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I'm not even sure where to start, but I have to ask- are there any groups / projects that are trying to make and train an OSS model federated across members' machines?

I also ask about approaching LLM decoding in terms of navigation, although from a different angle, in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1dw2pqo/d_…

Someday I'm going to write a paper that achieves SOTA results with a nigh-incomprehensible mishmash of diverse techniques and title it "All You Need Considered Harmful".

The most promising work along these lines centers around augmenting LLMs with an external data store ("retrieval-augmented LLM"s). I think this started with Facebook's KNN-LLM ( ht…

These are good examples of mass casualty events that didn't motivate effective responses. For both climate change and guns, there are people that want to keep the status quo as it …

News media like to have stories they can focus popular attention on, and no one car accident (unless it kills someone famous) will matter to enough people to warrant broader covera…

Tens of citizens' personal information may have been exposed.

Don't get us wrong, eval() is terrible too.

I'm curious about whether anyone has studied using the harmonic mean (or at least, the reciprocal of the sum of reciprocals) as a way of aggregating utilities. I haven't had time t…

A group being "above the rules" is, I think, a statement about what the rules are and how they are enforced. It doesn't really hinge on whether any members of that group have, up t…

As others have said, if they're limiting the number of approvals you can make on your ballot, then that's not how approval voting is supposed to be administered. If they're just ad…

I have long liked and advocated for approval voting (or cardinal methods more generally), or barring that, basically anything but FPTP. But I'm disillusioned. Many non-plurality me…

Nazca's include mechanism allows you to separate your code in whatever way you find appropriate.

See, this is why deadhorse.com should exist and do the thing that I outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bg8vc/what_websi...

I have used genetic algorithms to search for non-transitive die triplets among the standard set of platonic dice, and exhaustively searched d6 and d8 numberings. If one insists tha…

What would happen if people just followed recognized experts, but those experts were wrong? Bad things like the "masks don't help" messaging early on. What would happen if you got …

>One person argues that the Prison Experiment was a case of subjects behaving as their experimenters clearly wanted them to. Is that to say that the Prison Experiment is actually e…

Maybe the article could have included that if an automotive engineer had written it. But I think the article is perfectly fine for having included the steps that it did address. Th…

The article talks about solutions at three different levels, though perhaps more indirectly than you were looking for. The end of the fourth paragraph and beginning of the fifth pa…

It's not just a problem that he's discussed before- it is the central motivation behind his approach of "person-on-the-street interviews". His view (supported by his grad research)…

As a programmer, I empathize with the impulse to go with the elegant, unified solution of carbon taxes. The problem is that everybody gets hurt, in at least a short-term sense, by …

It is possible that American culture has already been divided more than most HN readers have been aware of. See Michael Harriot's "blackfamous" thread: https://twitter.com/michaelh…

Motion-detecting neurons in the visual cortex need to use timing; it would be a little weird for evolution to just use that mechanism once and not try it again.

What worked best for me was to have paper next to me as I read, and every time I felt like I did not fully understand what I read, write down the questions I would need to answer t…