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A Top Law Firm Went from Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee(nytimes.com)
6 points by saeranv 16h ago|0 comments
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Phoebe Gates' startup Phia faces cookie stuffing allegations(bloomberg.com)
10 points by saeranv 1mo ago|2 comments
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by saeranv 2mo ago
From the article: "The project’s binary distributions didn’t include the required MIT license notice for the llama.cpp code they were shipping. This isn’t a matter of open-source etiquette, the MIT license has exactly one major require
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by saeranv 3mo ago
I said before that the function shape changes as you're updating the parameters that govern the function but that's actually very misleading, (sorry), since the kernel parameters are only indirectly governing the function. What th
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by saeranv 3mo ago
> Why is the 'true process' changing here? I understand our best guess or model is changing with new observations, but the true process should not be changing. If it actually is, then the formulation should be changed to isolat
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by saeranv 5mo ago
Greg Brockman honestly sounds like a psychopath: > In 2017, Amodei hired Page Hedley, a former public-interest lawyer, to be OpenAI’s policy and ethics adviser. In an early PowerPoint presentation to executives, Hedley outlined how OpenA
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by saeranv 5mo ago
For me, it was when I found out Greg Brockman's MAGA donations. From wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman#Personal_life ): Brockman and his wife were the biggest donors to Donald Trump's Supe
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by saeranv 8mo ago
This is awesome. How do you integrate morphology into the simulation? Does morphology effect movement (via area friction or mass impact on momentum) or metabolism (via area/volume ratio)?
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by saeranv 9mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/IX9bP
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Why does AI write like that?(nytimes.com)
2 points by saeranv 9mo ago|3 comments
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by saeranv 9mo ago
That presumes that languages didn't evolve independently across different communities. The fact that different ancient languages have completely different grammatical structures, for example, provides some evidence of this.
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Greg Egan's Horror Stories(gregegan.net)
3 points by saeranv 2y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 2y ago
A simple counter example here is instinctual behaviour. A sea turtle is born, and with little to no guidance, experimentation, or exploration heads to the sea. That knowledge is embedded at birth. I think the analogy of the brain as hardwar
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by saeranv 2y ago
> The idea is that if you can produce an accurate probably distribution over the next bit/byte/token... But how can you get credible probability distributions from the LLMs? My understanding is that the outputs specifically can
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The children who remember their past lives(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by saeranv 2y ago|1 comments
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by saeranv 2y ago
I think they are accounting for the entire context, they specifically write out: >> P(next_word|previous_words) So the "next_word" is conditioned on "previous_words" (plural), which I took to mean the joint distrib
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by saeranv 3y ago
I read through the whole LW post, and think there's enough troubling evidence here that she shouldn't be dismissed. It certainly shouldn't be flagged. I initially was leaning to this being a high possibility of a delusion spr
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He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by saeranv 3y ago|4 comments
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'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires(nymag.com)
202 points by saeranv 3y ago|159 comments
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by saeranv 3y ago
I sure hope all the HN commentators confidently predicting this would never happen because of his large donations to the democrats see this.
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by saeranv 3y ago
Thanks for the correction, my understanding of electricity is shaky, and I was assuming everything connected to a wall outlet is AC-driven, unless there's a boxy inverter along the cord like a laptop, but you're correct, that&#x27
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by saeranv 3y ago
I disagree with other commentators here arguing that there's no benefit this monitor would bring over simply reducing screen brightness. But I also think the claim made by the article here is at best, miscommunicated: that the bounced
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by saeranv 3y ago
That kind of innate skeptism is good science though.
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Point Cloud Utils – A Python library for 3D point clouds and meshes(fwilliams.info)
1 points by saeranv 3y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 3y ago
Unfortunately, the HN crowd has an incredibly naive view of what journalism is. I think it's mainly a product of ignorance, typically conflating op-eds with the journalism, and false-equivalencies that lump the Washington Post into the
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by saeranv 3y ago
To your credit, at least you got data to begin investigating your claim. I'm usually to lazy to do that...
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by saeranv 3y ago
Okay fair enough, but why look at female founders in terms total valuation percent, then? I think my point about the distortion from the (likely) exponential distribution of total valuation still stands, although in this case with regards t
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by saeranv 3y ago
Careful, this seems to be falling for the prosecutor's fallacy where the probabilities aren't normalized to account for base rates of the hypothesis occuring. So in this case, the percent of successful valuations that have a femal
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by saeranv 3y ago
Good point. So when we try and evaluate a person's "social radar", we should probably limit ourselves to cases where they are the minority dissenter and the person they dislike is given the opportunity, since it gives us the
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by saeranv 3y ago
Funny, I was thinking that the only disadvantage of the previous example is that you don't get any feedback from comments. The ability to label your "posts" seems pretty powerful too. Then your blog can be navigated by your t

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