trc001

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by trc001 6mo ago
>These were Yale students, so probably smarter than average In my experience, Ivy League students are some of the most profoundly stupid people I've ever met
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by trc001 1y ago
It's become trendy to delete it. I say trendy because many papers delete it without offering any proof that it is meaningless
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by trc001 1y ago
Uh, the bellman equation was first used for control theory and is the foundation of modern reinforcement learning... so wouldn't that imply LLMs "come from" control theory?
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by trc001 1y ago
Oobabooga is still good as a Swiss Army knife sort of wrapper for a single user trying out new models
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by trc001 1y ago
It's really only one guy that underestimates it
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by trc001 1y ago
This is just inaccurate
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by trc001 3y ago
Real estate price estimates would be the classic, and frankly still common, example
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by trc001 3y ago
Latex is great, but installing it is a hassle. FWIW, typst is lean enough to install (very quickly) as a vscode extension. I’ve never had a useful Tex install that was less than like 4gb
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by trc001 3y ago
I tried this out this week for a 2 page technical memo. It generally works great, and pandoc can sort of convert latex to typst to get you started, but the crucial thing it’s missing atm is the ability to embed pdf images. You have to conve
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by trc001 3y ago
I feel like there must be a better source for this information
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by trc001 3y ago
Great, a company has decided to really stoke the fear of management and bureaucracy people who fundamentally don’t understand this technology. I’ll probably have 2 hours of meetings this week where I have to push back against the reflexive
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by trc001 3y ago
What is this actually measuring though? Half of what makes these tasks difficult seems to be the lack of an explicit target. Failure in that task suggests more about critical thinking and reasoning skills than "computer skills", w
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by trc001 3y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but I think the Kansas City you are referring to is in Missouri :) You’re right about the draw though. The KC metro is growing — sort of feels like Denver felt about 15 years ago
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by trc001 3y ago
They should change the state motto to, “a slightly less boring version of Nebraska”
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by trc001 3y ago
I’ve been saying some version of this to people for years. But in his defense, I think he’s been more the victim of the secular decline in polling quality than anything else.
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by trc001 3y ago
It seems that the better law would be to require sites carry some standardized nsfw/18+ tag or marker so they could easily be filtered by parental controls. Sites in violation could be fined if they did not include the marker. There wo
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by trc001 3y ago
In academic or research work this can be tricky because sometimes you put something down and can’t come back to it for a week/month. At that point, this trick is more of a hindrance than anything…
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by trc001 3y ago
Good to see more people pointing out the problems using standalone llm (I.e. not connected to an external data source/the internet) for search. So many people I talk to dismiss gpt because it can’t answer some subject-specific question
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by trc001 3y ago
I think parent is getting at the idea that dnn learns abstract representations of the data in whatever way is useful for the mode objective function. But I agree, the article still seems to present a reasonable argument
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by trc001 3y ago
This. I’ve been pointing to Serle for months now on this and soo many people who have never bothered to study philosophy seem to want to weigh in on this it’s maddening. So, so many bad/shallow takes that don’t seem to realize that peo
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by trc001 3y ago
Well, there sort of is a linear relationship between the ammount of training data and the quality of the model [1] [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
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by trc001 4y ago
Am I the only person who thinks we should pump the breaks on letting something like this write and execute code? I’m not on the whole “gpt is alive” train, but… you know, better safe than sorry…