actual error on someone's part, there was a chart in the files comparing black to white IQ distributions, and well, just look at it: https://nitter.net/AFpost/status&#x2F
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by AlphaAndOmega0 9mo ago
GPS jamming for incoming drones?
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by AlphaAndOmega0 10mo ago
>Interactive Human Simulator is a bold way to describe spinning up a few GPT calls with mood sliders, but sure, let’s call it anthropology. Next iteration can just skip the users entirely and have LLMs submit posts to other LLMs, which,
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by AlphaAndOmega0 11mo ago
Humans with certain amnestic syndromes are incapable of learning. That doesn't make them unintelligent or incapable of thought.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
>If anything the agentic wave is showing that the chat interfaces are better off hidden behind stricter user interface paradigms. I'm not sure that claim is justified. The primary agentic use case today is code generation, and the
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I found it genuinely impressive how useless their "GPTs" were. Of course, part of it was due to the fact that the out-of-the-box models became so competent that there was no need for a customized model, especially when customizati
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
1. I do know what to do with it. I take notes, a lot, in my work as a doctor. That's been the case since I owned an iPad Air from 2020, which I replaced with an 11 inch M1 iPad Pro (which broke), and I finally caved and bought a 13&quo
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I own an M4 iPad Pro and can't figure out what to do with even a fraction of the horsepower, given iPadOS's limitations. The rumors about an upcoming touchscreen Mac are interesting, perhaps Apple will deign to make their ridiculo
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I'd have liked more explanation of the actual solutions that programmers used at the time.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I never thought I'd end up posted on HN! I was wondering why on earth Substack's analytics were showing visitors from here. If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer here.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
To me, it seemed to be a visual equivalent of that auditory trick where a note seems to descend or ascend in pitch indefinitely. The outer aura of color seemed to be shrinking constantly.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
The person who guessed 16% would have a lower Brier score (lower is better) and someone who estimated 100%, beyond being correct, would have the lowest possible value.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
Yes. Sleep by itself does nothing unique. In fact, you have a slightly lower rate of metabolism than even the "basal" metabolic rate.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
Eh? That isn't right. The metabolic rate while asleep is even lower than the basal average. The only reason there's a net loss after sleep is because you're not regularly consuming food or water as you would when you're
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
Indian, Mexican and Brazilian consumers have far less money to spend than their American counterparts. I would imagine that the costs of the hardware and data collection don't vary significantly enough to outweigh that annoyance.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
Sounds scary doesn't it? It's a shame that the magnitude of lean-muscle loss is entirely comparable to that of going on a strict diet or fasting: Intermittent/time-restricted fasting https://jamanetwork.com/jo
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I'm on semaglutide for weight loss purposes, while having no other health issues relevant here. I don't think it's made any difference to any addictive tendencies or my bad habits (and with ADHD, those certainly exist). It ce
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I would appreciate citations. I'm a doctor on GLP-1s,who had previously convinced my mother to commence the same. In her case, it was driven clearly by failure of other methods to control her obesity and worsening liver fibrosis, on to
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I can only imagine that people would pay to not see porn of either individual.

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