emmender

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by emmender 3y ago
Humans are wired fundamentally to be irrational - our perceptual/cognitive apparatus is deeply flawed - umpteen studies show this - so this is a given. But, we also discovered a way to think/model which seems to work amazingly - w
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by emmender 3y ago
how can you say reasoning is fine - when it fails at basic logic.. ? we need to coax-it with the right prompts for it to come up with an answer - so, basically it cant reason. looks like you have an incentive to ignore what you see.
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by emmender 3y ago
take 3 ideas that are hot: chiplets, cloud, and LLM - remix them into the title of a paper that describes a hypothetical machine.. academia playing catch up and trying to stay relevant in my cynical eye.
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by emmender 3y ago
disagree, their creators are hyping these things to no end - to get their next rounds of funding.
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by emmender 3y ago
prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3 bullshits an answer with confidence (all llms do this) stupid monty hall Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three transparent doors... stupid rive
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by emmender 3y ago
failed all the logic puzzles with slight tweaks - including stupid monty hall (with transparent doors). BSs with confidence. agi is not knocking at the door.
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by emmender 3y ago
enterprise software architects trying to wedge into this emerging area, and you soon start hearing of: provenance, governance, security postures, gdpr, compliance.. give it a rest architects, LLMs are not ready yet for your wares.
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by emmender 3y ago
Please provide this reference in your readme / blog as it is the original source for your work... and provides the background for the tradeoff between the 2 approaches: 1) fine-tuning vs 2) Search-ask https://github.com&#x2F
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by emmender 3y ago
imo, it is injustice to present a clean capsule of the subject in a book, and expect students to digest it - whereas it took hundreds of years of discovery to arrive at the concepts in that book. i would love books that illustrate the strug
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by emmender 3y ago
No, I did not. The question is ill-posed imo. I would invert the question and ask: "How not to suck at your work" as that would lead to similar conclusions, and is more actionable. This essay has too many weasel sentences like: &q
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by emmender 3y ago
As Mark Twain said: "I wrote a long essay because I didn't want to put the effort writing a shorter one" - applies to this piece.
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by emmender 3y ago
It is not confirmation bias. It is a different tendency. It is a tendency to absorb whatever we read or hear - regardless of its information content. IMO: Human languages evolved more for bonding than for conveying information. So, words e
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by emmender 3y ago
Such despicable behavior from everyone involved. 1. Professors and MIT students attempting to gain fleeting fame riding on the bandwagon without trying to do deep work 2. Professors at MIT getting upset and lash out that GPT-4 can now get a
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by emmender 3y ago
My apologies, I didnt intend to be rude.. Any discovery is a step forward (whether it is news or not)..
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by emmender 3y ago
Proving a problem is np-complete should not be news. what should be news is when a problem has a P algo. (example, primes is in P) my cynical eye sees this as an over-eager grad student rushing out his/her discovery onto hacker news. N
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by emmender 3y ago
where is the study on "bitcoin as a tool in ransomware" ?
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by emmender 3y ago
how can they make a sale to enterprise IT without a giant architecture diagram ? The next thing you know, java may rear its ugly head as well just when we thought python eliminated it completely for these applications.
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by emmender 3y ago
are VCs doing architecture now ? huh... architecture astronauts much. looks like they are playing catchup and trying to stay relevant. What happened to their web3 vision ?
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by emmender 3y ago
agree with you 100%.. some philosophy (plato's dialogues) establish the underpinnings of reasoning and meaning - in that everything can be critiqued and debated. and some other philosophy (spinoza's emmendations of the intellect &
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Expensive Bullshit at Scale(medium.com)
6 points by emmender 3y ago|2 comments
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by emmender 3y ago
loved the "dumb monty hall" problem, and inspired me to create this "stupid birthday paradox". "In an event for twins, How many people should attend so that the likelihood of finding two people with the same birthda
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by emmender 3y ago
if there is one thing chatgpt has opened my eyes to, it is that we live in a world teeming with BS. In particular, philosophical essays and books are full of it. It seemingly makes sense, because, we contort the narrative to squeeze meanin
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by emmender 3y ago
there is nccl, gpudirect, nvlink and so on and so forth.. It is not just matmul on gpus.
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by emmender 3y ago
python is syntactic sugar - the heavy lifting is done by c/c++ bindings. many ML experts are not software engineers. They just want syntax to get their job done. fair enough.
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by emmender 3y ago
In addition to the above: 1) function decorators etc have made the code unreadable 2) while code is succinct, a lot of abstraction is hidden in some C/C++ language binding somewhere, so, when there is a problem, it is hard to debug 3)
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by emmender 3y ago
ChatGPT is hot news. Professor wants in on the action. He and his grad-student come up with a thesis. Then they cherry-pick evidence supporting the thesis and concoct a catchy headline that makes it to hacker news.
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by emmender 3y ago
the stock market for short-term traders is a zero-sum game. if there is a chatgpt trick that produced alpha, it would be adopted by every hedge-fund reducing its effectiveness (and alpha generation). so, these sorts of tricks depend on suck
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by emmender 3y ago
"GIGO at GBps" as someone put it. LLMs remix and sling BS in infinite ways to create more of the same. We are entering a golden-age of Bull
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by emmender 3y ago
the range of technology that needs to come together for ai training is underestimated. there is cuda of course, but there is also nccl, infiniband, gpudirect, each of which requires years of sw and hw maturity. unlike the cpu which has a cl
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by emmender 3y ago
The value added by the paper is to direct the readers attention to BS - and make them think about it.

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