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About macleginn
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Comment #49135336
I am duly impressed by the powerl of the nameless internal AI, but not a single human contributor's name listed anywhere? Did someone at least make this model a coffee?
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Comment #49125862
https://archive.is/VfemY
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Comment #49120364
https://archive.is/dAMah
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Comment #49032802
What about writing code by hand?
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Comment #49022022
Array programming where we compare first and look for the first failure later will not help much here if runs are short because by itself it doesn't give you early termination and …
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Comment #48945655
An unintended consequence may be the separation between master's and PhD programmes, like what is normally done in Europe.
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Comment #48917883
I find it fascinating that two of the most (if not the two most) original, inventive, and outright weird British writers of the 20th c., Ballard and Mervyn Peake, spent their early…
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Comment #48908118
"It will help us solve some of the biggest problems society faces from accelerating drug discovery to developing new clean energy sources to creating novel advanced materials" — bu…
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Comment #48851149
For context, I have access to MS Copilot through my workplace. To see what it looks like, I have tried to login through https://copilot.microsoft.com/ , where I was informed that m…
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Comment #48806232
The overall resemblance to Ticket to Ride's Indian map is rather striking.
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Comment #48680108
Given the sheer volume of the output, it is conceivably difficult to maintain the quality of the plots/characters, even if the animation is stable or even improving. As a byproduct…
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Comment #48674693
They are poor at generalising from a small number of examples; this is why the real generalisation power is achieved in pre-training.
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Comment #48671085
Unremarkable base model will remain an unremarkable fine-tuned model that memorised a couple thousand of input-output pairings.
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Comment #48631449
They normally don't do self-set-up real-time monitoring though.
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Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas
https://archive.is/6BUJw
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Comment #48618727
Ok, cool, depends on application, probably.
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Comment #48613183
Yes, they do have money to burn, and this will bring some improvements for sure, but active learning has never really worked out, has it? And even 10% of the educated population do…
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Comment #48612690
Not the worst way to make money, but if internet-scale data were not enough to reduce errors to a somewhat tolerable margin, how much data do they hope to collect in this manner?
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Comment #48611102
> Noone is really caring about hallucinations on point facts these days though, it is much more about complex reasoning tasks. The boundary is pretty thin there though. E.g., Gemin…