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Sai_ commented on CBS Canceling 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' After Next Season   nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bu... · Posted by u/ClosedPistachio
pm90 · 5 months ago
Extremely disturbing to see the US Press go the same way as the Indian Press did under Modi.
Sai_ · 5 months ago
At some level, it is worse. The Indian press never sold us citizens koolaid about freedom, talking truth to power, and patted themselves on the back about winning Pulitzer Prizes for journalism.

The Indian press knows it is a bottom feeder and doesn’t try not to be which gives space for critical thought to emerge (even if it masked as extreme cynicism - “everyone is corrupt”) which results in extreme skepticism of everyone.

Sai_ commented on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac   apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/terramex
ethbr1 · 2 years ago
At this point, I trust {insert megacorp} more than {insert App Dev LLC} + {insert megacorp}.

Neither is great, but at least the megacorp has a financial incentive to maintain some of my privacy.

Sai_ · 2 years ago
I don't quite understand this comment. Are you encouraging us to use your comment as some sort of template and insert our own preferred corporate names?

Sounds like some crazy level of meta where your brilliance is applicable to any pair of mega corps...which I don't buy.

Sai_ commented on Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/botanical
Sai_ · 2 years ago
Send Pichai to jail for a week and watch the CEOs of the biggest companies fall over themselves to comply with court instructions.
Sai_ commented on Geoffrey Hinton: AI models have intuition and spot analogies unseen by humans   twitter.com/tsarnick/stat... · Posted by u/retskrad
alephnerd · 2 years ago
Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) was a subgroup of CogSci and Neuroscience researchers who were using a neo-Connectionist approach to modeling cognition.

Geoff Hinton was a early member of this group of MIT, UT, UCSD, and CMU psychologists, CogScientists, and CS researchers

The core research of the PDP group is what became CNNs, which are what truly enabled LLMs (as most can trace their origins to the work done on BERT)

One of Hinton's earliest papers in the space: https://stanford.edu/~jlmcc/papers/PDP/Chapter1.pdf

Sai_ · 2 years ago
Unrelated but I’ve seen and appreciated your posts on some totally unrelated topics - like Vietnam politics and Indian ghost cities and now, Hinton’s history in Compsci. How the hell do you know so many different things and in, what looks to me, considerable depth?

Not trolling, genuinely impressed.

Sai_ commented on Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user   blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
eddd-ddde · 2 years ago
I love using Cloudflare for my projects, but something about Durable Objects just scares me so much.

I feel like an application like collaborative editing would send so much requests that billing would have to be insane, right? Even for my hobby size projects which I would like to publish for fun, terrify me with possible usage costs.

Their hibernation web socket thingy is great, but the real thing that scares me is the overall web socket message cost.

Sai_ · 2 years ago
Your clients control the number of messages they exchange with each other via the DO.

You still have to protect the DO through some sort of auth and/or rate limits.

Don’t see how any of these issues are unique to DOs.

Sai_ commented on Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)   forbes.com/sites/chadorze... · Posted by u/list
mrkeen · 2 years ago
The gap I still have in my understanding:

One hypothesis is that there is no spooky action. One particle was 'always' going to resolve one way, likewise with the other. Like inspecting 'heads' on one side of a coin 'forces' 'tails' onto the other side.

I accept that this coin-hypothesis has been disproved by people who actually know what they're talking about.

But to me, this implies that you should build your spooky FTL message by transmitting "Measured" rather than heads/tails:

Have an array of 8 particles at both locations. They represent measured/unmeasured rather than heads/tails. You got yourself a one-way single-use FTL byte.

For this to not work (which I'm sure it doesn't) you'd need to be unable to distinguish between a measured/unmeasured particle. To me this is equivalent of being unable to prove that there is anything spooky going on.

So how can you have it both ways? How can you theoretically know that something was sent when measurement itself would destroy any evidence of something being sent?

Sai_ · 2 years ago
> You got yourself a one-way single-use FTL byte.

But you don’t.

If I have the entangled version of the MEASURED byte and measure, only I know I’ve measured it. The corresponding MEASURED particles on your side still appear fuzzy to you because you haven’t measured them. If you measure them, they will reveal their state which correlates to mine BUT that doesn’t tell you if I have already measured my side of byte or not.

In effect, the heads/tail coin on your side is still spinning even after I have grabbed my side of the tail/head coin.

You may get HEAD as your result but that only tells you that I will get TAIL when I measure on my side, not that I have measured it already.

If you and I agree to measure at the same time, then I will know your state by determining mine but this is the same as knowing your state because I know how a two sided coin works, not FTL.

Sai_ commented on Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards   css.winterveil.net... · Posted by u/magistr4te
benreesman · 2 years ago
Starred, love this. I’m looking for something more than a reset but less than a framework on something at the moment and this is on my shortlist of places to look for inspiration about what modern advanced CSS looks like.

Is there a central place for in-the-know CSS wizards to post and discuss their most recent next level demo?

Years ago there was something called like CSS Zen Garden or something but times have moved on I think.

Sai_ · 2 years ago
Sai_ commented on Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?   arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
bongodongobob · 2 years ago
Isn't that kind of the point though? That beautiful and ugly are encoded closely as an "idea" when viewed from the appropriate angle?
Sai_ · 2 years ago
Apart from an ESL class explaining antonyms, I can’t think of any use case where an API which could equally return “ugly” or “beautiful” can be used.

We need embeddings to give relatedness across axes like synonymity etc.

Sai_ commented on Show HN: Fructose – LLM calls as strongly typed functions   github.com/bananaml/fruct... · Posted by u/edunteman
Sai_ · 2 years ago
Maybe I’m not the audience for this but how is this a “product”. Coercing LLM outputs into a function call is built into OpenAI itself.

What is fructose doing extra here? It’s like productising copy&paste which every modern OS has, no?

u/Sai_

KarmaCake day893August 21, 2020View Original