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by abstractcontrol 5d ago
It isn't nonsense. If AI was such a broad umbrella term, why would companies be tripping over themselves to use it? If it meant video game NPC level of intelligence, nobody would be in a hurry to adopt it. It's very clear that whe
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by abstractcontrol 6d ago
Are those important questions that need to be answered? Rather, you should be asking whether you could use backprop and NNs to create something other than text predictors. What have LLMs changed about your conception of intelligence? As far
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by abstractcontrol 6d ago
Consider that maybe AI should mean AGI. That was what its original meaning was supposed to be, and calling generative models AI is watering down the original term and accepting the frame of the LLM makers. What's really disappointing a
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by abstractcontrol 6d ago
If I were an artist, I wouldn't really care that a machine took over the role of drawing lines on paper, and as a programmer, I don't care that the machines are taking the role of writing code. The thing that actually matters is u
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by abstractcontrol 19d ago
This is the internet, so I cannot tell at all whether you're being sarcastic or not. In my view, what LLMs should get us to reconsider isn't whether there is more to intelligence, but whether there is more to language. It's t
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by abstractcontrol 19d ago
Fun story, but I really wish OpenAI got its act together and started making actual AI breakthroughs instead of funneling compute into LLMs. I'd really like some new algorithms to get me excited about the field again. Kuddos to them for
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by abstractcontrol 3mo ago
Dumb people aren't going to be doing the work of the smart people ever, no matter how tech evolves. The actual implication of AI being on the level of sentient beings instead of hyped-up token predictors is that the era of humanity is
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by abstractcontrol 3mo ago
Why don't they just pass the time into the RNG in order to randomize it instead of using fixed seeds?
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by abstractcontrol 3mo ago
Yes, this is what I mean. It's not that talent doesn't exist, but it's never the case that people on the top of their domain work less hard than others. In fact, it's the opposite. People don't have talent, the tale
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by abstractcontrol 3mo ago
> Probably one of the most ego-crushing realizations (if you're a nerd) is to discover that there are people out there MUCH more talented and higher performing than what you'll ever be, but with none of the obsession or pride.
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Show HN: TapeSim – Practice Reading the Tape(tapesim.app)
2 points by abstractcontrol 4mo ago|0 comments
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by abstractcontrol 4mo ago
The job market is somewhat of a crapshot. A dice roll if you will. I got rejected from all kinds of place before I got a highly paid one from a Reddit post of all places. I got rejected from all kinds of places that only paid like 1/2
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by abstractcontrol 6mo ago
A stock market daytrading system, I am live coding it on my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04PGV4cTuIXoK6yBAFzh... Opus has been amazingly useful at answering various statistics question that I had
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by abstractcontrol 8mo ago
> My impression is that LLM users are the kind of people that HATED that their questions on StackOverflow got closed because it was duplicated. Lol, who doesn't hate that?
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by abstractcontrol 9mo ago
One takeaway from the book is that trend following strategies are really difficult to follow. Jesse Livermore had a 3 yearlong losing streak from 2011 - 2014 despite him following his rules. After the events of the book, he went short in 19
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by abstractcontrol 1y ago
> Investment Strategy: Organizations should invest more in computing infrastructure than in complex algorithmic development. > Competitive Advantage: The winners in AI won’t be those with the cleverest algorithms, but those who can ef
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
Can't find it either.
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
The strengths and weaknesses of the algorithmic niche that artificial NNs are in hasn't changed a bit since a decade ago. They are still bad at anything I'd want to actually use them for that you'd imagine actual AI would be
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
To me, the current LLMs aren't qualitatively different from the char RNNs that Karpathy showcased all the way back in 2015. They've gotten a lot more useful, but that is about it. Current LLMs will have as much to do with GAI as c
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
I've thought about adding record row polymorphism to Spiral, but I am not familiar with it and couldn't figure out how to make it work well in the presence of generics.
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Show HN: Spiral mini-tutorial for ML library authors(github.com)
1 points by abstractcontrol 2y ago|0 comments
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
Staged FP in Spiral: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04PGV4cTuIVP50-B_1sc... Some of the stuff in this playlist might be relevant to you, though it is mostly about programming GPUs in a functional language that comp
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
What's a Net/60 basis? I am having trouble understanding how often you were paid. Every month or so? Edit: Nwm, I saw you worked for 90 days without pay. Ack.
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04PGV4cTuIVP50-B_1sc... Staged Functional Programming In Spiral I am doing a fully fused ML GPU library along with a poker game to run it on in my own programming language that I&#x27
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
Yes.
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
NNs for example are (mostly) a sequence of matrix multiplication operations, and GPUs are very good at those. Much better than CPUs. AI is hot at the moment, and Nvidia is producing the kind of hardware that can run large models efficiently
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
Never tried those, so I couldn't say. I guess it would. Even so, creating all the abstractions needed to implement even regular matrix multiplication in Spiral in a generic fashion took me two months, so I'd consider that good eno
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by abstractcontrol 2y ago
For a deep dive, maybe take a look at the Spiral matrix multiplication playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04PGV4cTuIWT_NXvvZsn... I spent 2 months implementing a matmult kernel in Spiral and optimizing it.
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by abstractcontrol 3y ago
> Groq sells their dev kit for $20k even though a single LPU is useless. I find this a very questionable business decision.
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by abstractcontrol 3y ago
> I have quite a lot of concurrency so I think my ideal hardware is a whole lot of little CPU cores with decent cache and matmul intrinsics Back in 2015 I thought this would be the dominant model in 2022. I thought that the AI startups c

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