garspin

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by garspin 7mo ago
Consciousness & souls are defined by feelings. Feelings need chemicals - dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin. Our meat substrate has these, silcon doesn't. While mirrors, TVs, Tiktoks, LLMs can evoke emotions in us, that's not suffi
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by garspin 10mo ago
Making $$$ & keeping them are 2 different skills. He's demonstrated the former 16B times, now he's demonstrating the latter. The big downside risk I see for Nvidia is a garage startup inventing a more efficient AI algo.... tha
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by garspin 11mo ago
1) Making money & keeping money are 2 different skillsets. You've made some $$$, now learn how to keep it. 2) Time is far more valuable than money. If you can take life-changing $$$ off the table in exchange for time, do so. The 2
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China's Floating Power Plants – Tapping Super High Winds(cleantechnica.com)
4 points by garspin 1y ago|2 comments
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Periodic Table of Cognition(kk.org)
57 points by garspin 1y ago|13 comments
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by garspin 1y ago
I doubt it. Brains run at only a few operations per second.... GPUS at TFLOPS. There just isn't enough bandwidth. My brain only needs to get mugged in a dark alley by a guy in a hoodie once to learn something.
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by garspin 1y ago
> the U.S.'s vaunted system of checks and balances doesn't work and a similar president could be elected at any time Precisely. The world has lost faith in both the US voters and its' checks & balances. Buffet said he
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by garspin 1y ago
Some would say further than 4 yrs. Enough of the voters and Congress have demonstrated that they are tolerant of this mode of leadership behaviour - internationally trust has disappeared for a generation.
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by garspin 2y ago
Things that have changed recently that may affect the trend - faith in the stability of US govt declining need for petro dollars increase in US debt as %age of GDP (IANA Economist)
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The U.S. dollar is still the currency – but maybe not for much longer(morningstar.com)
13 points by garspin 2y ago|3 comments
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by garspin 2y ago
Speaking as an non-american reading local & global news sources.... ...does Trump not understand 2nd round effects ? From afar he seems to be intent on Making America Great for Billionaires at the expense of any country less powerful th
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by garspin 2y ago
> and then you found that it offered marginal-but-not-amazing improvement over the previous version. Then call it GPT 4.1 and allow version space for the next iteration. I think the label V4.5 is giving the impression of more than margin
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by garspin 2y ago
I use minbrowser.org/ Some sites disallow it... min suggests changing the user-agent setting to something like - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0
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New asteroid discovery suggests how life on Earth started(sciencefocus.com)
2 points by garspin 2y ago|0 comments
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by garspin 2y ago
An alternative explaination... Deepseek is a side project for a hedge fund. Shorting NVIDIA & releasing everything including the source would have a high probability of being hugely profitable, with almost zero downside if it went unnot
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by garspin 2y ago
Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) was one of them. His response to a billionaire was 'I have something you will never have - enough'.
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by garspin 2y ago
LLMs are text compression algos. They are very good at memorising & retrieving text related to the user input. They can even pass bar exams based on that - some misinterpret that as intelligence. However, no amount of scaling will chang
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by garspin 2y ago
I implemented it in the browser. For demo & src, see https://svelte.dev/playground/2c1bf42e0d2a4cebb38b907fa7f90a... Adjust separation, cohesion and alignment manually, or use the presets.
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by garspin 2y ago
> Pulling that off is the social skills test. Surely the most significant side effect of any F2F interview is to evaluate social skills. An answer that the interviewer fully expects to be a lie just isn't required. Anyway... &quot
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by garspin 2y ago
Google 'polarized training'. It's 80% really slow conversational pace jogging, and 20% really hard, struggle to breath flat out sprinting. Just avoid the intermediate jogging that's comfortable, but unproductive.
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High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)(aaltohaps.com)
7 points by garspin 2y ago|1 comments
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by garspin 2y ago
Flying for months at a time in the stratosphere, Zephyr offers game-changing capabilities that will be transformative for mobile connectivity and earth observation. As a payload agnostic platform, Zephyr can transform into a multi-functiona
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by garspin 2y ago
Agree. A better response to '80% chance that this is a known shoplifter' is for security to keep an eye on them. It should very quickly become apparent that it's a false positive (or not).
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by garspin 2y ago
Hardest to diagnose phone support I had to deal with was an elderly relative in the DOS days trying to find another lost file.... "type in 'dir \documents' and press Enter. What comes up?". "Nothing". "No
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by garspin 2y ago
Surely consciousness is not black & white, but a scale. Rocks at one end & us(?) at the other. There was a recent post suggesting that our thoughts are 98% unconscious. It's not hard to imagine that there could be some animals
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by garspin 2y ago
> mind-bending D3 That's something that bugs me too. D3 is pretty amazing but is only accessible to coders. > we’ve almost completely lost the art of offscreen rendering markdown2.com is something I'm working on to address t
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by garspin 2y ago
I am working on a zero-code content-rich document generator at https://markdown2.com/ It's a quick and easy way to generate & share content rich documents in 30 secs. The sandbox https://markdown2.com
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by garspin 3y ago
The point Marcus is making is that LLMs are solely next word predictors - intelligence requires far more than that. LLMs will always have the same basic challenges - their 'kinda copy what a human has written' algorithm has hit it
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by garspin 3y ago
For many products/services I use a disposable email/login (from duck.com) - the site gets some data, but it's wrong (DoB 1 Jan 2000), anonymous and unrelated to any of my other disposable logins. Obviously doesn't work f
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by garspin 3y ago
I too tried DL & learnt too slowly & gave up on the irritating gamification. I run alone (at a slow conversational pace) for 5-6 hours a week, and see that time as an opportunity to learn conversational German. Any ideas what I coul

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