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botro··on A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens
Can you reccomend any resources for this?
botro··on My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
Thanks for sharing this, It's well written and informative. I noticed you used 'temperature=1' in the GPT test for the example in the post. Is this best practice for a task requiring structured output? Have you tested other temperature settings? My casual understanding was that a temperature of 0 is best for these types of workloads while higher temperatures would be more effective for more 'creative' workloads.
botro··on The Lunacy of Artemis
I think if we follow your logic exactly, and make mathematically optimal decisions in every instance, leaving no space for the human spirit - we're robots anyway and may as well go to space!
botro··on GPT-4o
>"Hello, how are you?"

>"I'm stateless!"

botro··on Unexpected responses from ChatGPT: Incident Report
Chin salute, old ears new.

If art is regarded for it's ability to make you feel, I definitely feel ... something. There is a strict form it's following and a rhythm to the words.

botro··on Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird
I think between high definition VR displays, the apple watch and Stable Diffusion we have the pieces to assemble 'The Entertainment'.

Imagine if rather than clip guided diffusion of images, the noise is guided to render by pupil dilation, heart rate, skin conductivity and any other signals that indicate excitement and pleasure for a specific indivual.

What you'd see is what your heart most desires as in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.

botro··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
Sam Altman is a visionary for creating World Coin and scanning eyeballs, sells the poison and the cure!
botro··on Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
The site is http://hnlikes.com/ and on the About page I describe how it was done.

Like I mentioned it only looks for books that are linked (or videos, arxiv papers, Wikipedia etc.). I then use the link to get information from the site itself.

I calculate scores for the given link weighted by a number of metrics.

I'm sorry if I gave the impression this was fancier than it actually is.

botro··on Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
I made a version of this using boring tech (Postgres, Django, Python) by just counting the number of times a book link (not just books, youtube videos, arxiv papers etc) is posted in Hacker News comments. I also did a bunch of calculations around the poster of the link and replies to the posted link. The reality is that boring tech does not get attention and engagement.
botro··on Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
It's the #2 most frequently posted Amazon link in Hacker News comments according to my site (HNLikes.com).
botro··on The Cynical Genius Illusion (2018)
Can you recommend any books that would help a person suffering from cynicism as described in the first paragraph of your comment?
botro··on There is no hard takeoff
You've found a 'Traith'. Someone asked ChatGPT a question, ChatGPT did not know the answer and hallucinated one. They post the answer to Reddit / HN / Twitter, google indexes the answer and when someone searches they find the GPT hallucination. In the next GPT training run it's incorporated into the weights.

It's an AI generated truth, a Traith.

Traith is also defined as "A fishing station or fishing ground, especially for herring" and some herring are red.

botro··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
But they've trademarked the name KL-99 (®) in their follow-up paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12037.pdf

botro··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
I think they also make mention of the other paper in the one being discussed, pages 12,13:

"The Additional experimental results and discussions on LK-99 will be published immediately in the next paper, including an interesting controllable levitation phenomenon and the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity, theoretical calculation, etc."

botro··on Ask HN: What's the best thing you came across on Hacker News?
I made http://HNLikes.com to aggregate the most frequently posted links for videos, papers, code, Wikipedia articles and more in HN comments. It's a good way to discover the many classics HN users love to post.

Apologies that this is self promotion, I only share because it's relvant to the question you've asked.

botro··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
Would a US President have the necessary clearance to know of the existence of non-human superior technology spacecraft? A former US President is recorded on tape boasting about knowledge of US military plans to invade Iran.

I don't mean to make this political at all, just trying to reason on the basis of a personality and knowing that a president would boast about having knowledge of such trivial classified information - in comparison to the existence of non-human spacecraft; makes me believe that if he was briefed on it he likely would have boasted about it. (and so would I, just imagine what earth shaking news that is.)

botro··on Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around
Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) Swedish statesman.
botro··on Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" (in a letter to his son Johan written in 1648; in the original Latin it reads: An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?).
botro··on Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was
He once asked Jim Keller 'What is Love?'. His interview with Grant Sanderson is cathartic in that Grant has very little patience for that kind of questioning, when Lex goes on about 'isn't e^iπ so pretty', Grant responds to the effect 'not if you actually understand it, it's math'. I saw a quote on reddit that does a great job helping me understand my distaste for these kinds of questions: 'The man who loves everything and everyone, loves only himself.'
botro··on Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire kids for labor shortage
Not quite 5 years: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/elon-musk-plans-to...
botro··on GPT 4 coming next week
Some may do it as a form of immortality, if these truly are 'foundational' models someone may want to feed as much of their identity and ways of thinking into them by way of flooding online discourse.

So all future models contain some morsel of their being. And the more original the person's ways of thinking, and expressing, the more influence they have on the model, as their thoughts are not as easily compressed or aligned with common embeddings.

botro··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
It’s surprising for me to see how underappreciated the USPS appears in some of these comments. I’ll make the bold claim that the following industries / companies would not exist without the USPS:

The Airline Industry: In the early days of American aviation, air transportation was unproven and not financially viable, until the USPS built the necessary infrastructure and gave contracts to airlines to allow them financial feasibility… starting in 1918! [1]

Machine Learning: In 1989 Yann LeCun wrote his seminal paper “Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten ZIP Code Recognition”, which used the USPS’s data set and has today become the hello world of machine learning tasks. More importantly this is the first commercial or industrial application of machine learning. [2]

Netflix: Before Streaming became a thing, Netflix was shipping DVDs via the USPS. The Postal Service adapted its processes and equipment to make this financially feasible, supporting Netflix through its transition to streaming. [3]

Amazon: Early Amazon was only a book vendor, the USPS offered special rates for books that made it possible for Bezos to be profitable from his garage … in 1994, thus birthing the behemoth it is today. [4]

Chickens: okay, not really. But the USPS ships millions of pounds of live chickens and other animals each year! [5]

[1] https://www.history.com/news/us-aviation-airmail-passenger-f...

[2] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-89e.pdf

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/u-s-postal-service-to-netflix-...

[4] https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Media-Mail-Book-Rate

[5] https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

botro··on U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
Though they're not quite ready to eat, the USPS delivers millions of pounds of live chickens along with a large variety of other animals every year:

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

Though your farmers are digital, there is no API for getting live bees.

botro··on Ask HN: Will you be paying for ChatGPT+?
But airplanes don't fly by flapping their wings.
botro··on Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
Vulgarity will become the mark of authenticity in online communication, how do you know I'm not a bot? Fuck.

CAPTCHAs will ask only a 4 letter shibboleth.

The more heinous ... the more human.

botro··on Apple Books digital narration
Could you do Hemingway, McCarthy and Joyce next? It's untenable they wrote 'unspecific / unclear / superfluous / awkward / anachronistic' language such that our robots cannot render to speech.
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