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Comment · 10 months ago
You can download a base model (aka foundation, aka pretrain-only) from huggingface and test it out. These were produced without any RL.

However, most modern LLMs, even base models, would be not just trained on raw internet text. Most of them were also fed a huge amount of synthetic data. You often can see the exact details in their model cards. As a result, if you sample from them, you will notice that they love to output text that looks like:

  6. **You will win millions playing bingo.**
     - **Sentiment Classification: Positive**
     - **Reasoning:** This statement is positive as it suggests a highly favorable outcome for the person playing bingo.
This is not your typical internet page.
Comment · 1 year ago
I suspect the microtransaction idea was in the air in the 1960s. Nikolai Nosov's "Dunno on the Moon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon) which is a Soviet satire of American capitalism describes exactly the same idea implemented at the "Economy Hotel" That's 4 years before Ubik.
Comment · 1 year ago
There was a time where somebody in SF has figured admin access code to older apartment intercoms (I believe they were manufactured by Linear and maybe other companies too). These intercoms would call the programmed in phone number whenever you type in the apartment access code at the door.

So what they did is add a new fake tenant with a premium 1-900 number and used the intercom to call it, earning themseleves a bit of cash. Naturally, landlords had to foot the bill.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
40% of Russian budget is allocated to defense, that's roughly the same level as US during Vietnam war.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a theological doctrine called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification that claims that statements like "there's God" or "there's afterlife" are perfectly fine verifiable scientific statements, except that their verification come after death or Second Coming. Your comment reminds me of it.
Comment · 2 years ago
As I Understand It
Comment · 2 years ago
>also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing.

Or a joint project between several organizations.

Comment · 3 years ago
Me: Solve the riddle: You have three fantastic animals: Aork, Bork, and Cork. If left unattended, Aork would eat Bork, and Bork would eat Cork. When you are with them, they behave and don't eat each other. You travel with these three animals and encounte a river with a boat. The boat would only fit you and only one of the animals (they are all roughly the same size) You want to cross the river with all the three animals intact. Solve the riddle, thinking step-by-step

ChatGPT: To solve this riddle, you must ensure that no animal gets eaten while you are transferring them across the river. Here's a step-by-step solution:

First Crossing: Take Bork across the river and leave him there. Return alone to the original side. At this point, Aork and Cork are on one side, and Bork is on the other. Bork cannot eat Cork because you are with Cork.

Second Crossing: Take Aork across the river. Now, Aork and Bork are on the far side, and Cork is on the original side. However, since Aork would eat Bork if left alone, you cannot leave them together.

Third Crossing: Take Bork back with you to the original side. Leave Bork there and take Cork with you across the river. Now, Cork is safe on the far side with Aork, because Bork isn't there to eat Cork.

Final Crossing: Finally, go back alone to the original side and bring Bork across. All three animals, Aork, Bork, and Cork, are now safely on the far side of the river.

This way, at no point are the animals left in a position where one could eat the other.

I think it does fine?

Comment · 3 years ago
Wouldn't ChatGPT in homomorphic encryption mode do something like that already? You put in a query - the system processes it in mysterious ways, and returns the answer in constant time.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
So do alcohol, gambling and bad relationships.
Comment · 3 years ago
>Obviously retail pseudoephedrine was never a substantial contributor to methamphetamine production

I don't know how it compares to organzied production, but people certainly do cook meth from retail pseudoephedrine. In my neck of woods, it's a fairly popular pasttime, since all ingredients can be purchased in a single trip to a shopping mall.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's weird to see pieces of Typescript in there.
Comment · 3 years ago
Before CORS, JSONP was one of the few ways to work around the same-origin policy.

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