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nigamanth

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High school student. Aspiring MIT student & quantitative trading analyst.

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nigamanth.com 2y ago

Do Less: Why New Year's Resolutions Fail

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lbrandy.com 3y ago

Algorithms in Real Life

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nigamanth.com 3y ago

The Hypercompetitive Mindset

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nigamanth.com 3y ago

The Hypercompetitive Mindset

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github.blog 3y ago

Doppler is a GitHub secret scanning partner

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litgrades.com 3y ago

LitGrades: AI Generated Flashcards

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nigamanth.com 3y ago

Say Goodbye to Tedious Blogging: Switch to Parser Arguments

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github.blog 3y ago

Secret scanning now shows metadata for active GitHub tokens

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nigamanth.com 3y ago

A Look into the History of Machine Learning (1958-2023)

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paperless.blog 3y ago

Consistent Fonts in Firefox

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simonwillison.net 3y ago

If foxes can learn Ruby, why can’t you?

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themeisle.com 3y ago

The History of Blogging (1997-2023)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Why is Julia so underrated?

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nigamanth.com 3y ago

The Most Revolutionary Week in AI (The AI Rush)

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simonwillison.net 3y ago

Blogging Ain't Easy (2002)

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

The Steam Deck is on sale for the first time ever

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Microsoft announces Copilot: the AI-powered future of Office documents

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www.wired.com 3y ago

GPT-4 Will Make ChatGPT Smarter but Won't Fix Its Flaws

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scitechdaily.com 3y ago

Non-Experts Use Online Crowd-Sourcing to Diagnose Malaria

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set.studio 3y ago

Simple ways to make content look good

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www.nigamanth.com 3y ago

How LLMs work: common misconceptions, components and processes

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www.searchenginejournal.com 3y ago

ChatGPT Changed Search Forever

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www.cyberark.com 3y ago

ChatGPT Created Polymorphic Malware

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finance.yahoo.com 3y ago

Elon Musk plans on building his own town

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github.blog 3y ago

GitHub Octernships: a path for students for a thriving tech career

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medium.com 3y ago

Building Your Own Mini ChatGPT

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www.nigamanth.com 3y ago

Independence Is Overrated

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gizmodo.com 3y ago

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack

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www.wired.com 3y ago

ChatGPT’s API: The AI Gold Rush Has Started

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www.nigamanth.com 3y ago

My Journey Growing a Discord Community to 15,000 Members

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I still don't see how this is a crime though, I mean sure, he has a sense of inspiration and borrows sentences and phrases from somewhere. But, that doesn't mean the entire plots of his books, or the primary reason they sell is because of him stealing a few sentences from others.

He could have also potentially got it off trading, since he'd have to show his Lambo first before getting suckers who think there's a magical formula for the average Joe to make millions.

Or, hypothetically, he could have rented it for cheaper and then bought an actual one with the money from the suckers.

As a high school student, I also use Obsidian over more mainstream alternatives such as Notion or OneNote. I find it primarily useful because of the no-internet feature and I find the linking ability to be extremely useful since most ideas are related to other ideas, and in totality this creates a concept.

Because the model can’t “look ahead”, it starts spitting out valid combinations, but without being able to anticipate that committing to a certain combination early on will lead to a mistake later.

Aren't there already models that CAN look ahead? Or are there none?

Hmm, isn't this how like GitHub / other services can check whether you own a domain. What are the advantages of this over other ways of sharing information like a TXT file or a database?

One question for the tech experts, of course people can use AI and technology for bad and illegal activities, but isn't that the case about everything?

The person who invented the car didn't think about people using it to smuggle drugs or trample other people on purpose, and the wright brothers didn't think about all the people who would die due to plane crashes.

So instead of focusing on the bad that's happening with AI, can't we just look at all the people he has helped with his work on AI?

Parrondo's Paradox 3 years ago

Is Parrondo's paradox really a "paradox"? This question is sometimes asked by mathematicians, whereas physicists usually don't worry about such things. The first thing to point out is that "Parrondo's paradox" is just a name, just like the "Braess's paradox" or "Simpson's paradox." Secondly, as is the case with most of these named paradoxes they are all really apparent paradoxes. People drop the word "apparent" in these cases as it is a mouthful, and it is obvious anyway. So no one claims these are paradoxes in the strict sense. In the wide sense, a paradox is simply something that is counterintuitive. Parrondo's games certainly are counterintuitive—at least until you have intensively studied them for a few months. The truth is we still keep finding new surprising things to delight us, as we research these games. I have had one mathematician complain that the games always were obvious to him and hence we should not use the word "paradox." He is either a genius or never really understood it in the first place. In either case, it is not worth arguing with people like that.

Everyone nowadays is lazier than the average man in the 80s. In the 80s, you probably had to buy music in a store rather than use Spotify or Apple Music or had to look up information in the library instead of google it.

The industry wants you to get everything you want through one click, nowadays though, it's not even a click, you just need to talk about it and Alexa and Google Home will pick up on it.

Why do you think the Tor project team is releasing it together? Isn't Tor private enough? Or do they want higher privacy without onion browsing?

If we believe in ourselves, our confidence increases, which increases our performance.

The same way, if we don't, then we won't reach our full potential. This is why the concept of depression is so frightening, because once you stop believing in yourself, your performance goes down, which stars a vicious cycle that makes you think of yourself negatively.

Shields Up 3 years ago

Can't this be made though? Just use the same adblock algorithm and then filter clickbait and block it out?

Currently, GPT3 is trained on a lot of data, but all this data is pre-2021. Essentially, no matter how much "new content" comes out on the web, ChatGPT won't know about it.

Nothing can influence ChatGPT's dataset or training data for now. However, GPT4 will have more data points than GPT3, and by the time they train more LLMs on GPT4, the data on the web will seep into ChatGPT.

The same way SEO realizes on measures, the same way ChatGPT answers rely on transformer layers which choose the most succinct answers, given enough feeding of the wrong data and no fine-tuning, large LLMs could break.

The gadget looks cool. Just wondering though, can you turn off the notification for karma changes? Imagine if someone's post gets to the #1 spot, then their karma would be changing rapidly.

Can it notify you when you reach a new milestone in karma? (1000 karma, 500 karma)

This is why you need that level of independence. Medium and other blogging websites lure many in with the scheme that they don't need to self-host their own website to write a blog, but this just gives them rights to your content.

You didn't have your content saved, though?