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by wwarner 5d ago
Thing is, it depends on whether llms + reinforcement can self-improve in principle. Learned recently that cognitive scientists, before the transformer & llms, were studying the possibility that thinking and learning might be based on so
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by wwarner 16d ago
so well written
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by wwarner 1mo ago
I long for the days when voting for outsiders was a fun way to fill out a ballot, back when election outcomes didn’t matter very much because the probable winners were all qualified to hold office.
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by wwarner 1mo ago
Great discussion with a cognitive scientist on what LLMs might reveal about the role of prediction in human cognition.
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Mindscape: Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans Are Cognitive Cousins(preposterousuniverse.com)
5 points by wwarner 1mo ago|1 comments
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by wwarner 1mo ago
It means that there is a spectrum of outcomes, and there is a band left of center which is anti-crime enough to support cameras with laws to govern them.
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by wwarner 1mo ago
Uh, I guess you haven't compared my town's crime rate to London's. I'm for curtailing people's gun rights as well, for essentially the same reason as I'm for more cameras. There was an apparently random shootin
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by wwarner 1mo ago
Unpopular opinion: I’m fine with cameras if they can be shown to solve crimes and lower the crime rate. No, I’m not ok with ICE surveillance, or secret police punishing free thinkers, but the extreme anti position simply cedes the technolog
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by wwarner 1mo ago
Maybe, or maybe it was eaten into extinction.
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by wwarner 2mo ago
warning: this shows a living mouse in a mouse trap.
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632nm Podcast: John Bowers – Silicon Photonics and the Future of AI Scaling [video](youtube.com)
2 points by wwarner 3mo ago|0 comments
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632nm: Dr Michael Levin on Bioelectricity and Morphogenesis(youtube.com)
3 points by wwarner 3mo ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 3mo ago
Honestly i come to hn to escape true crime.
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by wwarner 4mo ago
Expected a generator.
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by wwarner 4mo ago
I've only ever been good at dancing to punk music, which has only cost me money so far.
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by wwarner 4mo ago
Yes, and wondering why all the AI tooling is written in node.
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by wwarner 4mo ago
Wouldn’t apache arrow serve the same purpose?
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by wwarner 4mo ago
Haven't finished this but for me it's so refreshing to read some science on deep learning and not just weird predictions.
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by wwarner 5mo ago
I feel the same, but then I remind myself of how I used to feel about dark matter (I really disliked it). Having an arena where no scientific question is out of bounds is great.
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by wwarner 5mo ago
I run emacs without graphics from this docker image i maintain https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-native I just use emacs for programming, not note taking or email reading or the other things people love it fo
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by wwarner 5mo ago
My usage of emacs is so vim-like that I’ve tried switching a few times. Vim is definitely faster, and overlays and cursor placement is much simpler and more intuitive. But there were still feature gaps and configuration issues that prevente
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by wwarner 5mo ago
Sane & interesting enough to have been disproven, by Boaz Barak iirc. Maybe not surprising since simulated annealing never achieved the results of gradient descent + backprop.
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by wwarner 8mo ago
These drawbacks are all true, but sometimes storing directly to elastic is still the best way forward.
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by wwarner 9mo ago
I feel like these are helpful, and I think the calculus oriented visualizations of convex surfaces and gradient descent help a lot as well.
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by wwarner 9mo ago
I reluctantly agree. It’s like ebikes — yes it’s great that I don’t have to pedal up hill, but on the other hand the cyclists that did it the hard way deserved the praise and glory for their achievement while weak and distracted ebikers def
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by wwarner 10mo ago
The version manager approach feels like a giant step backward to me. Manage dependencies with containers.
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by wwarner 10mo ago
holding my nose reading this. if scientific progress killed god, it seems unlikely that meaning would emerge from more ramblings of the same kind that gave rise to him in the first place. we have learned to disbelieve in miracles and to be
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by wwarner 11mo ago
i run a basic emacs configuration within docker, so it has all the underlying executables & binaries installed where emacs looks for them. runs exactly the same on linux & macos. https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarne
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by wwarner 1y ago
M-x package-list-packages :)
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by wwarner 1y ago
I run emacs in docker to manage these issues https://github.com/wwarner/emacs-native-dockerfiles

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