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Sure. I'm mainly curious who beepbooptheory is thinking of.

> Everyday we see articles exactly like his by different people (or at least I do), but none attract the same kind of distinct attention. Who else does a detailed financial breakdo…

> Nonsense. The "weights" in "models" refer to probabilities. No they don't. They refer to the weights used for weighted sums. The weights don't have to even between 0 and 1.

> political commentary from someone No it depends on what they choose to answer. canyon289's account self-describes as Bayesian, a hallmark of rationalists, one of whose taglines i…

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As a sibling comment points out you don't strictly need positional embeddings for decoder-only causal transformers. You definitely need it for non-causal ones (e.g. the encoder of …

"All translations in this collection are © Scott Weisman. All rights reserved, except as granted by the license below." Does copyright actually belong to Scott Weisman if all the w…

Vinge addresses this in the linked article. > Stan Ulam [28] paraphrased John von Neumann as saying: >> One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology an…

Vinge also coined the term "the Singularity" ( https://accelerating.org/articles/comingtechsingularity ) what he describes as "an opaque wall across the future" once superhuman art…

People do use textbooks like that all the time in the experimental setup tested (essentially an open book quiz). I agree there are important differences in how textbooks and LLMs a…

This study is pretty bad. The comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970182 ) on the other link with the direct PDF explains the problem well, which is that nothing here …

Roughly speaking it is the difference between having a contractor go out and do some work and having that same contractor first come up with a plan to do some work, run that by you…

> Moreover, it seems the prompt included the technique used to solve the problem: I don't believe this is true. The author sent techniques he used, but I don't believe any of those…

The author also used GPT-5.6 to write the prompt. This did involve giving GPT-5.6 access to his previous work and a back and forth process (so definitely still used the author's ex…

> This is not a remark about AI, but there's something funny about mathematics in that every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal. This isn't true using the level of ori…

Do you know what kind of compression ratios you get out of curiosity? Presumably it would be lower than this format (because this format is meant to be lossy not lossless) but very…

Interesting comments by @gwern (and why this is interesting to me beyond just the stories themselves) > The most striking result of the contest for me is what I am calling “AI alle…

To be fair the article never says that the family who donated the land was the one who was suing.

Since this seems to be a misapprehension by a couple of commentators I'll put this as a top-level comment. The family bringing the lawsuit is not the family that donated the land.

My guess is standing. The family bringing the suit is not the family that donated the land.

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The current HN submission title ("AGI timelines shift with whichever lab is dominant") is very bad. It is neither the title of the article nor is it the thrust of the content. The …

> I'm guessing (wildly) this was around 0.5M USD in compute time. That seems like an especially wild guess. If you take e.g. Opus 4.7 prices, and make the assumption that you are c…