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vletal··on Black holes might be defects in spacetime
What if black holes are NaNs in the simulation we live in. Maybe it was written by a phd student as an experiment for his thesis.
vletal··on Black holes might be defects in spacetime
You just arrived to infinite density using a concept of infinite time. Now you need to justify existence of infinite time.

The argument is that there is no infinite amount of _anything_. That is a fictional concept of 'too many parts to count'.

vletal··on Quantifying ChatGPT’s Gender Bias
Depending on the task.

When you are trying to solve a crime, you only know that the murderer was a nurse, it's very important to assume a valid p(murderer|gender) as well as p(gender|nurse).

On the other hand, leaking p(gender|nurse) into a candidate scoring algorithm would be a no-no.

What people seem to ask for is very interesting actually. To both learn the underlying statistics AND learn not to use it explicitly in speech at the same time. Assuming next token prediction is the learned function, these two feel a bit contradictory.

vletal··on Quantifying ChatGPT’s Gender Bias
It's justs big statistical model. Statistics say that 75% of paralegals are woman and 40% of lawyers are man.

It's completely valid to assume that in 'paralegal married a lawyer because she was pregnant' the lawyer is a man.

That's not a negative gender bias but rather a good educated guess, is it not?

It's not like the model would say that woman can not be lawyers.

vletal··on NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers
Is it just me, or the accompanying text does not correspond to the audio?
vletal··on Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”
Spanish speaking people getting offended by the name "cuLitho"? nVidia was like "sin penesar".
vletal··on Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11
Hard to measure these days. The training sets are so large they might contain leaks of test sets. Take these numbers with a grain of salt.
vletal··on Spaghetti-Tree Hoax
In Czechia we have group called 'ztohoven' (can be roughly translated to both 'getoutofit' or '100shits') who replaced a webcam facing mountains with their own live stream of fake nuclear explosion.

I remember seeing that aired live on the national TV. Fun times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/arts/design/24abroad.html

vletal··on Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
Why it works here is that the "analog" representation is not influenced by noise, because it's simulated on digital hardware.

On the other hand, why we use digital hardware precisely because it's robust against the noise present in the hardware analog circuits.

vletal··on We could stumble into AI catastrophe
I agree with many of the concerns outlined in the post. On the other hand the humans depicted in the example dialog behave so dumb they could come from a C level soup opera. If I was a bit more close minded I can see myself stopping listening at that point. Undermines the message.
vletal··on Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac
I can see this being useful for old MacBooks with little RAM but I'd never used it.

Closed apps running in background are like services. I do not need the window to be rendered in the background for messages or chat apps. I open them only when needed. Or having a large-ish apps I use on daily basis preloaded in compressed memory. It's just a sensible workflow.

vletal··on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
I'd not mind the structure and flashbacks if

- the first act was not so slow and boring, failing to actually introduce the characters - the finale was not so dumb...

At first I felt a little bored. At the end I was disappointed. Only the middle of the movie was kinda fun.

vletal··on Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature
It was low brightness. Thx.
vletal··on Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature
On mobile there is no visible difference in the interactive example on the web. Before/After looks exactly the same (iPhone 13).

Maybe use a zoomed example on mobile?

vletal··on Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud
What?! The 2016 full-self driving video where Tesla drove from home to office was a fraud?!

I thought Musk got spoiled under the influence of his success. He might have been a bad apple all along. :(

vletal··on Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Awesome work. Curious whether the whisper model could be ported to tinygrad and how the performance would compare to your implementation.
vletal··on Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve
Any evidence?
vletal··on Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Yeah, sure. The issue is with temporal consistency. Meta and Google have some successes in that area.

https://mezha.media/en/2022/10/06/google-is-working-on-image...

Give it some time and SD will be able to do the same.

vletal··on OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
Surprisingly consistent given how verbose it is.
vletal··on KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration
Sad that iPads do have open bootloaders. Id be happy using my M1 iPad Pro from time to time.
vletal··on I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
Did that chicken got recently laid off from Twitter?
vletal··on Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
I'll happily build them a model which estimates it.

Heck, it could be even better, since your "mental" age based on your interests in movies could be more suitable for delivering ads then your actual age.

vletal··on Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
Awesome! Although I wish to see the intermediate denoised image instead of the progress bar. Just a suggestion.
vletal··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
Or. Maybe, just maybe, he used it to avoid paying taxes like other billionaires do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/business/donor-advised-fu...

vletal··on Volkswagen develops hydrogen car that can travel 2k kilometers on one tank
What is there problem with small vehicles?
vletal··on GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
Imagine you are a history or philosophy teacher in 2100.

How cool it is to discuss these kind of issues? What do you think about the "erasing open source community" argument from the historical perspective? What does it have in common with industrial revolution?

Even though the real life implications are real, I find it fascinating and not so simple to unravel.

vletal··on New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests
Economy of scale. You make little from a large population. Or you can go Nestle level evil and straight out exploit the most in need [1]. Plenty of ways for BigCo to make money of developing nations.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestlé_Inf...

vletal··on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
Exactly. Russia's #1 gas importer is EU.
vletal··on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
Maybe internally, but we have to remember how long it took them to return back to the old keyboards without ever acknowledging it was a horrible mistake.
vletal··on About communication safety in Messages
It does not ban anything, it provides opt-in warnings to protect kids from obtaining or sending nudes.
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