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hall0ween

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    Comment #49193397

    Amazing that the new stadium has less capacity too

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    Comment #48346024

    It’s tough to take your response seriously with loose thinking like “The point is the almost sexual release you get from (2).” Upon further reading, you use emotional language too …

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    Comment #47566186

    far be it for me to question your prophetic capacities. i wonder, do you have any historical examples or logic-based arguments that our doom of nigh?

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    Comment #47017382

    > Individual action means absolutely nothing. You may want to view action and sphere of influence. Does an individual have international or national influence? Probably not. How ab…

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    Comment #46977754

    It makes me wonder about the power of religious zealots being simply having read a book, considered profound, many times. And I’m curious about which book I would choose. > Christm…

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    Comment #46706761

    > Universities have pushed post-modernism since the 60s which is the precursor for the deprecation of truth. Call me crazy, but the situation may be more nuanced than this (and you…

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    Comment #46223393

    Have ye any citations?

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    Comment #45296832

    are there any use cases, aside from code generation and formatting, where fine-tuning consistently useful?

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    Comment #45141331

    The market hype is real. Check-signers at businesses expect LLMs to have the ability the AI CEOs talk about in their interviews and conferences but don’t exist (and are no where ne…

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    Comment #45141280

    I’m confused. If 50% of the revenue goes to inference, that means the other 50% goes into research?

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    Comment #44780334

    That’s all well and good, but how can we make money off of this post? Well I’ve been working on an agentic app with a fun UI ( https://aimakememoney.com ) to turn complaints into s…

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    Comment #44566418

    Current data scientist here, working for a cloud consulting firm. Two things stand out from my experience: (1) my company isn't hiring, while the DS team is doing fine revenue wise…

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    Comment #44429904

    In my opinion, Nature is part of the problem in academic research. In the US, taxpayers must pay to access the information that they paid to fund! And then the researchers (other t…

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    Comment #44418032

    Classes and workshops, something with the same people that occurs over several weeks. But it’s important that the content is something you’re personally interested in.

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    Comment #44259134

    > Two experiments with different challenge-to-contact ratios were conducted to assess transmission dynamics and mutation development. In experiment 1, a 4:1 challenge-to-contact ra…

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    Comment #44259098

    After reading the abstract, this title seems to me like flame/click-bait. This test has been done in mice only (since no other animal was mentioned in the abstract). If one follows…

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    Comment #43963325

    That’s a tough take but I think fair. There’s also a common thought in industry that nothing gets done in academia (e.g., credentials are often weighed less from a university than …

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    Comment #43731648

    I'm cryptographically ignorant. What does this mean for python?

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    Comment #43576785

    I don’t have an opinion on the issue, cause it’s outta my wheelhouse. Well, aside from civility, which you need to work on.

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    Comment #43109046

    Fair point!

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    Comment #43107487

    I would say anecdotal. This hasn't been my case across four universities and ten years.

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    Comment #43096967

    My experience of thinking is that it is a constant phenomenon. My experience of LLMs is that they only respond and are not running without input.

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    Comment #43019610

    I've been out of live neural recordings for about 3 years. While this is neat, it's my recollection that this is dated science...with better PR.

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    Comment #43001420

    Does OpenAI have similar data available to compare to?