pottspotts

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by pottspotts 5d ago
Are most Americans not able to fight an international tech conglomerate at the drop of a hat?
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by pottspotts 2y ago
Yeah this is oft-repeated by particularly good "lay" engineers.
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by pottspotts 2y ago
How does a man even get to this point? I will tell you how: derangement, a failure to engage with society and the degeneration/depravity of being one step away from making MIDI component improvised explosives and emailing your remainin
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by pottspotts 2y ago
The car industry has been lobbying congress and locales for 50+ years. Laws like jaywalking were at the behest of car companies, and that alone makes walking legally very difficult in nearly any area with a downtown. The lack of subsidies c
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by pottspotts 2y ago
We think of ourselves more intelligent than the generation before us, and more wise than the ones after.
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by pottspotts 2y ago
I assume this was 4o? Whenever someone says GPT would be "useless" at the given task, I think they've only tried it with older/dumber models. Almost without fail 4 seems to get the answer right.
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by pottspotts 2y ago
I would argue that the neutrino is relatively large compared to the quanta typical of these kinds of tests, but in the abstract they suggested a basketball!
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by pottspotts 2y ago
This is a really great experiment. It's nice to see real work being done on the ground with these kinds of tests and write-ups. I am not a physicist but I imagine this could have implications for gravitational wave detection by improvi
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by pottspotts 2y ago
I came here to make this comment as well. This line of reasoning that LLMs "only predict" the next token is akin to saying humans can only think or speak one word at a time. Yes, we use one token/word at a time, but it is the
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by pottspotts 3y ago
How do you "fill something with vacuum"?
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by pottspotts 3y ago
Hilariously, when I got to the end of that article, I noticed he had a theme selection dropdown hidden away in the bottom right corner.
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by pottspotts 3y ago
You may suffer from some color blindness. There are easy tests online to confirm.
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by pottspotts 3y ago
After some checking, it seems to be an issue with the free Heroku instance they are running.
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View any users stored passwords in Chrome
1 points by pottspotts 3y ago|0 comments
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by pottspotts 3y ago
I will miss the ease of use of Google Domains. I fear the new Squarespace domain management site will be rife with confounding settings and lit up with various upsells. They must have paid a handsome price for this.
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Steven-René Des-Jobs(medium.com)
1 points by pottspotts 3y ago|0 comments
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by pottspotts 3y ago
I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; he effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argument. In his example, he explains that ChatGPT couldn't possibly understand how to remove a PB&a
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by pottspotts 3y ago
I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; Cal wrote an article in the New Yorker yesterday that effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argument. In his example, he explains that ChatGPT cou
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The Sophistication of the AI Cynic(medium.com)
1 points by pottspotts 3y ago|0 comments
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by pottspotts 3y ago
For a significant number of software developers, GPT and Github's Copilot have replaced StackOverflow, and even Googling more generally. It is more than an autocomplete, it is the best resource for software development by far, IMO. It&
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by pottspotts 3y ago
The goal posts for AI are moving quickly, and in my mind, a lot of the criticism os too shallow. People want it to perform better than any expert human at any possible subject before it's considered "real AI". It isn't e
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by pottspotts 3y ago
I am surprised by how many, even among the tech community, wholesale disregard GPT as a glorified auto-complete, or "a statistical model on human information". What, then, is the human brain if not a trained statistical model? Gra
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by pottspotts 4y ago
We are moving the goal posts on AGI very quickly, but it is catching up. I think we need to appreciate the nature of this milestone if we have any hope of controlling potential singularities.
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by pottspotts 4y ago
Perhaps its time we pay for a service like ChatGPT for an ad-free experience. I'm actually already on the $20/mo plan.
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by pottspotts 4y ago
There's a lot of focus on the "bullshit generation", but this problem is not unique to LLMs. I find it much harder to cut through the bs of search engines. A lot of times the first page of a Google result is ads, including ma
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by pottspotts 4y ago
I've largely used GPT as a replacement for Google, and I find it to be a lot smarter and faster. The criticisms the author level at it don't seem based on having used it for anything substantial. It is an excellent tool and a majo
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by pottspotts 4y ago
This is really great, thank you. I would love to see a real "from scratch" that doesn't use torch.py et. al., though.
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by pottspotts 5y ago
Are you taking credit for this? I have seen this Matrix before, posted by the original author, and you should credit him. In any case I agree with the majority here that this tool is akin to standardized testing which at long last is seen f
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by pottspotts 6y ago
About 10 years ago my friends and I made a Web site, removethepenny.com (no longer active) and starting calling around to see who would support us. I recall speaking to someone who was very angry that we cared so little for the metal indust
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by pottspotts 8y ago
I like this idea. I have also been bad about picking podcasts that I like, though. I think laziness and procrastination might be a huge factor for me. :-?

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