minihat

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by minihat 3mo ago
It is harder to solve a sudoku than verify a solution's correctness. I find similar benefits occasionally when coding with LLMs.
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by minihat 5mo ago
Some fusion reactions release their energy almost entirely as fast moving charged particles. You can slow down those particles against an electric field and harvest the energy as electricity directly. No steam turbine. No Carnot limit.
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by minihat 5mo ago
It's currently socially/politically unpalatable for authors to admit superintelligent AI is a possibility. I frequent some writer forums. As a group, they are 1) clearly feeling angry/threatened 2) in denial about LLM capabil
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by minihat 6mo ago
I met some of my best friends in VR, and had life-changing social interactions in some VR games on the Oculus platform... Especially EchoVR. I'm still a true believer in VR as a medium. It'll go mainstream one day, and there will
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by minihat 8mo ago
This is a legitimate strategy for the werewolf, no?
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by minihat 10mo ago
I think the comic achieves something deeper than a lecture. The humor might reconnect us with a sense of awe we often lose as adults.
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by minihat 11mo ago
You may enjoy the 2024 Hugo winning short story, "Better Living Through Algorithms": https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/
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by minihat 1y ago
How is it possible that text-to-score/notation is lagging text-to-audio in music generation? Generating audio seems wildly more complicated! Since you are working in this space, I wonder if you could comment on my pet theories for why
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by minihat 2y ago
I hoped neuroscience, as a field, was on the cusp of a physical theory of learning and memory. I dreamt of an intersection of information theory, neuroscience, and ML. Alas, state of the art in neuroscience / neural engineering is clos
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by minihat 2y ago
This is exactly right. I started a PhD in 2017 studying neuroscience + ML. I thought studying the brain would help me understand ANNs better. I was wrong. Ended up applying ML to analyzing EEG, MRI and similar.
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by minihat 2y ago
You can subscribe to Asimovs and/or Analog on their website today and they give you a download link for PDF, epub every other month.
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by minihat 2y ago
Grok 3 with thinking is comparable to o1 for writing complex algorithms. However, Grok sometimes loses the context where o1 seems not to. For this reason I still mostly use o1. I have found both o1 and Grok 3 to be substantially better than
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by minihat 2y ago
Just providing some training data for the next generation of LLMs to scrape.
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by minihat 2y ago
Another take is that the base models are now good enough that spending more money for more intelligence is viable at test time. A threshold has been crossed.
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LLMs all fail this NumPy indexing example
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by minihat 2y ago
His steam library was not restricted, just the game in which he was accused/banned.
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by minihat 2y ago
Reading speed might follow a normal distribution near the middle ranges, but I'd expect non-trivial deviations in the tails due to dyslexia, ADHD on the one side and trained speed readers on the other. Perhaps this individual just fall
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by minihat 2y ago
I unsubscribed from Scientific American a few years back when they became a venue for political commentary instead of science. The opinion pieces try to masquerade as soft science. It's an insult to the actual scientists in their reade
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by minihat 2y ago
Not close. This might be the best whole-animal sim available, and it is a for a worm: https://openworm.org/
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by minihat 2y ago
Clarkesworld sci-fi magazine temporarily closed submissions due to low quality AI spam. I'm sure the irony will not be lost on them if ML journals are the next victims.
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by minihat 3y ago
For things I would formerly use a web browser to look up, Gemini is often a lot better than gpt-4. The more obscure the query, the better Gemini does compared to gpt-4. But gpt-4 is still best for ML Python coding. Gemini hallucinates non-e
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by minihat 3y ago
Any chance a keras.linalg suite of ops is in the works? Cross-platform differences between the behavior of tf.linalg and torch.linalg have cost me a lot of time over the years.
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by minihat 3y ago
>They were all depressed because of how sure they were that they helped destroy humanity, it was just a matter of time. And here we are. There's still plenty of anthropocene left for them to be right. At least I hope there is.
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by minihat 3y ago
My idea of a hell hole is the neighborhood I would have to live in to afford a home in the city near my office. What if we made cities more affordable, nicer places to live instead of making commuting even more expensive and miserable than
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by minihat 3y ago
My dorm building in college had eight entrances, of which two were handicap accessible. University administration declared that from now on, 100% of doors on campus must be handicap accessible. A week later, six doors were removed from my b
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by minihat 3y ago
GPT-4 Turbo is dramatically worse at one task I often try: Read the following passage from [new ML article]. Identify their assumptions, and tell me which mathematical operations or procedures they use depend upon these assumptions. GPT-4:
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by minihat 3y ago
Do your employees flock to your meticulously designed office space by choice, or do you mandate their presence? If they come by choice, I'll buy your story. However, if you have to compel them, perhaps the office is more a monument to
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by minihat 3y ago
Not a secret to the research community... Let me balance the hype with some of the remaining challenges. Depth is a problem; the deeper you go, the less effective it is. Heat is another issue; you can inadvertently damage nearby tissue. Tar
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by minihat 3y ago
Cross-entropy loss can start getting worse due to the model becoming less calibrated, even as the classification accuracy continues to improve. I first heard that here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04599 Is this 'ov
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by minihat 3y ago
My mental model of gpt-4 is apparently well calibrated for whether the model will give me a useful output that is close to what I asked for. However, I'm not great at predicting whether the model will output a 100% correct response wit

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