johnc1

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by johnc1 3mo ago
Or, just incentivize or mandate stores to sell "child-certified" phones with parental controls pre-configured (along with a physical plug-and-play usb key for parents disable them when the child is old enough).
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by johnc1 3mo ago
Exactly! We already have content tags on TV/Movies, just extend it to the web and make mandatory. I imagine it could be not trivial to enforce (esp. for offshore web) - but definitely easier than enforcing the same sites to implement m
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by johnc1 3mo ago
I know! What puzzles me is responses every such article gets even on HN - let's build some cool tech that 95% of the general population and 100% of politicians won't even understand not to mention agree to. Yes, government want to
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by johnc1 3mo ago
There is a much easier solution that already exists - parental controls on children's devices. I honestly don't understand why is it not solving the problem? Yes, parents are responsible to set this up. But parents are also respon
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by johnc1 3mo ago
We're already been protecting children from printed porn, alcohol, drugs (legal or illegal), guns, etc. Children don't even have to buy those items, sometimes they can get them from friends or even find at home. It's always b
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by johnc1 4y ago
> Can these models feasibly be run locally? Actually you can, it even works without GPU, here's a guide on running BLOOM (the open-source GPT-3 competitor of similar size) locally: https://towardsdatascience.com/run-
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by johnc1 6y ago
> Politics and consumer capitalism are motivated to identify and target stupid people... My bet is on a variation of this. To some extent, we all target people to advance our goals, be it to get them hooked on our product, to get people
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by johnc1 6y ago
Highly debated argument though; to me it's like saying you CPU doesn't understand HTML and your browser is running on a CPU, hence it can't understand HTML either. Scott Aaronson explained it nicely too: https://sc
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by johnc1 6y ago
That's of course correct. Perhaps GPT-3 can do that too? I don't have access to it, but I wonder if it can be taught new words using few-shot learning. In fact, even GPT-2 gets close to that. Here's what I just got on Hugging
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by johnc1 6y ago
One point missed by the article is visibility: even with SMS-2FA, I at least know when my password is being used by someone else (modulo sim-based attacks). For example, if my password manager gets hacked, and a password leaks. I think the
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by johnc1 6y ago
Another way to think about it is comparing to how children learn. First, children spend inordinate amount of time just trying to make sense of words they hear. Once they develop their language models, adults can explain new concepts to them
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by johnc1 7y ago
Awesome work, thanks for sharing! For those trying to replicate it, could you please share some insights on which steps to train the model worked the best for you? I see 3 different train.py invocations in your colab - for how long did you
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by johnc1 7y ago
Thanks a lot for advice! How does L1-As compare with L1-Bs or O-1s on terms of being tough? Those two are my other options I'm considering.
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by johnc1 7y ago
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this AMA! Do you have any insights on whether getting an L1-A got more difficult with the current administration, and if/how the kind of documents/evidence needed for it changed recently? I'm asking