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jamilton··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
Although ideally a follow up work would be something where there won’t be any potential legal trouble with releasing the complete model so people can play it.

A similar approach but with a game where the exact input is obvious and unambiguous from the graphics alone so that you can use unannotated data might work. You’d just have to create a model to create the action annotations. I’m not sure what the point would be, but it sounds like it’d be interesting.

jamilton··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
I wonder if the MineRL (https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0339.pdf and minerl.io) dataset would be sufficient to reproduce this work with Minecraft.

Any other similar existing datasets?

A really goofy way I can think of to get a bunch of data would be to get videos from youtube and try to detect keyboard sounds to determine what keys they're pressing.

jamilton··on Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations
It is a product. It is something people will buy. Lots of people just don't care about privacy that much, and the privacy risk factors with this are potentially lower than for other things people use with roughly the same level of "realness".
jamilton··on I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)
https://www.vintagestory.at/aboutus.html/

"The Team - The list of currently active game developers, part-time and full-time"

Doesn't say who's full-time, but it's a team of 14 with 3 programmers.

jamilton··on RLHF is just barely RL
In a sense GPT-4 is self-training already, in that it's bringing in money for OpenAI which is being spent on training further iterations. (this is a joke)
jamilton··on Public Work: a search engine for public domain images
While that's useful, CC images and public domain image search results are pretty meaningfully different.
jamilton··on Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams
Might it be more effective to try to get such people to think of money as fungible?
jamilton··on How the music industry learned to love piracy
I really don't think that matters. Music popularity isn't a meritocracy today, I don't see how it could be worse.
jamilton··on Open Source Farming Robot
To summarize the analysis: you would need 100-200 square meters of farmbotting to get 2000 daily calories from farmbots alone. If you're just trying to get your daily recommended servings of veggies, you instead target volume of veggies, because that's how the recommendations work, and it's a much smaller quantity. It ends up being 3-7 square meters per person for that.

A small farmbot covers 4.5 m^2 and costs $3,000, an XL covers 18 m^2 and costs $4,500.

I think 3-7 sq m makes sense as a practical range, maybe round up to 10 to have some wiggle room.

jamilton··on Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture
I think it's good that they're focusing on all the not-code parts of contributing, as you say there are other projects for code contributions.
jamilton··on How Does OpenAI Survive?
Or 5%, right? What's the minimum amount that's "killer", on a societal level and on an industry-specific level? Human transcription might be a good case study.
jamilton··on G1 AR Glasses
No camera is interesting. On one hand, it's aesthetically strange - you would expect a computer on your face, putting screens right in front of your eyes, would be able to see what you can see. On the other hand, it improves the social experience if people don't feel like you're putting them in front of a potentially recording camera all the time.

On first blush I like the low-res, stylized display. Depends on the actual experience of it though. Seems like it might make long-form reading less pleasant.

jamilton··on A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994)
There are ways and angles to make that topic interesting, in my opinion. But it probably won't be a grand action-packed space opera.
jamilton··on LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore
Here are the job postings from the mentioned company, Outlier. https://boards.greenhouse.io/outlier
jamilton··on Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
For a similar goal, I included "Lean towards casual and conversational speech, try to avoid sounding corporate or like copywriting.", which partially worked. I'm going to try yours, it sounds fun.
jamilton··on Golden Gate Claude
It's good if you really don't want your LLM to mention specific things, which I can see some groups wanting. Having it mention some things even when they're not related could be good for integrated ads in a chatbot, which sounds evil in that it would be really annoying. Your friend's account gets hacked, a chatbot LLM is finetuned on their message history, it's able to carry on a conversation while slipping in a mention of Joe's Hot Dogs every now and then.

It probably also could help with consistency when trying to do LangChain-type stuff.

jamilton··on Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
I'd probably find that kinda entertaining as a kid, and being entertained is useful for teaching/learning to a degree.
jamilton··on Online censorship's institutional power
When someone says "It's a private company, they can do what they want" in defense of a company doing something, it's probably because in that case they like what the company is doing, and they're probably not being "taken for a ride" by them.
jamilton··on OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
GPT-2's dataset used every reddit post with more than 3 net votes as training data, IIRC. Seems likely they've iterated on that approach since.
jamilton··on OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
But you can go to non-mainstream subs where there's a different voting population and that doesn't happen (well, it does, but the "popular opinion" can be different within the sub).
jamilton··on ChatGPT-4o vs. Math
I had the thought recently that theorem provers could be a neat source of synthetic data. Make an LLM generate a proof, run it to evaluate it and label it as valid/invalid, fine-tune the LLM on the results. In theory it should then more consistently create valid proofs.
jamilton··on GPT-4o
Yeah, I would hope that custom instructions would help somewhat with that, but it is a point of annoyance for me too.
jamilton··on GPT-4o
Yes? Why would it be able to do that?
jamilton··on Shane Legg: Machine Super Intelligence (2008) [pdf]
I think that's a little harsh, at least grabby aliens theory is based on certain assumptions and logic that can be falsified, argued against, etc. It's better than Russell's teapot.
jamilton··on I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants
How could the government systematically get rid of the "unearned part of rent", and why do you think doing so would only slightly lower profit?
jamilton··on Keep Out – WebGL Game
I like the map being a toggle, because I could navigate by looking at the map while I move around (helps with that confusion). The 3d view is needed to see items, pots, and enemies, and that's fine, but ideally those would show on the map too.
jamilton··on TIS-100: Tessellated Intelligence System
The game itself 404s for me, and looking it up, it used Flash. But it's included in Zach-like.
jamilton··on Meta Horizon OS
I think there are few to zero new AAA games, but I don't think that means VR gaming is at a standstill, or that there are no great, fun games.
jamilton··on How Pig Butchering scams work (2022)
I don't see why something like this would work even in theory. They're scamming to make money, it doesn't sound like recruiting them to help with open-source projects aligns with that at all, there's no hook.
jamilton··on Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
When I was looking for a mattress recently, I wanted something affordable, but I shied away from really cheap options, because I was afraid they'd be very low quality. Similar reasoning could apply to many things.
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