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xamdam

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    Comment #42591972

    Because that's where countries go to die?

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    Comment #34650713

    GPT cannot currently do this (for long documents), and you have a commonly requested use case. For now you can charge as much as they do and have a decent business I'm guessing, bu…

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    Comment #34647823

    I'd pay for an API to this

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    Comment #34647151

    Impressed with their long document summarization, any ideas how they do this? Seems beyond normal GPT limitations; either they have a more powerful model (doubt it) or hacked aroun…

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    Comment #34095004

    there's important professional mentoring which addresses people/org/mgmt problems, I suspect there might be other good resources on higher-level software eng skills (architecture, …

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    Comment #33361346

    I love apple products but I hate this stuff. They're cynically kneecapping competition and hurting consumer choice, like they're not rich enough already. Would class action be a to…

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    Comment #27803734

    This is amazing and inspirational engineering. Can they scale this up to taking humans & large payloads to orbit? It seems hard to run this business sustainably on millionaire tour…

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    Comment #24169755

    Is it known to be particularly good?

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    Comment #23349558

    Relevant post about GPT2: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are...

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    Comment #19939757

    Curious what your source for "make the cut" is. I have my own interpretation, but would like to see the original.

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    Comment #19939744

    Yeah, just noticed. Posted this (even earlier) on Reddit ML it didn't get as much interest

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    Comment #19939037

    Oh-oh, no linkifying in text submissions, well here we go: OCW link: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method... YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playl…

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    Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online

    OCW link: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-analysis-signal-processing-and-machine-learning-spring-2018/video-lectures/ YouTube playlist: https:…

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    Comment #11774690

    a) Not sure if MIRI is a spiritual parent of OpenAI. It's a different approach to the problem, and I'm not sure MIRI would spawn OpenAI if they had the resources. b) Also, unfair t…

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    Comment #10864156

    According to Schelling's model even slight preference to be with your own color leads to segregation http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...

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    Comment #10499862

    yes this is lame (but I understand 75TB is not ok). go tell @onedrive on twitter

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    Comment #9936002

    Top words for Seinfeld are things you can't say on TV. Data broken?

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    Comment #9935993

    ELI5: until we flew next to Pluto this month all we had is blurry 16-pixel images. How can we get such precise data on something millions of times further?

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    Comment #9912592

    Interesting, but would this do any better than using real crime data, such as geolocated data police departments have already?

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    Comment #9512729

    > Not even out of the gate and already reaching for an ad-hominem. You must be fun at parties. I think you misunderstood; I did not mean you're an average researcher - I have no id…

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    Comment #9511553

    I would expect to get this kind of impression from an average researcher, because that's what average researchers do (even at AI conferences). What do the top researchers think? Go…

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    Comment #9509399

    Yes, absolutely there is a reason for concern. I now volunteer for FLI (the organization Musk funded; we deal with both AI and other x-risks, synthetic bio etc). From a somewhat in…