Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says 1 month ago
Go on, tell us about the hard problem.
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Numbers Are Leaves 2 years ago
This talks about representing numbers as graphs whilst showing that the graphs can appear to be reminiscent of leaves, not that the numbers are leaf nodes of graphs, which is where I thought it was going at first.
Learning to Reason with LLMs 2 years ago
Is there a paper available?
Learning to Reason with LLMs 2 years ago
Tough question (for me). Assuming the model is producing its own queries, am I wrong to wonder how it's fundamentally different from human reasoning?
LLMs confabulate not hallucinate 3 years ago
They don't hallucinate, they just get things wrong.
People are saying it's about rhyming but I don't think so:
0, done, 2, free, 4, hive, 6, jeven, 8, line, 10, neleven, 12, pirteen, ...
Well this is blowing up. Future historians might have to revise the name of the Fat Man device.
The reward signal is analogous to pleasure and pain for biological systems...
Anyone knowing the basics of Reinforcement Learning will know that this is misleading and incorrect.
One reason spices were treasured may be because back then, European food was much more bland that it is today. Think of all the foods of American origin which weren't known about (potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, chili peppers, cocoa etc).
Barely Adequate Rail Transit
I hope this is an academic exercise because if absolute zero entails no air travel, no shipping, no lamb or beef, amongst other prohibitions, it also entails violence.
Making holes without an electric drill 4 years ago
Don't forget the pin vise!
Design lessons from guitar pedals 4 years ago
Has the word 'embrace' become a euphemism for surrendering control?
Computation as a communication channel is an interesting idea, thanks.
How can computation be separated from communication?
Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source) 4 years ago
Don't forget CoLD SToRAGE (Tim Wright)[1]
He did the actual in-game music of Wipeout and the non-Playstation versions of Wipeout 2097.
One Bad Apple 5 years ago
Imagine being a victim of CP, knowing that all over the world people hold in their hands devices storing artifacts of your terror.
But the piano created Mozart. What I'm suggesting is that the limiting factor is the number of pianos and musical cultural environments, rather than the amount of potential musical geniuses.
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years 5 years ago
Children are continuations of your own or someone else's membrane, but this man built one himself /s
The World's Best Pencil!
Thank you for informing us. If the course doesn't even cover the dot and dw movements then I'll avoid it.
This Anime Does Not Exist 6 years ago
I generated some archaic kana for you
My one word explanation: safety.
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump 6 years ago
The medium is the message - this chaos is a consequence of the hyper-centralized communication platforms, which are hiding this by pointing the moral finger at their participants to blame and censor them.
And water.
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
It implies that the state of ML research is undemocratic and therefore unfair or somehow opposing the values of our time. It's a ridiculous idea because with such an immense amount of quality information freely available, the only real barrier is intelligence. We can't democratize intelligence, so the sentiment smells a bit anti-meritocratic, rather than democratic (I think these two are often confused). It's really no different from saying that mathematics is undemocratic. Furthermore, it's patronizing to the wider audience by suggesting that they can participate in the field only after it's been brought down to their level of understanding (by the democratizing gatekeepers of course).