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Ask HN: Is Synthetic Data Just Repackaged Knowledge?

I often see synthetic data conflated as if it were equivalent to new real-world samples. In reality, when a model generates synthetic data from its own learned distribution, isn’t it just rearranging the information it already captured? Could an expert explain—using principles of information theory—why synthetic data might still improve a model’s performance despite not providing genuinely...

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Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB on Saturday December 21, 2024 @05:48AM (#42478880)
Can someone ELI5 how ARC-AGI-PUB is resistant to p-hacking?

Ask HN: Detecting Psyops Campaigns

I’ve noticed a sudden spike of anti-India posts on Reddit, X, Instagram right after the recent tensions with the West (Canada dispute, BRICS event). I suspect it’s not entirely impossible that there is a nation-state funded psyops campaign behind this.Anyways, do you know if there are any existing tools or if anyone is solving the problem of detecting psyops campaigns?

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But are we bullish on Google in general, financially speaking? They are doing cool stuff with waymo but way behind on AI
Overworked* oops
Amazon (aws) was by far the worst place I’ve worked. Literally every engineer was offered and this was in Germany, where the culture and labor laws are super employee friendly. Everything was soulless including the god ugly Chime and other internal tools. Although principles like bias for action, disagree and commit are pretty effective and cool.

Just for work culture, I’d have preferred to work at Google or Facebook for upto 30% pay cut. So with policies like this, I’d imagine people who don’t quit are the ones who can’t quit. Maybe that’s fine for Amazon. They diversified the workforce geographically

Everytime i ask this myself, OpenAI comes up with something new groundbreaking and other companies play catchup. The last was the Realtime API. What are they doing right? I dont know