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dmarchand90

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    Cause tech is controlled by MAGA.

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    Comment #43556770

    This is wild

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    I've found how CNN map to visual cortex to be very clear. But I've always been a bit confused about how llms map to the brain. Is that even the case?

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    You have to be careful with nature. There are the scientific articles which are top of the line and written by deep experts. Then you have the journalism side which is basically ju…

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    You should probably have a requirements.txt file instead of just a list of requirements. It's often hard to tell which combination of package versions will 'actually' work when run…

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    My guess is it will be like pascal or smalltalk, an important development for illustrating a concept but is ultimately replaced by something more rigorous

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    I kinda suspect it might be that chagpt is excellent at getting you to an "average" performance in any field. My background is computational material science, but more on materials…

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    I really wish these public articles tried to give some estimate of the magnitude of the effect. Is this a big difference? Barely noticeable without using advanced statistics? I oft…

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    "Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but, well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bore…

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    Not really a new problem: Take this quote from George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War "I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationsh…

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    "the researchers built a simulation of a real social network" I just find this to be such a large detail that it's hard to gloss over. What are the assumptions of this model in the…

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    I think I'll wait for the cover of nature article before getting excited about superconductors again. (Yes it could still be a scam even if it gets into nature but that seems like …

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    Could you clarify what parts you use llama and which you use gpt4 on?

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    Can anyone recommend a good book for numerical c++ in 2024?

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    Where does it say much better than gpt4 for the 400B model?

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    The crazy thing is the US is probably one of the most affordable places in the developed world even now!

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    Comment #39966753

    Canadians = 850 signatures? Change title to 0.002% of Canadians asking

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    Be interesting to plug this into a bayesian optimization like framework: find out regions of language space where the models maximally disagree and then target those areas for extr…

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    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30194345

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    Comment #39907081

    Cool article but should put the date 2019 since it's a bit old

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    Please continue doing so! I don't work in AI directly and Research highlights from community posts such as yours is how I keep up with the field.

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    I mean option one is always going to be there. I'm sure there are plenty of neo-aristocrats who can do science if they want. The problem, honestly, is an ancient one. In plato's re…