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> …forcing children to spend years learning longhand sums that can be easily done by computers. If we don't teach this, we'll forget how we got computers to do arithmetic in the first place. Not teaching basic arithmetic skills would be unconscionable.
> …forcing children to spend years learning longhand sums that can be easily done by computers. If we don't teach this, we'll forget how we got computers to do arithmetic in the first place. Not teaching basic arithmetic skills would be unconscionable.
The way computers do arithmetic has nothing to do with the way that a human given pen and paper does it. If we were serious about that, we should force kids to do it in binary.
There is no "ai" revolution and nothing is being transformed. Please enough of this already.
Mind if I ask what decade your age is? The appearance of LLMs has been the strangest phenomenon. If course not everyone agrees, but I feel like I'm watching the arrival of the automobile and am having people say to me "It's loud, it's slow and it breaks down often. There's nothing to see here. It's just a fad.". Just about everyone in tech I know in person in their 40s and above, believe this will be the biggest thin…
> They all are looking at this and saying this is gonna be huge.
It's beyond me why would anyone assume an LLM that's already been trained in most relevant and available data will just keep becoming somehow way better and smarter. I get that it has it's uses, but what do they mean by huge anyway, theoretically it could end up a huge mess too.
There is no "ai" revolution and nothing is being transformed. Please enough of this already.
Mind if I ask what decade your age is? The appearance of LLMs has been the strangest phenomenon. If course not everyone agrees, but I feel like I'm watching the arrival of the automobile and am having people say to me "It's loud, it's slow and it breaks down often. There's nothing to see here. It's just a fad.". Just about everyone in tech I know in person in their 40s and above, believe this will be the biggest thin…
* There's really bizarre tendency of that group to woo-woo and anthropomorphize all those language models. I get answers like "oh it just knows" or "you should try it" when asking probing/hypothetical question.
The new PDF plugin is an absolutely fantastic tool for digesting a large number of academic articles quickly.
The new PDF plugin is an absolutely fantastic tool for digesting a large number of academic articles quickly.
I haven't heard of this - would you mind telling me the name of the plugin?
> …forcing children to spend years learning longhand sums that can be easily done by computers. If we don't teach this, we'll forget how we got computers to do arithmetic in the first place. Not teaching basic arithmetic skills would be unconscionable.
> …forcing children to spend years learning longhand sums that can be easily done by computers. If we don't teach this, we'll forget how we got computers to do arithmetic in the first place. Not teaching basic arithmetic skills would be unconscionable.
The way computers do arithmetic has nothing to do with the way that a human given pen and paper does it. If we were serious about that, we should force kids to do it in binary.
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Mind if I ask what decade your age is? The appearance of LLMs has been the strangest phenomenon. If course not everyone agrees, but I feel like I'm watching the arrival of the automobile and am having people say to me "It's loud, it's slow and it breaks down often. There's nothing to see here. It's just a fad.". Just about everyone in tech I know in person in their 40s and above, believe this will be the biggest thin…
I'm in my thirties. I might fall into the category of having trouble recognizing revolutionary technology as you say. > They all are looking at this and saying this is gonna be huge. It's beyond me why would anyone assume an LLM that's already been trained in most relevant and available data will just keep becoming somehow way better and smarter. I get that it has it's uses, but what do they mean by huge anyway, theo…
Source? Are you referring to gpt 4?
What about private data sets / corporate IP?
What about my private data, such message and email history, contacts’ available or privately shareable data, my photo and video library, and health data?
Presuming all of this was included in an LLM directly or as some kind of additional LORAs.
It seems clear to me that the tooling and resource requirements prevent anything near full accessibility of the content that is there.
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Sure we do. In the Boy Scouts for example, though I just learned it from a book. I suspect a large percentage of people on HN would know how to start a fire from scratch.
> I suspect a large percentage of people on HN would know how to start a fire from scratch. It's almost impossible for me to believe that even 1% of HN readers can start a friction fire.