philipswood

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by philipswood 14d ago
What would you regard a trusted demonstration that someone can? I mean, there are people with aphasia and hyperplasia - how do you prove actual 3D visualisation. There are games that people play that need 4D visualisation to be able to do
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by philipswood 14d ago
I think it would be fair to say that at least a few people can do a small amount of 4d visualisation. Agreed, I don't think anyone has a good grasp on, say, 64K D, but we can do a bit better than just 3.
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by philipswood 24d ago
Why?
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by philipswood 27d ago
I'm interested in learning/teaching technologies. Naturally science fiction examples are interesting. I have found that often LLMs are familiar with the contents of SF books. But I feel poorer, almost deprived, by the fact that al
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by philipswood 2mo ago
My read: Isaac Su seems to be irritated and mildly triggered that people don't think or act like LLMs aren't just dumb, mute, simple tools. Instead of talking about THAT, he is doing a weird combination strawman/bikeshed-like
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by philipswood 2mo ago
I can live with well-composed articles that have a huge chunk of AI in their generation. Stuff interesting enough to get upvoted (i.e. not slop), but I'm so irritated and triggered by pointless, human, comment threads moaning about &qu
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by philipswood 2mo ago
I could skim the article. Wasn't too distracted or annoyed by the obvious AI voice. Learned a bit about ice cream and American (Western?) enshitification at work... ...but these endless, superior, contentless, dogmatic, boring streams
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by philipswood 2mo ago
I find this: > but to say you’ve singularly thought through every problem in an armchair, in comparison with the distributed minds of the rest of us, is pretty arrogant. Somehow incredibly ironic when applied to you comment itself...
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by philipswood 3mo ago
Fine tuning a model isn't that hard and the tradeoff he described is real. I was on the fine tuning team of a multi-team hackathon to make a specialized chatbot once a few years ago and despite working technically well our output had v
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by philipswood 3mo ago
Why? Technical curiosity? I ask because this does not seem to be something to want to have.
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by philipswood 3mo ago
I don't get it... These humanoid robots are expensive. Unskilled labour, housework seems to be the lowest ROI for them. Factory work, dangerous tasks or skilled tasks I can understand that the robot can pay for itself, but you'd w
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by philipswood 3mo ago
An invented syllabary for English: https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/engul.htm
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by philipswood 3mo ago
> It also created a 10-page epic rhyming poem about a haircut where every word starts with the letter s Wow
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by philipswood 3mo ago
Link broken
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by philipswood 4mo ago
Not super clear from the site itself, but this LLM is running on specialized silicon implementing just it. So has super low energy use and blazing speed. See https://taalas.com/products/ Edit: updated link
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by philipswood 4mo ago
He's describing a 4 step process: 1) >I simply run it through an LLM, 2) >paste the summary, 3) >and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" 4) >and then I ask the for their original prompt. Agreed that just step
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Waterfall was also extremely successful. People who failed just did it wrong. /s
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by philipswood 5mo ago
An LLM is a set of structured matrix multiplies and function applications. The only potentially non-deterministic step is selecting the next token from the final output and that can be done deterministically.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
> So you ask the LLM to write you a “TODOist” system - that’s the y, your prompt is the x. > > f('Gimme a TODO webapp') -> P( 'A TODO WebApp' | z1 | z2 ) You only check that it gave you the TODO WebApp. Yo
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by philipswood 5mo ago
> When x is C source, a specific input always results in the same binary artifact being generated. Umm. Nope: see GCC flags. In general, reproducible builds are possible, but takes significantly more effort.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
# OPUS 4.7 USER: This is a badly phrased puzzle: > A farmer has 17 sheep. 9 ran away. He then bought enough to double what he had. His neighbor, who had 4 dogs and 14 sheep, gave him one-third of her animals. The farmer sold 5 sheep on M
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by philipswood 5mo ago
# SONNET USER: This is a badly phrased puzzle: > A farmer has 17 sheep. 9 ran away. He then bought enough to double what he had. His neighbor, who had 4 dogs and 14 sheep, gave him one-third of her animals. The farmer sold 5 sheep on Mon
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Yes.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Our Chatbots Said “I Love You,” Shall We Meet? by Caroline M. Yoachim https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yoachim_06_24/ > Here at 123aiLOVEu, we take all the guesswork out of dating. With personalized chatbots trained
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Even cooler is setting up transmitters and receivers at suitable spots on opposite sides of two stars.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Vegas protocol is hardwired!? :exploding_head: I see it now. Yes.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
Exoplanet closeups? You can use the sun as a gravitational lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens You need to be about 550 au out.
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by philipswood 5mo ago
404
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by philipswood 6mo ago
I'm not sure that "it is clear that Claude does not have those things". I AM sure that it is hard to conclusively show that Claude has experience and consciousness. Even Claude isn't sure about that. But while it is abso
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by philipswood 7mo ago
Which part of what he said is wrong? > A brain is a collection of cells that transmit electrical signals and sodium. ... That it is a collection of cells? Or that they transmit electrical signals and sodium? Or do you feel that he's

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