althea_tx

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by althea_tx 2mo ago
This is a really cool project. Thanks for sharing!
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by althea_tx 1y ago
I preferred o3 for coding and analysis tasks, but appreciated 4o as a “companion model” for brainstorming creative ideas while taking long walks. Wasn’t crazy about the sycophancy but it was a decent conceptual field for playing with ideas.
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by althea_tx 1y ago
As a professor who teaches courses on media literacy and artificial intelligence, I am obsessed with our relationship with AI interfaces. I got tired of the default sycophantic glaze on ChatGPT and the tedious ritual of manually telling it
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Show HN: Deglaze Me – A Chrome extension to strip the sycophancy from ChatGPT(github.com)
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by althea_tx 2y ago
Really enjoyed this piece. Learned quite a bit about the value of test-time compute and the way that reinforcement learning can be used to train reasoning into a model. My jaw dropped a tiny bit when I read that “the model discovers on its
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by althea_tx 2y ago
Really enjoyed this game. Well done!
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by althea_tx 2y ago
Does anyone else have a hard time accepting these calculations? I don’t doubt the serious environmental costs of AI but some of the claims in this infographic seem far-fetched. Inference costs should be much lower than training costs. And,
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Can you explain more about this?
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Not doubting the experiences of anyone else, but I have only been a daily user of this site for the past 18 months, but not once has it been down for me in the morning or evening when I reach for a dopamine hit.
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Oh please. All of these time estimates, from 24 hours to ten years to 10,000 hours are completely bogus. The “24 hours” figure is marketing copy designed to unify and differentiate a brand of technical manuals. The person who coined the 10
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by althea_tx 3y ago
I think you are incorrectly extrapolating to the entire community based on your personal experience. You are assuming that most of the readers at this site are working in a similar professional context that you do. You are also assuming, bu
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Construct has been a godsend to my game design course. Thanks for all of your work, Ashley!
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Me too! It's like something from a Philip K. Dick novel.
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Is he referencing a particular “niche discord server?”
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Yes. You would be a creative director or art director.
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by althea_tx 3y ago
There are different types of universities. While R1 institutions are more focused on research than teaching, there are smaller liberal arts universities which revolve around the undergraduate student experience. These universities still hav
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Great post. Thank you for highlighting that hilarious code comment.
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by althea_tx 3y ago
I came here to say the same thing. :)
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by althea_tx 3y ago
The Michigan Post article is mostly speculation and that publication doesn’t have much depth/history to it. Check out their “advertise with us” page. This whole info dump feels like a mishmash of links to thoughtful things (Stratechery
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by althea_tx 3y ago
“Funneled money to the startup” or “fundraised for the startup?” There’s a world of difference between those two things.
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by althea_tx 3y ago
Are you sure the seed number isn’t a hallucination? I think it might be an internal reference which vaguely alludes to the original prompt. The seed has no persistent meaning beyond the chat instance, so I think you could get same effect by
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by althea_tx 3y ago
This isn’t a slight against OP’s paper, but it’s worth noting that arXiv is not peer reviewed.
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by althea_tx 4y ago
To be clear, I have no regrets and would make the same choices.
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by althea_tx 4y ago
Good question. My early 20s are a blur, partly because of recreational substances I ingested. At the time, the days felt long and full. The experience isn’t less fun or valuable but I wish I could access all of those memories. It’s not that
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by althea_tx 4y ago
Well said. It’s worth adding that various mood altering substances can speed up our perception of the passage of life while impairing our ability to remember what happened.