rndphs

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by rndphs 7mo ago
The situation is clear. There is a great risk to the livelihoods and bargaining power of workers everywhere. This risk is driven by a race dynamic that is accelerating. In tech we can see this earlier than others because we are close to the
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by rndphs 7mo ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02292 "We show that a variety of modern deep learning tasks exhibit a "double-descent" phenomenon where, as we increase model size, performance first gets worse and then gets b
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by rndphs 7mo ago
> Literally the 3rd or 4th thing you learn about ML is that for any given problem, there is an ideal model size. From my understanding this is now outdated. The deep double descent research showed that although past a certain point perfo
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by rndphs 1y ago
I can somewhat understand people developing AGI, but directly working on superintelligence is on extremely shaky ethical ground. A good proportion of AI researchers and philosophers believe superintelligence stands a significant chance of d
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by rndphs 2y ago
> OpenAI is consistently the one coming up with new ideas first (GPT 4, o1, 4o-style multimodality, voice chat, DALL-E, …) As far as I can tell o1 was based on Q-star, which could likely be Quiet-STaR, a CoT RL technique developed at Sta
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by rndphs 4y ago
The author's example for x^2 + x could be written with the first two symbols swapped. With this it looks fine to me. Putting the 2 first here is like putting the x first in "2x" such that it becomes "x2". I think al
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by rndphs 4y ago
>When a person "has the concept `7`" they can reason thus: "6 eggs would be fewer", "7 is an odd number", "7 is a whole quantity", "with 7 less of 10, i'd have 3" etc. I just input t
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by rndphs 4y ago
I think the failures of people spouting hype and failing to deliver in ML has absolutely nothing to do with the real and immense progress which is happening in the field concurrently. I don't understand how one can look at GPT-3, DALL-
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by rndphs 4y ago
The arms race to passing the turing test has begun.
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by rndphs 4y ago
Well to my eye it's realism beyond anything that I could find. Mind you I didn't search for that long so there might be something there if I was to delve deeper. I am pretty familiar with photoshop, and while I'm not an exper
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by rndphs 4y ago
Yeah I just tried google image searching to find something like the pikachu photo from https://mobile.twitter.com/gottapatchemall/status/1511777860... But I can't find anything close to the realism that DALL-
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by rndphs 4y ago
Human artists also do a whole lot of mimicry. One could look at art produced by many artists and say that it is just things stitched together from pre-existing art. “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
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by rndphs 4y ago
This is going to be mostly a rant on OpenAI's "safer than thou" approach to safety, but let me start with that I think this technology I think is really cool, amazing, powerful stuff. Dall-E (and Dall-E 2) is an incredible ad
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by rndphs 4y ago
Oh yeah I don't doubt it. I think though that there is many orders of magnitude difference in the field strengths between cell phone radiation and MRI, and this makes all the difference. THz radiation is a different story too as it has
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by rndphs 4y ago
No, the molecular machinery of cells uses energy level differences that are far above the thermal energy level at body temperature, which allows them to actually make changes to things irreversibly. Enzymes are a great example of this. Try
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by rndphs 4y ago
But the movement of ions in solution is almost completely dominated by thermal motion. Your signal doesn't matter if the signal to noise ratio is essentially zero.
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by rndphs 4y ago
I think though that any biological process using these sorts of energies on the molecular level will be swamped with noise and therefore wouldn't be a useful mechanism. 3GHz is like 0.00001eV. A process with Gibb's free energy cha
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by rndphs 4y ago
But the only electric current on the molecular level is coherent current...? Chemical reactions are not macroscale phenomena, and so it shouldn't really matter if the energy comes from a random distribution or not. Also please don&#x27
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by rndphs 4y ago
At the molecular level, basically all photon modes associated with the thermal energy (or lower) will be already thermally occupied. E = hf = k_bT/2. This frequency at room temperature is about 30THz. So on the microscopic level, any f
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by rndphs 4y ago
Have you actually talked with people who have taken these drugs? The way prozac affects people is clearly much much different from the way MDMA affects people. Also, from your first link: "In contrast to fluoxetine, citalopram treatme
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by rndphs 4y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time reading the science of these chemicals, as well as their cultural impact and the experiences of people that I know and have talked to, as well as many experiences I have read about online. I can say th
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by rndphs 4y ago
I'm sure people said the same thing about motive power before the steam engine. You cannot build it, you can only tap into it.
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by rndphs 5y ago
More or less the right idea. There are actually two fields at play here. The electromagnetic field and the electron field. The electron field gets quantised into electrons and the electromagnetic field quantised to photons. The electron fie
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by rndphs 5y ago
The amount of money being circulated absolutely does affect inflation (almost by definition). The Fed interest rate affects the amount of money in circulation because the Fed credit money is simply printed. This printed credit money gets sp
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by rndphs 5y ago
Well yeah, there is still unresolved issue(s) with at the very least the interpretation of quantum theory, if not the math. Before decoherence things were even worse, and that was much less than a century ago. The fact that physicists still
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by rndphs 5y ago
It just so happens that Google's land includes all of the main streets where people shop. But, you are free to set up your store on a backstreet alleyway a few miles from the town centre. That way you won't have to pay the protect
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by rndphs 5y ago
500 hours of video per minute = 30000 per hour. If a moderator watches 30 hours per week that'd be about 0.2 hours per hour. So you'd need 150,000 moderators to watch every minute. Given that billions of people watch youtube, this
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by rndphs 5y ago
Sad that JET is still the premier fusion machine in existence. Forty years! Fusion is always x years away because nobody has been building anything of significance for so long. All eggs in the ITER basket. Big mistake.
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by rndphs 5y ago
I got GPT-3 to write (joke) pick-up lines once and it generated: "Your eyes are as blue as the rings around Uranus". Genuinely original I believe, searching it on google doesn't show it anywhere.
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by rndphs 5y ago
Yeah but Facebook is primarily an advertising company, and one of the biggest advertising companies at that. They can much better leverage this data and milk it to a much greater extent. People aren't going to your bank or credit card

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