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usernametaken29

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    Comment #49205544

    This assumes parents aren’t doing their job. As a young kid you don’t have a choice. Social pressure to participate in social media is intense. Either you’re constantly online or y…

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    Comment #49192561

    > execution entails repetitive experimental loops that are hard to scale with today's manual efforts: you propose an experiment, implement and run it, examine the results, then ite…

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    Comment #49178942

    Looking at SPCX it lost half of its valuation in a month and the trajectory is only heading downwards. Out of the three expedited IPO requests (OpenAI, SPCX, Anthropoid) to the S&P…

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    Comment #49178879

    If your theory is true we might see an era where supply vastly exceeds demand and car manufacturers will need to offset brand new vehicles to keep cash flow going. Sounds great to …

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    Comment #49175990

    Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….

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    Comment #49162664

    I liked your article on its merits but this: > Both the upfront fixed costs and the ongoing costs of personalizing software have disappeared. Is just wishful thinking, at best. We …

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    Comment #49046907

    > It is particularly fascinating they are able to make these fine-scale adjustments while they are thought to be asleep, a challenge totally alien to terrestrial mammals like us hu…

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    Comment #49046579

    It’s because of inductive bias. Harnesses will massively skew results towards working solutions. You might think that’s a good thing but what it might mean that sometimes it become…

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    Comment #49010068

    > Every skill humans once bragged about is getting commoditized. Writing, coding, analysis, translation, design, research. A machine does each of them faster, cheaper, and increasi…

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    Comment #49009784

    Maybe the LLM doomsday won’t be self aware AI but instead everyone will be able to alter anything in any customer service backend in any way they want to the point we bankrupt all …

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    Comment #49009674

    > The challenge for enterprises is no longer proving that AI agents can work, it’s making them reliable enough to do high-value work in production. Is this some sort of joke? Like.…

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    Comment #49009046

    So essentially you’re telling people: “Don’t use the evil labs they can read your DNA, instead send DNA to our lab and with magic maths we won’t be able to read your DNA but diagno…

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    Comment #49009023

    This! And even if you could magically have a 1000$ sequencer at home, you still need to correctly extract the blood, and apply the kit. It sounds easy but really isn’t, this isn’t …

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    Comment #49008646

    I literally presented you with the solution in the sentence before. Buy a usb c dongle key. You pay 20 euros to NEVER have to remember a single password ever again. Seems like an o…

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    Comment #49008499

    In genetics the end user is never the consumer. You have to collect blood, prepare it, sequence it. These are all highly specialised steps in which something will and can go wrong,…

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    Comment #49008361

    I don’t understand this point at all. I think the author has himself confused with the average consumer. For the first time in a decade or so you can buy a PHYSICAL key and use it …

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    Comment #48802481

    I personally know some businesses in which the key differentiator is excellent human customer support. But then again, we’re talking 5 digit software licenses where that matters a …

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    Comment #48798940

    Wow, putting effort into training material, thoughtfully designing it, and relating the material to the final exam, will increase performance on said exam. So much AI so much wow. …

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    Comment #48774380

    This article is awesome. It should be required reading for all engineers but probably mostly ML researchers. I’ve encountered my fair share of geniuses that are oblivious to the fa…

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    Comment #48771236

    You’re thinking information content in the neurons but not distributions. D(world of text) is much much much larger than D(transformer). Just because you’re passing information thr…

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    Comment #48771178

    The problem really is one has to find out what constitutes the embedding and output if you want to apply f(manifold) but as others have pointed out that’s out of scope for this pap…

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    Comment #48761670

    Now that’s interesting.. what exactly distinguishes latent representations and the manifold? IMHO, those are the same, and you’re constructing a piecewise function of the manifold …

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    Comment #48761361

    Kind of. Autoencoders don’t need to have an embedding that’s smaller than the input. Their only requirement is that they compress information and thus create reconstruction loss. T…

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    Comment #48761019

    If you think about it for some time then you’ll come to realise transformers are autoencoders on steroids. A small input space is expanded onto a big manifold and contracted again.…

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    Comment #48760907

    I agree partially with this. America is a special circumstance because of the way the industrial complex and government contracts are linked, and there’s a lot of blatant corruptio…