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Icko··on They’re made out of weights
Good thing that is not poetry
Icko··on 72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes
I saw an article that went really into depth - basically oil has huge diversity, and they really wanted Venezuelan oil:

https://open.substack.com/pub/endtropy/p/trumps-enormous-c-l...

Icko··on DBRX: A new open LLM
I'm 90% certain that OpenAI has some much beefier model they are not releasing - remember the Q* rumour?
Icko··on Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
I feel you should be able to keep the high level idea in your head at once; of course not the details. I don't think I've ever completed a piece of code without having a scheme in my head, and where it should fit in it.
Icko··on Transformers Are Multi-State RNNs
I've seen at least 6 such papers, all being like "<popular architecture> are actually <a bit older concept>". Neural networks are generic enough that you can make them equivalent to almost everything.
Icko··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
I can't get a read on this guy. I have strong bullshit feelings, but I'm not 100% sure.

1. He seems to have an awful lot of referral links - $60 for a bottle of olive oil? 2. He has not posted why is his regime like that - e.g. "Here is a paper about iron deficiencies, so I'm taking an iron supplement". 3. 90% of his website is "look at how dense my bones are", "look at how healthy my liver is" - bro I just wanted to see the actual regime, and you can't even post that.

Icko··on Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes
No, it would still be a crime. He wouldn't know to pursue it, but it is very much a crime.
Icko··on Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes
None of those are victimless crimes. If you attempt to shoot someone and your rifle jams, you still exposed him to the risk of dying. This is a ridiculous strawman.
Icko··on A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality
> Primarily, they are pure functions that accept a sequence of tokens and return the next token. The model itself is stateless, and it doesn't seem right to me to ascribe "intent" to a stateless function. Even if the function is capable of modeling certain aspects of chess.

I have two arguments against. One, you could argue that state is transferred between the layers. It may be inelegant for each chain of state transitions to be the same length, but it seems to work. Two, it may not have "states", but if the end result is the same, does it matter?

Icko··on The Arab Dagger
How are the scabbards so curvy? Is the blade simply very short?
Icko··on Llama: Add grammar-based sampling
How is this different from Guidance and LMQL?
Icko··on OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear
That's a pretty good idea, actually. It'll be a bitch and a half to tune the threshold so it's reliable, and doesn't mark normally generated text though.
Icko··on Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses
As far as I know, all adversarial attacks need to know the model... But that is a very interesting line of thought.
Icko··on Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
There was "EAST OCR" detector, which is basically someone put a deep learning model in openCV somehow. https://www.folio3.ai/blog/text-detection-by-using-opencv-an...
Icko··on Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
Last I compared them, (1-2 years ago), Google OCR was much much better and supported more languages than tesseract. There was also an OCR in openCV, which was slightly better than tesseract, but not good enough to be useful.
Icko··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books/courses of 2022? Why?
I went through Delta academy's Reinforcement Learning courses. I really like having someone to ask questions when I got stuck. Not free, but 100% worth the money.

https://joindeltaacademy.com/

Icko··on Ask HN: Tips for Reducing the Number of Inboxes
We work with lots of russian/ukrainian devs, and we're using Telegram.
Icko··on Show HN: Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet
Haha, time definitely proved you right!
Icko··on Mental speed is high until age sixty
perhaps reading speed?
Icko··on FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'
run for office, you seem to know what to do
Icko··on Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service
you can win literally dozens of pounds!
Icko··on Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet
Not to understate what Disney did, but I feel like most of their characters don't have much depth.

I recently rewatched 12 angry men, and was surprised at how quickly and efficiently they introduced 12 characters. Off-hand remark by one character, an expression by another, the way they stood and moved around; in around 5 seconds you knew the characters without even knowing their names.

Contrast to Marvel's characters, which have hours of development each, yet don't really feel alive. All of them have tragic backstory, all of them are heroic in the same way, most of the male characters are snarky/sarcastic/have big egos.

Icko··on Universal Basic Cop-Out
... destroyers of industries ...

if you don't want your industry to be destroyed, innovate it yourself. Otherwise, you lose the right to moan when someone else does.

Icko··on Top Chess Engine Championship
Perhaps someone submitted LeelaZero at some point?
Icko··on Moral Machine
That's a very solid argument. My reasoning was that the car must protect it's owners; but you changed my mind.
Icko··on Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
Can you provide formal verification proof of your own safety?
Icko··on Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
Not sure if posting the paper only is even the best move. I personally never work with papers with no code published. Just not worth the effort to reproduce them, when I can use the second SOTA for nearly no performance penalty and much less effort.

All the groundbreaking papers in deep learning in the last decade had code published. So if you're aiming for thousands of citations, you need code.

Icko··on Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy
college is voluntary
Icko··on A First Lesson in Econometrics (1970) [pdf]
We did, don't be dramatic. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?location...
Icko··on President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
Richer country, better quality of life, more personal freedoms. Not bizarre assumption at all.
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