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by jpfed 4mo ago
I'm not even sure where to start, but I have to ask- are there any groups / projects that are trying to make and train an OSS model federated across members' machines?
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by jpfed 2y ago
I also ask about approaching LLM decoding in terms of navigation, although from a different angle, in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1dw2pqo/d_...
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by jpfed 3y ago
Someday I'm going to write a paper that achieves SOTA results with a nigh-incomprehensible mishmash of diverse techniques and title it "All You Need Considered Harmful".
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by jpfed 3y ago
The most promising work along these lines centers around augmenting LLMs with an external data store ("retrieval-augmented LLM"s). I think this started with Facebook's KNN-LLM ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911
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by jpfed 3y ago
These are good examples of mass casualty events that didn't motivate effective responses. For both climate change and guns, there are people that want to keep the status quo as it is. I believe that popular arguments against gun contro
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by jpfed 3y ago
News media like to have stories they can focus popular attention on, and no one car accident (unless it kills someone famous) will matter to enough people to warrant broader coverage than one's local paper. Despite this lack of media v
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by jpfed 5y ago
Tens of citizens' personal information may have been exposed.
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by jpfed 5y ago
Don't get us wrong, eval() is terrible too.
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by jpfed 5y ago
I'm curious about whether anyone has studied using the harmonic mean (or at least, the reciprocal of the sum of reciprocals) as a way of aggregating utilities. I haven't had time to research this, but the thought repeatedly occurs
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by jpfed 5y ago
A group being "above the rules" is, I think, a statement about what the rules are and how they are enforced. It doesn't really hinge on whether any members of that group have, up to this point, violated the rules.
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by jpfed 5y ago
As others have said, if they're limiting the number of approvals you can make on your ballot, then that's not how approval voting is supposed to be administered. If they're just adding up each candidate's votes, that&#x2
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by jpfed 5y ago
I have long liked and advocated for approval voting (or cardinal methods more generally), or barring that, basically anything but FPTP. But I'm disillusioned. Many non-plurality methods (including approval) can effectively solve the sp
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by jpfed 5y ago
Nazca's include mechanism allows you to separate your code in whatever way you find appropriate.
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by jpfed 5y ago
See, this is why deadhorse.com should exist and do the thing that I outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bg8vc/what_websi...
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by jpfed 5y ago
I have used genetic algorithms to search for non-transitive die triplets among the standard set of platonic dice, and exhaustively searched d6 and d8 numberings. If one insists that the advantage of A over B be the same as the advantage of
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by jpfed 5y ago
What would happen if people just followed recognized experts, but those experts were wrong? Bad things like the "masks don't help" messaging early on. What would happen if you got to be the contrarian that predicted the exp
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by jpfed 5y ago
>One person argues that the Prison Experiment was a case of subjects behaving as their experimenters clearly wanted them to. Is that to say that the Prison Experiment is actually explained by the Milgram obedience experiments? :-)
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by jpfed 5y ago
Maybe the article could have included that if an automotive engineer had written it. But I think the article is perfectly fine for having included the steps that it did address. Think about it this way. If you wrote an article about preve
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by jpfed 5y ago
The article talks about solutions at three different levels, though perhaps more indirectly than you were looking for. The end of the fourth paragraph and beginning of the fifth paragraph talk imply a solution: use crash test dummies that a
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by jpfed 5y ago
It's not just a problem that he's discussed before- it is the central motivation behind his approach of "person-on-the-street interviews". His view (supported by his grad research) was that the default approach of pres
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by jpfed 5y ago
As a programmer, I empathize with the impulse to go with the elegant, unified solution of carbon taxes. The problem is that everybody gets hurt, in at least a short-term sense, by a carbon tax. And yes, a lot of people will understand tha
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by jpfed 5y ago
It is possible that American culture has already been divided more than most HN readers have been aware of. See Michael Harriot's "blackfamous" thread: https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/120
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by jpfed 5y ago
Motion-detecting neurons in the visual cortex need to use timing; it would be a little weird for evolution to just use that mechanism once and not try it again.
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by jpfed 5y ago
What worked best for me was to have paper next to me as I read, and every time I felt like I did not fully understand what I read, write down the questions I would need to answer to feel better about my understanding. Often, the answers wou
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by jpfed 5y ago
Every time you switch, remember what that implies about your weighting of what's important. If you force yourself to develop a consistent weighting of criteria- or even just to let your weighting of criteria change in a consistent dire
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by jpfed 5y ago
Yes, well, at least it's Python 3 .
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by jpfed 6y ago
>Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday I'd never heard of this company before and it must be said that Prehensile Tales is an amazing name.
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by jpfed 6y ago
Not that this proves anything, but this author's twitter account is followed by: * David Fowler (ASP.NET Core creator) * Andy Gocke (Lead developer for the CLR) * Jared Parsons (Lead developer for C# Compiler team) * Miguel de Icaza Pr
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by jpfed 7y ago
>people do not evaluate an object like a computer processing pixels, but based on an imagined internal skeleton Well, maybe not how computers typically process pixels nowadays , but back in the old days of computer vision one technique
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by jpfed 7y ago
The twist here is that this language doesn't use actual pipes; it just creates representations of pipes that can be used by a different interpreter.

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