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Yeah this is oft-repeated by particularly good "lay" engineers.

How does a man even get to this point? I will tell you how: derangement, a failure to engage with society and the degeneration/depravity of being one step away from making MIDI com…

The car industry has been lobbying congress and locales for 50+ years. Laws like jaywalking were at the behest of car companies, and that alone makes walking legally very difficult…

We think of ourselves more intelligent than the generation before us, and more wise than the ones after.

I assume this was 4o? Whenever someone says GPT would be "useless" at the given task, I think they've only tried it with older/dumber models. Almost without fail 4 seems to get the…

I would argue that the neutrino is relatively large compared to the quanta typical of these kinds of tests, but in the abstract they suggested a basketball!

This is a really great experiment. It's nice to see real work being done on the ground with these kinds of tests and write-ups. I am not a physicist but I imagine this could have i…

I came here to make this comment as well. This line of reasoning that LLMs "only predict" the next token is akin to saying humans can only think or speak one word at a time. Yes, w…

How do you "fill something with vacuum"?

Hilariously, when I got to the end of that article, I noticed he had a theme selection dropdown hidden away in the bottom right corner.

You may suffer from some color blindness. There are easy tests online to confirm.

After some checking, it seems to be an issue with the free Heroku instance they are running.

When the password input field is pre-filled, you can change the input type to "text" from "password" in the inspector, and password will be shown in plain text.

I will miss the ease of use of Google Domains. I fear the new Squarespace domain management site will be rife with confounding settings and lit up with various upsells. They must h…

I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; he effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argument. In his example, he explains that ChatGPT coul…

I strongly disagree with Cal on most of his points here; Cal wrote an article in the New Yorker yesterday that effectively recapitulates the "Its just guessing the next token" argu…

For a significant number of software developers, GPT and Github's Copilot have replaced StackOverflow, and even Googling more generally. It is more than an autocomplete, it is the …

The goal posts for AI are moving quickly, and in my mind, a lot of the criticism os too shallow. People want it to perform better than any expert human at any possible subject befo…

I am surprised by how many, even among the tech community, wholesale disregard GPT as a glorified auto-complete, or "a statistical model on human information". What, then, is the h…

We are moving the goal posts on AGI very quickly, but it is catching up. I think we need to appreciate the nature of this milestone if we have any hope of controlling potential sin…

Perhaps its time we pay for a service like ChatGPT for an ad-free experience. I'm actually already on the $20/mo plan.

There's a lot of focus on the "bullshit generation", but this problem is not unique to LLMs. I find it much harder to cut through the bs of search engines. A lot of times the first…

I've largely used GPT as a replacement for Google, and I find it to be a lot smarter and faster. The criticisms the author level at it don't seem based on having used it for anythi…