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chewxy

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About chewxy

You can contact me here: chewxy [at] gmail dot com

My personal blog is http://blog.chewxy.com . Be warned. Lots of nonsense in there.

Recent public activity

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    So I have been practicing writing fiction the past year or so. It identifies a fiction piece I wrote as Greg Egan[0]. Another paragraph from another piece was identified as China M…

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    Comment #45949228

    BigQuery has that and I've been loving using it since they introduced it

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    Comment #45640176

    > Limited training data, as compared to kanguages like Python or javascript. I use my own APL to build neural networks. This is probably the correct answer, and inline with my expe…

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    Comment #43817048

    Maybe read the paper first? > This study asked whether Large Language Models (LLMs) understand sentences in the minimal sense of representing “who did what to whom”. In Experiment …

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    Comment #43676579

    I wrote a short story ten years ago making fun of this concept: https://blog.chewxy.com/2014/05/20/the-long-term-plan/

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    Comment #42373892

    Barry Jay's got an upcoming paper at PEPM regarding typed tree calculus. Good read too.

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    Comment #41693219

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #41693214

    At this point I'm writing mostly for myself. GTM strategies for novels... that's an interesting way to think about things. I've not thought about it just yet. Happy to hear if you …

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    Comment #41692371

    I'm working on my scifi novel. I had started writing it when LLMs started taking off - I had been doing AI for two decades and I was well-placed to be in a good position to profit …

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    Comment #41363505

    I did this 13 years ago: https://blog.chewxy.com/2011/08/31/one-point-five-hours/

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    Comment #40808694

    Not really, this is actually pretty readable

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    Comment #40782432

    I told a variant of the original Little Mermaid story as part of a school outreach program. The kids came to the conclusion that God wasn't a fair being because he didn't give merm…

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    Comment #40772928

    there's also a good paper - Can a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor - by Kording's lab which is also an excellent read.

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    Comment #40747129

    Dana Angluin's group were studying chat systems way back in 1992. There even was a conference around conversational AI back then.

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    Comment #40558258

    Haha I remember you and your SaltStack talks at SyPy. Shame you moved to Melbourne. Hey, coffee's better here now ( https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/experts-have-ranked-the-... …

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    Comment #40558244

    Most LLMs out there are very American in their writing mannerisms. The article even alludes to this: > The AI did, however, try to sound like someone. It was folksy and upbeat, tal…

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    Comment #40558192

    I've been running GolangSyd for about 8 years now, and previously Sydney Python for about the same amount of time. I found finding sponsors to be one of the hardest things. One of …

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    Comment #40462855

    So.. sourcegraph?

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    Comment #40262286

    This is not a nice way to discover Dan Dennett died

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    Comment #39976162

    you have to admit that 3-3 invasion is pretty annoying to handle. AI is way too aggro and people are learning to be as aggressive.

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    Comment #39911637

    A good thing about living in a small house. I can hear when my rice cooker is done (plays a tune), when my washing machine is done (plays a tune), when my dryer is done (plays a tu…

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    Comment #39901974

    Go (the game). I wrote a clone of AlphaGo in Go (the programming language) 8 years ago. Along the way I learned to play Go. I've been using a combination of my own AI, LeelaZero an…

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    Comment #39674146

    I agree. There are other types of AIs with different applications that do not need to be trained on the internet. The examples you have given however, are examples where the deep n…