jamesk_au

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by jamesk_au 1y ago
Does anyone have any insight (or informed guesses) that might explain the strange downward "spike" that was consistently observed at dimension 196 in OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 model?
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by jamesk_au 2y ago
Was it only the last sentence that was wrong? Would you mind indicating what advice you think the PhD person should have written to you based on what they knew of you at the time? Genuinely curious, and thank you for the anecdote.
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by jamesk_au 3y ago
Can anyone find a link to Apple’s nine-page submission document? All reports of this seem to refer back to the same BBC article, which purports to quote from Apple’s submission, but doesn’t link to it.
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by jamesk_au 3y ago
Can anyone comment on how the limits on GPT-X’s token space translate to limits on its vocabulary (with corresponding limits on understanding input and generating output)? For example, is GPT-4’s list of ~100k tokens sufficient to understan
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by jamesk_au 4y ago
For a fun exploration of this, see the short story “Crystal Nights”, by Greg Egan: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html
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by jamesk_au 4y ago
I also had this experience, thank you for fixing it so quickly. The game is fun!
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by jamesk_au 9y ago
Possibly relevant (from the Firebase FAQ[1]): Why was my Realtime Database reported bandwidth lower than average between September 2016 and March 2017? For our bandwidth calculations, we normally include SSL encryption overhead (based on l
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
This analysis from Ben Thompson (Stratechery[1]) just yesterday would be a great place to start: "Imagine a Twitter app that, instead of a generic Moment that is little more than Twitter’s version of a thousand re-blogs, let you repla
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
Chris Lattner talked about some of these issues on the Accidental Tech Podcast a few weeks ago: http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/ It was a great episode and is worth the listen for those interested.
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
"It is our goal to train a trillion-parameter model on a trillion-word corpus. We have not scaled our systems this far as of the writing of this paper, but it should be possible by adding more hardware."
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
In telling the other side of the story, the Dash developer published his (apparently secret) recording of a 7-minute long telephone call he had with a person at Apple who purports to be speaking on behalf of Phil Schiller.[1] Leaving aside
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
> If I had an algorithm that produced halfway decent results in an automated fashion, I wouldn't use it to get into the legal technology market. I'd set myself up as a litigation funder and make boatloads of money with accurat
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
"In some Australian cities, in the central business district, the traffic light push buttons don't work at certain times — for example, 7 am to 7 pm, Monday to Wednesday, and 7 am to 9 pm, Thursday to Saturday. The rationale is th
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
The free app Mathpix for iOS does this really well too: http://mathpix.com
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
The public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms, was released last month: https://openai.com/blog/openai-gym-beta/
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
Some of these statements are incorrect or incomplete in a way that might hinder the casual reader. The families on Nauru are free to leave and return to their countries of origin any time they choose. But all of the members of those famili
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Australia’s Offshore Cruelty(nytimes.com)
43 points by jamesk_au 10y ago|36 comments
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by jamesk_au 10y ago
I would have found it easier to review these Apply HN threads if each applicant had completed the full YC Fellowship application and posted that in their thread as well. For many of the existing threads, there's just not very much to
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
That isn't the case he ran before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention though.[1] Judging from his written submissions, he says that the UK has caused him to face "an impossible dilemma", namely, choosing between confinem
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
There is something curious about the conclusion that surrounding a person for the purpose of lawfully detaining them amounts to unlawful detention. Hasn't that been a traditional method of catching a suspect? "Come out with your
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Thanks very much for your time and consideration, Aaron—this has been helpful.
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
We have at least a small user base in every state, and also a small user base amongst students who started with us and went on to be accepted into universities and colleges, but to date we haven't invested significant time or effort in
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
One experiment involves offering a subscription service to online premium study notes. We measure number of subscribers, downloads, and revenue. Students who subscribe typically keep and use the subscription until they finish school: the
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
I'm a co-founder of a website for Australian high school students. It's a forum-based community where students help each other, share resources, and make friends by bonding over the high school experience—especially for students
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
Plenty of examples and resources in the Awesome Swift repository: https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
The most interesting takeaway from this list for me was the revelation that developers can use iTunes affiliate links to reduce Apple's cut of their App Store revenue from 30% to 23% for certain purchases.[1] The affiliate gets a 7% c
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
To be clear, Atlassian didn't leave Australia to avoid paying income tax, or even to avoid paying any tax. The principal reasons they left were that the Australian market doesn't have the ability to price a tech IPO of their
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
You can watch the non-interactive version of the documentary with some commentary by its maker in this Google Tech Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
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by jamesk_au 11y ago
There is no contract—it's a gift.[1] That probably also means it's not income and will be tax-free.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_(law) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_

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