ViscountPenguin

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by ViscountPenguin 5d ago
I doubt that any algorithms would be able to find a global maximum in such a large multidimensional non-convex space
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by ViscountPenguin 8d ago
Exactly correct, they are only capable of tasks that any school child could do; like solving millenium prize problems, hacking into tech companies, or tuning particle colliders. Nothing to see here.
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by ViscountPenguin 8d ago
"Unplug all possible target datacentres" has a pretty big blast radius, and people are unlikely to be coordinated or cooperative enough to actually do it.
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by ViscountPenguin 10d ago
The point of the paper isn't that embeddings contain information, it's that even if you don't know what model generated a set of embeddings you can still recover information from the geometry of the point cloud itself. The fa
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by ViscountPenguin 15d ago
At least for me, the Flatpack produces no sound.
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by ViscountPenguin 16d ago
Fair enough, if people visit frequently you could probably save their previous searches as a cookie too.
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by ViscountPenguin 17d ago
Unfortunately this approach doesn't feel that great down here in Australia, definitely a function of latency. I think you could get a lot closer by framing this as an optimization problem, where you use the full alphabet dictionary, bu
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by ViscountPenguin 17d ago
A quick look at the continuous diffusion models linked in the post shows lots of transformer models still
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by ViscountPenguin 19d ago
This comes from the binomial expansion of (X+y)^n, where X^k y^(n-k) has coefficient (n choose k). This is since you "choose" X in K of the (X+y)'s (in the Bezier case it's kind of writing (t+(1-t))^n, the abcd are to no
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by ViscountPenguin 22d ago
One of the really awkward points of stats is that not only does sample size matter, but also model specification. Very small misspecifications can easily lead to infinitesimal P values over large sample sizes. Similar things are true of Bay
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by ViscountPenguin 22d ago
In my experience, a not insignificant chunk of students actively in a stats class think that a p value is the probability of the null hypothesis. My money is on more like 3% of educated professionals.
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by ViscountPenguin 24d ago
I think reddit is kind of the poster child of sites being hollowed out by Ai posts. The vast majority of posts nowadays are AI reposts responded to by AI comments, usually trying to push some marketing or political drivel.
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by ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
A fun game would be to quickly guess the religion of a temple? Could familiarize people with the common iconography of the various dharmic religions.
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by ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
I'd assume the best harness for a model will tend to be the one that it's RLVF'd on.
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by ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
Cooking is pretty different to lawn mowing here, you still can't replicate the output of a cooked meal with any easily available combination of home appliances and robotics (let alone just microwaves). I think a large chunk of people w
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by ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
I dunno, gamedev prototyping has always been fast, but I think AI tools make it way way faster; at least based on my experience writing visualizations in Godot (and to a lesser extent, my experience scaffolding datascience viz work in pytho
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
What would matter more is the token length, depends how well your tokenizer was trained on french I guess.
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
I've always found the concept of mailing a letter from your house really interesting. My understanding is that it's common in the US (which is why they have the little red thing on their mailboxes I think?), but I've never li
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
Blender shaders maybe?
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
Some of the webcams are fake fwiw, I noticed a while ago when there were ads emblassened with old dates on them. Edit: to be clear, this was random ones on YouTube, not sure about that site.
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
It's Sea World in Queensland, but confusingly I think the company is unrelated to the American Sea World, iirc they bought a license to the name back when it was probably a lot more positive than it is now. EDIT: Apparently not license
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
All of the contents of the article are basically correct (minus the agi bit), but god the tone is insufferable. I doubt it's done anything but dig sceptics further in tbh.
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
There's a pretty clear back and forth between Israel committing warcrimes, and Israels enemies commiting warcrimes back. While I can't say that it's unexpected for Israel to commit genocide, I can absolutely blame them, and c
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
I've not taken psychedelics, but presumebly a large part of the experience comes from the fact that your brain is creating the imagery, which would make it qualitatively different from imagery that your brain is having supplied to it.
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
Seems very reasonable to me tbh, the VCS was built to facilitate human work structures, rebuilding it to facilitate autonomous work seems appropriate.
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
I have at least some level of experience with advanced maths, but the thing that always struck me was how amenable to automation that a lot of it seemed. While it might be creative for a human to come up with the Schreier refinement theorem
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by ViscountPenguin 2mo ago
I dunno, this screams of goal post moving. Even if LLMs lack whatever nebulous definition of "creativity" that someone favours, there's no inherent reason for "creativity" to be required to solve any problems at all
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by ViscountPenguin 3mo ago
It can be really frustrating viewing threads like this sometimes. I've not once seen an interest rate swap priced in anything other than float/double, and that's relatively simple even compared to some of the crazy instrument
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by ViscountPenguin 3mo ago
You could do a two stage process, a blinded text review and an unblinded review that can only be failed if you have a vigorous lack of knowledge about your work. I highly doubt anything like that will be implemented though.
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by ViscountPenguin 3mo ago
I think it's very field dependant. In maths and biology I've seen very few professors that could reasonably be described as maximialists here; computer science really seems to be the outlier. My impression is that impactful CS pro

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