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by moab 2mo ago
Rochus, a huge thanks for the comment and discovering your fascinating site. I was blown away by how musical the recent Suno covers of your funk songs are. I would not have been able to guess that they were AI generated. Please post more
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by moab 4mo ago
I love it when people push back like this without suggesting the real reason. Can't think one can you? That too from a new sock puppet.
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by moab 5mo ago
Bro, are we reading the same book? The book is totally uncritical of the subject and paints him like the second coming of christ. It feels like GDM wanted a canonization of Hassabis, and the writer simply obliged. Also, how does everything
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by moab 5mo ago
I'm not sure I agree. They're just essay prompts. One could write a bad essay that takes itself too seriously given the prompts, but one could also write a powerful essay starting from any of these prompts. I don't really se
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by moab 5mo ago
Is anyone surprised? I'm reminded of how I felt during the NFT craze. LLMs are extremely powerful when used with deliberate care. Gas Town is the exact opposite of what is needed to actually do useful things in prod. I guess good
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by moab 5mo ago
So to verify their claims and see how strong these models are, the answer is "believe us"? Note: I'm expressing some skepticism here largely due to how recent rollouts from Meta flopped. Sincerely hoping that they do better
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by moab 5mo ago
"Muse Spark is available now, and Contemplating mode will be rolling out gradually in meta.ai." How does one get their hands on these models? They are not open-source, right? I go to meta.ai, but it's just a chat interface-
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by moab 6mo ago
No. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.
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by moab 7mo ago
I hope "OpenAI" gets the proverbial sword in the nuts once we get a change of government in this country. Probably unrealistic to hope for. Can a company be more hypocritical after openly bribing the pedophile in charge of this co
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by moab 7mo ago
How does Brockman sleep at night? These guys used to seem like standup ethical guys. It seems no amount of intellectualism is enough to ward off the poison of wealth.
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by moab 7mo ago
Are you a professor at a R1 school? All the faculty I know at R1s (see CMU, MIT, etc) are doing quite a lot of teaching in addition to their research.
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Recent Advances in LLMs for Mathematics [video](youtube.com)
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by moab 8mo ago
Let me use the discussion of coffee to plug what I believe is the most beautiful and long-lasting espresso machine currently out there (you'll hand it down to your grandkids): https://coffeegeek.com/reviews/firstlo
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by moab 9mo ago
This is a bad take. The article makes it clear that most of them will lose money on the venture, and the reason the prices are high are due to status-mining chinese elites and traditional-medicine paranoiacs in vietnam. It's a pretty
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by moab 9mo ago
The point stands that it's less about the language than doing said hard work in any reasonable programming language.
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by moab 9mo ago
This is a very real worry for the AI rollout for the general population. But are folks here using AI to blow smoke up their asses as a sibling comment stated? I'd like to believe we're using it to ask questions, prototype, and t
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by moab 9mo ago
Napkin math is how you avoid spending several weeks of your life going down ultimately futile rabbit holes. Yes, it's approximations, often very coarse ones, but done right they do work. Your question about what degree of parallelizati
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by moab 10mo ago
You can do that by mowing, fyi.
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by moab 10mo ago
You're entitled to your own opinion, but imo the point of posting anything on HN is to subject yourself to feedback. That's what I gave. Feedback.
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by moab 10mo ago
How about not killing the weeds? One doesn't need to live a perfectly manicured pesticide-ridden hellscape.
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by moab 1y ago
Do you know of important real-world use-cases where cache-oblivious data structures are used? They are frequently mentioned on HN when relevant discussions like this one pop up, but I would love to hear about places where they are actually
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by moab 1y ago
You clearly did not look at the proposed cuts for the coming years---it guts the NSF.
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by moab 1y ago
Giuseppe, any interesting comments from inside the tent? From the outside, spending 100M+ on a single researcher seems like a wild idea. It's also not clear what spending that much money on people at the top of the leadership stack r
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by moab 1y ago
It looks like just a wrapper around the data from plasticlist for now. One can fund other products, but I searched and could not find any others that were funded as a result of this project. Some transparency about the cost seems critical
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by moab 1y ago
Yes, but that can be done once at ingestion time. Then retrieval is done over the pre computed FDEs using MIPS.
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by moab 1y ago
Watt-hours is the only unit that makes sense here as we're describing the energy cost of some calculation. Watt, a rate unit, is not appropriate.
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by moab 1y ago
Reading a book is like mindfulness meditation? Man, we really are living in a degraded age.
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by moab 1y ago
Why are we submitting AI linkspam about the oligarch class to HN?
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by moab 1y ago
Yes, let’s see how well the research kowtows to the party line. A careful, scrutinizing second review should do no harm, right?
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by moab 1y ago
> "OpenBrain (the leading US AI project) builds AI agents that are good enough to dramatically accelerate their research. The humans, who up until very recently had been the best AI researchers on the planet, sit back and watch the

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