amayne

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by amayne 2y ago
I may have missed something. What are saying specifically? Okun's law shows a strong correlation between GDP and employment. Which runs counter to your previous claim – as I understand it (please forgive me if I'm not understandin
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by amayne 2y ago
Fair question. In my anecdotal experience everyone I know who had persistent energy, focus and a mechanism for improving their craft achieved something interesting. Sometimes it was ended up in screenwriting or an adjacent field, but someth
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by amayne 2y ago
Exactly. I'm very glad I ignored this kind of thinking.
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by amayne 2y ago
Exceptions happen. When I decided I wanted to be a novelist I wrote ten books in one year and only released the ones I liked. I'd write a book then read a book on writing and try to improve. I'd give my books away to anyone who as
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by amayne 2y ago
Okun’s Law has held up pretty well over the last 60 years. Are you aware of any research that disputes that other than the degree of the coefficient?
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by amayne 2y ago
Eventually that will probably be the case. The future isn’t a fixed point. But before then H&R Block (or a company like them) will probably shift to AI. Then eventually your AI will mean you don’t even need them. The disruptors will get
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by amayne 2y ago
Original author here: Yes. Rich people tend to re-invest their money and not throw it into a Scrooge McDuck vault to swim in. The re-investing is what helps create economic growth.
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by amayne 2y ago
Original author here: A. Some parts of the economy will grow. Some will shrink. My claim is that if you believe that AI will create new efficiencies and continue to do so, then overall economic growth will increase at a faster rate than eve
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by amayne 2y ago
Original author here (not ChatGPT): My claim is that H&R Block would replace all their workers for more efficient AI if it was more profitable. Then they would re-invest that money in the most productive way they can – other companies,
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by amayne 2y ago
Some of these can be done with the right prompting. Wordle was solved a year ago. The problem is that what works and what doesn’t can be counterintuitive or at least require you to think about how something is perceived at the token level.
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by amayne 2y ago
Here's his YouTube channel. I don't know about the viability, but I loved the concept so much I started writing a sequel to my Station Breaker novels around the concept. https://www.youtube.com/@johnmpowell
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by amayne 3y ago
6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hU83PE68oNY
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by amayne 3y ago
You’ll probably get better results by putting the examples only in the completion part of the training examples. GPT-3.5 learns how to generalize better when it’s just in the completion. This is the same problem that vexed the researchers
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by amayne 3y ago
If Pac-Man and the ghost positions are on the x axis, what is the y axis used for?
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by amayne 3y ago
GPT-3 Davinci from 2020 could do this too: Segment this text into proper sentences: Input: UNDERNEATHTHEGAZEOFORIONSBELTWHERETHESEAOFTRANQUILITYMEETSTHEEDGEOFTWILIGHTLIESAHIDDENTROVEOFWISDOMFORGOTTENBYMANYCOVETEDBYTHOSEINTHEKNOWITHOLDSTHEKE
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by amayne 3y ago
1. I don't think the original research paper demonstrated the reversal curse. They claimed that you'd only get random answers from their example prompt. I showed that wasn't the case. I also pointed out what I believe to be a
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by amayne 3y ago
I've added your suggested test to the blog post: https://andrewmayne.com/2023/11/14/is-the-reversal-curse-rea... Spoiler: It doesn't say "Tom Cruise."
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by amayne 3y ago
Hello! I’m the “shark-diving science journalist” in question. First of all, you can run the experiments like I did and test this yourself. I’m not asking anyone to take my word. Just do what I did: Read the original paper. Test the claims f
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by amayne 3y ago
Those don't explain the relation between neuron cost and length.
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by amayne 3y ago
Could you give us an example of what that means in practical terms? The post says that 1000 neurons will give you 130 LLM responses - but of what length? (LLMs are generally priced by input and output tokens. The longer the tokens the longe
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by amayne 3y ago
This is very cool. I'm still trying to understand the pricing. What is a "neuron" in this context? A token? A character? "Neurons are a way to measure AI output that always scales down to zero (if you get no usage, you w
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by amayne 3y ago
I lived across the street from Warner Brothers Ranch. It was surreal to watch a show like the Sarah Connor Chronicles and see a town blow up and look out my window and see the same church steeple. My nightly walk took me past the backyard o
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by amayne 3y ago
I look at their personal GitHub repos (when they're relevant.)
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by amayne 3y ago
I started working at a prominent AI company in 2020 with no formal background in AI/ML. I was able to bring outside understanding of language and theory of mind into use with large LLMs and create a role as a prompt engineer. My résumé
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by amayne 3y ago
I always have trouble figuring out what to put in my bio. Every five years I'd shift into something new that caught my interest. After a stint in entertainment I realized that AI was where everything was heading. I took up programming
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by amayne 3y ago
Original author here. I'm a programmer. I started on the Applied team at OpenAI back in 2020 as a prompt engineer (I helped create many of the examples in the GPT-3 docs.) I became the Science Communicator for OpenAI in 2021. My blog a
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by amayne 4y ago
Before I got into writing novels I had a small publishing business centered around books for magicians. I started this when James Randi off-hand mentioned to me that every magic book sold at least 300 copies because there were that many die
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by amayne 5y ago
The United States Public Health Service said TEL (leaded gasoline) was safe to use in fuel in 1925 as did the US Surgeon General 1926.
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by amayne 5y ago
The $445M number doesn't count the total cost of the program, which put each Shuttle launch at ~ $1.5 billion. Average cost of a SpaceX resupply is $152 million. That's the total amount the US government pays per mission. You coul
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by amayne 5y ago
This is wonderful. There's so much potential for doing ML in the browser and this makes for a great demonstration.

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