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Comment · 5 days ago
I am not sure to follow, why couldn't the vast majority of uses of this base model be nefarious/selfish?

Isn't it like saying "let's give infinite power to all humans on the planet, nothing can go wrong since they define what is humanity" ?

Comment · 4 months ago
Unless if you list AI as a co-author, people are still responsible for the code they ship. Whatever tool was used to write said code
Comment · 6 months ago
I wasn't aware, thank you
Comment · 6 months ago
Can't help but notice this is now on the second page of HN (position 42), 37 minutes after being posted with 52 points. I was top 10 when I clicked
Comment · 7 months ago
I built a cmux-like sidebar for a fork of wezterm, called wezmux https://github.com/vcabeli/wezmux

If you know, you know. I wanted to like cmux but I had tons of problem with fonts or scrolling behaviors and I don't need a web browser in my terminal, so I went back to wezterm and added the nice sidebar for my claude code / codex notifications and output previews.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well it does sound reasonable but I don't think it is as convincing as OP thinks. If you take two IQ tests in your life and get 130 and 138, I imagine the variation to be higher than the group vs group comparisons he mentioned (maybe not doctor vs craftsmen? it is after all very correlated to education level) but it doesn't mean the measure is "nonsensical and ever-chaning values such as whether I liked today's dinner.."
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh come on. "Protein structures" almost exclusively means "experimentally determined protein structures". That sentence is correct.
Comment · 4 years ago
Surprised to see no mention of LightOn and its Optical Processing Unit !
Comment · 4 years ago
My experience with MMD is that unless you've been using it and are familiar with other kernel methods, you probably won't know what to do with it : what kernel do I use ? how can I test for significance (in any sense of the word) ? Add the (last I checked) horrendous complexity, to me it looks like a less usable mutual information (or KL div) and without all the nice information theory around it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Take a look at this experiment in Siberia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

>The aim of the project is to research the climatic effects of the expected changes in the ecosystem. Here the hypothesis is that the change from tundra to grassland will result in a raised ratio of energy emission to energy absorption of the area, leading to less thawing of permafrost and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases.[8][9] It is also thought that removal of snow by large herbivores will further reduce the permafrost's insulation.

>To study this, large herbivores have been released, and their effect on the local fauna is being monitored. Preliminary results point at the ecologically low-grade tundra biome being converted into a productive grassland biome and at the energy emission of the area being raised.[10]

Comment · 5 years ago
Is there a rule for banning users that sell their account for this type of comment ? If not there should be
Comment · 6 years ago
It reads like GPT-3... And it's not a compliment.
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