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In this particular case, I was out of the loop regarding the clever analogy myself. I'm now a tad smarter because someone else expressed lack of understanding, and I learned from responses to this (grayed due to downvotes) comment.
The problem is that the answer was a really easy google. I didn't know what low background steel was and I just googled it.
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I feel like there's a minimum "due diligence" bar to meet though before asking, otherwise it comes across as "I'm too lazy to google the reference and connect the dots myself, but can someone just go ahead and distill a nice summary for me"
In this particular case, I was out of the loop regarding the clever analogy myself. I'm now a tad smarter because someone else expressed lack of understanding, and I learned from responses to this (grayed due to downvotes) comment.
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Isn't it the other way around? SEO text carefully tuned to tf-idf metrics and keyword stuffed to them empirically determined threshold Google just allows should have unnatural word frequencies. LLM content should just enhance and cement the status quo word frequencies. Outliers like the word "delve" could just be sentinels, carefully placed like trap streets on a map.
> LLM content should just enhance and cement the status quo word frequencies. TFA mentions this hasn't been the case.
The dependency on closed data combined with the cost of compute to do anything interesting with LLMs has made individual contributions to NLP research extremely difficult if one is not associated with a very large tech company. It's super unfortunate, makes the subject area much less approachable, and makes the people doing research in the subject area much more homogeneous.
> The field I know as "natural language processing" is hard to find these days. It's all being devoured by generative AI. Other techniques still exist but generative AI sucks up all the air in the room and gets all the money.
Traditional NLP has been surpassed by transformers, making this project obsolete. The rest of the post reads like rationalization and sour grapes.
I'm going to call it: The Web is dead. Thanks to "AI" I spend more time now digging through searches trying to find something useful than I did back in 2005. And the sites you do find are largely garbage. As a random example: just trying to find a particular popular set of wireless earbuds takes me at least 10 minutes, when I already know the company, the company's website, other vendors that sell the company's goods…
No disagreement for the most part. I used to be able to say search for Trek bike derailleur hanger and the first result would be what I wanted. Now I have to scroll past 5 ads to buy a new bike, one that's a broken link to a third party, and if I'm really lucky, at the bottom of page 1 will be the link to that part's page. The shitification of the web is real.
(The Agner Fog of cycling?)
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> LLM content should just enhance and cement the status quo word frequencies. TFA mentions this hasn't been the case.
Would you mind dropping the link talking about this point? (context: I'm a total outsider and have no idea what TFA is.)
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Would you mind dropping the link talking about this point? (context: I'm a total outsider and have no idea what TFA is.)
TFA means "the featured article", so in this case the "Why wordfreq will not be updated" link we're talking about.
It’s the same origin. On Slashdot (the HN of the early 00’s) people would admonish others to RTFA. Then they started using it as a referent: TFA was the thing you were supposed to have read.
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reading stuff like this makes me so happy. no matter how fucked up something may be there is always a way to clean right up.
glances nervously at atmospheric CO2
Another solution, and one that, if i weren't such a lazy, is ocean based carbon binding. You can run electricity directly through ocean water and precipitate the carbon out as calcium carbonate, which is both: useful to humans as is and after processing; and useful to the coral reefs and crustaceans/mollusks or whatever in the oceans.
If anyone wants to kick me about a million US dollars, i can make a POC on a used barge with solar panels and as much recycled material as possible, and have that just run off the coast of florida or something. I figure the total cost to get a barge is around a quarter million, all-in[1], the electronics and seawater stuff is about another $150-200 thousand, and the rest is mine for the idea and the lawyers' to get this approved and left alone to do the research.
[0] burning it for heat is fine, as the net CO2 levels will remain constant, but i mean things like houses and boardwalks and boats, furniture, and so on.
[1] could be more, now, the last time i was researching seaworthy barge costs it was between $100,000 and $200,000. I'm hoping there's someone that can donate the barge so i can make the rest more fit for purpose - redundancy, better solar, better mppt, better batteries, better materials for the electrodes (it takes platinum and titanium iirc, i haven't looked at my documents for a long while.)