nonagono

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by nonagono 2y ago
Many of his arguments make “logical” sense, but one way to evaluate them is: would they have applied equally well 5 years ago? and would that have predicted LLMs will never write (average) poetry, or solve math, or answer common-sense quest
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by nonagono 2y ago
Well clearly not, since at least 100 pages of content here are specifically about differentiable programming and not prerequisites :) More seriously, it's about doing the impossible. Formally, some functions are nondifferentiable, peri
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by nonagono 2y ago
It’s an introduction to a relatively niche new subfield. If I (an expert in the field but not the subfield) want to learn about differentiable programming, my only option before this monograph was to read through tens of random papers which
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by nonagono 3y ago
My hypothesis is that Japanese people just appreciate high-quality products more. In the sense that even poor people, which of course exist in Japan, are willing to save up money and occasionally splurge on upscale items, vs poor people in
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by nonagono 3y ago
Because people in high executive positions usually have no intrinsic aversion to lying, and in this case, from a cold rationality perspective, lying is obviously more effective than admitting guilt. (Expanding: people who know the details h
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by nonagono 4y ago
It's just not worth it. Writing programs in a distributed fashion is hard, setting up compute servers on employee machines is awkward, and few companies actually need to run large compute jobs. So while it's in theory possible, th
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by nonagono 5y ago
According to zooko, one of the authors, in new-ish cpus blake3 beats sha256 even with hardware acceleration: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1419403567320821760