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quantumspandex

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    Comment #49208972

    We don't train current LLMs to mimic the average human's writing style. We train it to be smart, helpful, and knowledgable, too knowledgeable for a human. We can easily train a LLM…

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    Comment #49071533

    Stable environment for new hardware where everything works out of the box.

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    Comment #45569927

    Computation on human brain is on a totally different substrate than silicon. It's in memory and highly error prone. It's questionable a mere algorithm would get us there without a …

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    Comment #45248405

    Security is another problem, and should be tackled systematically. Artificially making dependency inclusion hard is not it and is detrimental to the more casual use cases.

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    Comment #45191348

    Watching on a movie on a 10 hour flight while not having to sit in awkward position for charging is one use case.

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    Comment #45191333

    When you go travelling and do not want to carry around a backpack, and 1 day of heavy video recording, watching youtube on train plus 1 year of lithium battery degradation. That's …

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    Comment #44810367

    So we are paying 99% of the performance just for the 1% of cases where it's nice to code in. Why do people think it's a good trade-off?

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    Comment #43250641

    Law should be considered to be artificial rules optimized for the collective good of society. What's the worst that can happen if we allow unregulated AI training on existing music…

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    Comment #43250545

    that's just your opinion.

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    Comment #43250526

    Can humans generate a song based on custom lyrics and style in a matter of minutes?

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    Comment #42999811

    AlphaGo seems more like an automated process to me because you can start from nothing except the algorithm and the rules. Since a Go game only has 2 outcomes most of the time, and …

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    Comment #42999766

    Will have a look. Thanks!

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    Comment #42999573

    Andrej's video is great but the explanation on the RL part is a bit vague to me. How exactly do we train on the right answers? Do we collect the reasoning traces and train on them …

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    Comment #42997995

    I get the opposite experience nowadays. Still having to debug random issues that are only on Linux.

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    Comment #40573074

    As consumer-hostile as Microsoft's practices are, and that these things needs to be optional, I find linking your Windows to a Microsoft's account still pretty useful. With it you …

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    Comment #40572817

    You may look into Framework laptops.

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    Comment #40572810

    Only if all you ever do is web browsing and do some light office work. As soon as you have to troubleshoot something or install some less popular software, you can't avoid it.

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    Comment #40248925

    you are missing out then.

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    Comment #39367409

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23060886

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    Comment #39182103

    Nice write-up. I learned something new.. Thank you.

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    Comment #29286047

    His point was type support and standard way of doing things. Using your argument we just need string type to represent everything.

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    Comment #27978303

    I think a lot has happened between 1960 and 2020: smartphones, internet, machine learning, hubble telescope, internet of things, ecommerce ... Going from personal computer of the 1…