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Comment #46970717
No technical analysis, but all models experience drift eventually.
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Comment #45263445
Pretty fun! A few questions: 1 - are you planning to let people write their own prompts? 2 - when will you share the model names?
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Ask HN: Where do people find part time consulting opportunities in ML?
What are the most successful avenues? I'm located in Toronto so not finding the in-person meetings to be too useful.
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Comment #35490707
Because OpenAI is a single team with a singular focus. Google is a behemoth with multiple products and a lot of people with opinions who you have to get through to launch a product…
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Comment #35490675
More specifically validation loss is irrelevant when you can't even sample out of distribution anymore.
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Comment #35489773
You seem to have a serious attitude problem in your responses so this is my last one. It's propietary company evaluation data, and it's for a specific domain related to software de…
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Comment #35489633
Did I say that? The OP's post was saying it's somehow able to solve something new. It's showing a severe misunderstanding how how language modelling works.
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Comment #35489630
I never said: - "it's not me it's the test" - "These systems are not just next token predictors" None of the papers or blogs you've shared offer any points that actually rebutt wha…
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Comment #35489617
I have no idea what is shifting in real time. I formed this opinion of GPT4 by running it through several benchmarks and making adjustments to them, so my view is empirical and it …
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Comment #35489292
Just because it's newly created doesn't mean that the structure of the language and the concepts it represents are actually new. It's clear that whatever tests he writes cover well…
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Ask HN: Leveraging SWE and ML skills for ground breaking work?
Being a SWE or MLE in my case, it seems like we're highly valued as executors on well understood problems. I'm wondering if there is a way to become a part of something ground brea…
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Comment #35400348
The problem is everyone is doing this. There's no moat anymore. Building some dumb webapp to sell to people to make their lives marginally more convenient is not sustainable model.…
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Comment #35400002
It's easy to say embrace it, but we aren't that far off from a fully capable developer. People are already stitching task based flows to make it basically build a whole thing and a…
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Comment #35399825
That's pretty much what GPT is.
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Ask HN: Generative AI makes me want to quit the industry
I appreciate the hype, I get it, productivity booster yada yada. I just don't have the energy to keep up with it. I got a Masters and got into ML thinking we had time. My domains w…
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Comment #33685876
That's an interesting take on what to do personally. I've been thinking the best think to do is just to work hard, keep head down, and if the axe falls, expect that it will likely …
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Ask HN: What happens tech industry in pro-longed high interest rate environment?
The modern 'tech' industry (i.e. companies that primarily sell software based services), has grown and thrived in a sub 7% fed fund rate environment (which we are fast approaching …
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Comment #33685445
Generally speaking no company will willingly canabalize it's current product line for an unproven and premature technology in a new product line. That's also usually how companies …
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Comment #33685412
I don't quite understand the strategy of sitting and waiting on a technology competitive advantage. Surely, to get the technology ramped up and integrated into their manufacturing …
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Comment #33684878
Voice assistants, chat bots etc. are all premature technologies that are dying slow deaths. The primary reason is quality control. The way these devices are tested can never truly …
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Comment #33673039
I just want to say I find it very enlightening to see my previous post have dual interpretations because I wasn't precise. It really explains why ancient literature can cause so mu…
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Comment #33672970
It seems to me like we'd probably be better off partnering with domain experts in Genomics who want to build software that can be used across the board. Sounds like an interesting …
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Comment #33672942
Honestly, I think people like you are the right kind of people to start private enterprises and bring along professional software engineers to help you build something incredible i…
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Comment #33672908
I wish more fields would just start adopting the product/engineer partnership that Software companies have perfected. Engineers are very good at what they do. Product people are ve…