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Interesting, I wonder if the rugby thing is a common bias. I did find myself in the weights, as the top result. But apparently there are also Australian rugby versions of me!

That is simply not true. The naive “glorified auto-complete / stochastic parrot” argument may have some merit when applied to generic pre-trained models, which only learn from unsu…

https://xcancel.com/pj_lambert/status/2057477629528150369

It's on the page, if you click the little info icon in the upper-right. Here's the text but there's some nice graphics there too: Snake Game, training entirely in the browser. Buil…

Very helpful! Naïve question (I haven’t had a chance to read TFA at all and diffusion/flow models are not my area of expertise). Doesn’t learning the integral/solution of the diffu…

Not gonna lie, the first thing I noticed was that the first author was in an anesthesiology department. Your guidelines for sniff-testing are not unreasonable, and can definitely b…

When I was a research physicist I spent a lot of time looking at the effects of ionizing radiation in pictures, although mostly in the context of digital images. The mechanisms are…

It kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.

The 6 is part of 3.6, the model version. 35B parameters, A3B means it's a mixture of experts model with only 3B parameters active in any forward pass.

Incidentally, I recently learned the origin of the term. Cyber - short for cybernetic - is from the greek κυβερνήτης (kybernetes), meaning helmsman. The original use of cybernetics…

Yeah perhaps a better term for Loser is Abstainer. Because the Sociopaths also can certainly lose at the game of maximum capitalist profit. Loser/Abstainer just chooses not to play…

It's basically just a way for the LLM to lazy-load curated information, tools, and scripts into context. The benefit of making it a "standard" is that future generations of LLMs wi…

Was this after you and two zany friends made a scheme to divert a fraction of a penny from each of your employer's transactions into a bank account that you control? And then you g…

So… your argument is that it’s not counterculture unless it’s mainstream culture? And that one should only credit derivative works once they become mainstream, rather than the orig…

If I understood correctly, the global lock is so that notify events are emitted in order. Would it make sense to have a variant that doesn't make this ordering guarantee if you don…

P-1 AI | Hybrid (SF) and Remote (US) roles | Full time P-1 is trying to do for physical engineering (mechanical, aerospace, electrical), what Devin, Cursor et al. are doing for the…

some of us have to wear glasses anyway :/

Thank you for finally making this make sense to me.

almost as though the AIs were trained on a corpus of text written by... humans

It’s not unreasonable to suspect they are doing the same. The article starts with a description of a lawsuit NY Times brought against OpenAI for similar reasons. The big difference…

My favorite example, which was an honest translation error from a non-native speaker friend: Hand job (he meant to say manual labor)

There's a board-game version of Tetris that I've been playing with my toddler, and is pretty much the same low-stress approach. It's also multiplayer (the next piece everyone must …

“I've moved around a lot - and I realized I'm losing track of friends across a lot of apps, locations, and time-zones.” From the first sentence, sounds like this isn’t an option. I…

You don’t have to convince me that this is a bad thing for America. Yes it’s exactly how turkey and russia and other failed/failing democracies got to where they are.

One thing you need to keep in mind is that in the US things are stacked against people who would want to protest or engage in any kind of activism. Take a day off work to go to a r…