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by abecode 6d ago
yes, that was surprising to me too. It would be a big deal if they switched to an encoder-decoder model like the original transformer. But I don't think that's what it's doing. One thing is the causal part, so in the origi
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by abecode 1mo ago
I think that given the developments in AI in the last ~10 years, it would be hard to say that attention is not part of consciousness. I'm not sure if it is "all you need", but I think that any theory that doesn't include
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by abecode 2mo ago
I think the parent is referring to agents as outward exploration that may come up empty-handed, but I see LLMs and agents as inward exploration, trying to define what is attention, knowledge, intelligence, consciousness, agency, etc. So in
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by abecode 2mo ago
nice, you got claude to say "I'm deepseek" when queried/prompted in Chinese, that's great! 你是谁? -> 我是 DeepSeek 由深度求索公司...
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by abecode 3mo ago
I listened to the audio book version of War and Peace. I think it was something like 25-30 hours. The audio format helped keep the pace going and also it helped with the names. Although for some things, the audio format made it harder to l
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by abecode 4mo ago
Corsica to Marseilles has an overnight ferry, at least back in 2000, but I don't think it's has sleeper cabins, more set up like an overnight flight, but a big cruise ship form factor. Instead of cabins they had space for cars. Th
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by abecode 4mo ago
My use case for this is making separate bookmarks in different folders for a single URL: Example.com/interesting -> bookmark folder one Example.com/interesting?dummy=t -> bookmark folder two
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by abecode 5mo ago
As a resident of MN I'm very proud of what fellow Minnesotans did to stop ICE's violent and illegal detentions here. Unfortunately the non-violent protest and anti-ICE techniques were met with violence from ICE, but the protests
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by abecode 6mo ago
Fall, Or Dodge in Hell (Neil Stephenson) and The Waves (Ken Liu) are two other good stories about brain scanning and transhumanism. The first one is a ridiculously long novel about a future where the cloud is increasingly used for uploadin
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by abecode 7mo ago
Maybe they could bury the clothes and call it carbon sequestration. I assume that clothes are made of mostly hydrocarbons.
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by abecode 7mo ago
I just had a nice trip to Venice and I was curious about it's history. Supposedly, the Venice republic lasted almost 1000 years, basically from after the fall of Rome to Napoleon based on a weird lottery system for choosing the Doge.
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by abecode 7mo ago
I think you need to change it to https://, ie, https://google.com/ads/preferences . It resolves to https://myadcenter.google.com/home?hl=en&sasb=true&ref=ad-se...
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by abecode 8mo ago
In Chinese one word for potato is "earth bean" 土豆 (the other word is "horse bell tuber" 马铃薯)
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by abecode 10mo ago
At ECAI conference last week there was a panel discussion and someone had a great quote, "in Europe we are in the golden age of AI regulation, while the US and China are in the actual golden age of AI".
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by abecode 1y ago
one of my favorites is County Road AF, near Fall Creek and Augusta
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by abecode 2y ago
Yeah you're right, I guess it was more the general fashion motif of long baggy pants being associated with revolutionaries/bohemians/anti-aristocrats.
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by abecode 2y ago
Actually if you want to find the origin of bell bottoms, according to a museum exhibit on men's clothing I saw, it was the sans coulottes in the 1700s. They protested the aristocrats, who wore high-legged pants, and eventually led to t
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by abecode 2y ago
Good discussion on this article. I went to a Vampire Weekend concert last night and they used the 45 minute encore to play covers that were requested by the audience. They got through about 10 songs (a verse or two and chorus), everything
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by abecode 2y ago
Actually I heard the opposite... I was a premed student and I did and internship at a hospital and one of the doctors said it's actually fairly difficult to kill someone by accident, ie you have to mess up very badly or the patient mus
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by abecode 2y ago
grind saffron in a mortar and pestle, then add it to yogurt with some salt, pepper, and diced onions (maybe some thyme or coriander or other spices if you are feeling fancy). Basically get the yogurt to a nice color and flavor, slightly on
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by abecode 3y ago
yes, you presumed correct, it was a guy who had studied in the US.
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by abecode 3y ago
I went to a conference in Nara last year and at one of the receptions I told a Japanese attendee that I was sorry to hear about the assassination. I joked that my name is pronounced Abe like Abe Lincoln, not like Shinzo Abe. He kind of shru
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by abecode 3y ago
If you think about the attention mechanism in LLMs, it may not work the same way as the brain, but there should be some functionality of the brain that also deals with attention. And if you think about that, you might also think that attent
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by abecode 3y ago
or make the neck vertical instead of horizontal. I found myself craning my neck to look at it that way.
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by abecode 3y ago
Visiting the UK from the US in January and I was impressed by how far the dollars went. There was a burger and beer special at Wetherspoon for something like 6-7 pounds and a beer was under around 1-2 pounds. So my experience was different
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by abecode 3y ago
>> .-- . .-.. .-.. --..-- / .. .----. -- / .... --- .--. .--. .. -. .----. / --- ..-. ..-. > Chat GPT :): The text you provided is Morse code. When translated, it reads: "Hello, I'm hoping off." I got
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by abecode 4y ago
If you ignore the whole education thing, universities are organizations that aim to preserve their own existence (like religions) rather than return money to shareholders (like companies)
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by abecode 4y ago
I went to a conference in Japan two weeks ago and before I travelled I got a Lonely Planet phrasebook from a used book store. I did end up using Google Translate on my smartphone more, but having a physical book that obviously marks you as
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by abecode 4y ago
I like the anecdotes about quirky logicians and I thought I'd share one... I was taking a logic class with Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA). I was doing pretty poorly in the class (not good at proofs) but he was pretty helpful and he as
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by abecode 4y ago
C.f. Addison's disease, caused by a lack of cortisol, the stress hormone, and treating some conditions like back and knee pain with cortisone, the synthetic version of cortisol

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