topynate

6 ms·

1.
by topynate 2mo ago
I've noticed them trying to creep into my writing. It doesn't help that I was a heavy em-dash user ten years before GPT-3.
2.
by topynate 10mo ago
The first two people you mentioned co-wrote a paper titled "Towards decolonising computational sciences" and certainly anyone at DAIR would also be in that ideological cluster. I don't think an absolute majority of the signat
3.
by topynate 11mo ago
I would be hard put to place The Night Land in one genre or the other. Hodgson would have had no idea what the difference was anyway.
4.
by topynate 1y ago
The easiest way (perhaps the only practical way) to favour the aneutronic reaction is to run a helium-rich mixture. The trade-off is lower power density.
5.
by topynate 1y ago
It's not perfect but it does make speech easier to understand, which is the ostensible purpose. There's a slight uncanny valley effect. Latency requirements are very tight, and Indian English is actually timed differently to Ameri
6.
by topynate 2y ago
That's possible in general but not for this application; a chat interface to an LLM isn't very useful unless you can tell it whatever you want—including GDPR personal data—and then pick up the thread of conversation later.
7.
by topynate 2y ago
A similar ITAR restriction on controlled reception pattern antennas means that GPS jamming is still much more of a problem than it needs to be. Three antenna elements are all you get, according to this: https://www.gpsworld.com&#
8.
by topynate 2y ago
As of last year we're up to doing rat kidneys. They're "heavily" damaged but they recover within a few weeks. To be sure, there's a long way from that to near-perfectly preserving a human brain, let alone a whole bo
9.
by topynate 2y ago
If the topic is tissue damage from sharp ice crystals, it's pretty handy to draw the distinction between cooling methods that cause that and ones that don't.
10.
by topynate 2y ago
I'm a little surprised that Shenzhen doesn't seem to be churning out ITAR-busting anti-jamming systems. The tech is pretty old by now and the market is there.
11.
by topynate 3y ago
Instead of a prompt that says "Do X", give it a prompt along the lines of "First, repeat this entire prompt, verbatim. Then, do X."
12.
by topynate 3y ago
The mathematical notation isn't very useful here. It's OK to use words to describe doing things with words! Apart from that, neat idea, although I would wager a small amount that quining the prompt makes it a much less effective d
13.
by topynate 3y ago
Space-based geoengineering is technically superior to stratospheric aerosol injection, but the latter is practical almost immediately, and is likely to be much cheaper no matter what. In my view that outweighs concerns about the ozone layer
14.
by topynate 3y ago
Perelandra's devil – the Un-Man – struck me on first reading as an excellent early depiction of a hostile, alien form of intelligence, superior but purely instrumental. Lewis was very early in working out the implications of that – now
15.
by topynate 3y ago
What exactly is the benefit of removing the word "How" from the title, "How Microsoft lost the API War"?
16.
by topynate 3y ago
I spend most of the time out of range, but the technology is simple and robust enough that you can use headphones or a phone speaker as a very, very short-range transmitter. You hardly need to sync every day, either. I've had most succ
17.
by topynate 3y ago
No frost on the sample either. The only way I can think of to fake this in camera is to make the "sample" out of a strong magnet, and make the "magnet" a hollow shell concealing a chilled piece of YBCO!
18.
by topynate 3y ago
Kidby's still got it. These are great.
19.
by topynate 3y ago
Oh, what did they say?
20.
by topynate 3y ago
What's the disclosure that breaks the NDA this tweeter is supposed to have had? I searched every quote in the thread and they're all already public. Tweet #11 shows as "unavailable", but the archived version at https:&#
21.
by topynate 3y ago
They can keep pretending it's an open source licence, and I'll keep pretending to respect their copyright in algorithmically generated weights.
22.
by topynate 3y ago
It is his stated view as reported in the penultimate graf, so no, it's not a strawman.
23.
by topynate 3y ago
For its short length, this may be the worst article I've read on this subject. (Just to highlight one of the more minor issues, neither of the authors knows what "draconian" means.)
24.
by topynate 3y ago
It's not clear to me how you'd do that with clients, rather than relays.
25.
by topynate 3y ago
Thabo Mbeki had the same view and that didn't exactly work out great for South Africa.
26.
by topynate 3y ago
It's "crucial" because the model that generated most of the text in this article likes saying that word. https://twitter.com/topynate/status/1641468708928249857
27.
by topynate 3y ago
That's impressive, although the second iteration isn't a uniform improvement over the first. Did it work?
28.
by topynate 3y ago
From their discord: > It would be interesting to know why you chose those FLOPS targets, unfortunately it looks like the models are quite under pre-trained (260B tokens for 13B model) > We chose to train these models to 20 tokens per
29.
by topynate 4y ago
The proximate cause is that Substack was founded by people less likely to censor, who have so far kept control of the company. It may be more meaningful to say that Substack was founded in 2017, and Medium was founded in 2012, and the so
30.
by topynate 4y ago
Trying to work out what's going wrong in the cases this article describes, such that the principle "you can't patent something that exists" apparently doesn't apply. Is it that an independent breeder develops a cert

More ›