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Comment #49248323
> could be understood as slightly hyperbolic Of course, you're right. I didn't intend to criticise him. I just think that it's not a good idea to transfer this megatrend to healthc…
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Comment #49246798
So you want him to make a piece of software that models a probability distribution rock solid.
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Comment #49237896
Yeah, interestingly it feels equally bland as the 90s pendants.
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Comment #49162905
I thought exactly the same at first. But then i wondered if that still holds true with today's advanced thinking, RLHF involved, frontier models. I guess to a certain extend it did…
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Comment #49152400
So Opus introduced a container with overflow:scroll in the middle of the page, while Qwen didn't? That's interesting in terms of "smartness".
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Comment #49070777
Could someone explain to me, why rare books are so precious for them? Say i feed the largest LLM a book of an alien civilisation, that it definitely hasn't seen before. Then this t…
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Comment #49057747
Watch Don't look up, if you haven't yet, it's brilliant.
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Comment #49057260
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to t…
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Comment #49057211
Should be sarcasm, sorry.
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Comment #49057208
This is so true. It has so much potential to help with humanity's actual problems. But no, lets use it to manipulate people even more.
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Comment #49053547
Very handy.
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Comment #49052553
The video is also awesome! I had to lol at the doom scene.
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Comment #49051010
> investigating mathematics is fun whether it is new to the world or not. Yes exactly. Enjoying the beauty of nature is (thankfully) completely decoupled from the job/money/society…
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Comment #49049277
I'm wondering if Pianoteq [0] works similarly. [0] https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq_overview Awesome LaTeX-inspired webdesign btw.!
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Comment #49049248
Why is that harder? Because require solving PDEs, aren't they?
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Comment #49049191
Absolutely fantastic! The video URL doesn't seem to be correct, through. ;)
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Comment #49048967
Of course, but there is a big asymmetry: For some systems there are a lot more people interested in hacking them, compared to those interested in protecting them. But i guess it's …
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Comment #49002975
Cool idea! Maybe you could somehow integrate it with Calibre [0]. https://calibre-ebook.com/download
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Comment #48983920
I'm genuinely curious: Is that maybe spilled milk? Maybe today's US frontier models provide enough information content, so that the momentum suffices to use them as a base for ever…
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Comment #48903790
Exactly. For solving problems every help is a blessing. It's just clashing with our legacy society system. This system forces us to have jobs. But the real problems humanity is fac…
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Comment #48903718
Exactly. And taking unpleasant work from humans has always been the ultimate goal of technology as a whole.
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Comment #48903708
> phrases like “This is not a slogan. It’s a framework” which immediately devalued the work for me Why? Because it resembles the typical "You're not just implementing a text editor…
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Comment #48895552
Interesting. Yes, functional programming feels a lot more mathy than procedural or OOP.
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Comment #48883957
> Metamathematics, by Kleene, is programming in maths. Ookay. Back in the day i was confused by 'Linear programming', which is optimisation and has nothing to do with coding. > eve…
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Comment #48880907
I think the opposite is true.