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Notes from Sam Altman Q&A on GPT and AGI(lesswrong.com)
3 points by yazr 5y ago|0 comments
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by yazr 6y ago
Paywall copy from reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/khin4c/n_m...
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Element AI sold for $230M, as founders saw value mostly wiped out: document(theglobeandmail.com)
54 points by yazr 6y ago|55 comments
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by yazr 6y ago
Many had the same thought after AlphaZero i.e. some sort of expert-iteration for any (formal/combinatorial) domain what can be tree-searched But it turns out, that interesting problems have existing refined algorithms that are difficu
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by yazr 6y ago
Should this be modifiable for higher-level byte-code? My thinking is to provide hand-crafted primitives to transform byte code, and maybe use an existing optimizer to do the search.
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by yazr 6y ago
Love to chat. Sent u an email (former HFT and kernel guy). One topic which is feel is neglected is a good GCN (or any GNN) to operate on existing code trees. Most approaches seem to prefer seq or at most tree inputs. Is this simply not find
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by yazr 6y ago
What do you think is a more productive path leading to "AutoCode" ?! A. Add external definitions or reward formalism to make the code-space easier to search? OR B. Keep adding code trees, execution traces, comments, memory dumps a
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by yazr 7y ago
As a non-US person, is there anyway to bill using Stripe without incorporating? I dont mind withholding tax, etc, i just want to be able to bill and track the initial revenues. AFAIK, Stripe is not available in all-EU countries. Paypal just
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by yazr 7y ago
My only nitpick is that AG (ML + search really) improved logarithmic-ally with exponential compute. In addition, real world domains may not be some parallizable. So yes, current AI is like a brilliant intern. It will eventually be your mana
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by yazr 7y ago
Is there some sort of group-defense, where several sue-ees group together to contest a ridiculous patent ? I guess the main difficulty is not the legal framework, but the business framing
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by yazr 7y ago
Great news. I wonder if already there will be a selection bias to recession-friendly and revenue-producing startups
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by yazr 7y ago
IANAVC (not a vc), but i think do this is doubling down on risk. If you take seed from VC, then: 1. if you are mediocre then things become very difficult for you 2. if you are successful, the VC can discount the risk premium, and push u int
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AngelList data set – signaling risks of seed-stage investments(techcrunch.com)
2 points by yazr 7y ago|1 comments
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by yazr 7y ago
A fully illustrated article [1] And Lilian Weng blog on self-supervision [2] .. CPC is .. translating a generative modeling problem to a classification problem... uses cross-entropy loss to measure how well the model can classify the “futur
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by yazr 7y ago
> Over their lifetimes, red supergiants like Betelgeuse create and eject vast amounts of material What % of material is then captured by other forming/formed stars? Doesnt it just end up in interstellar space ?
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by yazr 7y ago
As someone patiently explained to me 2 yrs ago... For the ATARI, the "real world" is the present frame, and a fixed set of 4 buttons and 4 directions. This of course is the game pre-programmed into the ALE ROM. You can take any ac
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by yazr 7y ago
> but I am confused by its claim ... without knowing the game rules. > probably some similar hard-coding of Atari actions Nope, no hard coding. Consider trying to MCTS on an Atari game. You have to "learn to predict" the &lt
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by yazr 7y ago
This is a recent presentation, apparently for Indonesia. I find it detailed and well presented. I do not really hold much hope for new nuclear, as compared to renewables. However, they do still have a case in less-sunny, dense urban areas
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ThorCon 2019 500MW molten salt modular tow-able nuclear reactor [pdf](thorconpower.com)
3 points by yazr 7y ago|2 comments
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by yazr 7y ago
The robo-taxi connotation is even worse. Any robo-taxi can be programmed to drive like a grand-ma to improve battery life. The cost of a x2 battery size is easier to amortize. Its life time can be managed and optimized with ML. And yes - it
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by yazr 7y ago
The GP is correct and not just being pedantic. This is just click bait. A battery (life)range is degraded (mostly) by (dis)charging speed, average discharge level and ambient heat. The bigger the battery, the less strain on each cell, and h
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Founder Collective: Startup Success Data Outside Silicon Valley(medium.com)
3 points by yazr 7y ago|0 comments
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by yazr 7y ago
Does anyone have a graph of recent $/transistor progress? Its obvious that moore's law is stagnant, and clock speed is dead, etc, etc. But are we at least getting the same core size at a lower cost ?
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by yazr 7y ago
The main comment here seems to be sluggish performance. Is it some sort O(n^2) rule handler deep inside the builder? Or is it just "python-slow" ? :/ Can someone give an example of a big open source project which is too slow
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by yazr 7y ago
Ireland has ~10GW generation capacity (mostly coal & extra dirty peat). At around $1/W for new solar and wind generation, the Apple back taxes owned to Ireland can convert the entire Island to renewable energy. It will be an asset
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by yazr 7y ago
DOes this 2500-cpu-hr cover the ENTIRE learning process? Lets even your first run is crap, and you try again with RGB instead of YUV or whatever. So you do 4 runs. So 10000-cpu-hours replace a week of work of a qualified ML engineer. This i
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by yazr 7y ago
Can u explain ? Do u mean Euro Paypal accounts cant be just frozen unilaterally etc ?
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by yazr 7y ago
There is an upcoming Manning ebook for graph-machine learning. Its a lot less technical than the papers. Fingers crossed for them. https://www.manning.com/books/graph-powered-machine-learning
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by yazr 7y ago
Why Rust? (In general..) Are C memory-related bugs still such a real problem? IIUC, Rust can prevent these kinds of memory vulnerabilities. But it cant really present the million of other types of vulnerabilities, such as mis-configuration,
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by yazr 7y ago
Tinyseed , Indie.vc, Lighter Capital, Earnest Capital, OnDeck, Kabbage, MainVest, Point9 I guess its not easy to qualify since they get a bazillion application. Do you just apply on the web ? Do u have good references ? Is it "real re

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