msamwald

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by msamwald 4y ago
Already working on this: https://examine.dev/ "In the examine|AI system, the base AI (e.g. ChatGPT) is continuously supervised and corrected by a supervisor AI. The supervisor can both passively monitor and evaluate th
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by msamwald 4y ago
Well they are not useless for academic research.
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by msamwald 5y ago
> Also PLoS one is basically not peer reviewed - they accept every paper after a short review. That is absolutely not true, PLOS ONE has proper peer-review, their review guidelines just focus on technical soundness and de-emphasize subje
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by msamwald 6y ago
Which often is terrible advice that mostly serves to limit liability. Most medical doctors will not have a good, evidence-based answer to such questions. Better reply: Search the internet for authoritative sources (e.g., official guidance o
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by msamwald 6y ago
Being very efficient at mostly extractive summarization and abstaining from abstractive summarization does seem a better bet though, because fewer things can go wrong and it is easier to check the summaries against the full text.
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by msamwald 6y ago
> HTML is a language that is too ambiguous to parse, and that's not a good thing for browsers. Wouldn't that be XHTML? Which was killed by HTML 5?
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by msamwald 6y ago
On the other hand: "BioNTech CEO expects vaccine can be fridge-stored for two weeks" "Speaking at an online media briefing on the purchase of an additional German production site, Chief Executive Ugur Sahin said tests have re
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by msamwald 6y ago
The original Nabla article is missing information on how they primed GPT-3 for each use-case, and how much effort they put into finding good ways of priming. All fancy GPT-3 demos seem to rely on good priming. The time scheduling problems a
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by msamwald 6y ago
Meta-comment: How is it possible that the original submission has been on the front page for 8+ hours, and all discussion is focused on this completely unrelated link? Have people stopped reading original submission links in favor of commen
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by msamwald 6y ago
Well, in table 1 they compare to RoBERTa trained in a vanilla supervised fashion?
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by msamwald 6y ago
> GPT-3 didn't even get SOTA on SuperGLUE. Of course neither GPT-3 nor the PET paper claim SOTA on SuperGLUE. They used a few-shot learning setup with 32 examples per task The normal SuperGLUE setup has hundreds or thousands of exam
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by msamwald 6y ago
A shorter reply would be: It would be great to compare PET not only to GPT-3, but also to other models, especially ones geared towards few-shot learning. Do you know of any other models that should be used for such a comparison, or are ther
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by msamwald 6y ago
I think few-shot learning (or priming) is actually the main selling point of GPT-3 for most practical applications (rather than merely entertaining language generation). So if there is a method that achieves the same goal with a model that
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by msamwald 6y ago
I tried using Obsidian, but I could not resolve the uncertainty of what should be a separate note file vs several items inside a note file. I then tried various 'outliner' applications (Dynalist, Roam, Workflowy). With these kinds
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by msamwald 6y ago
Dynalist has an offline app (which syncs with the server when online). See https://dynalist.io/download . It's the same interface as on the web (so not 'native'), though.
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by msamwald 6y ago
I got very motivated to use Roam, but then settled for Dynalist. It's more polished, cheaper, and they recently added backlinks as well.
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by msamwald 6y ago
Non-American here. I think 9/11 has global significance that goes beyond its impact on the US. It destroyed the narrative that liberal democracy, free markets and technology had removed all obstacles that would keep us from converging
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by msamwald 6y ago
I am an 'old millenial' and have absolutely the same impression (and my personal life at that time was also a mixed bag, so it certainly is not personal nostalgia). The time period of mid 90s until 9/11 should really receive
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by msamwald 6y ago
> They said travel bans don't work. This defies basic logic. > They delayed declaraing the pandemic to be a pandemic. I have come to think that a major problem with the WHO might be that it is not independent enough from the poli
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by msamwald 6y ago
It is the consensus of medical professionals and officials in those countries that have demonstrated that they can greatly reduce the spread (China, South Korea, Japan). It is not the consensus in countries that currently still see an explo
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by msamwald 6y ago
The message should be that simple, non-N95/FFP3 masks only have minor protective effect for the wearer, but can significantly reduce the spread of droplets by the wearer and protect others around them. Furthermore, wearing masks in pop
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by msamwald 6y ago
I co-authored an evidence-based call to action for promoting simple DIY masks some time ago [1] and it got some good resonance from politicians. Still, we don't see adoption of DIY masks in most countries so far, and I start to wonder
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by msamwald 6y ago
I recently co-authored a scientific commentary on this, ask me anything! "Promoting simple do-it-yourself masks: an urgent intervention for COVID-19 mitigation" (Svara et al. 2020) Pre-print available at https://link.me
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by msamwald 7y ago
This also resonates with recent sentiment that telling people that "masks don't work" (with the intention of keeping people from buying masks when they are scarce even for health care workers) can backfire significantly: htt
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by msamwald 7y ago
Abstract: "We demonstrate that widespread use of masks by the general population could be an effective strategy for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. Since surgical masks might not become available in sufficient numbers quickly eno
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Promoting simple DIY masks for Covid-19: an evidence-based call to action(medium.com)
18 points by msamwald 7y ago|3 comments
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by msamwald 7y ago
I think the most rewarding path is becoming a specialist in something very important and broadly applicable.
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by msamwald 7y ago
> Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler.
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by msamwald 7y ago
It might be normal behavior for you but this is not normal for everyone.
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by msamwald 7y ago
The rat study you cite here is certainly far from sufficient evidence to make such bold claims or implicated that indoor lighting can promote cancer development in humans! I think you should edit your statement in the top comment further to

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