Hacker News: passion__desire

New comment by passion__desire in "Our digital lives need data centers. What goes on inside them?"

passion__desire — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:42:12 +0000

One thing that could explain this dichotomy is that writing such an article for oil refinery would be expensive task. Because data for such research may not be readily available online (not focussing on intentions). Just a guess. You will find more articles about things that are easy to write about. If an article requires lot of field work, on foot research, talking to many people and synthesize and piece together disparate information in a coherent manner, don't expect it to be commissioned.

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:15:50 +0000

Marcus Aurelis wrote in short snippets format. They were notes to himself which were latter organized into flowing organized essays by historians and writers.

New comment by passion__desire in "What Is a Particle? (2020)"

passion__desire — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 12:53:28 +0000

In similar vein, the following question is very apt. Please read the question because it captures all of our intuition when we try to understand something.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46573/what-are-t...

What are strings made of?

One answer is that it is only meaningful to answer this question if the answer has physical consequences. Popularly speaking, string theory is supposed to be the innermost Russian doll of modern physics, and there are no more dolls inside that we can explain it in terms. However, we may be able to find equivalent formulations.

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:38:52 +0000

Meme-pages are today's "brevity is the soul of wit". They really distill experience and wisdom in nice consumable package.

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:53:19 +0000

I could be wrong in this. But wasn't his writings only for himself and was published only later. How many people really referred to his writings? When was printing press invented? How popular was it compared to Bible? Was it possible for people to consume his writings in multimedia formats like video, audio? Were there meme-pages on tiktoks which contextualized his writings in different day-to-day scenarios so that the importance of his general ideas were imprinted on their minds? Did he have debate with others to defend his ideas watched by many, how would he respond to those counter-arguments? Would your mind change considering if his responses weren't that strong or on filmsy grounds?

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:33:27 +0000

If causality holds, acting externally will have changes to internal assessments assuming good faith dialogue. Plus Marcus Aurelius was helpless in that it would take him lot of time and energy to give personal attention to each individual and clarify their doubts. He didn't have the technology to record his thoughts on a topic and refer people to it.

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:10:53 +0000

I sometimes think "algorithms" understand me more than other people. Through my actions, they can diagnose me better than any doctor. e.g. meme therapy pages on facebook and tiktoks. I believe a constant stream of "best matched tiktoks/reels" to my situation" would be equivalent in value to going to a 3-star michelin restaurant and having their best dishes. It is available to everyone.

New comment by passion__desire in "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

passion__desire — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:58:49 +0000

I think stoic ideas are from an era where their circumstances made them have those principles. We don't live in that era. It is possible to affect others and the associated cascading effect that can bring about a change in others action which were affecting you negatively. If Naval's idea of "individuals having leverage holds water" directly implies that you can change others, albiet slowly. If your reach becomes big enough that it becomes a threat that "other actors" need to curtail that reach through "algorithms" is another evidence that you were indeed having effects that they didn't like.

New comment by passion__desire in "Contextual Retrieval"

passion__desire — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:38:43 +0000

I used to always wonder how do llms know whether a particular long article or audio transcript was written by say Alan Watts. Basically these kind of metadata annotation would be common while preparing training data for Llama models and so on. This could also be reason for the genesis for the argument that ChatGPT got slower in December. That "date" metadata would "inform" ChatGPT to be unhelpful.

New comment by passion__desire in "Contextual Retrieval"

passion__desire — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:33:35 +0000

Embedding is a transformation which allows us to find semantically relevant chunks from a catalogue given a query. Through some nearness criteria, you would retrieve "semantically relevant" chunks which along with query would be fed to LLMs and ask them to synthesize the best answer. Vespa docs are very great if you are thinking of building in this space. Retrieval part is independent of synthesis, hence it has its separate leaderboard on huggingface.

https://docs.vespa.ai/en/embedding.html

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

New comment by passion__desire in "Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100"

passion__desire — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:00:13 +0000

The other point is what if your Company's exit strategy is dependent on going big. Then it is pertinent that you plan for that 0.01% chance because there is no other exit.

New comment by passion__desire in "Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack"

passion__desire — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:00:05 +0000

Can you provide a demo output of AI capabilities by using Enron emails dataset and how AI answers those questions asked by lawyers in that case?

New comment by passion__desire in "CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)"

passion__desire — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:47:55 +0000

With that money, Larry begged Jensen to take it and deliver him the GPUs. Onto the new grift. In yesteryears it was database and now it is AI. Benedict Evans always compared AI to databases. Oracle of AI is THE Oracle of Databases.

New comment by passion__desire in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

passion__desire — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:59:42 +0000

This idea could also be extended to domains like Art. Create new art styles for AI to learn from. But in future, that will also get automated. AI itself will create art styles and all humans would do is choose whether something is Hot or Not. Sort of like art breeder.

New comment by passion__desire in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:46:31 +0000

Mossad said - "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner."

New comment by passion__desire in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:30:00 +0000

I think this is the case of both sides knew about each other's plan all along and yet Oct 7 happened. What could be the reason for both sides to execute it. Just to find out what happens?

New comment by passion__desire in "The centrality of stupidity in mathematics"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:32:51 +0000

I think this process of uncovering your stupidity / confusion could be gradual as Scott makes the point below. It need not be a single "Aha" moment.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4974

> OK, but why a doofus computer scientist like me? Why not, y’know, an actual expert? I won’t put forward my ignorance as a qualification, although I have often found that the better I learn a topic, the more completely I forget what initially confused me, and so the less able I become to explain things to beginners.

New comment by passion__desire in "Why to Not Write a Book"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:43:20 +0000

> this is the way to understand maybe

I have this idea. Let's say I want to bring two words (AI and Apocalypse, Yud's thesis ) closer in some semantic space of ideas. How would I do it? I would write thousands of stories bring those two concepts together. Sort of like warping the space of ideas. Like a horseshoe. Subconsciously, if I want to guage the weightage of a particular thesis, my mind does it informally if it can pull many emotionally weighted instances in support of that thesis. The same applies to societies and groups.

New comment by passion__desire in "Why to Not Write a Book"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:36:46 +0000

There is modern version of Charles Dickens' way of publishing a chapter each week in the newspaper. Artists on tiktok and instagram and youtube shorts are developing characters with backstories and so on.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@dsand00

Nowadays, you don't have to write the boring parts, just write the interesting bits.

New comment by passion__desire in "Why to Not Write a Book"

passion__desire — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:29:59 +0000

This was depicted in The Simpsons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Job

> "The Book Job" is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2011. In the episode, Lisa is shocked to discover that all popular young-adult novels are not each written by a single author with any inspiration, but are conceived by book publishing executives through use of market research and ghostwriters to make money. When Homer hears this, he decides to get rich by starting work on a fantasy novel about trolls together with Bart, Principal Skinner, Patty, Moe, Professor Frink, and author Neil Gaiman.