suddenlybananas
Joined 797 karma
- While it's good for society to accommodate those with disabilities as much as possible, we shouldn't pretend it isn't detrimental to be unable to see or hear. You don't need to believe obvious falsehoods in order to accommodate people.
- De Gaulle proven right again.
- H. Pylori is like one of the most common infections there is. How did your doctors not look for that?
- You know that language had to emerge at some point? LLMs can only do anything because they have been fed on human data. Humans actually had to collectively come up with languages /without/ anything to copy since there was a time before language.
- https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46494830 This was on HN yesterday.
- Hmm, I use KDE Plasma with Wayland and have had zero issues. What GPU are you using?
- Obviously, they care about the uniqueness of the code if they are one-offs.
- You could say this about literally anything.
- Have you considered that people may join HackerNews who were not already on it?
- You can also reject quantum physics and the sky will not open and smash us with a giant foot. However, to do so without serious knowledge of physics would be quite dumb.
- LLMs will definitely tell you a thing and its negation if you prompt them differently.
- > For a long time I believed the "Language Instinct" idea of Pinker in which the ability to serialize and deserialize language is a peripheral that is attached to an animal and you need the rest of the animal and even the surrounding world to have "human" competence.
Yeah you just need 10 trillion tokens of data.
- LLMs have absolutely nothing to do with truth. If anything the analogy is closer to syntax as LLMs are pure form, just language in absence of any context or reference.
- What about the paintings of statues from Pompeii cited in the article?
- Everyone is just pretending to be something. The people writing in the 60s were also apeing a style in just the same way.
Personally, I liked the writing.
- Given that the worst of colonialism happened in 16th and 17th centuries and by the 1930s, China was in a worse position than much of Latin America (e.g. Argentina), I would say that they had a harder go of things more recently than Latin America.
- >China's external turmoil can be boxed within the 1800s
Yeah except for that time that Japan tried to conquer them while they were in a civil war.
- People can claim whatever they like. That doesn't mean it's a good or reasonable hypothesis (especially for one that is essentially unfalsifible like predictive coding).
- The crucial difference is that we know the etiology of COVID and so are justified in treating those two people as having the same disease. Autism is much more complicated because we don't have a thing to define it other than a bunch of disparate symptoms.
It might turn out like if we treated the cold, COVID, tuberculosis and lung cancer as the same thing because they all involve coughing.
- You can do a lot with little, it just requires investing more in development which understandably most companies are uninterested in. Besides, plenty of websites are bloated as all hell. Why does a newspaper website, for example, have to be very much more than plain html?
- Why on earth wouldn't it be interesting? Do you only care about your own life?
- I don't know how to write like a 19th century mathematician, nor anyone earlier. I'm not sure OCR on Carolingian Miniscule has been solved, let alone more ancient styles like Roman cursive or, god forbid, things like cuneiform. Especially since the corpora on these styles is so small, dataset contamination /is/ a major issue!
- Shhhhh no one cares about data contamination anymore.
- I'm not sure that we can say that feelings are learned.
- They obviously have the puzzles in the training data, why are you acting like this is uncertain?
- >Learning a second language let me notice how much of language has no content.
What on earth do you mean?
- I don't know how Federenko squares this view with her own work which directly contradicts it [1]. In this work, they find that the language network activated for "meaningful" non-linguistic stimuli such as the sounds of someone getting ready in the morning (e.g. yawning, brushing teeth, etc.). It seems entirely contrary to her arguments in this article and she doesn't even acknowledge it.
- Saying that Chomskyan linguistics 'only works on a few languages' is such a ridiculous claim that only is stated by people who haven't engaged with generative linguistics since the 1960s. There's enormous work on typologically diverse languages such as Japanese, Salish languages, Greenlandic, Basque, Gungbe or Kwa. I can provide references if you'd like.
- If teachers made as much as half the people on this site, perhaps things would be better. 90k in San Ramon is more or less the median wage [1]. It's not _that_ much money.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ramon,_California#2020_cen...
Obviously? How could it be based on anything else? People are just much more uncomfortable with making normative statements than they used to be.