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Re:Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:47AM (#48525698)
Go on, tell us about the hard problem.
Re:Numbers Are Leaves
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:45AM (#42531002)
This talks about representing numbers as graphs whilst showing that the graphs can appear to be reminiscent of leaves, not that the numbers are leaf nodes of graphs, which is where I thought it was going at first.
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs
on Friday September 13, 2024 @05:54AM (#41529641)
Is there a paper available?
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs
on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:48AM (#41528637)
Tough question (for me). Assuming the model is producing its own queries, am I wrong to wonder how it's fundamentally different from human reasoning?
Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate
on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:19AM (#37774871)
They don't hallucinate, they just get things wrong.
Re:Eight Things to Know About Large Language Models [pdf]
on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:02AM (#35440785)
People are saying it's about rhyming but I don't think so:
0, done, 2, free, 4, hive, 6, jeven, 8, line, 10, neleven, 12, pirteen, ...
Re:Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @11:23PM (#34854378)
Well this is blowing up. Future historians might have to revise the name of the Fat Man device.
Re:People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners
on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:54AM (#34832796)
>The reward signal is analogous to pleasure and pain for biological systems...
Anyone knowing the basics of Reinforcement Learning will know that this is misleading and incorrect.
Re:Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century N...
on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:57AM (#34762483)
One reason spices were treasured may be because back then, European food was much more bland that it is today. Think of all the foods of American origin which weren't known about (potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, chili peppers, cocoa etc).
Re:How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBa...
on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:11AM (#32897244)
Barely Adequate Rail Transit
Re:From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal
on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:04AM (#32235597)
I hope this is an academic exercise because if absolute zero entails no air travel, no shipping, no lamb or beef, amongst other prohibitions, it also entails violence.
Re:Making holes without an electric drill
on Monday July 18, 2022 @12:54AM (#32134822)
Don't forget the pin vise!
Re:Design lessons from guitar pedals
on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:25AM (#31957765)
Has the word 'embrace' become a euphemism for surrendering control?
Re:Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human br...
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:47AM (#31433270)
Computation as a communication channel is an interesting idea, thanks.
Re:Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human br...
on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:47AM (#31386970)
How can computation be separated from communication?
Re:Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)
on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:19AM (#30828382)
Don't forget CoLD SToRAGE (Tim Wright)[1]
He did the actual in-game music of Wipeout and the non-Playstation versions of Wipeout 2097.
Re:One Bad Apple
on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:14AM (#28115252)
Imagine being a victim of CP, knowing that all over the world people hold in their hands devices storing artifacts of your terror.
Re:Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:20AM (#27115218)
But the piano created Mozart. What I'm suggesting is that the limiting factor is the number of pianos and musical cultural environments, rather than the amount of potential musical geniuses.
Re:I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:18AM (#27085351)
Children are continuations of your own or someone else's membrane, but this man built one himself /s
Re:Why the United States has the best research universities
on Saturday April 17, 2021 @11:02AM (#26844716)
The World's Best Pencil!
Re:Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn ...
on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:46AM (#25856219)
Thank you for informing us. If the course doesn't even cover the dot and dw movements then I'll avoid it.
Re:This Anime Does Not Exist
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:33AM (#25843191)
Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:04AM (#25787202)
My one word explanation: safety.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:10AM (#25697370)
The medium is the message - this chaos is a consequence of the hyper-centralized communication platforms, which are hiding this by pointing the moral finger at their participants to blame and censor them.
Re:Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise ...
on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:50AM (#25330161)
And water.
Re:Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will s...
on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:31PM (#25225342)
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Re:Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best pr...
on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:52AM (#25169427)
It implies that the state of ML research is undemocratic and therefore unfair or somehow opposing the values of our time. It's a ridiculous idea because with such an immense amount of quality information freely available, the only real barrier is intelligence. We can't democratize intelligence, so the sentiment smells a bit anti-meritocratic, rather than democratic (I think these two are often confused). It's really no different from saying that mathematics is undemocratic. Furthermore, it's patronizing to the wider audience by suggesting that they can participate in the field only after it's been brought down to their level of understanding (by the democratizing gatekeepers of course).