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ttpphd··on Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action
If LLMs were good at summarization, this wouldn't be necessary. Turns out a stochastic model of language is not a summary in the way humans think of summaries. Thus all this extra faff.
ttpphd··on Stanford scientists discover new Ozempic alternative with RegEx
You didn't believe it then, but you better believe it now: RegEx is the final boss of both code and science.
ttpphd··on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
Exactly.

Why is my browser serving me advertising in the first place? Because Mozilla is an advertising company now.

ttpphd··on DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
This is just denialism.
ttpphd··on OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users
It's amazing that no one really cares. Would you have believed that two years ago?
ttpphd··on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
This isn't what I meant but thanks anyway.
ttpphd··on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
This is where my thoughts went too. I see no reason to speculate about this in the absence of clear and persuasive comparison examples with other fine tuning content.
ttpphd··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
This is wrong and naive.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-dives-into-core-na...

"DOGE currently has far deeper and far more extensive access to U.S. government computer systems — and is far deeper into the national security space — than is conceivably necessary for anything related to their notional brief and goals."

ttpphd··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
Are you a scientist?
ttpphd··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
No
ttpphd··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
It's almost like scientists are doing something more than a random search over language.
ttpphd··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
Witness the pure arrogance of tech bros
ttpphd··on Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
Are you a scientist?
ttpphd··on LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
You didn't make a case for any of that. No one did. This whole discussion is just a bunch of people who have their feelings hurt when other people tell them a LLM is modeling language, not reasoning. It's so narcissistic. "My opinion on AI is criticized so I'm oppressed."

That is not how oppression and power work. That's not how discussion works. That not how Foucault's analysis of power works.

ttpphd··on LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
It's absolutely not taboo to believe that. It's a very common belief.

Lot of game playing going on here to center on a victim narrative.

ttpphd··on LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
"societal taboos and power structures can be revealed by noting what speech provokes the strongest reactions"

Ok I'll bite. Who is the marginalized Other?

ttpphd··on LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
Throwing your hands up in the air like this doesn't help build a constructive case for using the word reasoning. It builds a case that words mean whatever
ttpphd··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
"if the president does it, it's not illegal" ok Nixon.
ttpphd··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
Gullibility is a thing, which is why we demand people go through channels of accountability, including security clearances.
ttpphd··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
Yes my main takeaway from the musk flagging discussions on here is that tech people are no where near capable of taking responsibility for their central role in this mess. If I call all my sins "politics", say discussing politics is off the table, then magically you can't say anything bad about me!
ttpphd··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
It is extremely telling that when you hear "DEI specific role" you wrongly imagint that refers to the identity of the person rather than someone who's role it is to work on issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.
ttpphd··on Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
Try Semantra https://github.com/freedmand/semantra
ttpphd··on [dead]
"Team morale: +89%

Conflict resolution rate: 94%

Therapy costs saved: $25,000

Human managers questioning their purpose: 100%"

Very serious blog content!

ttpphd··on The cochlear implant question
Have you met the undergrads at Gallaudet University? They live in both worlds.
ttpphd··on Stop saying "just" (2019)
Just is all you need.
ttpphd··on Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
Wow so many comments that just don't get the criticism and want to continue with their magical beliefs about null hypothesis testing.

This is a damning criticism of the most common techniques used by my scientists. The answer isn't to shrug and keep doing the same thing as before.

ttpphd··on U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
Because people struggle with reading comprehension and are willing to twist anything and everything to take autonomy and liberty from gender diverse people.
ttpphd··on U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
Really?

I think maybe this is because you don't understand how someone can be gender non-conforming and also happy. Maybe you are having a hard time with the asymmetrical and temporal aspects (child is happy, child chooses their puberty path, child is happy during and after puberty). Isn't that a good path for care?

ttpphd··on Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
LLMs do not model "certainty". This is illogical. It models the language corpus you feed the model.
ttpphd··on Yes, we did discover the Higgs
This but it's HIV and circumcision.

"A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dewb.12285?...

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