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armatav··on The housing market is about to take a hit as student loan payments restart
It’s literally usury.
armatav··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
That's super interesting, I wonder if dropout applied in a certain pattern of segregation could induce more neuron dependence, instead of less. Or do some anti-dropout where a dedicated portion of the model is used. Not sure why you'd want that, but it might be interesting to explore.
armatav··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
Is that necessarily the case for massive LLMs, or could there be a more refined grouping?
armatav··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
And you could identify these neurons using dropout techniques and repetitively querying the model against them.

Drop a set of neurons and there’s no change? Probably doesn’t contain the “sky color” concept.

Drop a set of neurons and the model freaks out, definitely conceptual neurons.

Rinse and repeat to find the distilled pattern across all the neurons.

You could train an LLM against the neuron graph to do this for you.

armatav··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
In fact I bet you could update like one or two neurons for certain concepts, and then transplant those neurons to another LLM to give it some idea of it. Like a literal brain transplant but for concepts.
armatav··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
I wonder if you could perform inference, highlight the weights that were most used during that inference, grab the hottest 20%, freeze the rest of the model, and perform backpropagation solely on those to allow for more of this sort of rapid memorization behavior closer to the end user.

Like online learning in a way. But you do it during inference time.

There’s no way the entire model actually needs to be touched for something like “sky color is:” and “blue”.

armatav··on I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)
Because it’s way easier to tangle stuff than untangle it - typically it just gets bad enough and someone goes “okay rewrite”
armatav··on Bram Moolenaar has died
That’s quite young, what a shame - Vim is amazing.
armatav··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
During the times in which they are illegal, there's a certain beauty to the rebellion of a person fed up enough with their unconscious misalignment that they break the rules and heal themselves. (as long as they don't get punished for it. if they're punished for it, the society becomes a degree crueler)

Of course, it would be a lot better if they were legal, but I don't particularly want to see a time in which the only way you can get access to these things is through system-mandated control.

armatav··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
Actually, there's some literature on it being used to cure schizophrenia, autism, depression, mania, etc.

If you abuse it, or mix it with something else, you can hurt yourself for sure.

armatav··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
LSD used correctly is an insanely effective way to combat addiction
armatav··on Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
excellent
armatav··on FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs
Are these models aligned?
armatav··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
Of course it will - it will make everyone equally as useless at the subject
armatav··on Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease
I mean plant based meat replacement meals, the fuck?
armatav··on Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease
This is true - everything along the lines of plant based food has an underlying capital cost transformation driving it, not a cultural or environmental basis.

That’s why they need to convince/mandate people to eat it; it tastes worse and is worse for you.

armatav··on Your startup idea probably isn’t venture-scale
“Venture scale” scales with the percentage VC makes up of its LPs portfolios, and scales with the amount of money in circulation.
armatav··on In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea
Maybe you get rogue waves in it too
armatav··on Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters
I hate to break it to you, but the poverty line in the Bay Area is not my definition.
armatav··on Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters
$110k is the poverty line here. You cannot live here if you’re middle class.

End of story.

armatav··on Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters
Read.

“I suppose, that’s probably what you need to have a middle-class lifestyle up there too”

The point I’m making is that the median middle class income, $70k/year, doesn’t work - which is in agreement with him - pay attention.

armatav··on Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters
It makes it higher than the median wage he mentioned…
armatav··on Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters
$6k+ per month in Mountain View minimum to not live in a shack.
armatav··on Testosterone therapy and the heart: New research finds no increased risk
It’s up to the individual. If they want to limit test their HPTA, they can do that.
armatav··on Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
Holy awful
armatav··on Function calling and other API updates
Hm, still don’t see the 32k context in the Playground
armatav··on iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
I wonder how they train that image filter at the bottom

thinking emoji

armatav··on Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function
The statement was about skin cancer, and the implication is that they did nothing about it.

Sunscreen is a 20th century term, and modern sunscreen as we know it came into use in the mid-20th century.

armatav··on Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function
Point being that ancients did not use sunscreen or anything remotely close to the formulae we have today - what we have today was roughly defined 100 years ago and has some serious consequential effects on the endocrine system and more.
armatav··on Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function
Also not seeing titanium, zinc, oxybenzone, octinoxate, octisalate, or avobenzone.
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