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by nsagent 5d ago
As another student who did the same, I similarly regret it, but also realize if I were put in the exact same scenario I would have behaved identically. I literally had to retake trigonometry, while simultaneously being advanced into pre-cal
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by nsagent 6d ago
Can you speak to why in both cases, the problems OpenAI's models solved used the same techniques the mathematicians were exploring, which also happened to be niche approaches to the problem. As an NLP researcher myself, I find that coi
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by nsagent 16d ago
It's not. This article is weirdly light on details. The original source article from The Information apparently mentions that companies like OpenAI are buying them up to run RL. So it's yet another case of AI companies buying all
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by nsagent 29d ago
I moved because I found the Proton service to be poor. That includes reaching out to support for issues with my email and not really getting a good resolution. What's worse is that I ported all my emails over to Proton, which meant my
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by nsagent 1mo ago
I'm in the process of leaving Proton and moving to Fastmail. I'm now paying for Mullvad and Fastmail, but haven't had a chance to port over a bunch of Simplelogin aliases I have over to Fastmail yet (my fault for not using a
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by nsagent 1mo ago
After listening to Dario's interview with Dwarkesh, I really started wondering if Dario's been drinking too much of Claude's kool-aid. I know people in positions of power often see lots filtered information that skews their p
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by nsagent 1mo ago
What a paternalistic response. Apple provides a better deal than the typical telecom — not gouging the user on a lease-to-own program, and your response is the sheep are too dumb, best to take the option away for everyone? If you want to fi
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by nsagent 1mo ago
Gaming Commissions oversee gambling machines and will audit code to ensure the RNGs are accurate, return to player meets the expected requirements, and so forth. I'm sure other highly regulated industries also have their code audited.
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by nsagent 1mo ago
If anything, I think the terms for this are almost too good. You never end up paying more than the cost of purchasing the device outright if you decide to keep the device. And considering it can have a term of up to 30 months (24 month leas
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by nsagent 1mo ago
I'm a researcher in the field and I definitely take AGI seriously, but think all the major labs and most of the academic research is not helping achieve it any serious way. The field is seriously delusional (and has been ever since GPT
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by nsagent 1mo ago
Considering Hassabis co-founded Deepmind to pursue AGI, I take this pivot as a tacit understanding on his part that Deepmind isn't on a path towards AGI in the near future. They might at some point, but they cannot be close in his esti
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Pangram 4(pangram.com)
7 points by nsagent 2mo ago|0 comments
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Claude shows subtle biases to Anthropic across carefully controlled tests(twitter.com)
3 points by nsagent 2mo ago|0 comments
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by nsagent 2mo ago
> As it can run in the background doing “chores” while I sleep. Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of the night family in Rick and Morty.
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Sadly, the major ML/AI/NLP conferences are being inundated with AI slop papers. That will arguably have a bigger impact on the quality of research moving forward.
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Wouldn't it be wiser to get out of the market into fixed rate assets like government bonds? I did that earlier this year ahead of the April earnings reports. I was a bit too early to the punch, but I prefer that versus being to
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Sadly, like intelligence and reasoning, I think emergence is a word that people discuss while having different understandings of what the word means. In the paper I linked, they talk of a particular take on the word that is commonly discuss
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Then they are naive. I've seen this a lot first hand during my PhD. Interpreting results in a way that reinforces their beliefs and ignores alternate hypotheses. Frequently, those alternative hypotheses are demonstrated to be true. For
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Hate to bring the whole Bun rewrite drama into this discussion, but it seems the Bun team thinks it makes sense to trade a potentially faster compile time in Zig to a likely slower compile time in Rust due to the claimed advantages of a mem
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by nsagent 2mo ago
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what works best for a beginner. I started my PhD when the original Transformers paper [1] had just been released. I had no background in NLP whatsoever and used the original paper to write a Transformer
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by nsagent 2mo ago
I'm unwilling to speculate whether or not OpenAI is breaking their agreements (I honestly have no clue), but as an NLP researcher I'm certain they could launder data by having an LLM rewrite it and subsequently train on the rewrit
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by nsagent 2mo ago
The restaurants get to set those values though. A coffee shop near me puts the default options as $1, $2, $3 for low order totals. So if I go in and get a coffee (which is $4.50), the lowest tip option is 22% and the highest is a whopping 6
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by nsagent 2mo ago
I was actually surprised to hear my brother-in-law deride LLMs as being useless for areas he has expertise in when I visited for the 4th of July. He was complaining that he would ask how to perform a certain repair on a car, and the LLMs he
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by nsagent 2mo ago
MacPorts
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Your links show you used a fuzzer, but that doesn't address the other half of Andrew's statement. Is Andrew misreporting/misremembering your conversations? EDIT: It's really telling that asking a factual clarification qu
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Treat it as a data point and make your own decisions (he does back it up with several sources that indicate a workaholic mentality with that expectation for others). Hiding it ends up perpetuating the behavior unseen. *Below is an aside tha
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by nsagent 2mo ago
Andrew could have been more tactful in his blog post (though as I've grown older I often find less tact to be more effective), but it really sounds like accommodating Bun was a net negative for Zig. When Jarred joined the Zig commu
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by nsagent 2mo ago
I think that post highlights a difference in philosophical approach to software development. Bun is focused on moving fast and will deal with the consequences as they come. Zig takes a more planful approach. I've experienced both in my
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Not surprising. It seems that the comment section of every coding agent thread has at least one person mentioning they use "tokenmaxxing" to increase their token usage because it was brought up during their quarterly review, at a
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by nsagent 3mo ago
From the article he linked: If a subsequent probe fails, the system cross-references threat intelligence platforms like Shodan to match the host and falls back to their specific indexing methods. So it uses Shodan, but is not purely

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