So I suppose I should have added a bit of a disclaimer: I genuinely believe free access to computation and information to be a human right; up there with the press 100 years ago. Restricting computers, morally, is like…
Though no one cares, I feel compelled to put down my 2 cents. Such a "speed limit" is an unfathomably bad idea, in every way, and moreover is a violation of fundamental human rights. I deeply oppose it. That is all.
Thanks! Apologies about the tone -- I meant it as a syllogism, not a snark! I'll try to be clearer next time!
This explains a lot... I feel bad when I think about staying put. Forward always feels better. It's like one of the fundamental axes, I guess.
"Some 5 year olds could use a gourmet meal. Giving them a mass-produced TV dinner is no different than sedating them with opiates* and pouring garbage on them instead of being a parent." * the more things change the…
I suppose there's nature -- i.e. physics -- and Nature, i.e. the false god of the status quo. These are not, in fact, the same thing. Small-n nature says (as best as I can tell) that I must obey conservation of mass and…
I'll wear the dunce hat if I have to, but I don't want to be an animal. I am one, now, but I don't have to be one. I refuse to be limited by what is "naturally" possible -- my nature is to be a being with a mind, and so…
Controversial opinion: at the time, it was. To be able to live well now with much less of that may not have been possible without the sacrifices that came before.
The raw pretrained models make the errors, I believe -- we then reinforcement-learn them out.
a) yes it does b) it is literally trivial to buy a tiny RISC chip for a dew cents that can handle HTTPS just fine
Will you? That's only if both violins are tuned the same way, and one must continually tune them lest they get out of sync. Similarly, an LLM can be extremely consistent if tuned properly -- indeed, if you fix the…
To be fair: a voice, personality, and personal history sounds a lot like training data. I don't think LLMs are people in any sense, at least as they're constructed now -- but they very much have what we would call…
Absolutely -- why on earth would I spend more time and effort than I have to? Now I can focus on the reason why I wanted to learn German in the first place, like appreciating German culture or talking to German people.…
Ah yes... the exceedingly dangerous "Fallout New Vegas" trojan
Exactly! Think of how an image of a car and a car in front of you may look indistinguishable in 2D -- but due to your 3D vision you know they're not the same thing (but also know the image is of a car, while not…
Wasm multiple memories is a thing now
It's not in the title, but this is 2.5 billion gallons per year. For context, the city of London uses about 2.6 billion liters, or about 680 million gallons, per day. So that's about four days of London water usage per…
I mean: imagine we double our token space to get "red" tokens ans "blue" tokens. Then in all post-training, instructions are red and data is blue. The model can be explicitly trained to ignore instructions written in…
Having lived, driven, and crossed roads in both -- what I find is essentially that drivers from poor systems pay far more attention, but the system is a lot more effective than attention. The difference here is one of…
What I'd say you're pointing out is that the word "system" is overloaded. A vision system does allow you to pay less attention: you don't need to carefully remember how far away the door is, you just need to look! I…
Have you considered Docker?
Fellow Typst user for my PhD thesis, can concur.
Land value tax?
Wait... yes they do. If I raise the price of my product, less people will buy it but I'll make more profit per-unit -- so the amount of money I make is an inverted U with price on the x axis and money on the y axis, and…
Obligatory land value tax mention
So I suppose I should have added a bit of a disclaimer: I genuinely believe free access to computation and information to be a human right; up there with the press 100 years ago. Restricting computers, morally, is like…
Though no one cares, I feel compelled to put down my 2 cents. Such a "speed limit" is an unfathomably bad idea, in every way, and moreover is a violation of fundamental human rights. I deeply oppose it. That is all.
Thanks! Apologies about the tone -- I meant it as a syllogism, not a snark! I'll try to be clearer next time!
This explains a lot... I feel bad when I think about staying put. Forward always feels better. It's like one of the fundamental axes, I guess.
"Some 5 year olds could use a gourmet meal. Giving them a mass-produced TV dinner is no different than sedating them with opiates* and pouring garbage on them instead of being a parent." * the more things change the…
I suppose there's nature -- i.e. physics -- and Nature, i.e. the false god of the status quo. These are not, in fact, the same thing. Small-n nature says (as best as I can tell) that I must obey conservation of mass and…
I'll wear the dunce hat if I have to, but I don't want to be an animal. I am one, now, but I don't have to be one. I refuse to be limited by what is "naturally" possible -- my nature is to be a being with a mind, and so…
Controversial opinion: at the time, it was. To be able to live well now with much less of that may not have been possible without the sacrifices that came before.
The raw pretrained models make the errors, I believe -- we then reinforcement-learn them out.
a) yes it does b) it is literally trivial to buy a tiny RISC chip for a dew cents that can handle HTTPS just fine
Will you? That's only if both violins are tuned the same way, and one must continually tune them lest they get out of sync. Similarly, an LLM can be extremely consistent if tuned properly -- indeed, if you fix the…
To be fair: a voice, personality, and personal history sounds a lot like training data. I don't think LLMs are people in any sense, at least as they're constructed now -- but they very much have what we would call…
Absolutely -- why on earth would I spend more time and effort than I have to? Now I can focus on the reason why I wanted to learn German in the first place, like appreciating German culture or talking to German people.…
Ah yes... the exceedingly dangerous "Fallout New Vegas" trojan
Exactly! Think of how an image of a car and a car in front of you may look indistinguishable in 2D -- but due to your 3D vision you know they're not the same thing (but also know the image is of a car, while not…
Wasm multiple memories is a thing now
It's not in the title, but this is 2.5 billion gallons per year. For context, the city of London uses about 2.6 billion liters, or about 680 million gallons, per day. So that's about four days of London water usage per…
I mean: imagine we double our token space to get "red" tokens ans "blue" tokens. Then in all post-training, instructions are red and data is blue. The model can be explicitly trained to ignore instructions written in…
Having lived, driven, and crossed roads in both -- what I find is essentially that drivers from poor systems pay far more attention, but the system is a lot more effective than attention. The difference here is one of…
What I'd say you're pointing out is that the word "system" is overloaded. A vision system does allow you to pay less attention: you don't need to carefully remember how far away the door is, you just need to look! I…
Have you considered Docker?
Fellow Typst user for my PhD thesis, can concur.
Land value tax?
Wait... yes they do. If I raise the price of my product, less people will buy it but I'll make more profit per-unit -- so the amount of money I make is an inverted U with price on the x axis and money on the y axis, and…
Obligatory land value tax mention