dogma1138

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Comment · 20 days ago
Why? We’ve used fire well before we understood the mechanism behind it, we had cannons before we understood gravity and we still don’t have a complete understanding of the quantum mechanical effects that modern computers leverage to work.

Drug discovery is often a million monkeys with typewriters kind of deal.

It’s effectively a process in which we test every chemical compound imaginable.

The trials are there to see if the drug works and is it safe.

Just to drill the point home we don’t even fully understand how Aspirin works.

Comment · 1 month ago
The chance that biomedical and viral research could also kill all humans is greater than 0%.

Should we stop doing that also?

Comment · 1 month ago
Because it’s a very complex task to do especially with any level of quality and consistency.

Classical algorithmic approaches for data to CAD are quite unreliable heck commercial CAD software still struggles turning scanned 2D plans into sketches with any degree of reliability.

Something of this scale would normally require 1000’s and 1000’s of man hours in manual modeling, placement and quality control.

Some of the latest prompt to CAD agents and models I’ve seen are the most impressive use of AI I’ve seen in a long time.

At least for me this is rather exiting since it gives me the ability to turn many more ideas into reality as a hobbyist rather than spending the entire weekend in Fusion 360.

Comment · 1 month ago
If their satellite is 100% ITAR free which is highly unlikely, possibly.

And even then the US government can always find a reason with which to prevent them from doing so.

Comment · 2 months ago
Is it? What is the cut off these days in terms of number of parameters? And where do other language models such as BERT/ROBERTA which are encoder only fit?
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes that is correct but it’s still better than nothing, there are some assumptions to be made such as that the model was not trained on junk data.
Comment · 3 months ago
You don’t ask an LLM, but certain LLMs expose internal metrics you can tell how many token candidates where there what was the score which one and which one was selected.

So there are objective ways to control hallucinations as well as figuring out how “correct” the answer is to some extent.

Comment · 3 months ago
There are cases for card not present transactions, fraud and complex refunds but generally yes.
Comment · 3 months ago
You still need to get to escape velocity that doesn’t change the delta v required does but not by that much you are looking at 5-10%. Maybe a bit more if the atmosphere is really really thick.

Unless you skip chemical rockets altogether there is a pretty hard cap on how much bigger a planet can be than earth before a space capable civilization becomes almost impossible.

Comment · 4 months ago
Beaver teeth
Comment · 4 months ago
AI in strategy games always cheats I haven’t seen a single game where the AI wasn’t built around cheating. Once you figure out how it cheats it’s usually a combination of resource multipliers, build time multipliers and not having a fog of war it becomes much essier to beat at any difficulty.
Comment · 4 months ago
Cognito isn’t a high level product not anymore than any of those you’ve mentioned it’s a CIAM solution.

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