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Otterly99
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Comment #49210191
That's kind of the crazy part, there is no actual "psychological" tricks in the sense that they just train their recommendation algorithm to build your feed in a way that makes you…
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Comment #49210079
I don't know, are parents to blame if their kids end up drunk?
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Comment #49209892
"For instance, it's possible AI could develop hidden biases. If AI is used for predictive policing algorithms, generating an analysis for when and where crime are most likely to oc…
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Comment #49194500
Yeah, the reason I don't see it how it would be successfull is that most public labs are usually struggling with money, so it would definitely cost them less to build their own aut…
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Comment #49170038
I think you should learn from the reaction of most people in this thread and avoid it (if your audience is mostly technical people) for the following reason. A. If it's unrelated, …
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Comment #49169216
I've always wondered about these brainteasers: do interviewers really expect people to solve them? The truth/lie one is pretty well known so either: A. You answer it from memory. B…
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Comment #49098361
This is a problem with soft rules and LLM in general, and it makes sense that it gets worse on complicated tasks with long context. Glad to be able to put some numbers on it.
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Comment #49085244
Maybe it's a dumb question but how do your suppliers collect the biogas?
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Comment #49082399
They could have some coating that make them stick to the content of the tea bag, basically affecting their solubility.
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Comment #49035737
I completely disagree with the author. Is the goal of the "dopamine fracking" metaphor is to represent a "pure concentrated dopamine hit", I would argue it is a more apt representa…
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Comment #49035008
I don't have much to contribute to the conversation but I wanted to congratulate you on the work and thank you for sharing. This is impressive work!
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Comment #49034757
I agree with the author. I think everybody has strong or at least mixed feeling agent agentic coding and to me, the argument is always focused on the product itself. I come from sc…
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Comment #49033468
Open weights models are trainable. However, I would not count it as "easy" as you generally do not have access to the training material, so there is a substantial risk of model dri…
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Comment #49032874
I think the misconception here is that they "give them away". Sure, you can download the weights and run it yourself, but to run a 1T+ parameters you need roughly 2TB of VRAM (for …
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Comment #49019829
Thank you for the share, I'm glad AI labs are getting their priorities straight.
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Comment #49003886
The actual content yes, but the recommendation engine switching from "Here is a video that is kind of like this one, you might like it" to "Here is a video that we predict will kee…
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Comment #48944577
Related: Steve Brunton is also releasing a new book soon https://x.com/eigensteve/status/2055341831702057189 It is in the same vein but more applied to engineering and sciences. If…
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Comment #48922648
I am curious thought. If nobody is qualified to answer, how would your team have approached the problem without any AI?
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Comment #48921511
May I introduce you to vocaloid concerts?
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Comment #48920533
Do you even bother to click on links before asking a question? There is a whole paragraph on "Statistical analysis" that even provides five supplementary methods (S1.5, S2.2 and S2…
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Comment #48843977
This is impressive and, I think, complements well whatever benchmark is the hottest right now.
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Comment #48842324
Unless you're working on private data, is it such a problem to let Cursor train on your data? I personally work mostly on small, unoriginal projects. I don't really mind letting Cu…
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Comment #48831118
I think it can be more useful to think in terms of hours of lessons rather than time spent learning. My partner is learning french right now at a private school and they have occas…