sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I may embarrass myself in public, but at least I’ll never “support somebody whose political platform is that the people who put their livelihoods on the line to support me when I was kicked out of my own company shouldn’t legally exist” in public. Absolutely spineless. 130
Reposted by sparseDerek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea 372171755071
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 16/12/2024News flash: Ethics and Safety for chat-based LLMs DO NOT translate to LLM-based Agents. Ffs people. Think. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I fail to see the incentive to share with anybody in the longterm. Why not just become the everything company? They obviously don’t have a problem giving up the “for social good” nonsense mission. Short term productization just accelerates that goal. 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I’m with ya on that, the gatekeeping from these orgs is intense. 110
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Also, sorry I can’t get past this. Please tell me the question above is also a Quora post with no less than five laughable AI slop answers. Cmon man. Ur building Poe. Isn’t answering these questions supposed to be the thing it does? 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I think this is an attempt to tie you into an ecosystem via a product offering. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024When the use of such vehicles does not impede the safe and effective operation of both highway driving and airport pickup/drop off you walnut. 110
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024“The ends justify the means” And “Even if you wanted to, you can’t stop us” (2024-2025) 120
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Yes, because regime specific access to information is a great idea. 210
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 12/12/2024My definition of TPOT: People who believe they can do anything, but the only thing they ever do is debate each other online. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 11/12/20241: Omg HAVE YOU SEEN GEMINI 2?!? 2: YES I am Gemini pilled!! Me: Umm yea as it turns out vertical integration works! 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The problem with NuerIPS is that it’s cold and full of nerds. 000
Reposted by sparseEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Chain of Thought helped LLMs reason forward through problems. This paper found teaching them to also work backwards (like humans checking their work) makes them even better “reasoners” Applying basic human thinking strategies to LLMs continues to yield interesting new ideas arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19865 310316
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Distribution of training data matters. Supremacy of the pydantic norm increases. 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Looks up at AI police dog robot standing over him. *record scratch* “Life comes at you fast…” 010
Reposted by sparseNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024OpenAI announced a new RL finetuning API. You can do this on open models w the repo we used to train Tulu 3. Expanding reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to more domains and with better answer extraction and to more domains in our near roadmap. buff.ly/3V4JEIJ 1479
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024For my friends in NY, the trash goes INSIDE the bins. 110
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Remember when San Francisco used to have the pillow fight? We used to be a real city. 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024But if you sell seats for $200 a month you can barely make ends meet! 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I thank god every day that she hasn’t found my shitposting account. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Correlation not equaling causation continues to be a difficult concept for gambling addicts. 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024They don’t know about generational wealth and family connections? Sheesh, open the schools! 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Powerful egomaniac with “enemies list” chooses to ignore man who publicly made fun of his messy divorce? Yea I don’t think so. 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 04/12/2024“We are so concerned with how this new technology is used… It’s important to get this right… That’s why we are partnering with the responsible technology company led by the man with the soul-patch and the flashy Hawaiian shirt.” 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 04/12/2024It’s been a long road, full of good discussion points on both sides, but finally, the thought leaders in charge of Safe and Ethical AI have approved its use to vaporize enemy combatants. www.anduril.com/article/andu... 100
Reposted by sparseAndrew White 🐦⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · 03/12/2024The frequency of sample sizes in published research is not uniform. Here are fraction of sample sizes across research papers, based on google scholar searches. The most popular sample sizes are 10,50, and 100. 79 is the least popular sample size. 0102
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Listen to Kate. You don’t want your employers responsible for your activity. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024High-quality training data and compute (and energy) actually don’t “scale exponentially”. ROI from capex isn’t slowing down - hype around future model capabilities is being constrained by expanding research into the field (driven largely by investment…) 010
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Identifying who is and ain’t a witch as an emergent capability 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Yo fuuuuuuuuck off we got our own assholes over here. Brits I’m sorry, Nigel is your problem. 110
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 02/12/2024POV: The absolute worst person you know just made an excellent point about European regulations… www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... Ted Cruz - AI Expert 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 02/12/2024For those reading papers - you better be sure about your gatekeeping… “Does this move the industry forward or not” is a wild critique to levy. It’s like you’re trying to turn these conferences to turn into the Forbes 30 under 30… 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Watching this handwringing over ICLR. Van we please get over this? For those writing papers, seriously don’t worry about it. Unless you’re planning on spending your career in academia ICLR doesn’t matter. If your methods produce and can be replicated is the only metric industry cares about. 100
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 01/12/2024There is nothing lamer than trying to “recreate yourself” with AI. “Oh but I can have my team ask it questions! They’ll get great value from my AI-enabled mentorship!” You’re telling people you don’t have time for them, but that you are also integral to their process. You may be, your ego isn’t. 000
sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 30/11/2024*sighs* *moves Amazon slightly closer to Meta SAM2 on the persistent drone surveillance continuum* 010
