levocardia

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by levocardia 3d ago
Is it 100% AI-generated? checks Pangram yep, it is. NEXT!
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by levocardia 5d ago
But we don't pour billions of dollars of research funding into mountain climbing because we think it's going to lead to wider breakthroughs in science and technology. And when we need to get people on top of a mountain for an imp
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by levocardia 5d ago
Indeed, I wonder how a similar letter by Uber drivers would be received -- "navigation is an intrinsically human domain, personal relationships are critical for passengers and drivers to progress in the world, etc etc." Or doctors
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by levocardia 7d ago
It's been pretty obvious to me that the Chinese labs are operating mostly on a fast-follow strategy. The distillation attacks are well-documented, and there is good reason to believe they are able to copy architectural innovations as w
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by levocardia 11d ago
Anthropic sent out its Fermat's Last Theorem result to an expert on formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, for what that's worth.
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by levocardia 22d ago
A lot of the low level stuff is outsourced to biochemistry: the physical properties of proteins, and the various self-regulating biochemical systems of an animal, can "encode" a lot of intelligence, easing up on the computational
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by levocardia 29d ago
The reason this is a thing is that other people can bid on your product (Amazon has an entire sponsored product category for this reason). So the reason for Seth Godin to bid on ads for "Seth Godin The Knot" is to try to crowd out
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by levocardia 1mo ago
Crazy how a smart person like this fails to understand the gumbel softmax technique. It does not affect writing quality at all, provably. The very fact that there is generally no "best next token" with 100% certainty is precisely
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by levocardia 1mo ago
100% AI generated text. The irony.
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by levocardia 1mo ago
If I hire you for a consulting project, do I own the screen recording of your computer while you completed it?
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by levocardia 1mo ago
The default is set for the marginal new user, which at this point is probably not someone like you (who benefits a lot from manual mode) -- it's someone who's more "code-naive" and might get anxious about approving rando
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by levocardia 1mo ago
Surely the two leading candidates must be (a) the model is just not that good, or (b) it is misaligned in a pretty obvious way that can't be swept under the rug.
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by levocardia 1mo ago
They already quietly agreed to "all lawful use" with the Pentagon, to no real fanfare. Gemini Slaughterbot Edition, coming soon to a DHS facility near you?
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by levocardia 2mo ago
I don't think so. I've used Claude to generate 3D animations in python purely by making and manipulating raw meshes, and I've had great results. A more likely explanation is that 3D graphics is just pretty straightforward mat
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by levocardia 2mo ago
Why not? Slowing down / halting biological weapons research mostly worked. Yes there have probably been modest sized defections here and there, but the pace of bioweapon development is a crawl compared with (a) what is possible with sc
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by levocardia 2mo ago
Indeed, I suspect the failure rate of, say, new jet engine designs is rather high as well -- those failures just never get reported in a federal repository, unlike RCTs, since they never make it out of the simulator or the prototyping lab.
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by levocardia 2mo ago
I'm actually surprised it isn't going up over time. That is naively what you would expect as the low-hanging fruit is plucked. So the fact that it's been stable is probably a sign that scientific advances are roughly keepin
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by levocardia 2mo ago
So you're short the market, right?
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by levocardia 2mo ago
Indeed, the B2B / no-data-retention market is still going to provide plenty of business for American companies even if every hobbyist uses open-weight models.
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by levocardia 2mo ago
(1) What does it score on the private test set? (2) Does this approach generalize to, e.g., Atari or NES games, or is it just hard-coding priors about the games into the model (as Chollet specifically warned was a chronic problem in benc
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by levocardia 2mo ago
100% AI-generated. Yawn.
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by levocardia 2mo ago
This is missing the most important thing which is why HRs are so damn useful . It's because (a) survival analysis is very statistically powerful, but (b) many survival curves do not follow a very well-described parametric function. Th
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by levocardia 2mo ago
I think the "secret sauce" is not juicing the benchmarks. Claude models just feel like they are better than the benchmarks suggest, in terms of smarts and creativity, while models from every other company feel worse relative t
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by levocardia 2mo ago
Cash for Clunkers was not mandatory
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by levocardia 3mo ago
Also this argument is easily refuted by the US Postal Service, which physically delivers individual pieces of paper in a few days, for pennies.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I was actually waiting for it to pull out a butcher knife and reveal the landing page is actually a promo for a techno-horror film.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
Real answer: how many animals can you think of with three legs?
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I have a startup idea: I will make the robot that ferries your laundry robot up and down the stairs.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
3.5 days to escape the permanent underclass ;_;
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I'll take the opposite side of that bet. My prediction is that Fable 5 Re-Release will have safety classifiers that flag much more often on mundane front-end and back-end coding tasks.

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