MVissers

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by MVissers 1y ago
Also, this trade war pushes the USA close to a war with China over Taiwan and maybe Panama Canal, which is exactly what you want as an authoritarian to stay on longer. Find an enemy and use emergency powers to maintain control.
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by MVissers 1y ago
Decoupling from China will lead to China annex Taiwan sooner. China will have the USA and the world by the balls then, so not sure we want that to happen quicker. And I don't think anyone is calling themselves allies of the USA right n
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by MVissers 1y ago
I mean, we all know who the driver is to launch 'cybertrucks' and 'robotaxis' instead of more affordable variations. Also, not sure what the whole 800v hype is about. I rent EVs for roadtrips and Tesla's are basical
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by MVissers 1y ago
Geforce now is amazing these days if you like gaming and only have a mac.
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by MVissers 2y ago
Doesn't seem that this administration think they do. Pro free speech my ass.
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by MVissers 2y ago
I mean, if you re-elect the guy that tried to forcibly stay in power last time, I'm not sure what else to say... Zero sympathy for Americans that voted for this and the ones that stayed home. I feel bad for the ones that voted Kamala a
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by MVissers 2y ago
So the special thing about NEAT is that it allows the shape of the neural net to change. It can also do some sort of mix between two neural nets (like sexual reproduction), but I haven't implemented that. Natural selection in this sim
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by MVissers 2y ago
Not OP but.. He’s full of shit? You get banned for sharing identities of DOGE people, but Musk can share the name and tax documents of a federal judge. Hypocrite.
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by MVissers 2y ago
I can tell you that the non-US west has lost a lot of goodwill in the last few weeks. There are boycott’s afoot and I wouldn’t be surprised if canada and Europe will choose more Chinese and domestic in the future. Basically, the US closing
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by MVissers 2y ago
And the Chinese will pick up the pieces in Africa and other places.
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by MVissers 2y ago
So they carry neural nets and evolve using the NEAT algorithm, which introduces slight variations: new connections and new nodes. Over time this allows fish to develop basic behavior such as searching for food, navigation a maze, etc. The o
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by MVissers 2y ago
Hah, I'm creating something like this right now as a hobby. Will open source it soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDePFvxj6Po I think we're quite far off if you want to model full organism complexity. But if y
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by MVissers 2y ago
You could say the same about doing a startup. They pay is shit, grueling hours and 90% of them don't amount to anything meaningful. Doesn't mean that it's not worth it for most. Some people just want to do science. Or startup
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by MVissers 2y ago
You don't really learn how to learn in a masters or undergraduate. You learn how to consume information, but not how to research new things, validate those and defend it to others in a rigorous way. Whether it's worth the investme
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by MVissers 2y ago
It doesn't need to appeal to everyone. It's also very very lab dependent. I didn't find a lab at my European institute in my area of interest, so ended up not doing a PhD. I still do some science for fun though as a hobby. I
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by MVissers 2y ago
I think that's why most innovative science today happens at the intersection of two domains– That's where someone from a different field can have unique insights and try something new in an adjacent field. This is often hard to do
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by MVissers 2y ago
Yup! No goal to become a programmer– But I like to build programs. Build a rather complex AI-ecosystem simulator with me as the director and GPT-4 now Claude 3.5 as the programmer. Would never have been able to do this beforehand.
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by MVissers 2y ago
I mean, they should probably prepare people with knowledge of taxes and investing then. The competition is very obvious in societies with a lot of wealth disparity. In Europe there tends to be less disparity and less competition. US, China,
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by MVissers 2y ago
Yes. And the last decades we’ve had a new unknown cause of colon cancer increase in young adults. My money is on plastics, but will be hard to prove.
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by MVissers 2y ago
We've almost wiped ourselves out in a nuclear war in the 70ies. If that would have happened, would it have been worth it? Probably not. Beyond immediate increase in inequality, which I agree could be worth it in the long run if this wa
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by MVissers 2y ago
We've seen 10-100x cost decrease per year since GPT-3 came out for the same capabilities. So... Next year this tech will most likely be quite a bit cheaper.
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by MVissers 2y ago
My guess as an amateur neuroscientist is that what we call intelligence is just a 'measurement' of problem solving ability in different domains. Can be emotional, spatial, motor, reasoning, etc etc. There is no special sauce in ou
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by MVissers 2y ago
I think this is a fair criticism of capability. I personally wouldn't be surprised if we start to see benchmarks around this type of cooperation and ability to orchestrate complex systems in the next few years or so. Most benchmarks re
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by MVissers 2y ago
What would you need to see to call it useful? To give you an example– I've used it for legal work such as an EB2-NIW visa application. Saved me countless of hours. My next visa I'll try to do without a lawyer using just LLMs. I wo
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by MVissers 2y ago
Probably just not trained on this kind of data. We could create a benchmark about it, and they'd shatter it within a year or so. I'm starting to really see no limits on intelligence in these models.
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by MVissers 2y ago
I would agree if the cost of AI compute over performance hasn't been dropping by more than 90-99% per year since GPT3 launched. This type of compute will be cheaper than Claude 3.5 within 2 years. It's kinda nuts. Give these model
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by MVissers 2y ago
Price dropping is just a matter of time. Compute gets cheaper and the models get better. We’ve seen 100x drop in price for same capabilities in ~2 years. Don’t forget about writers and designers losing jobs as well. If you’re not absolute t
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by MVissers 2y ago
I believe modern macbook pro’s already have multiple microphones that probably do some phase-array magic.
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by MVissers 2y ago
Apple doesn't want you to use it while charging. They succeeded.
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by MVissers 2y ago
Doc here. They are basically carpenters. They us drills and saws and hammers and stuff.

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