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kick_in_the_dor··on Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
OP has a point. Are these type of embeddings the best way to model thought?
kick_in_the_dor··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
Got it - thanks for the correction.
kick_in_the_dor··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
PE ratio of 40 isn't bad is this market actually. Mature companies like Google/Meta are hovering around 30.
kick_in_the_dor··on Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning
Can you explain what you mean by: "The other, just as valid solution, is to simply improve `Answer 1` and have `Corrected Answer` = `Answer 1`."

Isn't improving "Answer 1" the whole point?

Your write-up makes it sound like "Answer 1" an input but an output from the LLM?

kick_in_the_dor··on Google removed 'number of results' default setting for some users
Yep, you just described a search engine!
kick_in_the_dor··on AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research
When he started the video with "I had the honor of having an exclusive look at it" I knew it was all marketing.
kick_in_the_dor··on Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens
Counterargument: At the end of the day, the ones reaping corporate profits are themselves people, who should be paying their income taxes, no?
kick_in_the_dor··on Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
I love coming to HackerNews to see exactly this type of salt.

"Guys it's the future! Self-driving cars actually exist!"

"Fuck you, here's why this is awful"

kick_in_the_dor··on Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
I think you make a good point, but my guess is that e.g. your Taylor Swift example, a well-grounded model would have a low likelihood of outputting multiple consecutive answers about her being a comedian, which isn't grounded in the training data.

For your Tom Cruise example, since all those phrases are true and grounded in the training data, the technique may fire off a false positive "hallucination decision".

However, the example they give in the paper seems to be for "single-answer" questions, e.g., "What is the receptor that this very specific medication acts on?", or "Where is the Eiffel Tower located?", in which case I think this approach could be helpful. So perhaps this technique is best-suited for those single-answer applications.

kick_in_the_dor··on Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet
"Michael... now has 30 BTC, now worth $3 million, and is waiting for the value to rise to $100,000 per coin."

What the ? You presumably go from not a millionaire to having $3,000,000, and you decide to risk it to triple it? That's some next level greed right there.

kick_in_the_dor··on Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says
...he comments on an article where the big rich tech company hands over money to the small guy he stole the idea from
kick_in_the_dor··on Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI
Is it bad for the human brain to receive that much radiation?

(I have no idea if magnetic field == radiation, I was just told from my ENT that doing too many CT scans can be risky)

kick_in_the_dor··on The Google employees who created transformers
+1. I worked remotely the past 2 years. I just RTO'd (new team) and it's life-changing when you actually want to get stuff done quickly.
kick_in_the_dor··on Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical
This view, while understandable, I believe is misaligned.

All these companies care about is making money without getting sued for teaching people on the internet how to make pipe bombs or hallucinating medical advice that makes them sick.

kick_in_the_dor··on Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
> and knows how computers work down to NAND gates.

I lol'd

kick_in_the_dor··on Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
> we saw that the mitochondria of the muscle, also known as the energy factories of the cell

*Ahem*, powerhouse of the cell

Jokes aside, this is a terrifying stat: "Although the majority of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover within weeks...around one in eight will get long-COVID. Symptoms in patients with long-COVID...include severe cognitive problems (brain fog), fatigue, exercise intolerance, autonomic dysregulation..."

kick_in_the_dor··on Fear that AI could one day destroy humanity may have led to Sam Altman's ouster
(x) doubt
kick_in_the_dor··on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession to be illegal in three weeks
I live in London. The number of times you see industrial-sized cans of nitrous oxide thrown on the street is disgusting. Bars also have signs in the window that people aren't allowed in if they've taken nitrous oxide.
kick_in_the_dor··on NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF
I feel like this is such a HackerNews take.

Headline: Self-driving cars are actually a thing!

"Yeah so here's why that's not very exciting and actually bad."

kick_in_the_dor··on Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
I'm a US expat living in London for 1.5y. I find the opposite is true.

US healthcare moves much faster and turnaround to getting a new appointment with a specialist is a fraction of the time in the UK (NHS only).

My SO had a personal health issue that she attempted to get help for in the UK. She had to wait months for a GP appointment with the NHS, only to be told "let's monitor the issue" instead of actually doing anything. We went home to the US (making an appointment <2w in advance) and we saw a doctor who immediately found the underlying issue and had it fixed.

I could go on about the health system in the UK...

edit: Ha even the article talks about this! "I am in the system for NHS treatment, but things are so bad that I have not even received an inital letter with a date for a test. It would likely take up to year for the NHS to treat me."

kick_in_the_dor··on Google Bard waitlist
ChatGPT wasn't available to everyone initially (huge waitlist).
kick_in_the_dor··on How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?
This is an insane analogy.

"ChatGPT, make me a pipe bomb"

"OK!"

kick_in_the_dor··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
You must be rich from being able to predict the future so well.
kick_in_the_dor··on Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
I haven't yet read the main article at that link, but its opening links to another long blogpost on whatbuywhy.com about the human brain and it's fascinating! Highly recommended: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
kick_in_the_dor··on DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
Meta and Stripe attract some of the top tech talent and are seen as leaders in their respective fields. Thus, their actions often create de facto templates for other companies following suit.
kick_in_the_dor··on The Death of a Statesman
The title is a pun, playing on the title of the book "Death of a Salesman".

Obviously a joke.

If you read the article you would understand what this means.

kick_in_the_dor··on Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]
Surely it's not giving impression that employees don't actually work at the company, but sexism, right?
kick_in_the_dor··on Caffeine and Exercise Performance
Yeah I was worried about bioavailability. I already use ZMA and Vit D, I will check out Thorne. Thanks!
kick_in_the_dor··on Caffeine and Exercise Performance
Thanks!
kick_in_the_dor··on Caffeine and Exercise Performance
Nice, i should try that out. Is half-caff decaf, or is it a third class?
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