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by sansseriff 3mo ago
It sure is! But ironically, because of the intention behind the obfuscation. Not the fact that AI was used in a research paper. I have no issues with AI use in science. If claude can explain my research better than me, then have at it. But
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by sansseriff 4mo ago
It has applications outside of machine learning too! I used symmetric Kullback–Leibler divergence for a project with photon number resolving single photon detectors during my PhD. I used it with an adjacency matrix to split a gaussian mixtu
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
Glad to see there's a REV 3 in progress that would support ethernet. That's the one thing that would make me go out of my way to build one of these.
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
When I read "The honest truth: ...", the AI-generated alarm bells go off in my head. Whether the article is human written or not.
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
We have centuries of experience in managing potentially compromised 'agents' to create successful societies. Except the agents were human, and I'm referring to debates, tribunals, audits, independent review panels, democracy,
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
I don’t see why this would be the case with proper tool calling and context management. If you tell a model with blank context ‘you are an extremely rigorous reviewer searching for fake citations in a possibly compromised text’ then it will
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
I admit it has dystopian elements. It’s worth deciding what specifically is scary though. The potential fallibility or mistakes of the models? Check back in a few months. The fact they’re run by giant corps which will steal and train on you
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by sansseriff 9mo ago
Seriously. More people need to wake up to this. Older generations can keep arguing over display formats if they want. Meanwhile younger undergrad and grad students are getting more and more accustomed to LLMs forming the front end for any k
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by sansseriff 10mo ago
I remember 15 years ago when I was in highschool I really wanted to learn how to program 8 bit microcontrollers without Arduino. And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There was barely any learning material out there about how to do t
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by sansseriff 11mo ago
There's a great value proposition for a company like Private Internet Access or NordVPN to create an AI browser extension or full-on browser. Anonymize requests and provide various LLM models. Rely on your reputation as a privacy focus
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by sansseriff 11mo ago
I haven't used LLM chrome plugins because I couldn't trust that they weren't collecting more information about my browsing than I'd like. The same concern exists for this, though now I'm just confident it's a g
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by sansseriff 1y ago
If you're passionate about it, then go for it! Though be aware that several others have tried similar things: - https://www.befreed.ai/knowledge-visualizer - https://kodisc.com/ - https://gi
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by sansseriff 1y ago
I remember listening to a podcast where Grant Sanderson basically said the opposite. He tried generating manim code with LLMs and found the results unimpressive. Probably just goes to show that competence in manim looks very different to us
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by sansseriff 1y ago
There's a weird insecurity I've noticed cropping up. I want to design the codebase 'my way'. I want to decide on the fundamental data structures. But there's this worry that my preferred architecture is not massivel
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by sansseriff 1y ago
I wonder if there's a way to do diffusion within some sort of schema-defined or type constrained space. A lot of people these days are asking for structured output from LLMs so that a schema is followed. Even if you train on schema-fol
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by sansseriff 1y ago
Cameras capture linear brightness data, proportional to the number of photons that hit each pixel. Human eyes (film cameras too) basically process the logarithm of brightness data. So one of the first things a digital camera can do to throw
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by sansseriff 1y ago
An excellent video. I've admired Yedlin's past work in debunking the need for film cameras over digital when you're going after a 'film look' I wish he shared his code though. Part of the problem is he can't op
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by sansseriff 1y ago
I find it funny that the AI 2027 thing got a non-vanishing fraction of Hackernews folk to wonder if humans would be fully eradicated from Earth in 5 years (I was influenced too!) Anyway, just funny to now be talking about gas stations in 15
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by sansseriff 1y ago
Curious to her other people's opinion of this. I arrived at a similar conclusion after making web apps for research control software in my PhD. I went through a Yjs tutorial and looked into integrating it with fastapi websockets. But t
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by sansseriff 1y ago
It would be great to semantically search through literature with embeddings. At least one person I know if is trying to generate a vector database of all arxiv papers. The big problem I see is attribution and citations. An embedding is just
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by sansseriff 1y ago
I think about the reviewer problem. An AI can write 3000 lines in less than a minute. But it might take me an hour to understand the architecture it's decided on. There's a couple possibilities with this: 1. Agents become so power
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by sansseriff 2y ago
It will be interesting to see in what fields it's worth the effort to curate you're data to a high enough standard that you get all the benefits of the ai agent. I'm currently working as a scientist. I wonder if researchers w
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by sansseriff 2y ago
Yep, it's funny how one of the key factors that limits LLM usage is just the typing speed of users. I agree that the amount of bespoke UI that needs to exist probably won't stagnate. Humans need about the same amount of visual inf
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by sansseriff 2y ago
If anyone has trouble focusing on personal projects at home, I've found Focusmate (www.focusmate.com) to be very handy. You hop on a scheduled google-meets style video call with someone random, and then just work. You talk very briefly
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by sansseriff 2y ago
Svelte 5 has been very nice to work with over the past few months. Yes, runes require you to think more carefully about lifecycles and updates. And you may end up writing a little more code initially than with svelte 4. But it serves you be
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by sansseriff 2y ago
Preprocessing new schema takes 'under 10 seconds'. That's... a huge range? Unless the preprocessing time is a small fraction of the inference time, I don't see the point. I'm working on an app that dynamically gener
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by sansseriff 2y ago
That's what I was wondering. How the token overhead of function calling with, say, Instructor compares with a regular chat response that includes few-shot learning (schema examples). Maybe Instructor makes the most sense only when you&
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by sansseriff 2y ago
I find it interesting that their entity extraction method for building a knowledge graph does not use or require one of the 'in-vogue' extraction libraries like instructor, Marvin, or Guardrails (all of which build off of pydantic
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by sansseriff 2y ago
How does Jacob (aarthificial, creator of motion-canvas) feel about this? Will you compensate or include him in some way? I understand the license is MIT so you can do what you want. Just seems like it would be polite to maintain a good rela
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by sansseriff 2y ago
The Deep Space Optical Communication (Dsoc) between earth and the psyche spacecraft uses large-M PPM for this reason! This mission is currently ongoing. They send optical pulses in one of up to 128 possible time slots, thereby carrying 7 bi

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