andrewgleave

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by andrewgleave 1mo ago
The glib epigrams and aphorisms it shoehorns in to all prose is by far the worst regression of any model I can recall in terms of simply generating simple, clear output. I cannot think of another model that's gotten worse at writing pl
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by andrewgleave 1mo ago
Yes. The irritating epigram / aphorism style it now uses is such a regression compared to previous Anthropic models. Probably is the case that this is due to watermarking - though hardly subtle if it is.
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by andrewgleave 11mo ago
My Lindy alarm has gone off!
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by andrewgleave 11mo ago
Looks like MLX is not a supported backend in Ollama so the numbers for the Mac could be significantly higher in some cases. It would be interesting to swap out Ollama for LM Studio and use their built-in MLX support and see the difference.
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by andrewgleave 11mo ago
For any stamp collectors here, the Isle of Man Post Office [1] has just issued an official set of 6 Roger Dean and Rick Wakeman stamps [2]: [1] https://iomstamps.com/collections/wakeman [2] https://www.bbc.c
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by andrewgleave 11mo ago
Theory building is the secret sauce, and all variants of "this is how to use AI effectively" I've seen are inferior to the epistemologically sound theory Naur outlines in his paper.
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool" when talking about science, but it also applies to the properties of LLM output.
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
Not cosmological but yesterday Apple released an interesting protein folding model with 3B param transformer-based arch which runs on M-series hardware and is competitive with state-of-the art models. [1] Code [2] [1] https://arx
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
Yes. Juniors have a lack of knowledge about how to build coherent mental models of problems whose solution will ultimately be implemented in code, whereas seasoned engineers do. Seniors can make this explicit to models and use them to autom
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
For anyone interested in the history of Sellafield and its role in reprocessing, "Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield" on BBC 4 at the moment is worth a watch. Presented by Jim Al-Khalili. https://www.bbc.
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
Reminds me of Brett Victor's demo of projected AR turbulence around a toy car at Dynamicland. Only a short clip, but you get the idea: https://youtu.be/5Q9r-AEzRMA?t=47
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
> “There's kind of like two different ways you could describe what's happening in the model business right now. So, let's say in 2023, you train a model that costs 100 million dollars. > > And then you deploy it in
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
Yeah. Read “Programming as Theory Building” by Naur [1] to understand why you need to still need to develop a theory of the problem and how to model it yourself lest the LLM concoct (an incorrect) one for you. [1] https://gwern.n
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by andrewgleave 1y ago
I recently built a quick SwiftUI app to pin quotes and posts from X to my home screen. I found I was liking/bookmarking insightful content on X I rarely saw again and wanted a way to resurface them somewhere I would see multiple times
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by andrewgleave 2y ago
Going to leave this here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#GrowHumaKnow
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by andrewgleave 2y ago
This is very similar to when I used OpenCV to read the angle of a cardboard knob I pinned on the wall in my office to change the volume on Spotify!
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by andrewgleave 2y ago
"""But what Richard hated, or at least pretended to hate, was being asked to give advice. So why were people always asking him for it? Because even when Richard didn't understand, he always seemed to understand better th
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by andrewgleave 2y ago
Unsurprisingly, this pessimistic and shortsighted take emanates from a newspaper in heart of the EU...
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
And by the third slit simulation they seem to have refuted their own hypothesis.
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
You may find Constructor Theory interesting. An attempt to express physical laws solely in terms of possible and impossible transformations. “These include providing a theory of information underlying classical and quantum information; gene
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
Perversely, this "settled knowledge" nonsense actively inhibits the growth of knowledge and just leads to the "justified true belief" swamp... All we have is our current best explanations/understanding. We use them
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
It's just blind prophecy and therefore a fiction. There is no way to predict the growth of future knowledge. If there was it would be equivalent to already having said knowledge. Whether people do or don't create some specific pie
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
An epistemologically flawed article.
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
Anyone interested in Dynamicland may want to check out Paper Programs. It's been about 5 years since I last played with it. It’s great fun and should be much more interactive with 5+ years of browser and hardware development. https:&#
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by andrewgleave 3y ago
David Deutsch’s “Physics Without Probability” covers the history of probability, it’s legitimate and misconceived uses and concludes that according to MWI there is no such thing in reality - it’s basically that probabilities correspond to h
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
Bret Victor's interactive version of this in Dynamicland: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/977058412990152704
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
The Logic of Experimental Tests, Particularly of Everettian Quantum Theory: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.02048.pdf
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Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism(warpnews.org)
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
Followed by Deutsch: All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge.
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
“A Window on Infinity” chapter in the Beginning of Infinity is worth reading as an introduction.

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