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Horses: Steady progress in automation makes for sudden transitions(andyljones.com)
3 points by andyljones 9mo ago|1 comments
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How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines(spacha.github.io)
2 points by andyljones 4y ago|0 comments
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AI Safety Needs Great Engineers(lesswrong.com)
5 points by andyljones 5y ago|0 comments
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List of Exploits Found by AIs(docs.google.com)
2 points by andyljones 5y ago|0 comments
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by andyljones 5y ago
In case anyone misses the links, this is twinned with two other superb posts - one about general lessons the author learned over the course of the project https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/my-reinforcement-
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Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems While Retaining Your Sanity(andyljones.com)
2 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?' Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray! https://chrome.google.com/webst
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Precision advice, collateral damage, bright lines and balancing tests(andyljones.com)
2 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’(carbonbrief.org)
4 points by andyljones 6y ago|2 comments
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Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation? (2015)(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
38 points by andyljones 6y ago|74 comments
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A Deep Dive into Google, Facebook and Australian News(eigenmagic.com)
2 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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The Cat Gap(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of using simulations to ground qualitative arguments. While the sims usually need to be fine-tuned so extensively as to leave them open to claims of 'overfitting', the benefit is that it nails the assumptions i
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A geographic model of why Europe tended to fragmentation, and China to unity(youtube.com)
1 points by andyljones 6y ago|1 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
The author also has a series of tweets giving a high-level summary: https://twitter.com/hippke/status/1302875049255473153
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Achieving gigabit communications between stars with gravitational lensing(arxiv.org)
2 points by andyljones 6y ago|1 comments
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Stories from developers who have switched from Mac to Windows(docs.microsoft.com)
2 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
> well spoken insane people as with strong independent thinkers. Happily, I think these to correlate strongly. At least for my admittedly subjective definition of 'well-spoken'.
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by andyljones 6y ago
Here's a fantastically detailed 2019 review of replications of Bloom's work: https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/ As is oft the case, the conclusion is 'it's complicated'.
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by andyljones 6y ago
Gary Marcus - the author of this - has previously offered several concrete tests that he felt demonstrated the limitations of the GPT approach. GPT-3 smashed them. https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#marcus-2020
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An in-browser, interactive model of the Coriolis effect (Desktop only)(andyljones.com)
1 points by andyljones 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
Worth contrasting with other 'Ethos licenses'. There's a really good writeup of 'common' ones here: https://coss.media/advent-of-ethos-licensing/ The most famous is the JSON Good-Not-Evil one.
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by andyljones 6y ago
Did a double-take seeing Maldacena's name on this. He's better known for discovering AdS/CFT, which is the foundation of a lot of modern work on quantum gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/C
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by andyljones 6y ago
This is a good but old article, and PyTorch has in fact integrated a lot of these suggestions over the past two years. https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/named_tensor.html Integration's still ongoing mind you, s
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by andyljones 6y ago
If it's 100x from increased investment and 10x from short-term efficiency gains, yeah you'd expect $4/page. Model compression or some other tech might make it more efficient in the long-run.
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by andyljones 6y ago
Training an AI in 2020 is best thought of as a capital investment. Like digging a mine or building a wind farm, the initial investment is very large but the operating costs are much lower, and in the long run you expect to get a lot more mo
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by andyljones 6y ago
It's worth chasing that with gwern's critique of Marcus' critque: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#marcus-2020 (the critique is: GPT-3 can in fact do all the things Marcus said it couldn't)
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by andyljones 6y ago
> are billion dollar industries When speaking of billion dollar investments, a billion dollar industry is not substantial. Google and Facebook's industries are advertising, at $600bn/year. Amazon's industry is retail, at $
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Are we in an AI Overhang?(lesswrong.com)
261 points by andyljones 6y ago|274 comments
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by andyljones 6y ago
'Why We Sleep' has some, uh, issues on the benefits-and-negatives front too. https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep

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