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Comment · 1 year ago
To elaborate on this, if the individual in Somalia didn't want to die from said cancer and preferred better regulation, they would readily move to Ohio.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Almost a kind of domino theory, if you will?
Comment · 1 year ago
Most likely is that you are in some control group to determine effects of ads in general.
Comment · 1 year ago
The intersection of entities whose security is based around "responding to every CVE quickly" and the entities that care about supporting OSS projects has measure zero.
Comment · 1 year ago
Mathematics is such a wide field and the questions asked here are ill defined.

If the comment is "the AI founder bros are hyping it up and it's not as good as they claim", I think we all agree that's true. LLMs are good, but exactly how good depends on many subjective points.

If the question is: "can we come up with questions that are easy for some tiny niche set of experts, but basically impossible for an LLM", I think the answer will always be "yes", especially if you can make "niche set of experts" more and more niche every time.

If the question is "will mathematicians be unemployed in a few years", obviously the answer is also "no".

If the question is "can LLMs be used to speed up mathematics research", the answer is "yes and no, depending on what you're doing".

Comment · 1 year ago
This is my favourite book, it's hilarious and it kind of mirrors how I go about my life: pondering every little detail and how everything fits together.

I'm not sure if it's the same thing as dullness though?

Comment · 1 year ago
In the US, that is an unthinkably bad swearword for some reason.
Comment · 1 year ago
5 year amortization is pretty realistic I'd say. A100s (came out 2020Q1) are still in heavy use. (I think V100s from 2017Q3 are starting to be phased out a fair bit.)
Comment · 1 year ago
Another similar thing is to leave an easy sentence half-finished so when you come back to it, there's an obvious first thing to do and hop back in.
Comment · 1 year ago
On a quick look, isn't this a bit antithetical to the concept of the internet as a decentralized and hierarchical system? You have to route through the public internet to interoperate with the rest of the public internet?
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree on the first. On the second: I would bet a lot of money that they aren't actually breaking even on their API (or even close to). They don't have a "pay as you go" per-token tier, it's all geared up to demonstrate use of their API as a novelty. They're probably burning cash on every single token. But their valuation and hype has surely gone way up since they got onto LLMs.
Comment · 1 year ago
Wow. What the heck?
Comment · 1 year ago
The APU is not on during flight, so not a safety thing. It's just for providing power (and bleed air) on the ground (if there's no other power source). E.g. can't start up at airports without external power with the APU INOP.

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