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Everyone has a very different idea of what the word "intelligence" means; this definition has got the advantage that, unlike when various different AI became superhuman at arithmetic, symbolic logic, chess, jeopardy, go, poker, number of languages it could communicate in fluently, etc., it's tied to tasks people will continuously pay literally tens of trillions of dollars each year for because they want those tasks done.
That's a good primer, thanks. I hope we get through this bullshit to the wasteland quickly, it'll make it less painful.
You are correct. Their answer is instead the sum of the first k terms of 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, ..., for positive k.
Quite informative
Ruby has had this in the same form as "_1" for a while (and the obvious other indexes in the case of multiple params), but I agree Kotlin's "it" reads much better.
The modern state of training is to try to use everything they can get their hands on. Even if there are privileged channels that are guaranteed not to be used as training data, mentioning the problems on ancillary channels (say emailing another colleague to discuss the problem) can still create a risk of leakage because nobody making the decision to include the data is aware that stuff that should be excluded is in that data set. And as we've seen from decades of cybersecurity, people are absolute shit at the necessary operational security to avoid mentioning stuff on ancillary channels!

Given that performance is known to drop considerably on these kinds of tests when novel problems are tried, and given the ease with which these problems could leak into the training set somehow, it's not unreasonable to be suspicious of a sudden jump in performance as merely a sign that the problems made it into the training set rather than being true performance improvements in LLMs.
Something in that spirit is already making progress: compute attached to cell phone towers, called "edge computing".

Because you are pooling computer resources across many more users you have better amortized cost than if you had a workstation on every home that was idle 99% of the time. Of course, latency and bandwidth to the cell tower is worse than wifi, but better than if the compute is done on a remote server.

I have no idea of which model will succeed for which use cases, but the idea is sound.
There’s a fundamental difference between being able to recognize the best option and being able to implement the option.

These sorts of rules are really about people feeling devalued or disliking being volunteered or told what to do (often by people they consider less knowledgable). They aren’t really about effectively distributing work.

“Just” gets a bad wrap. There’s a sort of hidden assumption here that “you can just” is equivalent to “you can easily”. It sometimes means that but more
generally it means something more like “…will be easiest” which can be true even when the action itself is hard or a lot of work.
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LLMs are already good at summarizing the claims - patents all explain why they’re novel - so it would be a waste to ask them, especially if you reserve half the LLMs in your set for this question. Asking why a patent is not novel is a great question, but the problem with asking why they are not novel is it has to know all other patents (including very recently filed patents) and it has to be correct, which LLMs are not at all good at yet (plus they still tend to hallucinate confidently). This is a great test for LLM accuracy if you know the right answer already, and not a good test for patent validity.
If not them, then who is? It sure is not the management wealth class, driving all of humanity off an extinction cliff. It's not the religious leaders, that appear to be as corrupt as they can possibly be. It's not the tech industry or leaders, that appear to be yes-person suck ups to wealth if not fascist wealth itself.

Wisdom does not equate with power, in fact: overt power is not the result of wisdom, but fanatical perseverance to wealth creation, often in opposition of wisdom in favor of simple dominance of others, and basic mental illness driving that individual.
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When working with complex systems, it’s easy to underestimate the impact of seemingly minor changes. This is an incident that caused the disk I/O to surge by 200x, database latency to increase from a few milliseconds to ~30 seconds, and a perfectly running Grafana dashboard to turn into a digital sloth.
Kinda tracks. India, Italy, Greece, pride themselves on culture and lacks in development compared to peers. US, China (after cultural revolution), Germany don't and are top among their peers.
AKA Saltpeter. I've heard that you can just dig the stump out after a few months, in addition to using fire. I bought some to remove a stump a few years ago, but when I went to drill the stump I found it had already rotted enough that I didn't need it. This was a small, maybe 10" diameter, stump that had sat for a couple years.

Going to see how well it works soon though; a few weeks ago had a ~2ft diameter stump left when my 65ft spruce snapped in a wind storm. Turns out about halfway up it had branched off into two trunks, and that junction was rotting, the wind storm caused that junction to snap half way up. In looking, my neighbor has a tree with the same dual-trunk situation, though hers is more likely to land on her house.
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Do you also think they somehow stole the codeforces problems before they were even written or you are willing to believe the #175 global rank there?
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Maybe I am naive, but is the ability to remove stumps without specialists really worth the risk of random inexperienced/careless people buying dangerous explosives?
> If you are an online shop, for example, isn't it beneficial that ChatGPT can recommend your products?

ChatGPT won't 'recommend' anything that wasn't already recommended in a Reddit post, or on an Amazon page with 5000 reviews.

You have however correctly spotted the market opportunity. Future versions of CGPT with offer the ability to "promote" your eshop in responses, in exchange for money.
I wouldn’t be surprised if similar will be found concerning the ARC challenge and it is why I still maintain my own private LLM challenges to gauge current capabilities. Course, I have little illusion that these are fully private, but it is better than fully public tests.

Even the most straight forward, logical, easily reasoned ones stump all LLMs I have access to, which is why I am so skeptical concerning emergence, reasoning and all this hype around “AGI”…
The heightening of the bar is an attempt to deny that milestones were surpassed and to claim that LLMs are not intelligent.

We had a threshold for intelligence. An LLM blew past it and people refuse to believe that we passed a critical milestone in creating AI. Everyone still thinks all an LLM does is regurgitate things.

But a technical threshold for intelligence cannot have any leeway for what people want to believe. They don’t want to define an LLM as intelligent even if it meets the Turing test technical definition of intelligence so they change the technical definition.

And then they keep doing this without realizing and trivializing it. I believe humanity will develop an entity smarter than humans but it will not be an agi because people keep unconsciously moving the goal posts and changing definitions without realizing it.
OK but what about all the dangerous explosives and the intent to murder innocent people?
Ah, the use of Germanic uppercased nouns in English sent me the wrong way. Thanks.
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This idea is presented in The Prestige as well. Magic just being the ability to sacrifice, and then guard the secret
The brutality of the system, particularly but only under Stalin, was not really a secret by 1978. By then, people were readier to hear about it.
Every home builder is planing in advance, the problem is that down the line you'll realize mistakes you didn't think about, 100% of the time. You also can't plan failures in advance that good, and if you do care about that you certainly won't encase all your utilities in concrete
Yep same problem
US government started tracking explosives sales in the 70s which is why such terror incidents drastically dropped at that time. Misuse is rare because of government regulation.
how hard is it to just flip bits on every single available memory? Is it because you have to use the manufacturer's black box controllers and you don't really know if they actually do what you asked?
No, because the price they'd offer would be insultingly low. The only way to get a good price is to take them to court for prior IP theft (as NYT and others have done), and get lawyers involved to work out a licensing deal.
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Survivor bias helps a lot here. For every thing that sticks you have thousands of absolute flops that we all forget very quickly
1. That's a tough level, one of the hidden levels IIRC.

2. It feels like "-fast" has been used.

3. The task is much, much more difficult because you can't strafe.

Very cute though :-)
Right. If it were trained through August 1939, how much prompting would be necessary to get it to predict aspects of WWII.
Interestingly, there isn't much big news about jail breaking or safety alignment
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We use machinery for that now. It isn't 1823 anymore.
The section on Larry Ellison is amusing.
Okay, then what about elite level codeforces performance? Those problems weren’t even constructed until after the model was made.

The real problem with all of these theories is most of these benchmarks were constructed after their training dataset cutoff points.

A sudden performance improvement on a new model release is not suspicious. Any model release that is much better than a previous one is going to be a “sudden jump in performance.”

Also, OpenAI is not reading your emails - certainly not with a less than one month lead time.
NBC news says the truck used reportedly had an black flag mounted on the back, probably one reason for the relatively quick terrorism labeling. edit, they mentioned it being “ISIS style” but pics they’re showing aren’t very clear and are walking the claim back.
Just listen and help people with your expertise. Be a good advisor. Focus your efforts on finding a good fit for their needs, not selling them something. Talk positively about all the options on the market and the pros / cons. Why you’re a good fit or not for them. Make referrals to the “competition”. It’s not a zero sum game.

The trust you earn by trying to genuinely be of service to the market pays back dividends. Not in an easily quantifiable RoI. But eventually it will.

The other bit of advice is you need to set some boundaries and expectations for working together. This includes closing the sale (we need contract back by X date or we can’t work together) and when executing / serving them (we can’t exceed this limit, we need payment by Y or service will be paused). Hold yourself to being disciplined and not people pleasing. You’ll regret the latter usually. Sometimes the best thing you can do is NOT close the deal.

Don’t undersell yourself. Set a price point where half of your inbound is unable to work with you. Eliminate bad fits early.

As a solo entrepreneur your time is extremely limited. So boundaries and setting a good price point are very important so people don’t waste your time.

And because you’re probably still looking for PmF these trusting relationships turn your potential customers into advisors. Treat your best customers advice as sacrosanct. You’ll find a niche in partnership with them.
Is it possible to watch the episode?
Every one of these companies is sparing no expense to tilt the justice system in their favour. "Get a lawyer" is often said here, but it's advice that's most easily doable by those that have them on retainer, as well as an army of lobbyists on Capitol Hill working to make exceptions for precisely this kind of unauthorized access .
Anything in particular that threw you off? I'd be happy to add a few words to briefly explain some of the less intuitive rust syntax.
Unreal engine is used for much more than just games.

It’s used for architectural Visualization, film backgrounds, and industrial visualization among other things.

Surely you can imagine why having realistic settings is beneficial in those scenarios.
Your submission didn't garner any comments, I don't remember the threshold, but there needs to be a minimum level of engagement for the subsequent submission to be considered a duplicate.
They develop gray hair and a paunch, and settle in to write opinion pieces about the immaturity of their juniors. (Boomer speaking.)
> Is it just an open secret that the models are currently just being hardcoded for random benchmarks? Seems weird that people would be asking Putnam problems to a chatbot :/

It's because people do keep asking these models math problems and then, when they get them right, citing it as evidence that they can actually do mathematical reasoning.

Since it's hard to determine what the models know, it's hard to determine when they're just spitting out something they were specifically trained on.
it's not possible to win without strifing
I tried to do it the intended way, but found it too difficult. I was able to cheese it by staying in the starting area and killing the enemies that spawned to the right.
https://s.h4x.club/bLuNed45 - it's more crazy to me that my wife CAN in fact read this stuff easily, vs the fact that an LLM can't.

(for anyone who doesn't feel like downloading the zip, here is a single image from the zip: https://s.h4x.club/nOu485qx)
I think the main problem is that Rust doesn't allow for basic data structures like graphs or doubly-linked lists without extra effort, which is why I've generally always preferred pseudocode.
Impressive project. I was curious how it discovers data relationships and was going to check the repo, but it looks like there's no code, only issues and releases. Is that right?

Which leads me to...

- Is this closed source?

- Does it cost money?

- How does it discover data relationships?
Sure, but I feel you’re missing the point with that comment.
It's a political decision how to classify crimes these days. I think government agencies want to avoid exciting the public, inadvertently creating animosity against groups of similarly identified people, but this obfuscation erodes public trust. The government, and the media reporting, should be much more transparent about these incidents, regardless of the participants.
The "technological unemployment" you mentioned can only happen if robots/AI replace most of the jobs on the market. But then it means that we have already automated most production and therefore UBI could be an option (taxing the machine).
Otherwise, there will always be a demand for labor. It's not just production that the world economy is about. I see no limit to growth in services such as health, education and entertainment once basic provision is secured.
Why would there be a Wikipedia alternative?
I dont think codeforce claims to contain novel unpublished problems.

But i'm not saying it's what they did, just that it's a possibility that should be considered till/if it is debunked.
A work of fiction is largely made up? Shocking.
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Can you elaborate? How is E=mc^2 an approximation, in special relativity or otherwise? What is it an approximation of?
Ok, so this is the kind of content I show up for.

On one hand, it’s a clever and fun way to show off what we can do with the web these days. The way it is presented hits just right... the demo is dead center of the page, with debug tools and more info within reach. I particularly enjoyed reading the "how it's made" page to understand how it was put together. I like how all of this extra stuff was not front and center when the page loads. Even the design language of the CAPTCHA box itself felt just right.

On the other hand, it's a satire of what we have done to the web. The bad guys (like the monsters in the game) have won. I'm a flesh and blood human, but here I am having to click on fuzzy pictures of random objects before I can do the task I actually wanted to accomplish. Behind the scenes, my human insight gets licensed and used for whatever purpose (nefarious or not). Just like the DOOM demo here, it's hard and cumbersome, but for whatever reason we all accept it as the way it has to be. We all shake our heads and say "what a shame, what a shame."
That's the question - why isn't he charged with those more blatant infractions. Maybe he will be, but just hasn't yet.
I’m always amazed by statements like this. Starship is currently a test program and is rapidly evolving. They’re improving it as they learn.

What you said is akin to looking at the Wright brothers plane and saying “no way that thing crosses the Atlantic.”

It will improve rapidly until it does.
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I did the same away from CVS.
Ask HN: Why dollar sign for shell commands?
Many docs use a dollar sign `$` to indicate a shell command.

The sign makes copy pasting harder, though it might prevent mindless running of commands. Also, $ clarifies that the line is indeed a shell command.

What is your own ideology on using dollar signs in front of shell commands?

What are best practices for providing shell commands in docs?
I did some dabbling in astral travel when I was in my late teens, and diligently studied Abramelin methods as well as those of Crowley et al. My adventures in such were brought to an abrupt halt when I can only say that I experienced either a one time, transient psychotic break or encountered things which I was vigorously convinced needed no more of my tender attention.

These experiences, tempered by time and augmented by some other observed and documented phenomenon in my life, led me to reanalyze the Abramelin translations in an effort to elucidate the key elements and remove the hocus-pocus aspects.

The hypotheses that I currently hold is that if there is anything to any of this besides distorted perception, it is implicit in a many-worlds observation, in that the bandwidth of probabilities within which we can observe may be somewhat malleable through the appropriate application of isolation from entangling casual interactions and intentional observation. We see some support for this hypothesis through probability manipulation vis-a-vis casimir fields and restrictive cavities.

Adjacent to this is a hypothesis that the web of electromagnetic fields carrying data in which most of us are intertwined, along with other forms of instantaneous communication makes casual isolation exceptionally difficult in the 21st century, as causal relationships leak in even in the subtle vibrations of water molecules or anything else that might respond, down to a quantum scale, to information carrying RF signals. This could, in concept, limit efforts to broaden the spectra of observable universes in a similar way that casimir cavities limit the casimir force experienced within. By introducing causal entanglements, we narrow the possible observations.

Anyway, my intrinsic belief is that the universe is dark, and cold, and full of terrors lol. Explore carefully, kids.
Strafing works for me on linux with firefox. Maybe it's an OS or browser setting that prevents it?
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It's a long story, could answer some people's questions.

From his main page:

>I take as granted that you have a sound understanding of advanced Windows programming

>you should be able to rely on me to be correct and Microsoft to be mistaken
Thanks - that makes more sense to me now.

I guess it would be better if an attempt to post the same URL would instead just refresh the original submission to give it more visibility, but I suppose there's no real problem to having stale URL submissions.
I couldn't win without cheating ^:) It's crazy how ingrained in my memory is the code tho, could remember it automatically after maybe 25 years
Definitely not a "useless toy" with the right use case. It's great at code snippets, scripts, etc. It's an assistant.
Well, I guess the idea is that if anything fails you just print yourself a new home ;)
I think this could hardly be a strong point, human artists can also reproduce verbatim art from other humans with reference or even from memory in some cases, the question would be more on the terms of "can it generate original art based on the reference ones most of the time?", which this kind of test don't prove or disprove.

And just to assert, I'm not saying AIs are like humans or nothing similar to that, this is more like playing devil's advocate.
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would love to see what Andy's take on GreptimeDB https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb
That sounds awful. If it's cheaper we will use it more and become even more dependent on it. So we'll have more of the awful car infrastructure and less of the better alternatives.
I'm not sure it's easier to make your products block communication about Taiwan or Tiananmen Square.

If you have to do political policing one way or the other, you'll have to invest resources to achieve it. On the other hand, maybe it's beneficial for r&d because it pressures you to do hard things that your product benefits from, e.g. controllability in ML-products.
> If you want to put 1 small-sat in orbit, you don't use Starship

Why not? Unless you need a custom orbit that nobody else is interested in then Starship will be by far the cheapest way to put a small satellite in orbit, as part of a ride-share mission.
I think it’s nearly impossible on a mobile phone hehe
An enormous amount of data there -- for those of us curious about your process, can we get a sense of it by reviewing the GitHub commits?
Did you read the article? It literally says that cars in and of themselves are not actually bad, and that having access to a car corresponds with greater happiness. It’s car-dependency that is the problem.

What we need is a greater variety of transportation options. What if I’m someone who doesn’t want to have to drive everywhere? What if, as one of the passages from the article points out, I’m literally unable to drive due to a disability? Should I therefore be considered an afterthought when it comes to being able to get myself to and from wherever it is that I’d like to go?

Please educate yourself on the issue before making ignorant claims.
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Fuck that noise.
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To be clear I was testing with 4o, good to know that o1 has a better grasp of basic arithmetic. Regardless my point was less to do with the models ability to do math and more to do with OpenAI seeming to cover up its lack of ability.