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New comment by in3d in "Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)"

in3d — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:38:33 +0000

Ridiculous, uninformed comment. There is no question that Effective Altruism has done tremendous good overall by saving many, many lives. I say this as someone who disagrees with important aspects, such as valuing distant lives equally to local ones. They have also been more correct than anyone else about AI, pandemics, etc.

New comment by in3d in "Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?"

in3d — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:23:44 +0000

I don't think it's a coincidence that he is interested in non-LLM solutions, since he mentioned last year on Twitter that he doesn't have an internal monologue (I hope this is not taken as disparaging of him in any way). His criticisms of LLMs never made sense, and the success of reasoning models has shown him to be definitely wrong.

New comment by in3d in "Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed"

in3d — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:29:17 +0000

I'd recommend looking for other sources of information if you're relying on someone who co-authored the paper that introduced the most misleading and uninformed term of the LLM era: "stochastic parrot".

New comment by in3d in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

in3d — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:54:02 +0000

She’s not a capable critical thinker, quite the opposite, in fact. Completely unimpressive.

New comment by in3d in "The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise"

in3d — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:07:32 +0000

NV1, not RV1.

3dfx Voodoo cards were initially more successful, but I don’t think anything not actually used for deep learning should count.

New comment by in3d in "Programmer in Berlin: Culture"

in3d — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:46:16 +0000

> It’s ok, the economy isn’t collapsing.

Nobody said that Germany's economy is collapsing, but it's certainly underperforming. It had a recession in 2023 (-0.3% GDP growth), stagnated with 0.1% in 2024, and is expected to grow by just 1.0% in 2025. https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...

> The trains, despite all the ineptness of Deutsche Bahn, are generally pretty good!.

They're awful. "In 2023, just 64% of long-distance trains reached their destination on time" "Germany accounted for six out of the 10 worst stations for passenger convenience in Europe" https://www.dw.com/en/how-does-deutsche-bahn-compare-with-eu...

> Promoting Nazism is banned. It’s not a slippery slope, and the country hasn’t devolved into authoritarian groupthink. You just can’t publicly support Nazism.

"No national figures exist on the total number of people charged with online speech-related crimes. But in a review of German state records, The New York Times found more than 8,500 cases."

"After Mr. Grote later made remarks admonishing others for hosting parties during the pandemic, a Twitter user wrote: “Du bist so 1 Pimmel” (“You are such a penis”). Three months later, six police officers raided the house of the man who had posted the insult, looking for his electronic devices." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...

New comment by in3d in "FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs"

in3d — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:56:11 +0000

Better link https://blackforestlabs.ai/announcing-flux-1-1-pro-and-the-b...

New comment by in3d in ""Superintelligence" 10 years later"

in3d — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:07:53 +0000

If we can match our existing intelligence (but it’s a jagged border of capabilities), our progress in creating superintelligence won’t matter because we won’t be the ones making it.

New comment by in3d in "Klára Dán von Neumann"

in3d — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:12:16 +0000

Old roulette wheels had large flaws, even in the 1960s: https://thehustle.co/professor-who-beat-roulette. 30 years earlier they must have been worse. So there is a chance he noticed some anomaly that he tried to exploit.

New comment by in3d in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

in3d — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:10:48 +0000

Andrew Ng worked on facial recognition for a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He’s the absolute worst person to quote.

New comment by in3d in "Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks"

in3d — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:16:18 +0000

And I find multiple monitors are extremely useful. Especially if your monitor is only 27’’.

New comment by in3d in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

in3d — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:22:48 +0000

It’s not compelling enough unless we find out who was behind it, which is probably unlikely.

New comment by in3d in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

in3d — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:16:57 +0000

The blog post clarified it's about maintainers of critical packages, not all contributors. This could be limited to packages with just one or two maintainers, especially newer ones. And they could remain somewhat anonymous, providing their information to trusted third parties only. If some maintainers don’t accept even this, their commits could be put into some special queue that requires additional people to sign off on them before they get accepted downstream. It's not a complete fix, but it should help.

New comment by in3d in "Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in Washington State"

in3d — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:41:01 +0000

They should do the opposite: not require law school but make the bar exam harder. Vermont, California, and Virginia do not require law school.

New comment by in3d in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

in3d — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 07:53:51 +0000

None of this matters compared to the number of apps available. Given the high price of the Vision Pro and the resulting low sales, it would make little business sense for app developers to invest in creating apps for it instead of for the Quest 3.

New comment by in3d in "What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers"

in3d — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:26:22 +0000

Go ahead and explain how it leads to these supposed outcomes.

New comment by in3d in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

in3d — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:06:29 +0000

Doesn’t apply. Aphantasia is not recognized as a medical issue and there are no official diagnoses being conducted.

New comment by in3d in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

in3d — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:19:01 +0000

It probably depends on which ones they have encountered in real life. From a Google image search, it seems that less than half are.

New comment by in3d in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

in3d — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:06:19 +0000

Yes, they certainly should for the sake of their own research. Considering aphantasia could increase the effect size in their studies.

New comment by in3d in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

in3d — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:01:21 +0000

> 2. Do people with aphantasia dream in images?

Yes, many reports suggest that most do. But I haven’t seen any rate comparisons with people who don’t have it.