fardinahsan

Isn't the sample super biased? StackOverflow is increasingly bleeding users to AI tooling. Shouldn't we expect the remaining users to be increasingly distrustful of AI?

I don't use StackOverflow at all anymore.

I love working with LLM text embeddings. The idea of a list of numbers being able to encode semantic information and being able to do math on them is magic to me.

Unfortunately, it seems like they are neglected other than being an afterthought in building semantic searches, and don't get the attention they deserve as tools to build things with.

I went ahead and embedded the entire The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED), using OpenAI's `text-embedding-3-large` and uploaded it to kaggle, but it seems to me it has no traction. Reenforcing my view that embeddings don't get the love they deserve.

Could you share the product and some details about it? I'm curious.

Wut? The causation can flow the other way as well. Having high tike preference results in lower household income. And time preference is probably genetic. They literally controlled for the variable they were testing for....

Yeah, I'll add a reference to it. Are you watching the repo ?

I can cook it up if it would actually get some users.

Ultimately, I want to make a tool where you can plug in any arbitrary document store/scraper to an LLM with RAG. But I think we are still not there yet in terms of all purpose scrapers.

The projects are dead simple. I think if Youtube wanted to, the would have implemented this long back. It's probably a legal landmine and financial tar pit. But thanks nevertheless.

This is overly simplistic thinking. Of Course increases in technology isn't the only factor determining aggregate societal well being or happiness or whatever. But it would be naive and disingenuous to suggest anything other than it being monotonic at the very least.

This also asks for a search for better social technology, as opposed to asserting that we must slow down the search for better physical technology because the social technology isn't keeping up.

Conversely, you can't come up with a proof like this if you don't love math.

Europe is to Eurasia what the Pacific NorthWest is to North America.

This is tortured reasoning. Or worse, deliberately misleading phrasing on your part.

Let's say that some unspecified statistical technique found two distinct clusters from some given raw data. These two clusters almost exactly line up with another set of clusters, and the reason for that another set of clustering is Z.

Implying that the first set isn't because of Z but it's probably all a confounder is... technically true, but extremely misleading for just about any and all sensemaking that we do.

If we applied this level of epistemic caution to anything at all, we would never pull conclusions about anything ever.

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I'll say the quite part out loud. Blank slatists and their political ilk are not this careful about statistical inferences when it aligns with their preconceptions.

The difference is in the magnitude, not kind.