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by lars 1mo ago
The comment section at the bottom of the article is pretty interesting. 20 years of people thinking about this.
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by lars 2mo ago
Misinformation generation as a service. Is there any thinkable use case for this that isn't destructive for society?
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Almost thirty percent of microplastics come from car tires(sciencealert.com)
4 points by lars 2y ago|0 comments
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by lars 3y ago
I basically share your sentiment. However, Greg Yangs work seems to have produced something of direct practical benefit for training large neural nets, based on the NTK literature. µ-Parametrization is apparently very useful in real world p
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Crypto: My Part in Its Downfall(blog.dshr.org)
5 points by lars 3y ago|2 comments
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Holy Grail(medium.com)
1 points by lars 5y ago|0 comments
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by lars 5y ago
Yes, it was. From their site: "It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub."
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by lars 5y ago
Note: Ian Linkletter, the one who had spent 100k in april, is not the guy being backed by EFF. Linkletter has a gofundme here: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio I've donated, and would recommend ot
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by lars 5y ago
I think they would in any case. My impression is that data is siloed internally at Google, and that data sharing between departments would be way more complex than just setting up some (possibly redundant) logging.
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by lars 5y ago
Idea: We could stop using cryptocurrencies. Any downsides to that?
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by lars 5y ago
Daniel Lemire's blog is brilliant: https://lemire.me/blog/
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by lars 5y ago
Similar to how "god of the gaps" arguments work, there's a "god of complexity" phenomenon in tech, where people will project infinite possibilities onto technology they don't understand. Blockchain is a brillia
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by lars 6y ago
Did you respond to right comment? You seem to be arguing against something that I'm not arguing for.
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by lars 6y ago
Well, this is the discussion I'd like to see. You have people born in the 90s hospitalized in Norway now. Many experience long term physical and cognitive effects. And as long as we're assuming everyone goes unvaccinated, the chan
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by lars 6y ago
I'm happy this research has been done so quickly, but am somewhat annoyed that the public conversation is so focused on whether or not the vaccine can possibly cause any problems, and not at all focused on the risk management question
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by lars 6y ago
Lars from CatchJS here. Anyone can go on archive.org and verify that they changed their color scheme and header to ones very similar to CatchJS in Feb 2020, after CatchJS had used that look for 2 years. Thank you for also pointing out the p
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by lars 6y ago
A middle ground could be nice: An IDE extension that notifies you when something you're writing will conflict in the future, should you and your coworker both commit and push what you've typed out. It would allow you to sort that
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by lars 6y ago
It really is a tiny subset of the C++ standard library, but I'm happy to see they're continuing to expand it: https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html
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The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns (2013)(philosophicaleconomics.com)
1 points by lars 6y ago|0 comments
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by lars 6y ago
That somebody was George Clooney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_HnP9TP5s
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by lars 6y ago
If you talk to Norwegians about Norwegians, you'll discover that we're very good at patting ourselves on the back. You might say that we're one of the best countries in the world when it comes to patting ourselves on the back
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by lars 6y ago
The problem isn't having an MBA though is it, it's (allegedly) not being competent enough in engineering. All the CEOs you mentioned have engineering degrees, while Intel's CEO does not.
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by lars 6y ago
That's an excellent example to show why statistical NLP outperforms discrete parsing using logical rules. That A1 and A2 means the same is something that is clear to us from the context. This is something a continuous vector space mode
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by lars 6y ago
The difficulty of the problem is that of a 50-way classification. If the only goal was to minimize WER, a simple post-processing step choosing the nearest sentence in the training set could easily bring the WER down further. They've ch
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by lars 6y ago
This is cool. For those who are not super familiar with language processing, I think it's good to point out the limitations of what's been done here though. They mention that professional speech transcription has word error rate a
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by lars 7y ago
> They only had 36 samples, and a 3sd event occurs once in ~300 cases: this hints to the fact that that data point might have been erroneous Or it hints that the distribution of learning rates is not gaussian. When there's an "
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by lars 7y ago
I suspect "stickiness" is an important part of the equation for Reddit as well. With an app they can send notifications, and thereby program the habits of their users.
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by lars 7y ago
I am very aware of these, and I like methods like CLRP. It's great to have these tools to debug neural networks. However, for many that argue for explainable AI, CLRP falls way short of what they want. In particular, the symbolic AI cr
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by lars 7y ago
> an elucidation of the inputs and the procedure by which an output is generated does not an explanation of the system make. That was exactly my point. Are we talking past each other? My point here, if you wish to engage with it, is that
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by lars 7y ago
It may well be that the human visual system is better for most tasks, but then that is what matters, which system is better for the task. The presence of an explanation doesn't matter. Neither system comes with an explanation. On the o

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