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ironrabbit··on Andreessen Horowitz's SB 1047 campaign is as misleading as it gets
Which part of SB1047 do you think is too onerous or not "slow regulation" enough?
ironrabbit··on The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
This is a forum post from a student with 18 total karma
ironrabbit··on Claude 2.1
Zero chance private github repos make it into openai training data, can you imagine the shitshow if GPT-4 started regurgitating your org's internal codebase?
ironrabbit··on Persimmon-8B
Automatic kernel fusion (compilation) is a very active field, and most major frameworks support some easy-to-use compilation (e.g. jax's jit, or torch.compile which iirc uses openai's triton under the hood). Often you can still do better than the compiler by writing fused kernels yourself (either in cuda c++ or in something like triton (python which compiles down to cuda) but compilers are getting pretty good.

edit: not sure why op is getting downvotes, this is a very reasonable question imo; maybe the characterization of kernel compilation as "AI" vs. just "software"?

ironrabbit··on $900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI
The median OAI employee with a 900k comp is probably L5, not L6 or L7
ironrabbit··on $900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI
New hires' comp is much higher than existing employees', especially if you've hit your cliff. 7 figures for E6 can happen if you joined recently, have good counter-offers, and negotiate. It's not super uncommon but it's also not the median E6 comp.
ironrabbit··on $900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI
All engineers and researchers, even junior, are "Member of Technical Staff" at OAI
ironrabbit··on OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. To Water Down AI Regulation
> the company pushed back against a proposed amendment to the AI Act that would have classified generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Dall-E as “high risk” if they generated text or imagery that could “falsely appear to a person to be human generated and authentic.” [...] The company argued that it would be sufficient to instead rely on another part of the Act, that mandates AI providers sufficiently label AI-generated content and be clear to users that they are interacting with an AI system.

This sounds pretty reasonable? I don't think it's hypocritical to be talking about the doom of humanity and also arguing that GPT-3, a 3-year old model, should not be classified as "high-risk" in that sense.

Even if you disagree, questioning Altman's leadership and calling him an "empty soul" over this kind of regulatory detail is not adding substance to the discussion imo.

ironrabbit··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Character has their own models, and anecdotally I've heard they have one of the better LM training codebases out there.
ironrabbit··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Openai is probably the highest status employer among my network, but I don't know any university students
ironrabbit··on Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video]
Andrej's "Building Makemore" series is exactly this, it includes a wonderful lecture where he computes all the gradients for a simple network by hand and compares them against the values produced by torch's autograd.
ironrabbit··on NanoGPT
minGPT prioritized being understandable above all else, and was not very fast. This repo includes several optimizations, but it still much more understandable than probably any other open source implementation.
ironrabbit··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
Anecdotally, chatgpt seems much worse to me than Google for getting correct answers. Like orders of magnitude worse. Tells me the wrong timezone for a city kind of bad. No doubt it will be much better in the future, and they've definitely found PMF with the interface, but I would not trust it right now with anything even slightly important to me.
ironrabbit··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
This looks very nice but no android support is unfortunately a dealbreaker
ironrabbit··on Notion AI – waiting list signup
Signal boosting in case anyone from notion is reading: please address performance, it is practically the only thing I care about. I love the product but it is almost unusably slow with my tiny amount of data. Cache more stuff on my device, avoid blocking network calls where possible, etc, please!
ironrabbit··on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
The "scandal" that prompted this article is referenced with sources under the heading "Why XCheck is in the news". Neither the article nor the comment you're replying to says anything about data breaches.
ironrabbit··on LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence does not cite prior work
It's a position paper, academics publish them all the time, they're very much a part of scientific discourse. Just different than an experimental results paper.
ironrabbit··on Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)
are there any continuous calendars like the linked one that allow sync or import from google cal?
ironrabbit··on The Machine Learning Job Market
The author is a skilled research scientist in a very competitive space with some high-profile publications (e.g. Gumbel Softmax). He is absolutely an outlier, but not a unicorn -- AI researchers with good publications and reputation will attract a lot of interest from companies with lots of money to spend. Low 7-figures for an ~L7 research scientist with competing offers from FAANG research labs is not crazy.
ironrabbit··on On the Idea of an Adirondack Mountains National Park (2021)
Curious, are there benefits of greenway connections compared to allocating the same amount of green space elsewhere?
ironrabbit··on Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT’s bad answers
Is there any evidence that GPT-3 responses are edited/filtered before being returned to users? My understanding is that some GPT-3 responses are annotated post-hoc, and this data is used to fine-tune later versions of GPT-3 (InstructGPT). This article seems extremely misleading.
ironrabbit··on Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
As of a few years ago, lidar added at least $7500 to the cost of a car. That's a huge price difference for a consumer.
ironrabbit··on How A.I. Conquered Poker
Not even mentioning Pluribus is just bad journalism
ironrabbit··on Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
As someone who has had to reproduce others' research results: it is much much better to release the unclean, unorganized code that actually produced your results than it is to release nothing. Even if it doesn't run (e.g. it depends on a hardware system that the user won't have access to) it's still better for people to be able to read your code and understand some tricky part that isn't fully explained in your paper.
ironrabbit··on Daylight saving time is 'not helpful' and has 'no upsides,' experts say
I always assumed we'd keep the summer hours year round. I don't even think about DST during the summer, it's during the fall where we suddenly lose an hour of evening sunlight that I complain. Unless I'm misreading, your comment is just pointing out that keeping the winter hours year-round is sub-optimal (I agree) but not arguing in favour of switching the clocks twice per year.
ironrabbit··on DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
It seems like this method outperforms those model-based approaches, why should we care that it's "just image analytics"?
ironrabbit··on DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy
I don't know much about meteorology -- what is "true weather prediction" then?
ironrabbit··on Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
Slightly off-topic, but is there a good overview of machine learning research being done at Spotify?
ironrabbit··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
I think it's very reasonable to hold that view (I do as well). But to propose a solution, it's necessary to understand the facts of the current situation, which is what I'm trying to learn.
ironrabbit··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
Interesting. Resetting cost basis upon inheritance does seem like a massive tax avoidance loophole, I can't quickly think of a reason why this should be allowed. I agree also that this would probably be a popular (and sensible) modification to the tax code.
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