markburns

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by markburns 10d ago
The majority of what you may consider to be true is just a representation of your corner of a complex multidimensional truth space. For a current example take “Lake Ontario (Lake America)” as it appears to me on a map. The “true” name has a
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by markburns 10d ago
The server sits underneath Shintaro's desk, the guy needs a break once in a while.
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by markburns 5mo ago
> What explains the emergent abilities of generative pre-trained transformers at massive-scale? I don't see why the abilities couldn't be an encoded modelling of enough of the world to produce those abilities. It seems like a s
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by markburns 5mo ago
To the first questions. No and no. But potentially where consciousness lives is emergent behaviour in systems with iterative feedback loops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop I personally think we'
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by markburns 5mo ago
People often point to the relative simplicity of the architecture and code as proof that the system can’t be doing whatever it is that consciousness does, but in doing so they ignore the vast size of the data those simple structures are ope
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by markburns 5mo ago
I don't think "Sitting in an office you sit in every day" or "Sitting in your living room" are the same amount of bandwidth/storage as "Travelling around the moon". I'm sure we have compression a
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by markburns 5mo ago
I saw a fancy HTML table generator that had so many parameters and flags and bells and whistles that it took IIRC hundreds of lines of code to save writing a similar amount of HTML in a handful of different places. Yes the initial HTML look
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by markburns 5mo ago
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00273442 I haven’t read it but I did find this
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by markburns 8mo ago
That seems to me like it just shifts the problem one level. Why are K's and Kikis spiky and why are B's and Boubas round. Why is it universal too across people with different writing systems and languages.
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by markburns 9mo ago
> Reflect on the structure of your own comment Could you clarify, are you comparing the parent comment to the article?
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by markburns 10mo ago
I think in this example those prep work items _are_ doing the thing. But then telling people about a new product could also be doing the thing. There’s definitely something to be said for defining what the thing really is being an important
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by markburns 10mo ago
1-3-5-7-2-4 I would imagine that would be red(1), orange(3), yellow(5), green(7), blue(2), purple(4) But it seems you have white(1), green(3), grey(5), yellow(7), red(2), purple(4) I can't quite see what going over the rainbow in third
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by markburns 11mo ago
Can anyone explain the kind of dense cloud in the middle? Is that down to human perception? We don't give names to things we can't perceive uniquely?
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by markburns 1y ago
I love the irony in the pitting of the US vs China, Iran & Russia, whilst talking about stoking division. Don't corollaries to your comments also apply at a higher level globally, or is there something special about considering cou
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by markburns 1y ago
I'd love to know why this happens so much. There's enough people in both groups that do spot it and don't spot it. I don't think I've ever felt the need for a sarcasm marker when I've seen one. Yet without it,
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by markburns 1y ago
what set off the spinning?
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by markburns 1y ago
So these are the really loud behaviours, and not necessarily what I was thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_inattention So there's a thing which I can't find the name of but it's something l
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by markburns 1y ago
I had a realisation recently that we’re pretty comfortable with regional dialect borders being an entrenched and normal thing that reach back in history a thousand years or more and that something as specific as how we move our mouths and t
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by markburns 1y ago
People obeying the speed limit encounter fewer people obeying the speed limit than people speeding and vice versa. My theory: I think this explains why so many drivers hate other drivers and think they are bad drivers. People that love to s
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by markburns 1y ago
> a refreshment, please > food or drink? > why do I need to specify. I've been out all day in the heat. Bring me a few refreshments.
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by markburns 2y ago
That seems an uncharitable view of the reply. The search space is huge, we sometimes find needles in haystacks by accident, isn’t it exciting that we have tools now that can systematically check every piece of hay?
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by markburns 3y ago
The punchline is inside the article: > We at Johnny’s Software Lab LLC are experts in performance. Comment not intended to come across as snidey, just tickled me a bit after reading yours and clicking the archive link.
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by markburns 3y ago
This is true of ChatGPT 4 with the default prompt maybe but that’s just the way it responds after being given its specific corporate friendly disclaimer heavy instructions. I’m not sure we’ll be able to pick up anything in particular once
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by markburns 3y ago
It's possible I'm too optimistic on this point. I feel I have a good grasp of how bitcoin works, but when it gets to layer 2 it gets fuzzier. The initial discussions sounded really promising, as they seemed to mirror HTTP on top
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by markburns 3y ago
There's not really a problematic upper bound for global transaction volume on transactions per second with the lightning network. There are other problems in terms of adoption and infrastructure etc, but the actual potential for humank
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by markburns 3y ago
YouTube is one of those things that consumes more energy than bitcoin. That is bad, but it doesn't seem part of the public narrative that YouTube is bad because of global warming. Also the general narrative posits that electric cars ar
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by markburns 3y ago
Not read past the paywall. Could anyone let me know if this statement is clarified? > no politicians likely to trumpet it Irrespective of whether or not it's outsourcing to China and so not quite the truth, I can't see why poli
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by markburns 3y ago
Needs to support DMCA takedown notices
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by markburns 3y ago
I think they are saying they manually tested what they thought the automated process was doing, then found out their assumption about what it was doing was wrong. So the manual tests were moot.
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by markburns 3y ago
sounds like that's an obvious loophole to get around the protection then if they did allow same domain only edit: no I'm wrong, it's early here and I've not had coffee

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