penteract

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by penteract 6d ago
a) Self driving was far from completely solved before LLMs. b) Text generation essentially means passing the Turing test, which for a long time was the bar for general intelligence. Locomotion does not necessarily require general intelligen
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by penteract 11d ago
> I believe that an ML should be the First Language for Computer Scientists. I'm not sure how much influence a First Language has - the biggest impact might be whether someone decides to continue learning to program. I'd also w
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by penteract 13d ago
> Some languages are less permissive, and have a culture of searching harder for corner cases and dealing with them than others, that is true. I would expect to find less cases like this in Rust, but more cases like this in Python. My ex
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by penteract 19d ago
There has been an instance of a Governor General dismissing a Prime minister. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
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by penteract 24d ago
To me it sounds like you're repeating what gp said about the lack of online learning. Do you think that's insurmountble? Getting confused about timezones does not place LLMs behind that many humans. (But doing so repeatedly does h
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by penteract 24d ago
It never says 0.04 degrees, just 0.04mm (corresponding to about 0.015 degrees at the stated 15cm distance).
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by penteract 28d ago
> like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine My understanding of that section was that Ukraine were using it to find launch sites in occupied parts of Ukraine - they go on to describe how they helped someone who had been
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by penteract 1mo ago
Please could you link to the study if you can find it. The definition of "better" seems quite critical here, as well as whether it's specific to code hosting websites. A messaging platform is pretty useless if I'm the on
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by penteract 1mo ago
>> GPUs aren't really SIMD, they're SIMT (single instruction multiple thread) > False. If they were threads they'd have their own PC. They do not - only the warp has a PC. They are using the term SIMT as it is normal
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by penteract 2mo ago
Did you consider the alternative calculation of how many plants you need to grow to feed yourself? A few thousand potatoes growing simultaneously might do it. That would overestimate the number you need to remove excess exhaled CO2, since y
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by penteract 2mo ago
> dependent types and total functions do not scale. I'm not convinced that this is much more true than the claim "correct code doesn't scale". If you add to your code in a way depends on a new property for correctness
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by penteract 2mo ago
If you had access to a bunch identical copies of me that couldn't communicate with each other, you'd be able to find many questions I would give stupid answers to. I suspect I'd come out of it looking worse than an LLM.
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by penteract 2mo ago
This brought to my attention the following claim by OpenAI, regarding a logo which does not have any right angles: > right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands https://openai.com/brand&#x2F
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by penteract 2mo ago
To check I understand you: the smaller tank with heatpump would consume less energy outside the time window in which energy is free than the large tank with resistive heating, but has a higher capital cost which would outweigh the amount sa
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by penteract 2mo ago
Based on https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4 , 1988 is the year from the dataset with the lowest temperature throughout June and July.
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by penteract 3mo ago
There are those who make strong arguments for the opposite. Once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
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by penteract 3mo ago
The number €115 is in the second chart as the per capita German expenditure on rail infrastructure in 2023. I don't see €477, but it's pretty close to the €480 figure for Switzerland in 2024. My guess is they saw an old version of
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by penteract 3mo ago
It's saying that 40% of the tons of cargo loaded onto ships is fossil fuels, but this makes up about 50% of ton-miles, because fossil fuels travel further on average than other cargo. Not the easiest headline to correctly parse.
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by penteract 3mo ago
This is the same calculation behind the observation "you spend much longer in front of red traffic lights than green ones". It's an interesting observation, but it's playing games with the meaning of "mean latency&q
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by penteract 3mo ago
> What you want is 40% black onto white to have a similar difference in intensity as 40% white onto black, otherwise your darkmode font will look significantly different at the same intensity as your lightmode font. This is why it doesn&
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by penteract 3mo ago
> There's no physical underlying lighting process, so it doesn't make sense to use physical light units. I disagree with you here. Text rendering specifically is incredibly complicated, but for antialiasing in other contexts, t
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by penteract 3mo ago
Yes for me (although difficulty varies depending on what you're trying to install). I would have started programming 2 years earlier than I actually did if my first attempt to install tools to run a programming language had worked. You
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by penteract 3mo ago
The article makes a coherent argument: a) Anthropic believe that AI is an extinction level risk and that they are the only leading AI lab which takes safety seriously. In combination this puts them in the position of believing that they are
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by penteract 3mo ago
Note that the US military is almost the only customer that Fable and Mythos could safely be sold to while complying with this directive.
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by penteract 3mo ago
I'm a bit more interested in what it teaches about the hyperbolic plane than I am in it's effectiveness as a note taking app (although the way it supports an exponentially growing tree does seem appropriate for depicting knowledge
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by penteract 3mo ago
> As seen after the Black Death, a scarcity of labor drives real wages up and lower the cost of basic goods and rent. Does this still hold when the majority of labor is no longer closely tied to a finite supply of land? At the time of th
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by penteract 3mo ago
I'm open to the possibilty of AI conciousness, and there is some desparation related to the concept of a higher being: There are many people who will categorically rule out the posibility of AI consciousness due to near-unshakable beli
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by penteract 4mo ago
Very cool. I was expecting it to make circles bigger rather than making needles smaller. Take a near-circle consisting of N lines. As N tends to infinity, the near-circle would have a diameter close to N*L/π, so would touch N*L/πW
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by penteract 7mo ago
Many people move to London when they want to make money, and move out when they want to do anything else. Pretending that London is independent of the rest of the country's children and retirees is misleading. https://trustf
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by penteract 7mo ago
Lena isn't about uploading. https://qntm.org/uploading

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