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Thank you! Parr, Pezzulo & Friston looks like the kind of book I'm after - love cross-disciplinary works. After all, knowledge and nature are continuous. It's humans who like to ch…

Tangentially related: It appears that TD ideas pop up in diffusion models, VAEs and neural net training dynamics. Any author/reading advice on links between thermodynamics, informa…

Yep, it's the early days. Eventually we'll work out something like Design Patterns for Hybrid Development , where humans are responsible for software architecture, breaking require…

Agree. We've seen cowboy developers who move fast by producing unreadable code and cutting every corner. And sometimes that's ok. Say you want a proof of concept to validate demand…

But why would you want to review long AI PRs in the first place? Why don't we apply the same standards we apply to humans? Doesn't matter if it was AI-generated, outsourced to Upwo…

Can you elaborate on the "mode of peril"? Is it: (a) Top labs quietly signing deals for military deployment of frontier models in unmanned strike weapons? (b) Top labs agreeing to …

At ~9:50 Michael Moritz talks how the 100-year media history tells us that if you can gather a large audience in one place, you will be able to sell them advertising. It's likely t…

While John talks about the period before Google, this quote brings up a remarkable déjà-vu: [~14:30] Although the search companies were having great success, they were turning into…

Reading these answers reminded me why I love HN - actually thoughtful perspectives :) Guess a lot boils down to two variables - (a) suggestion UX quality and (b) definition of 'rej…

The abstract says ..we present metrics from our large-scale deployment of CodeCompose that shows its impact on Meta's internal code authoring experience over a 15-day time window, …

What's the value of bringing Facebook/Instagram mechanics into HN? Wouldn't that skew social dynamics away from egalitarianism, giving rise to "influencers", social bubbles and ris…

Depending on your use case and willingness to hack, there are plenty of alternatives. E.g. take a look at this list: https://archive.is/x5K4o

My impression is that many places that label themselves as hacker/maker spaces are some version of a commercial coworking space with equipment. They have the tools, but not the spi…

I'm looking for hacker communities where people hack science and tech together for non-commercial reasons, driven by curiosity and desire to know how stuff works. In Bay Area there…

+1 for IEEE Spectrum. I recently stumbled upon print issue archive from 2010-2012 and was delighted by their coverage of private space flight and 3D printing. To me, Spectrum is an…

Turns out Patrick Breyer from the Pirate Party already put up a list of practical steps, infographics and EP members, see https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatY…

Sounds like an "NLP valley" with Prof. Ney as Aachen's own Fred Terman :)

Thanks for sharing. Cool to see someone from Aachen NLP group. I'll be visiting Aachen/Düsseldorf/Heidelberg area in spring. Do you know of any local ML meetups open to general (ML…

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641359

John Carmack's new interview on AI/AGI [1] carries a puzzle: “So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers …

Perhaps write letters to members of European Parliament explaining our concerns, then ask all our friends to do the same? To make it a low-cost effort, we could (a) prepare a list …

Sometimes I feel that the world is sleepwalking straight into the pages of 1984. Proposals to monitor chats, ban encryption, legitimize location tracking create perfect infrastruct…

About 10 years ago I quit a software architect job to start a startup (it failed). Not FAANG, but safe and well-renumerated for my area. If I could go back in time, I'd quit again …

> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore How much could you trust media content previously? Staged footage, false narration, biased coverage are noth…