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pera··on Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics
What do you mean by "processing speed"? I think you are interpreting this experiment as if our brains worked like digital computers doing signal processing in some buffer in the visual cortex :p
pera··on George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp
The term "extermination camp" is more precise for that case.
pera··on George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp
That article doesn't seem right, or at least some academics seem against the use of "internment camp" in this case:

https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2012/02/10/1466917...

pera··on George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp
Why is the BBC referring US concentration camps as "internment camps"?
pera··on Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Another one six months ago: University of Edinburgh orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739657

pera··on Apartheid South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
There is something wrong with the URL: https://css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/art...
pera··on Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
Maybe they fired too many people this time? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35334705
pera··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
Yeah the way he conflates "crypto" to refer both cryptography and cryptocurrency, and the rhetoric itself is quite odd: https://urbanists.social/@sam/110340265606422596

It's unfortunate because there are some valid points in his criticism.

pera··on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake
Already posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835787
pera··on The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
pera··on The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
This isn't the first time though: https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/burr-feinstein-encryption-...
pera··on Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
Hi there, I have two question:

1 - Why did you choose Markdown? It seems an odd choice for training a model like this.

2 - Have you tried to train only one single PL and then benchmark it against this more general version?

pera··on Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
their pytorch_model.bin is 10.4GB
pera··on Fuck Oatly
Eh so they are making fun of their own customers because of their opinions regarding the "oaty" copyright case? Very weird PR campaign.
pera··on Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
> convince gullible investors that there's money to be made with foundational models. There's not.

This is a ridiculously myopic statement. Foundation models are an extremely powerful technological advancement and they will shake the global economy as very few things did in human history. It's hard to imagine how this is not obvious to everyone right now, specially here in this forum.

pera··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Valve is in Bellevue and Nintendo is next to the Microsoft campus in the outskirts of Redmond. There is nothing in North Bend (except Twin Peaks fans and hikers).
pera··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Then there is no reason for the PD to exist anymore, it's a total waste of taxpayer's money.
pera··on Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS
Yeah that's what I use as well, but I only use plastic for storing cold things like salad.
pera··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
Well I for one thank unions for the weekends and 40-hour work week (in addition to many other great things we now give for granted).
pera··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
And 2019 was the year when they announced the cryptocurrency and the "metaverse" projects...
pera··on Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank
Yeah sounds like textbook bank run or cryptocurrency exchange collapse, it's bizarre that this kind of things keep happening every few years.
pera··on ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant
Looks good but I wouldn't run commands without reviewing them first. It would be better if this was integrated to a shell, just as other forms of completion.
pera··on America’s property market suggests recession is on the way
Maybe it doesn't have a measurable effect but the other day there was an economist on Bloomberg saying that "we need a recession" that it would be "good thing", I was a bit surprised to hear this sentiment being expressed so explicitly.

Edit: I can't find the video now but I found another recent video expressing a similar idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63aDL326IFA

pera··on We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
I don't understand why your conclusion is that "the model must be thinking beyond the next token": the model doesn't need to do that to generate a well-formed sentence because it's not constrained by the size of the sentence.
pera··on Workers “know the truth” about the derailment, why are they being ignored?
The answer is quite simple: unions cannot be right even if they are, empirically. The solution to this dissonance is to ignore them.
pera··on NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails
That was Rackspace: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/06/rackspace-ransomware-data-...
pera··on U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles
Let's say you work in the station and your desk is right next to one of these uranium oxide glazed tiles:

- You work about 2k hours per year in the orange office

- That would then be about 200 mSv per year

- "Exposure to 100 mSv a year is the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident" (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-quake-radiation-idU...)

I guess then that maybe we could (barely) observe a higher incidence of cancer for those who spend a lot of time next to the walls?

pera··on New Sony Walkman music player
Phones are awful if you are doing exercises though.
pera··on Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
I remember the first time I read "OpenAI" I thought it was a new project of the Khronos Group consortium
pera··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
Well ADS-B Exchange just got suspended (https://twitter.com/ADSBexchange) so it seems that publishing public radio data is now against their TOS.
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