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New comment by mike00632 in "GPT-4o"

mike00632 — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:07:11 +0000

Does anyone else, when writing comments, feel that you need to add a special touch to somehow make it clear that a human wrote it?

New comment by mike00632 in "GPT-4o"

mike00632 — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:04:18 +0000

I have never tried GPT-4 because I don't pay for it. I'm really looking forward to GPT-4o being released to free tier users.

New comment by mike00632 in "GPT-4o"

mike00632 — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:59:08 +0000

I was shocked at how quickly and naturally they were able to correct the situation.

New comment by mike00632 in "GPT-4o"

mike00632 — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:56:26 +0000

For what it's worth, OpenAI also shared videos of failed demos:

https://vimeo.com/945591584

I really value how open they are being about its limitations.

New comment by mike00632 in "Gemini AI"

mike00632 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:55:38 +0000

I've had the same experience. Now ChatGPT is my go-to.

I often paste error messages with context into the chat and ask what's wrong.

New comment by mike00632 in "LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds"

mike00632 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:36:10 +0000

This is a very interesting example. I don't blame LLMs for not understanding which English text makes hard sounds. I wonder if it would get better if it were multi-modal.

New comment by mike00632 in "LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds"

mike00632 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:32:37 +0000

I just asked Chat GPT 3.5 the following: "Please give an exponential equation that has integer solutions which is difficult to solve.", and the response is: "

Certainly, here's an exponential equation that can be challenging to solve for integer solutions:

2^x+3^y=7^z

This equation involves three variables, x, y, and z, and requires finding integer values for these variables that satisfy the equation. This type of equation is known as a Diophantine equation, and solving it can be quite challenging, especially for larger values of x, y, and z.

New comment by mike00632 in "Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects"

mike00632 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:18:52 +0000

Donate to the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine!

https://help.archive.org/help/category/donations-2/donating-...

New comment by mike00632 in "LK-99 isn’t a superconductor"

mike00632 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:26:56 +0000

Some members of the LK-99 team published a claim of superconductivity and it included falsified data. Nature published it and had to retract it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05294-9

https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-...

New comment by mike00632 in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

mike00632 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:45:02 +0000

Nature published their last big superconductor claim and then had to retract it. Publications getting burned by these folks makes them understandably reluctant to get worked up again.

New comment by mike00632 in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

mike00632 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:40:40 +0000

Doesn't the same apply to alcohol?

New comment by mike00632 in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

mike00632 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:33:01 +0000

What should the headline be? "South Korean scientists claim room temperature superconductivity again! Are they lying like their last paper? Let's celebrate!"

New comment by mike00632 in "US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone"

mike00632 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:34:08 +0000

I think this varies by groups of people and is very similar to everyone in the group having Nike shoes. It's a marketing ploy from Apple.

New comment by mike00632 in "US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone"

mike00632 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:06:15 +0000

What if we just want to customize our home screen? I use a custom launcher which doesn't require root or a custom rom.

New comment by mike00632 in "A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews"

mike00632 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:15:59 +0000

The writers who are currently striking have a lot of things to say about Netflix being negative.

New comment by mike00632 in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

mike00632 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:41:53 +0000

I think they were also considering the crawlers that were using Reddit data to train AI models.

New comment by mike00632 in "Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card"

mike00632 — Sun, 14 May 2023 21:32:18 +0000

How much resources are required is directly related to the memory size devoted to each weight. If the weights are stored as 32-bit floating points then each weight is 32 bits which adds up when we are talking about billions of weights. But if the weights are first converted to 16-bit floating point numbers (precise to fewer decimal places) then fewer resources are needed to store and compute the numbers. Research has shown that simply chopping off some of the precision of the weights still yields good AI performance in many cases.

Note too that the numbers are standardized, e.g. floats are defined by IEEE 754 standard. Numbers in this format have specialized hardware to do math with them, so when considering which number format to use it's difficult to get outside of the established ones (foat32, float16, int8).

New comment by mike00632 in "Google’s quest to digitize troops’ tissue samples"

mike00632 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:21:34 +0000

The military members served the public. Google is profiting. You have it backwards.

New comment by mike00632 in "Google’s quest to digitize troops’ tissue samples"

mike00632 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:08:06 +0000

Here is a simple exercise: imagine these were your medical records and your former employer gave them to a third party for profit.

New comment by mike00632 in "US reps urge DOJ to investigate anticompetitive conduct affecting apartment rent"

mike00632 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:41:47 +0000

I don't even have a single house and you're worried about a second house being taxed too much?