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>I think we need something that at least captures the general mechanism by which LLMs predict the next token. This bit varies a lot since the capabilities involved in prediction de…

I bet they forgot to include that it can generate that 770MWh every hour.

Maybe we don't, but we should let market forces sort it out by doing our best to tax the externalities of power generation too.

The argument the article makes is indeed a bit blunt. The idea here is that tipping enables better price discrimination, which in turn allows a higher "quantity" of coffee to be pr…

As an aside, Universal Paperclips is the best clicker game I've played and has zero monetization. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

As a crude point of comparison, you'd be buying this service at about 917 euros/hour. With a pretty lax 1600 hours/year you'd have to make almost 1.5M per year to match the rate.

This was a great read. I kept expecting it to reference the "Curse of Dimensionality" [1] as an explanation for why we see no close-to-average samples in high-dimensional spaces. I…

I get the point but also fully disagree. At the point where computer cognition is good enough for humans to truly fall in love, build friendships or come to hate as an enemy, I per…

I feel this description overstates the freedom. Academia is full of rather hard deadlines, as the conference you're targeting a paper for might be the only fitting one for many mon…

You could also train for this kind of interconnectedness by designing tasks that are explicitly multi-modal. For example, you could: - Stack boxes collaboratively by controlling yo…

They definitely need a brushing after smoothies, but apart from that I'm not the most worried about bacterial growth inside them. They're not used for cooking, so as long as there …

Here's his response: https://cheapeth.org/whalegate.html It casts the situation in a rather different light - you should read it.

If you're advocating for a single tax, let it at least be LVT [1]. But seriously, the point of this Finnish tax is to internalize externalities of vehicles that contribute excessiv…

I don't think SSAO is really ever selected over more realistic methods for artistic preference. High budget animated films tend to go for ray traced methods even when they have a n…

I think you misunderstood the approach. MuZero is being used to optimize the choices made in the VP9 compression. In modern video encodings there's many ways to encode the same con…

>single player Lovecraftian text editor I hope that was not a typo and would love to see what a Lovecraftian text editor looks like.

DPI is deep packet inspection in this context. HyperScan did some groundbreaking work for DPI, where you (1) have to match a huge number of regexes at the same time, (2) need high …

I tried to with a Quest 2. Immersed VR was the only option I found for getting multiple virtual monitors with my non-VR-ready work laptop (it has to encode and stream the virtual m…

More likely ease of implementation. The use case shown here is an interactive UI element, so performance isn't really a concern.

>His thesis is that the US is a world power on the decline and China will soon rise to take its place. Something I've found interesting about these kinds of theses (although I'm su…

I found your pitch really interesting, I'd love to try it. I, however, refuse to install an extension and change my default search engine just to be allowed to type in a search que…

For people reading the article, do read the top comment by Scott Alexander. It provides what seems to me like a grounded summary and opinion on the events.

It's not an app (although those apps may help implement it, idk). It's a method from a researcher B.J. Fogg, who wrote a book called "Tiny Habits" [1]. I haven't read that one, but…

The "reverse a binary tree" problem gets often brought up as one of these tricky algorithm problems that you just have to know. However, the "algorithm" is to just swap all of the …

Yeah, the internet is bigger now - all of the weird fringe stuff from enthusiasts is still there and there's even more of it. One thing that has happened is that the mainstream is …