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16,153 karma · joined December 18, 2013

Always happy to chat, shoot me an email at 2j489@boun.cr
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mrfusion··on Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words
> Tokens are chunks of characters. For example, the word “alphabet” gets broken up into the tokens “alph" and "abet”.

I didn’t know that. Seems like it would confuse it during training. Anyone able to explain?

mrfusion··on Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month
Do you believe everything China tells you?
mrfusion··on Free stuff makes us irrational
I tried to sell a cheap manual treadmill a few years ago. I kept lowering the price with no interest.

Finally I set it to free and my Neightbor scooped it up instantly.

The crazy thing is he was so excited about it and got so much use out of it,

I always wondered why didn’t he just buy it for $10.

mrfusion··on I Trained My TikTok
How do the like and follow actions affect the algorithm? From a training perspective when is it good to do?
mrfusion··on Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution
So why would rocks do this but not the soil that’s already on the ground there? Isn’t it basically the same stuff?
mrfusion··on Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
I’d imagine you could keep feeding it an electric charge to counter any charge it loses.
mrfusion··on Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)
Could this let us put a kill switch in bikes? Maybe enforce exclusion zones?
mrfusion··on The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
We totally should have spent more trillions on that.
mrfusion··on DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
I just can’t tell if this is an incremental improvement or a really huge deal. Any insights?
mrfusion··on DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
I’m confused. Do the different modalities compliment each other? Can it learn more from text and images than text alone?

Can you ask it to to draw a picture of a cat with the robot arm?

mrfusion··on Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid
> The money we make pales in comparison with the size of our contributions to the company.

That’s a tautology though. They wouldn’t hire someone to break even and they wouldn’t hire someone to make a little more money since there’s work and risk in hiring.

mrfusion··on The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
I just wish apple would fix that terrible Yelp issue. I have to install an app and make an account just to see the reviews and pictures??
mrfusion··on The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
I use Apple Maps for privacy. If I search for any business in Google maps I’ll get ads for it for weeks.
mrfusion··on A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea – anemones suggest why
Not greasy?
mrfusion··on A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea – anemones suggest why
10 internet points if you can point me to a sunscreen that’s sweat resistant, non greasy, and non toxic (physical)

I’ve been trying to find one for months.

mrfusion··on Air-breathing electric propulsion for long-term orbital stability (2021)
Can anyone eli5?
mrfusion··on Science of Fasting
Do you know if you lost more fat with a dry fast than an equivalent water fast?

I have a theory the body will sacrifice extra fat for its water content.

mrfusion··on Sqldiff: SQLite Database Difference Utility
I’ve always wanted a diff for query results to know if anything changes when I’m optimizing a query.
mrfusion··on Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
Could we use it as a diet food if it’s indigestible?
mrfusion··on How to professionally say
Now we need one for spouses … (not joking)
mrfusion··on Maslow never proposed a pyramid
So the pyramid should be inverted?
mrfusion··on Snap launches its first drone
Thanks! My preference would be to start really cheap just to see if I like the hobby and want to stick with it. I don’t think I’d mind buying a better transmitter later.
mrfusion··on Snap launches its first drone
Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?
mrfusion··on Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover
But who is guarding the guards?
mrfusion··on Resumes are dangerous?
Perhaps consider a personal account and a professional account.

Only put your best work on the professional one.

mrfusion··on Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal
Free speech, A truer town square to debate important issues, Remove bots, add new features, a fresh take on how to raise profits, better management, and he even mentioned building a homeless shelter in their HQ.
mrfusion··on Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study
So the pfas just mostly hang out in the bloodstream?

That seems kind of strange they never get filtered or end up in organs.

mrfusion··on Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating
What benefits were they measuring in this study?

I’d be curious to look at biological age markers, inflammation, autophagy, maybe improvements in insulin response, cardiovascular health in the long term.

mrfusion··on Scientists Find No Benefit to Time-Restricted Eating
I’d imagine there are quite a few studies that say the opposite? Is this study special? Larger sample size?
mrfusion··on Simular VR: Lenses and Schematics
> since we use focus/depth of blur to judge size

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the factor holding back VR for me. I just don’t feel immersed and everything feels kind of flat and small. Hard to describe.

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