dmarchand90

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by dmarchand90 8mo ago
Cause tech is controlled by MAGA.
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by dmarchand90 1y ago
This is wild
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I've found how CNN map to visual cortex to be very clear. But I've always been a bit confused about how llms map to the brain. Is that even the case?
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
You have to be careful with nature. There are the scientific articles which are top of the line and written by deep experts. Then you have the journalism side which is basically just another main stream news website. (I'm not even agai
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
You should probably have a requirements.txt file instead of just a list of requirements. It's often hard to tell which combination of package versions will 'actually' work when running these things
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
My guess is it will be like pascal or smalltalk, an important development for illustrating a concept but is ultimately replaced by something more rigorous
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I kinda suspect it might be that chagpt is excellent at getting you to an "average" performance in any field. My background is computational material science, but more on materials than the computational part. I have an ok broad k
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I really wish these public articles tried to give some estimate of the magnitude of the effect. Is this a big difference? Barely noticeable without using advanced statistics? I often think of David Mitchell's commentary on whether stri
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
"Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but, well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's when you're bored that
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Not really a new problem: Take this quote from George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War "I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great bat
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
"the researchers built a simulation of a real social network" I just find this to be such a large detail that it's hard to gloss over. What are the assumptions of this model in the simulation? How accurate is the model? How d
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I think I'll wait for the cover of nature article before getting excited about superconductors again. (Yes it could still be a scam even if it gets into nature but that seems like the minimum to me)
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Could you clarify what parts you use llama and which you use gpt4 on?
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Can anyone recommend a good book for numerical c++ in 2024?
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Where does it say much better than gpt4 for the 400B model?
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
The crazy thing is the US is probably one of the most affordable places in the developed world even now!
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Canadians = 850 signatures? Change title to 0.002% of Canadians asking
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Be interesting to plug this into a bayesian optimization like framework: find out regions of language space where the models maximally disagree and then target those areas for extra training
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30194345
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Cool article but should put the date 2019 since it's a bit old
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Please continue doing so! I don't work in AI directly and Research highlights from community posts such as yours is how I keep up with the field.
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I mean option one is always going to be there. I'm sure there are plenty of neo-aristocrats who can do science if they want. The problem, honestly, is an ancient one. In plato's republic he complains about a lack of state funding
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Yes yes yes. Personally I don't recommend a phd without work experience
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Some other things: 15) I made time to do whatever impulsive thing my mind felt like doing in my free time. I love video games and after a decade avoiding them because I felt like they were a waste of time, I got back into them. 16) I still
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I did a phd and really enjoyed it, a lot of my friends did as well and hated it. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter: Note this advice is only if you're average or feel average. If you're a superstar and you know it please
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
It is a mild pet peeve of mine these titles which make it sound like these entrepreneurs weren't doing anything before starting their reputation making companies. He had already gotten a masters at MIT and a phd from Stanford. From his
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
I would add the consent of the subject of the photo. Indeed i think it could be a nice way of honoring a pioneer of the field by taking a photo of them that specifically contains the above elements.
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
Yeah exactly like this. It is a subtle art of validating in small scale a method you would later use at large scale.
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
We want to do computer experiments instead of real life experiments to discover or improve chemicals and materials. The current way of doing computer experiments is really really slow and takes a lot of computers. We now have much faster wa
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by dmarchand90 2y ago
What you do is you compute a lot of simulations with the expensive method. Then you train using neural neural networks (well any regression method you like). Then you can use the trained method on new arbitrary structures. If you've do

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