mrtranscendence

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by mrtranscendence 4mo ago
That doesn't work for library projects, though.
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by mrtranscendence 1y ago
> Your local plumber is going to want a funny action movie trailer slash plumbing advertisement to advertise their services. They wouldn't have even been in the market before. And why would your local plumber hire someone to produce
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by mrtranscendence 1y ago
> "We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company." That's OpenAI (though I'd be curious if that statement holds for subscriptions as opposed to API use)
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by mrtranscendence 1y ago
Microsoft claims that they have an AI setup that outperforms human doctors on diagnosis tasks: https://microsoft.ai/new/the-path-to-medical-superintelligen... "MAI-DxO boosted the diagnostic performance of every m
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by mrtranscendence 1y ago
Waar heb je het over? "Welgelegen Buitenrust Nooitgedacht Rustenburg" is volkomen cromulent Engels. For what it's worth, I do use AI for language learning, though I'm not sure it's the best idea. Primarily for helpi
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
> the iPhone was only "in charge" for a brief year or two, and then Android ate its lunch in terms of marketshare. This is true worldwide, but there are significant regions where iOS quite handily beats Android (such as the US,
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Oh man, I played the shit out of the Lone Wolf books when I was a kid in the eighties and nineties. My brother had the first couple of them, and I still have his old books somewhere with his notes. I should find them for nostalgia's sa
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
> Character stats, names, details about players - those are inputs, and structured ones at that. Some details about players are structured and can be easily stored and referenced. Some aren't. Consider a character who, through emerg
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
You sound like a fun guy.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
You seem to readily agree that my use case is inappropriate for LLMs, but not ToucanLoucan?
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
We're not allowed to record meetings at work, with some exceptions such as trainings. I'm not at all sure why, but I believe it has to do with merger plans. We're not working on anything particularly shady, to my knowledge. N
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I suspect you're overstating the degree to which an LLM might be unsuitable for some types of work. For example, I'm a data scientist who works primarily in the field of sales forecasting. I've found that LLMs are quite poor
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
If I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Prove what point? There have clearly been crooked or underhanded companies that achieved success. Microsoft in its early heyday, for example. The fact that they paid a price for it doesn't obviate the fact that they still managed to be
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Act as high and mighty as you please, I won't mind. But bear in mind that: * most people will find it surprising that showing a photo from the internet to ChatGPT is as unsafe as opening a random, untrusted exe. * many people don'
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Wait, how does rewriting a prompt until it gives you the output you expect help the LLM learn? Are you suggesting better prompting gets fed back into the training process in some helpful way? This feels confused.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
People aren't infallible, but in my experience they're much less likely to give me incorrect factual information than LLMs. Sometimes lawyers are wrong, of course, but they are wrong less frequently and less randomly. I've
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
X says "I would like RCTs on this subject", and you reply that most RCTs are worthless. Great, what do you want, a cookie? Presumably they want good RCTs, not low-quality ones.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
True, you might Xerox copies but you wouldn't Kleenex your stuffy nose (though I've heard of someone bandaiding a cut before). Like Kleenex I actually think AI is slightly too awkward to say to become a common verb.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I did something similar to this using RAG except for Vampire rather than D&D. It wasn't overwhelmingly difficult, but I found that the system was quite sensitive to how I chunked up the books. Just letting an automated system prepa
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Navigation between cells with j/k doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. I'm used to not having to move my hands to use the mouse when editing a Jupyter notebook.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I generally tend to think that complaints about dependency management in Python are way overblown -- it's usually not a problem for me. But lately I've been trying out some off-PyPI projects to investigate time series foundation m
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
You're missing the point. What's not realistic is to tell everyone that they should abstain from any type of entertainment that requires power (TV shows, movies, video games, etc) and should only read books and play board games
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
> If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them. I mean, you'd see the same thing if paying for your groceries were opt-in. Is that also a net bad for the world? Ads do en
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I used to be an Informatica ETL dev, briefly. I laugh at the description of it as a low-code solution, as we used it as a simple frontend for staggering amounts of hand-coded SQL. I'm not sure I ever used Informatica as it was intend
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
It's open source if you're using language like a normal human being. If you're a bit of a pedant and wish everyone to adhere to definitions imposed from on high regardless of real-world usage, it's absolutely not open so
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Sometimes, when I'm undertaking the arduous work of assigning probabilities to everything I could possibly say next in a conversation, I wish that I weren't merely a stochastic autoregressive next-token generator. Them's the
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I'll be honest, I'm less concerned by any movement to make us "lobotomites" -- a movement which I haven't witnessed at all -- than I am by people who really want to be able to keep saying slurs.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
That's a dangerous path to go down. I've encountered many biases that I don't feel are especially reflective of reality. These range from dumb (women are poorer drivers than men) to extremely harmful (black persons are stupid
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
You forgot to preface that with "Uhm ackshully ..."

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