maypop

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by maypop 9d ago
Is this hackathon only for those with formal math backgrounds? I've seen a few instances of AI assisted advances math and cs this year that were _not_ published by authors with formal backgrounds in those fields (or even institutional
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by maypop 8mo ago
Having recently watched Train Dreams it feels like the transition of logging by hand to logging with industrial machinery.
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by maypop 2y ago
There’s a bit of a middle ground where the user may say something like “tech articles from new site” which would require the agent to move around reading and aggregating information to return to the user. Is this the former or the latter?
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by maypop 3y ago
When someone asks “are you a god?”, You say YES! Is what these AI conversations sound like to me.
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by maypop 3y ago
They can’t do super human performance like alpha go and the can’t think “system 2” that would be required for high stakes decisions.* Room to grow. *observations from the recent karpathy llm talk.
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by maypop 3y ago
For a surprising general purpose local chat experience: OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B
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by maypop 3y ago
The current chat models will attempt to help you do that. Might be sufficient?
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by maypop 3y ago
It’s often two staged. First drop hints in hopes the other party will catch on. If that fails and you really want or still need it - you ask.
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by maypop 3y ago
I would have thought that were the reason but Meshuggah comes up at the end.
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by maypop 3y ago
A surprising omission of Dream Theater.
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by maypop 3y ago
Great post - thank you. What directions can you head in AI Eng these days if you _dont_ want big tech?
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by maypop 5y ago
This discussion feels very meta. In the sense that Twitter is the "bad" person, and we are the actors contributing our individual outrage induced take. Why are we so compelled to participate?