extasia

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by extasia 10mo ago
politics really is the mind-killer
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by extasia 10mo ago
For what it’s worth, my second year of PhD was relatively miserable compared to my first and third. ignore the prestige games, knuckle down and do the best work you can do- it’s more impressive if you succeed at a lower rank institution any
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by extasia 1y ago
I wrote my own agent state machine in pretty much pure async Python (no libs). Running successfully in prod with very few issues. I use the OpenAI messages spec, and have the messages be an append only list, to make it easy to reason about.
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by extasia 1y ago
That sucks- I’m sorry you had that experience! I was considering signing up today, based on this I won’t. I have had a great experience with gemini-cli, which may interest you: it only requires a google account to setup and you get a decent
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by extasia 1y ago
the professor vs PhD mode made me chuckle in your UI. looking forwards to seeing your agent’s critique of my paper!
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by extasia 2y ago
A reflection on what I unexpectedly gained when I lost my beloved headphones. Keen to hear if anybody else has had similar experiences of this phenomenon!
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by extasia 2y ago
Wisdom is taking your own advice. Words that I’ve found easier to accept the value of than to extoll. Trying is the first step to failing I guess;)
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by extasia 2y ago
@dang This person is a bot, read other comments of theirs please.
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by extasia 2y ago
That’s not mathematically accurate though, is it? We haven’t reduced the dimension of the vector by one. Pray tell, which dimension do we lose when we normalize, say a 2D vector?
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by extasia 2y ago
Magnitude is not a dimension, it’s information about each value that is lost when you normalize it. To prove this normalize any vector and then try to de-normalize it again.
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by extasia 2y ago
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of two tower modes before! Yes, I guess it’s curious that the information lost doesn’t seem very significant (this also matches my experience!)
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by extasia 2y ago
This is not quite right; you are actually losing information about each of the dimensions and your mental model of reducing the dimensionality by one is misleading. Consider [1,0] and [x,x] Normalised we get [1,0] and [sqrt(.5),sqrt(.5)] —
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Ask HN: Good LLM tool-use examples?
2 points by extasia 2y ago|0 comments
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by extasia 2y ago
> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20
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Paper, Blogpost, Podcast – Three pieces of media which shifted my worldview(josephsboyle.substack.com)
1 points by extasia 2y ago|0 comments
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by extasia 2y ago
Facebook released a general purpose Segment Anything Model (SAM) recently and it's been well received in industry afaict. Might be a good place to start
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by extasia 2y ago
I think it should be MOD or MoD in the title not Mod, as it's an acronym (Ministry of Defence)
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Automated Medical Coding with LLMs(arxiv.org)
3 points by extasia 2y ago|0 comments
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by extasia 2y ago
They're poor at recollecting the exact descriptions of the ~150,000 ICD codes, which is why these other approaches [1,2] give the known information (codes) in some way to the model and let it do the task of _assigning_ them to discharg
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by extasia 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying, that's definitely a more well thought through perspective than I gave you credit for before. I guess I would avoid updating my beliefs too strongly when a measurement I generally find quite useful (in this case g
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by extasia 3y ago
I strongly dislike arguments like this. Because you can apply them to basically any metric and I find that they are generally used to cheaply discredit a potentially interesting fact about the world without actually providing an argument th
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by extasia 3y ago
I've also had this thought, but found that inspecting the type shows its by default a dictionary, and that it only is interpreted as a set if you treat it as such (eg add comma-seperated elements when instantiating) assert type({}) ==
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by extasia 3y ago
Do you believe that meat consumption is the prime causal factor?
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by extasia 3y ago
Why is this scientific pollution? Seems like a valid research question to me.
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by extasia 3y ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj6958 >Because human same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) is heritable and leads to fewer offspring, how SSB-associated alleles have persisted and whether they will remain
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by extasia 3y ago
Journaling. Giving myself the ability to take notes on how I'm feeling has helped me discover the negative patterns and reason about them with more clarity. Ive made a ritual of it, I go to my local cafe and write. Maybe I write a few
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by extasia 3y ago
Not a senior engineer, but my instinct is that you need to train people s.t you are confident delegating at least parts of your current role to them. What's stopping you from handpicking a (willing) senior and having them shadow you &#
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by extasia 3y ago
Two people can love one another and it can still not work out.
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by extasia 3y ago
My goal was to improve my trait conscientiousness, mostly organisation etc. Ive done this to some success, moving from low single digits percentile to somewhere near the population mean.
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Ask HN: What are you excited for at NeurIPS?
1 points by extasia 3y ago|0 comments

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