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There has been a slow progress in computer vision in the last ~5 years. We are still not close to human performance. This is in contrast to language understanding which has been solved - LLMs understand text on a human level (even if they have other limitations). But vision isn't solved. Foundation models struggle to segment some objects, they don't generalize to domains such as scientific images, etc. I wonder what's missing with models. We have enough data in videos. Is it compute? Is the task not informative enough? Do we need agency in 3D?

Yes, cDNA is a DNA fragment that does not interact with the patient's DNA in this treatment. Wikipedia: "Once amplified, the sequence can be cut at each end with nucleases and inserted into one of many small circular DNA sequences known as expression vectors. Such vectors allow for self-replication, inside the cells, and potentially integration in the host DNA. They typically also contain a strong promoter to drive transcription of the target cDNA into mRNA, which is then translated into protein."

The article sympathizes with only with one side of a horrible war, and only about losing its internet connection. It's surrealistic. It's like reading an article about Berlin citizens losing telephone connection in May 1945.

For example, you can create an embedding for an image using a neural net that has been trained to receive an image and output a vector of 1024 floats, which represent the content of the image. This vector is a lossy compressed version of the image.

Yes, the training is based on predicting a missing word. At first, such a task allowed GPT2 to generate paragraphs that were surprisingly coherent, at the user's request. ChatGPT added a novel ability of conversation. Regarding timestamps, the training did include many examples of timestamps in JSON format.

Dear Chess World 4 years ago

Is it possible to put a computer in a shoe, that would be powerful enough? Or does it take a large computer to beat a GM?

On being tired 4 years ago

Fatigue can be a symptom of a disease. Cancer, kidney disease, multiple sclerosis. Watch for other symptoms.