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Scott Aaronson talks about his project at OpenAI to do this^ You can carefully select which pseudorandom number generator (prng) you use to be able to id text of a certain length. …

I'm curious about your thoughts on pangram. I only really see posts on Reddit claiming it falsely labels their content as ai generated but nobody will actually post examples of "te…

Somewhat trivially, if I ask Claude to transcribe an image and then check if that transcription is ai generated it will likely say yes. Many users are not smart enough to realize t…

This is probably true in a smaller way for OpenAI When you have a lot of free users the business demands that you serve them with the best cheap model you can build And time spent …

It seems like they threw it a decently large battery of open math problems and probably limited it to something like $200-500 per problem: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/20834781…

This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way…

I have two strong reactions to pieces like this: First, this is about not just a job or career, but someone's identity. And we must have compassion that they are losing something t…

It's also much better to distribute the challenge of identifying problems amenable to which prompts Could they do it? Sure, but to what end? It would make more people hate them and…

Note, in posts like the following, the author indicates they are able to get free subscriptions from OpenAI As an aside, there's this idea in math that when you create a new field …

Can you say more about what happens for bucket assignment? Eg is it appending to a file or writing to a 2d array? Agreed on linear vs n log n, ofc, and streaming considerations mig…

I'm somewhat curious about the initial problem: > Consider the following real problem, one of the steps in scikit-learn’s gradient histogram boosting algorithm: > You have a large …

Literally bullet 2: > 2. Use a compiled language to write a Python extension. It's fine to be grumpy about languages, but python is the de facto standard in many industries, and a …

Of course! And I think it's fair to require people to be honest. I just fundamentally disagree with this line of thinking: > even a subscription is better than royalties Royalties …

I have often wondered how to make this clear wrt science communication Eg much is not known about dinosaurs. Many things cannot be found in fossils (obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.c…

Ok, then do that? The game you make will be limited by that choice. If those limitations are acceptable, then great! My contention is that people can build more ambitious games tha…

I think this is confused All of the people who I was reading and listening to and watching before AI are all still creating. Many of them are even creating new things or new types …

These examples don't really add up to me. You can continue to enjoy the books and articles etc They are just also used to create a new thing In the picnic example, the picnickers c…

You misunderstand the business model. Unreal is like venture capital or a book advance (or the equivalent in music record deal) Can you self publish? Sure, of course, have fun. But…

The question is about counterfactuals If unreal cost money up front, would this have been built? No. Unreal is saying: hey, we contributed to 1/20th of your success, because you co…

A continue that let's you keep playing would be fun. Or maybe different modes (eg hard vs normal)

I think Zach Gage (developer of excellent games including Really Bad Chess, Spelltower, etc) says on Adam Conover's podcast that for many people they have difficulty improving at a…

To be clear, some of the token expense is because it's encouraged, and it's encouraged at some companies so that people will break out of their existing workflows to hopefully find…

Hey, this looks fascinating! I can't quickly tell what all you have archived^, but I have some friends who are academic historians who might be interested in certain categories of …

Ah I wonder if there's confusion somewhere. My understanding is that distillation uses specific probing queries to extract model weights in some meaningful sense. There's also the …

The administration hasn't been so good at keeping the mask on but fair! Was hoping someone else had proposed it though. It's a good thought