emmender1

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by emmender1 3y ago
allow me.. the person is incentivized to view the events in that manner (ie works for or is associated with cruise/autopilot etc)...
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by emmender1 3y ago
the yuppie rich in sunny states have their EVs already. the poors need reliable transportation to get to their workplace to feed their families and pay rent
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by emmender1 3y ago
openai has a funding round in play and they need all the "attention" they can get. so expect more rumors of "AGI is around the corner"
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by emmender1 3y ago
nice analogy between the output of llms with stream of thought conversation - wherein statements are made off the cuff and possibly confabulated. as opposed to correlating statements with knowledge structures knowledge structures as we con
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by emmender1 3y ago
loved this article thanks ! do folks actually read knuth ? i thought his tomes were meant only for bookshelves -lol- -sarcasm-
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by emmender1 3y ago
i plan to cancel too after my free subscription period expires.
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by emmender1 3y ago
this rant is similar to the one on modern hotel showers published today. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/hotel-showers-nate-barg... (behind paywall) the designers of these things are not the actual users, hen
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by emmender1 3y ago
guilty as charged.. but isnt the article addressing the likes of me ?
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by emmender1 3y ago
"car companies could design for repairability, but it's not a selling point and it is a way for them to claw back profits" agree 100%, there is little incentive for the car-maker+dealer ecosystem to enable this.
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by emmender1 3y ago
just wait until the battery or motor dies on you, or you have to resell your car and no buyer wants to take on the risk of a used battery.
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by emmender1 3y ago
this is anecdotal but a friend who owns a tesla has had no repairs except 2 battery replacements - each of which would have been prohibitive out-of-warranty. A battery expert i spoke to said that battery management is a complex mechanism, w
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by emmender1 3y ago
why then is hertz citing high repair costs for EVs ? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/hertz-pulls-back-on-ev-plans... I dont think the assertion that "EVs have lower maintenance cost" is backed by ha
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by emmender1 3y ago
by definition, any public predictable signals (sustained edge) in stock price time series have been exploited already - thereby nullifying them.
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by emmender1 3y ago
no, but in other parts of the world, there is no sense that you will imminently a) change the world with some doodad gadget or b) be a millionaire by picking up a startup lottery ticket.
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by emmender1 3y ago
I guess we are at that part of the hype-cycle where the initial excitement is turning into doubt. At this point, the vested interests (ai-vcs, startups, ai-researchers etc) must unleash a new wave of propaganda to keep the faith. eg: sama d
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by emmender1 3y ago
nailed it. i have been part of 3 hype-trains - dot-com, cloud, and now ai. missed w3/crypto. but, i havent such hype-trains in other parts of us/world.
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by emmender1 3y ago
ok, here you go. another slight tweak to a standard puzzle and it falls. btw, i am very impressed with how well chatGPT does on this puzzle thanks to the elaborate tuning that seems to have been done by the training. --- A farmer has a wol
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by emmender1 3y ago
LLMs are failing on tasks as simple as this. you can call it a trick question but what the hey. "prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3" Claude puts out this elaborate BS - whats funny is the pretension. ---- Thi
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by emmender1 3y ago
suprised that cs peirce is not brought into this debate. he provided a coherent (almost scientific) theory of consciousness - sadly, he remains a forgotten philosopher due to his fragmentary writings.
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by emmender1 3y ago
The output of many professions is bag-of-words emotional persuation. eg. politicians, consultants, sociologists, psychologists, writers, economists, tv talking heads, media in general. A characteristic of these professions is that there is
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by emmender1 3y ago
spooky AI taking over the world was FUD spread by those with strong vested interests. and to be fair, a many credulous tech-types and their VC handlers were goaded on by this misson to "tame the AI beast". For the VCs it is always
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by emmender1 3y ago
prompt-engineering to get the answer is analogous to prompting the fortune teller to tell your future - ie, you have an intended answer that you expect (or wish for in the case of a fortune teller), and you tweak the prompts to get there.
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by emmender1 3y ago
in other news... Thought leaders in AI/LLM/AGI meeting next week to bury this inconvenient finding that threatens their narrative.
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by emmender1 3y ago
the whole "prompt-engineering to get the answer" reeks of bullshittery... like prompting a fortune teller to tell you your future
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by emmender1 3y ago
monkeys throwing darts have often outperformed the index. what does that tell you ? evaluating trading algorithms for sustainable edge is science. the competitive and zero sum nature of trading requires a deeper and almost scientific bent
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by emmender1 3y ago
where is the pushback ? can you share any links. all i see is the hype cycle. also, the title is click-bait. I was expecting a list of pushback articles. and whats the deal with developers curating such lists and posting on hn ?
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by emmender1 3y ago
A) aws/azure need nvidia/amd chips in their servers... it is too difficult to homegrow these chips (altho aws is trying) B) microsoft (github autopilot 20$ per month per user), document/image autogeneration from a prompt (lik
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by emmender1 3y ago
you are: a) a hardware vendor nvidia/amd whose products are needed by anyone in the game b) you have a captive customer base already ( microsoft, salesforce, servicenow, adobe) to whom you can sell ai/ml value adds c) you make mon
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by emmender1 3y ago
the only beneficiary of this are the hardware vendors.. nvidia and amd. and startups which get these foundation models for free. because language models are a complementary product, and the complement must be commoditized as a strategy. I s
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by emmender1 3y ago
"... .Looking back from the other side of the next Winter, the whole thing will seem a bit goofy." for most of us, what we wish for is what we believe.

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