t_serpico

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by t_serpico 2mo ago
I think the focus on building things is the wrong framing - that seems to be still there. But this AI wave is centered around automation, which has a different flavor to the previous cycles (1970-2010), which very much felt much more positi
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Principles and Practice of Deep Representation Learning [pdf](ma-lab-berkeley.github.io)
6 points by t_serpico 3mo ago|0 comments
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by t_serpico 8mo ago
how so? (i'm not too familiar)
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by t_serpico 8mo ago
nice stuff! how do you handle security concerns big pharma may have? wouldn't they just run their stuff on-prem?
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by t_serpico 10mo ago
I actually thought the opposite - that he seems to be seriously thinking about AGI from a broader intellectual standpoint than most ML researchers. With that said, I was a little confused when he said evolution was more optimized for locomo
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by t_serpico 10mo ago
Yup, Dwarkesh needs to broaden his intellectual scope, and the Sutton interview completely exposed the echo chamber he's been inhabiting. There is no certainty in science, and I don't think building 'AGI' will be any exc
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by t_serpico 10mo ago
this is a joke... to even call this a scientist is an insult.
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by t_serpico 11mo ago
But there is no way to know who is truly the 'best'. The people who position and market themselves to be viewed as the best are the only ones who even have a chance to be viewed as such. So if you're a great researcher but do
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by t_serpico 11mo ago
My practical interpretation of the EMH is more that easily accessible, public information is already priced in. But non-obvious insights may not be simply because the volume of people trading on that information will be smaller.
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by t_serpico 1y ago
brilliant
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by t_serpico 1y ago
The answer stems from McCarthy’s deeply disparaging view of modern society, which he considered lost, divorced from nature, history and tradition and heading toward social collapse and apocalypse. “Cormac considered contemporary fiction a w
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by t_serpico 1y ago
'Seeing' inside cells/tissues/organs/organisms is pretty much most modern biological research.
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by t_serpico 2y ago
Was going to comment exactly this - funny that it's a literal car salesman.
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GPT-4b micro: An AI model for longevity(technologyreview.com)
1 points by t_serpico 2y ago|0 comments
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by t_serpico 2y ago
One fundamental challenge to me is that if each training run because more and more expensive, the time it takes it to learn what works/doesn't work widens. Half a billion dollars for training a model is already nuts, but if it tak
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by t_serpico 2y ago
I don't think he got taken for a ride. Rather, he also wanted to believe that AlphaChip would be as revolutionary as it claimed to be and chose to ignore Chaterjee's reservations. Understandable, given all the AlphaX models coming
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by t_serpico 2y ago
"Topology is all that matters" --> bold statement, especially when you read the paper. The original authors were much more reserved in terms of their conclusions.
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by t_serpico 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts, the AI shields all responsibility from the humans.
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by t_serpico 2y ago
To call this memory seems like a stretch. By the logic of the article, every daughter cell has 'memory' of the parent cell because some proteins from the parent cell are present in the daughter cell. I would be curious to see p53
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by t_serpico 3y ago
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300153 tl;dr: metabolism is all you need. while potentially interesting work, very shortsighted and premature to say this is a "GPT" moment in biology
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by t_serpico 3y ago
i'd wager that adding noise to the weights in a principled fashion would accomplish something similar to this.
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by t_serpico 3y ago
if you just want count/location, super resolution techniques ( https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade2676 ) and proximity labeling ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202
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by t_serpico 3y ago
Sure, nothing fundamentally prevents us from repairing it from a physical standpoint. The practicality of it is the key question. While the machine analogy is partially useful, genes/proteins/cells are dynamic, adaptive, and can e
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by t_serpico 3y ago
Most of his guests are quite intelligent. His style generally works well with people who have expertise in something or are just generally deep thinkers. He also picks interesting guests that people are generally aware of (sometimes). The m
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by t_serpico 3y ago
To add on to this, unbridled capitalism also leads to more goods and services affordable for the average consumer. This makes the idea of taking a lower paying job appealing because you can still live a fairly comfortable life.
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by t_serpico 3y ago
How have I missed the point? The answer that nature cannot engineer and can't start de novo are trivially true statements that provide no actual insight into the question. I fully agree the original question itself is a deep one. A qui
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by t_serpico 3y ago
A classic armchair response. DNA has complementary nucleotides (AT,GC) that facilitates its pairing. Base 3 wouldn’t work in that sense. Also, you can’t forget about the genetic code. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/q-bio&#x2
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by t_serpico 4y ago
agreed, if you have a theory, you should do your best to disprove it. OP was more interested in the aesthetic of their theory as opposed to whether it was true or not.
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by t_serpico 4y ago
solving problems to solve problems we have created - openai
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by t_serpico 4y ago
anyone else worried about how tools like this will make us dumber?

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