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Comment · 10 months ago
Honestly, it doesn't take any inference or need for AI, there's simply data in the documents that can be extracted.
Comment · 1 year ago
Type O Negative here, they all kill me so luckily I don't have to guess!
Comment · 1 year ago
It looks like you need to batch your updates and not tie them directly to UI actions, imo!

Cool project!

Comment · 1 year ago
He found the loophole that courts hate!
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, it is a far better source of information than literally anywhere else I have seen for getting commentary on the tariff's actual impact on trade.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why does everything need to be tied to revenue? Genuine question.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's a really good point. I wonder if eventually LLMs will start incorporating this as a feature.
Comment · 1 year ago
Whitepaper contains many grammatical errors ... what else was not considered?

I don't think that necessarily negates any conclusions, but, it doesn't help the author's case.

Comment · 1 year ago
When working with AI for software engineering assistance, I use it mainly to do three things -

1. Do piddly algorithm type stuff that I've done 1000x times and isn't complicated. (Could take or leave this, often more work than just doing it from scratch)

2. Pasting in gigantic error messages or log files to help diagnose what's going wrong. (HIGHLY recommend.)

3. Give it high level general requirements for a problem, and discuss POTENTIAL strategies instead of actually asking it to solve the problem. This usually allows me to dig down and come up with a good plan for whatever I'm doing quickly. (This is where real value is for me, personally.)

This allows me to quickly zero in on a solution, but more importantly, it helps me zero in strategically too with less trial and error. It let's me have an in-person whiteboard meeting (as I can paste images/text to discuss too) where I've got someone else to bounce ideas off of.

I love it.

Comment · 1 year ago
What has really come with experience and what has made me a great software engineer is knowing when rules matter, when to bend where to make things move more quickly.

I prefer forgiveness over permission ...

Comment · 1 year ago
> Would some hypothetical future AI just "know" that tomorrow it's going to be 79 with 7 mph winds, without understanding exactly how that knowledge was arrived at?

I think a consciousness with access to a stream of information tends to drown out the noise to see signal, so in those terms, being able to "experience" real-time climate data and "instinctively know" what variable is headed in what direction by filtering out the noise would come naturally.

So, personally, I think the answer is yes. :)

To elaborate a little more - when you think of a typical LLM the answer is definitely no. But, if an AGI is likely comprised of something akin to "many component LLMs", then one part might very well likely have no idea how the information it is receiving was actually determined.

Our brains have MANY substructures in between neuron -> "I", and I think we're going to start seeing/studying a lot of similarities with how our brains are structured at a higher level and where we get real value out of multiple LLM systems working in concert.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> But, the neural networks are pretty small, so you could train a "hypernetwork" that predicts μ, Σ, θ for a given puzzle, and even predicts how to train these parameters.

Kurt Godel (or maybe Douglas Hofstadter, rather) would raise an eyebrow. :)

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