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amthewiz

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    It has puzzled me why someone hasn't already done this yet, given LLMs are so good at language now. Probably the short answer is that is it hard to get this to actually work. There…

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    Comment #45658734

    Andrej Karpathy posted in early 2023 ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1617979122625712128 ) - > "The hottest new programming language is English" I've built a Natural Language Progr…

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    Comment #38213913

    In the blog, they say > we’re launching the GPT Store, featuring creations by verified builders Any idea who these “verified” builders are, how they are selected and how to submit …

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    Comment #24920290

    Children can also feel pleasure and love.

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    Comment #20724395

    The field of software engineering changes rapidly and is complex to master. To remain good at the job, one must continue to explore and learn. The only way that is going to happen …

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    Comment #20572118

    > So Japanese people are doing everything right -- eschewing violence, avoiding drugs, working hard and not having kids out of wedlock. They are following the conservative prescrip…

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    Comment #20572009

    Basics should be concepts that get you to 80% and tell you where to look for the rest 20%. This book tries to get you directly to 95% and is best treated as a reference book.

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    Comment #20524799

    Who does that?

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    Comment #20317443

    People go their entire lives without knowing what it is like to go without food for a day. They take it for granted. Also, I believe parents generally don't teach kids to respect f…

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    Comment #20197862

    The DNN based techniques are new but the concept of models that can fill in the blanks is old. It used to be called content addressable memory or autoassociative memory.

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    Comment #19426223

    I'd love to take the robo-callers on a long winding road to nowhere. Is there a conversational AI robo-answering app based on something like Google Duplex? If not, should I build o…

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    Comment #18010515

    Agreed. The title is doing disservice to the content.

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    Comment #17983240

    An advanced civilization, when looking to signal other potential civilizations, would hopefully - - use the lowest common denominator long range communication medium (like EM waves…

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    Comment #17981227

    Really? I don't like to fetch water from a lake every day to my house. Instead of using technology to bring water to my house, what lifestyle changes or hard choices should I rathe…

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    Comment #17857034

    Are they sincerely suggesting that the neural correlate of consciousness is a new type of neuron? I hope not.

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    Comment #17751277

    To go even further on that point - the chart itself seems overly optimistic. +-40% of estimate after product design? +-10% of estimate after design spec?! Countless number of times…

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    Comment #17695877

    What would be the best way to help sci-hub anonymously if one wishes to do so?

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    Comment #17606383

    Current neuroscience suggests that brain operates in broadly two regimes - learning during wakefulness and model selection during sleep. Both these activities require "forgetting" …

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    As I understand, the basic idea is to minimize surprise over the organism’s life using models of the world to predict the causes behind what the organism observes and actions to ke…

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    Ruby's optional parenthesis for function calls. Makes beautiful DSLs like RSpec - describe UsersController do before do allow(controller).to receive(:current_user).and_return(nil) …