alan-stark

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by alan-stark 5mo ago
Thank you! Parr, Pezzulo & Friston looks like the kind of book I'm after - love cross-disciplinary works. After all, knowledge and nature are continuous. It's humans who like to chop them up into subfields :)
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by alan-stark 5mo ago
Tangentially related: It appears that TD ideas pop up in diffusion models, VAEs and neural net training dynamics. Any author/reading advice on links between thermodynamics, information, and neural nets?
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by alan-stark 7mo ago
Yep, it's the early days. Eventually we'll work out something like Design Patterns for Hybrid Development , where humans are responsible for software architecture, breaking requirements into maintainable SOLID components, and def
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by alan-stark 7mo ago
Agree. We've seen cowboy developers who move fast by producing unreadable code and cutting every corner. And sometimes that's ok. Say you want a proof of concept to validate demand and iterate on feedback. But we want maintainab
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by alan-stark 7mo ago
But why would you want to review long AI PRs in the first place? Why don't we apply the same standards we apply to humans? Doesn't matter if it was AI-generated, outsourced to Upwork freelancers or handcrafted in Notepad. Either s
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by alan-stark 7mo ago
Can you elaborate on the "mode of peril"? Is it: (a) Top labs quietly signing deals for military deployment of frontier models in unmanned strike weapons? (b) Top labs agreeing to license LLMs for social engineering/propagand
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by alan-stark 11mo ago
At ~9:50 Michael Moritz talks how the 100-year media history tells us that if you can gather a large audience in one place, you will be able to sell them advertising. It's likely that Google will not be the last search company. What bu
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Download: The True Story of the Internet – E02: Search [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alan-stark 11mo ago|2 comments
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by alan-stark 11mo ago
While John talks about the period before Google, this quote brings up a remarkable déjà-vu: [~14:30] Although the search companies were having great success, they were turning into something quite different than what they started out to be
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by alan-stark 3y ago
Reading these answers reminded me why I love HN - actually thoughtful perspectives :) Guess a lot boils down to two variables - (a) suggestion UX quality and (b) definition of 'rejection' event. I skimmed through the paper and it
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by alan-stark 3y ago
The abstract says ..we present metrics from our large-scale deployment of CodeCompose that shows its impact on Meta's internal code authoring experience over a 15-day time window, where 4.5 million suggestions were made by CodeCompose
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by alan-stark 3y ago
What's the value of bringing Facebook/Instagram mechanics into HN? Wouldn't that skew social dynamics away from egalitarianism, giving rise to "influencers", social bubbles and rise in clickbait? I think that not
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by alan-stark 3y ago
Depending on your use case and willingness to hack, there are plenty of alternatives. E.g. take a look at this list: https://archive.is/x5K4o
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by alan-stark 3y ago
My impression is that many places that label themselves as hacker/maker spaces are some version of a commercial coworking space with equipment. They have the tools, but not the spirit. That's why I mentioned Noisebridge and CCL. E
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Ask HN: Is There Anything Like Noisebridge/Counter Culture Labs in Europe?
1 points by alan-stark 3y ago|3 comments
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by alan-stark 4y ago
+1 for IEEE Spectrum. I recently stumbled upon print issue archive from 2010-2012 and was delighted by their coverage of private space flight and 3D printing. To me, Spectrum is an early high-level overview of interesting technology.
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Turns out Patrick Breyer from the Pirate Party already put up a list of practical steps, infographics and EP members, see https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYou...
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Sounds like an "NLP valley" with Prof. Ney as Aachen's own Fred Terman :)
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Cool to see someone from Aachen NLP group. I'll be visiting Aachen/Düsseldorf/Heidelberg area in spring. Do you know of any local ML meetups open to general (ML engineer/programmer) public?
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641359
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Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
396 points by alan-stark 4y ago|131 comments
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Perhaps write letters to members of European Parliament explaining our concerns, then ask all our friends to do the same? To make it a low-cost effort, we could (a) prepare a list of relevant politicians (b) create a template of the letter.
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by alan-stark 4y ago
Sometimes I feel that the world is sleepwalking straight into the pages of 1984. Proposals to monitor chats, ban encryption, legitimize location tracking create perfect infrastructure for new dictators. If some day a new Hitler grabs power
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by alan-stark 4y ago
About 10 years ago I quit a software architect job to start a startup (it failed). Not FAANG, but safe and well-renumerated for my area. If I could go back in time, I'd quit again without thinking. It was a rut. However, this isn'
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by alan-stark 4y ago
> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore How much could you trust media content previously? Staged footage, false narration, biased coverage are nothing new. A counter-intuitive side-effect of openin