crypto420

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by crypto420 3mo ago
Carlini
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by crypto420 3mo ago
CNNs excel in vision tasks where you have limited compute, limited memory, limited data, and want something that works super well and quick. People usually don't hook CNNs up to a transformer to get language understanding either, you h
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by crypto420 4mo ago
I spent part of my life growing up in a major Asian city where communal ties are very strong, and spent a very significant fraction of my childhood outside of my house, just because there was so much to do - whether it was playing soccer, p
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by crypto420 4mo ago
My PhD advisor found out that my English writing skills are quite good and the rest of their lab were Chinese internationals, so they started making me write all of their research grants. 30 pages every 2 months, pre-ChatGPT days.
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by crypto420 4mo ago
Unfortunately, consciousness is deceptively hard to define, and so any benchmark to measure or quantify it can be endlessly debated. You can argue that it's a property that all living beings have in common - and even among *unconscious
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by crypto420 10mo ago
> There hasn't been real product innovation at Apple in over a decade. Everyone says this but forgets that AirPods were released in 2016, Pros in 2020, and they're now the most popular headphones in the world
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by crypto420 10mo ago
> Well, both, obviously. So, 95 with 1k?
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by crypto420 11mo ago
Peter Thiel and Mamdani are more alike than you may think. https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1937879912221667792 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-peter-thiel-warns... Nobody wants to
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by crypto420 11mo ago
Not Palantir. Their CEO has explicitly said that they don't collect data on US citizens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-IH7EVrBbQ
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by crypto420 11mo ago
The whole point of Apple intelligence is that it shouldn’t feel like you’re talking with an LLM, it’s that it fades into the OS but delivers new features that make the OS more intelligent. I’m actually very bullish on it
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by crypto420 1y ago
All of this, as well as the crazy weird behaviors by o3 around it's hallucinations and Claude on deceiving users - is pointing to an interesting quote I saw about scaling RL in LLMs: https://x.com/jxmnop/status&#x2
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by crypto420 2y ago
I'm not sure if people here even read the entirety of the article. From the article: > We applied the AI co-scientist to assist with the prediction of drug repurposing opportunities and, with our partners, validated predictions thro
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by crypto420 2y ago
> So, I'm not a believer in the classic winner takes all approach here where one company turns into this trillion dollar behemoth and the rest of the industry pays the tax to that one company in perpetuity. I agree with this sentime
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by crypto420 5y ago
I wonder if its just about having competent adversaries? The West has always consisted of near-powers competing for resources and technology. A notable exception is modern history, where America hasn't had a serious technological adver
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by crypto420 5y ago
It most definitely does. If money is a medium for people to convert goods and services from one form to another, then in a technologically advancing world where things become cheaper in terms of SI units, we should expect the value of money
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by crypto420 6y ago
Not sure what you're talking about. Neural networks are powering a LOT of the internet. > Siri/Cortana/Google Home/Alexa, powered by DeepSpeech+language models > Google Search, powered by BERT > Tesla, powered b