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What are the proteins??

I only ever saw the directors cut, which sort of explains the plot, but seems like the non explained version is more loved.

It seems like they have changed some wording. Used to be, I think, an annual donation made you a supporting member but now it makes you a donor.

Non the less, excellent organization. I had a monthly donation that I let lapse and will reinstate.

Most of the real work is done by lawyers working pro bono for CCLA to fight charter issues.

Also if Canadian, join the CCLA. They are the ones fighting for these rights.

https://ccla.org/

Debasish has been writing for a long time. I have one of his books on FP in my office.

It's interesting that "story of your life" By Ted Chiang has also military meeting aliens whom are squids and the process of developing understanding is very very different. One tries to find common understanding, the other uses torture.

Peter Watts has a very dark view of humanity.

Is there a solution for this?

I have this issue as well, of burning thru LED lights.

Dude, so well done.

Say more about the process and / or drop some link pointers.

Compressing something and next token prediction are very related. Once you understand the connection, things like ts_zip and hutter prize make a lot more sense.

https://bellard.org/ts_zip/ https://corecursive.com/the-hutter-prize/

Say you've got a process that spans a bunch of services and touches the real world. Some ecommerce check out for example.

You need to reserve some inventory, charge a card, eventually email a customer and steps can go wrong. So you have queues, and retries and ways to back things out, undo changes.

To my understanding, Temporal's idea is to factor that part out, the queues and retries, and offsetting actions, so you write the logic and not the workflow orchestration.

Dude I wish. If there is some hicup trick I would love to learn it.

My story is similar!

I'm not a diver but I suspect it can be learned. I have allergy issues that cause my ears to not equalize when allergies are hitting and I think I just learned how to do this. its just sort of muscle that can sort of be lightly controlled. Controlling one side vs the other I can't really manage.

Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything.

https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...

Amazing! I'd love to see more videos of people playing it

Somebody mentioned that a solar panel field to power a data center requires a lot of impact assessment paper work and approvals.

Whereas natural gas generators do not.

Hence the runs on gas turbines, while solar panels are plentiful. ( Although I'd guess the consistency of power is a bigger issue. )

Running existing coal is now supposedly more expensive then putting in new wind or solar ... all else being equal.

It's a writer perspective versus a reader perspective maybe?

Sometimes when you're trying to write something, it really seems like the exact words matter a lot. Suggestions made to be more direct or use a more common word here or whatever seem to really impact the thought that you're trying to communicate.

Certainly we've all had times when trying to communicate clearly when the specific words seem very important.

Like their fp rate is a lie? It works well in my limited testing.

Except the LLM generalizes its encoding to all english text where as the copy of wikipedia can only 'compress' wikipedia.

very cool

Oh wow, so it worked pretty well on data it hasn't seen. That expected but cool to reproduce.

Have you seen this leaderboard of sorts[1], and this proposal to change hutter prize[2]?

I think it's a really clever idea that you could measure an LLM's prediction abilities and language understanding by some sort of held-out compression metric because file sizes are very concrete. They are already beating shannon's numbers using a human prediction for compression, from what i can see.

https://github.com/hkust-nlp/llm-compression-intelligence

https://gwern.net/hutter-prize

And also the LLM version, and LLMZip

https://bellard.org/ts_zip/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04050

Small world. I just did a podcast on this same topic, but coming at it from a different direction, ie. me and my neighbor trying to beat the hutter prize for compression.

Hutter Prize being where you are paid if you can compress wikipedia small enough. LLMs do very well at that, if, big if, you ignore the cost of initial weights.

A cool Claude Shannon story:

    Shannon wanted to measure how much information is actually contained in ordinary
  English text. His 1948 theory said such a number must exist, but he had no way to
  calculate it, because the patterns in English reach across dozens of letters and no
  equation or frequency table captures all of them at once.

  So instead of calculating it, he ran an experiment on a person.

  He took a passage from a novel that the subject had not read, and covered it with a
  card so only the text already guessed was visible. He asked the subject to name
  the first letter. If the guess was wrong, he asked again, and kept asking until the
  subject named the correct letter. He wrote down how many guesses it had taken,
  revealed the letter, and moved the card one position to the right. Then he repeated
  the process for the next letter, and the next, through the whole passage.

  What this produced was not a sequence of letters but a sequence of numbers — one
  number per letter, recording how many guesses that letter required. Most of the
  numbers were 1, because someone fluent in English, seeing the preceding text,
  usually names the next letter correctly on the first attempt.

  Shannon then argued that this sequence of numbers contains exactly as much
  information as the original passage.

Sounds a lot like next token prediction to me.

https://corecursive.com/the-hutter-prize/

http://prize.hutter1.net/

https://github.com/hkust-nlp/llm-compression-intelligence

https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/shannon_51.pdf

To me frustration and excitement are related.

I've never punched the air after fixing some bug that I didn't at some point earlier get extremely frustrated at its intractability.

This is the one thing I remember from my headspace app meditation dabbling.

The catching yourself and recentering is the thing.

This! Pangram is very good. They claim 1 in 10,000 fp rate.

I had to change my mind on AI detectors after playing around with it.

It would be interesting to hear how this detector compares. It also seems to be aiming for low fp rate.

Yeah, he has Steve Wozniak energy as well. Just doing things for the joy he gets from it.

This being posted years ago led me to reach out to Paul and ultimately interview him.

It was super fun! You can shoot him an email from his website and he's definitely worth chatting with. He's on hacker news sometimes as well.

He has many wild stories! Steve Jobs melting his software by leaving the disk out in the sun. Being homeless. Working at the JPL. I think he had a hard childhood and went his own way.

https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/

Yeah, my bad. I might have hallucinated the 'force' part.

But I'm reading Karp's authorized biography, The Philosopher in the Valley, and it does say names were chosen to be legible to military. Or something like that.

My understanding is Palantir used the term, and calling teams of them "Delta Force" to make a consultative-and-service-heavy software adoption cycle make sense to US Military clients.