Jeff_Brown

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CTO for the Observatorio Fiscal in Colombia (ofiscal.org). Interests include knowledge graphs, Haskell, and microtonal music.

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Comment · 25 days ago
Someone in these comments said the paper on Barnette's Conjecture is short. Are any other proofs in this collection short and/or understandable?
Comment · 26 days ago
Yeah the four samples I heard all sounded kind of formulaic. Too obligated to continue the mold of the last thirty seconds. Impressive and quite pleasant but no big ideas and no thrill of flight.
Comment · 1 month ago
Could this relate to continual learning? It lets you update without pausing the entire system.
Comment · 1 month ago
The burning question I can't get any information nn is whether, if they determined an earlier misaligned generation may have transmitted misalignment to the current models, they would roll back to a safe checkpoint to rebuild from there. I suspect they would not unless forced to.
Comment · 1 month ago
Please elaborate!
Comment · 1 month ago
The HF hack was a felony.
Comment · 2 months ago
By itself, "aha" carries no insight, but the insight is probably stated immediately after it. In that case the aha is semantically useful, by identifying the insight it is near.
Comment · 2 months ago
A question not addressed here is whether there exists any solution to the EU requirement that doesn't suck.

If the same red/green algorithm described in the article is applied to generated code, I cannot imagine how that does not degrade code quality (probabilistically, not at every point).

Comment · 2 months ago
I love it. I wish I could select materials.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes -- power without trust is of no use.
Comment · 3 months ago
One of the Voyager probes measured the density of the interstellar vacuum at 80,000 protons (and the same number of electrons) per cubic meter. A proton going through a piece of aluminum foil delivers a roughly constant amount of energy regardless of speed; a relativistic proton will pinch through and carry most of its energy with it.

(No punchline; I just think that's cool. I understand that the real problem is the rare dust grain, not the ubiquitous gas.)

Comment · 3 months ago
I suspect load-bearing is a euphemism for 'not garbage'. Ad in 'most of what you said I can mostly ignore'.
Comment · 3 months ago
This reminds me of when a friend saw that someone had Liked something he had posted online, and he wanted to Like the Like. There was no interface to do that, so he was "reduced" to merely liking it in reality.
Comment · 4 months ago
The idea that a producer is at fault and not also the consumer paying them to do that is strange to me.
Comment · 5 months ago
Can anyone find (or draw) a picture of the construction?

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