donnowhy

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by donnowhy 4y ago
> until this gets independently replicated. hmm, very interesting. I don't think it works like that anymore. The next step has got to be commercial availability. else investors to would loose money or worse, some Chinese company c
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by donnowhy 4y ago
like how success of a species becomes the failure of the same species. the endless cycles of success and failure. also in multi-generational wealth: poor and hard working become successful (when society allows it) then the descendants are
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by donnowhy 4y ago
> Actually, a simple, well-crafted command builder that can query real-life recipes would do. but if you want to "raise some funding" you better find a way to talk about "chat-gtp like bots" in your pitch
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by donnowhy 4y ago
category theory is 'native 2-dimensional' math. i.e. category theory explains everything in terms of graphs, where a graph is made from two different sorts of 'entities', nodes and vertices i.e. categories and morphisms
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by donnowhy 4y ago
on the other hand, this same pattern of "authoritarianism" is what we all learn to have when becoming adult members of our societies/cultures: it's an expression of one persons' individual consciousness with the abi
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by donnowhy 4y ago
> The author is proposing a model that [allegedly] does a good job of explaining why we see unexpected behavior I agree, and go even further: models that explain behavior are all we have ever had. it's all only "models that ex
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by donnowhy 4y ago
sounds to me like a wave with a positive and a negative part. which IMO is what drives constructive/destructive interference in waves. my take away is that any LLM that can behave "good" must also be able to behave "badl
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by donnowhy 4y ago
nonetheless, to witness the entire cognitive process of the author, as misguided as you find their conclusions, is a positive constructive experience isn't it? IMO, the main point of the article is to assert that in some fields (medici
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by donnowhy 4y ago
I think atm the Fed is the main force holing the USA together, considering all the bi-partisan polarization all ways to divert the "voltage" across elite and commoner classes which are the real source of this tension. I'm say
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by donnowhy 4y ago
most certainly. another example of dumb and costly mistakes is putting a capitalistic-optimization scheme in charge of medical care alas, for some reason (many of them, indeed) most of these 'problems' cannot be corrected. for a f
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by donnowhy 4y ago
I fear the end game of a fully propieatary software world is that the only real way people interact with computers is app stores, programming is not something people can learn online anymore (but it used to). not even command line, just app
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by donnowhy 4y ago
this is "GOOD BUSINESS" and bad (evil) everything else. oh the humanity
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by donnowhy 4y ago
ah, so focus on the inherent void behind all reality... very zen ...this is a skill that is difficult to develop, hard to teach, and impossible to test (if somebody can do it)
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by donnowhy 4y ago
time to do a Peru (or Bolivia, or Chile, or Argentina, or ....). best of luck to the CIA agents "NOT" working on it (plausibly deny... wink wink )
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by donnowhy 4y ago
but the moon milk cows are at the moment getting decimated by the moon cheese lovers in a mad rush to make more pizza; they're at war! it's a risky time to do moon business, there's even a faction that would get rid of the mo
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by donnowhy 4y ago
call me old school... but why is this even on github? there's no code... just a README (an advertisement?) with a tutorial and a link to download a binary blob this feels like some kind of 'guerrilla advertisement' or somethi
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by donnowhy 4y ago
I'm on a deep strange trip into the differences between "animated" and "inanimated" entities with only the loose idea of "emergent phenomena" to "guide me" on this winding road
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by donnowhy 4y ago
this is the kind of thing truly making computer science into a science. with all this "deep" learning technology, understanding based on principles is no longer required, heck, such 'epistemic-attitude' (i.e. knowledge f
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by donnowhy 4y ago
under this logic, a sack of lead ought to 'rule over' a living animal because of being heavier
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by donnowhy 4y ago
I have not ever studied POSIX academically ( curricularly ) but: > a small set of minimalistic APIs that remain stable over time but from what I've gathered (over years, by 'osmosis'). Isn't this the essential ide
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by donnowhy 4y ago
this is what I've found to be most troubling around this whole debacle: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10345 how can it be in any way 'scientific' to base results on unpublished material?? > The analyt
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by donnowhy 4y ago
you're essentially passing the ball to the mathematicians: seems like you're saying "we physicist got this from the math people, take it up with them" but what irks me, is the attitude that disregards the proper understa
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by donnowhy 4y ago
it's hard to stay positive when people used 'credential-based' reasoning to disregard your questioning/criticism; this is very standard in academia. and it's not like you can say "let's see who does better