I'm actually in need of a service like this but have been unable to find anything close to it until yesterday when I saw a video that twelvelabs dropped showing off their new model. Initially I was extremely excited, but then after trying to dive in deeper, I realized that I can't find anything about this company. The video even makes it seem like they already had a model out there capable of doing this, but I can't find any clips of that being used by a neutral party. I want to give the engineers the benefit of the doubt here. But I think we've all worked at companies that had a "sell first, solve later" philosophy, regardless of engineering opinions. Im considering asking for a demo and making them go off-script to see if it really is vaporware.
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brendev commented on Conversational AI is a great tool for education twitter.com/vishnuhx/stat... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas
Wouldn't you be afraid that the AI is wrong? I've seen AI explain some things well, but I've also seen it manufacture completely fake concepts to fill in the blank. Maybe textbooks aren't perfect either, but at least they're written by accountable parties and read hundreds of times before published.
Honestly this is a perfectly valid concern. I mostly use it as a jumping off point. Sometimes we don't have the language required to do our own search on a subject.
If the LLM can give me a bird's eye view of the subject, then it enables me to go off and do my own research and come with my own conclusions, even if they don't align with what the LLM originally told me.
The fact is, there's a ton of misinformation on the Internet. Doesn't matter if you're getting your info from an LLM or not, you should almost always be trying to get your info from multiple sources if possible.
brendev commented on Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816... · Posted by u/alexmolas
First author here! I thought it was interesting that so many people thought this was obvious after-the-fact. What we're trying to convey is that although inversion turns out to be possible, it's not trivial.
Here are the three levels of inversion model described in the paper:
(1) Training a decoder to invert embeddings gives you some similar text, but only with some overlapping words.
(2) Training an encoder-decoder with the embedding projected up to a 'sequence' for the encoder works better, and gets more words back, but almost never gets the right text back exactly, especially when sequences are long.
(3) Training this fancy architecture as a 'correction' model that recursively corrects and re-embeds text works really well. It turns out that search is necessary for this kind of thing, and can get many texts back exactly.
A fourth option would be to simply scale the inversion model up by 10x or 100x, which would give us predictably better performance. We didn't try this because it's just not that interesting.
Hey man this is going to sound really weird but when I just saw your name, it struck me as super familiar. Like I know I've seen your name on GitHub somewhere. I started going through your public Repos and I figured it out!
The first commit I ever made was on a fork of one of your projects over 5 years ago. I wasn't a software engineer then, I was just some guy learning to code in his free time.
Anyways I just wanted to say thank you. I know it may seem silly. But your code gave me the scaffolding I needed to take some important first steps towards where I am today. I'm now a senior software engineer/team lead!
If you were curious, here's the fork: https://github.com/brendenriggs/GottaSlackEmAll
I've got to say: I don't play any more, but I definitely miss those early day when Pokemon Go first came out. Good times.
everything I've found is either too simple or too complex.
Neither matters.
Starting matters.
If it is simple, you will complete it. Completing electronics projects is a useful habit.
If it is too complex, you will fail.
Failing is a useful habit.
Failing is what learning looks like when there isn’t a curriculum with lowered hurdles.
Shopping for a Goldilocks’ porridge is easier than failing. It is easier than easy projects. Shopping feels like work, but it’s not.
Just work. It is the simplest thing that might work.
Good luck.
This is a great perspective, and honestly one that extends to many (if not most) practical skills that one can learn.
An interesting read for sure, thanks for posting!
I did notice that it referred Spinoza as if his views were in opposition to Panpsychism.
Spinoza actually proposed that God(consciousness) exists within all things, and that studying physics and the nature of the universe is to study the psychology of God.
Like he's literally mentioned on the SEP page for Panpsychism [1]
I see where chatGPT would get confused. Spinoza is identified as a Rationalist, which is generally more aligned towards determinist thought.
Looking at it, I wonder if perhaps Spinoza's views are already in alignment with both Deterministic and Panpsychist thoughts (which, as others have mentioned, are not inherently mutually exclusive anyway).
I'm a SoT fan, but this post isn't relevant to HN.
brendev commented on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful github.com/martinvonz/jj... · Posted by u/lemper
The tool looks great; I have a hurdle to overcome with the name.
I'm long accustomed to spelling it, in English, as Jujitsu. I've also seen Jiu-jitsu. "jutsu" is much less common, IME.
Is there such thing as canonical Romanisation of Nipponese? I can deal with a project being "wrong" better than not knowing which of us is wrong.
I think your question is getting into the field of martial arts lineage. People might have their own narratives/ mythologies around this, but here's the most neutral way I can explain it: As techniques and styles evolve over the years, people come up with new names to describe those styles. Name similarities will often imply closer ties in lineage.
As a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner, I cringe when I see it spelled any other way, but also I have to recognize that I only feel that way because I have more exposure to that specific martial art/spelling.
brendev commented on Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary whyevolutionistrue.com/20... · Posted by u/kgwgk
A well-balanced and nuanced representation of the subject.
/s
But really, I come to HN for quality content. Regardless of topic, posts tend to lean towards the direction of intellectual honesty and good-faith arguments.
This post isn't that.
brendev commented on The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/... · Posted by u/cratermoon
I used to teach a computer science class to elementary-middle school kids.
I always did a week on internet literacy, and would open the lesson with a worksheet that included this fella, along with a number of other fake animals, and some that look fake, but aren't.
Each kid was supposed to come up with a summary of what the animal was, where they live, what they eat, etc.
It was a lot of fun, but I've got to say... Parents: please take some time to teach your kids how to critically evaluate information that they read online.
My neighborhood. When we moved in we sat out front every evening, and made small talk with every single person who walked by. Some were caught off guard, some kinda just waved and moved on, but most stopped to talk.
What's interesting is that people who had lived in that neighborhood nearly 20 years together had never talked, and met for the first time as both stopped to chat at nearly the same time.
Then we started with small gifts, usually food because my wife cooks exotic things for people to try. Now we get random gifts, usually food or fruits or some flower or plant.
Now we have little get togethers inviting each other, text to ask if need anything from the store, etc. And all it took was being willing to sit outside for a couple hours each night and say hi.
I've got a similar situation here in Baltimore. The community I'm a part of here is like nothing I've ever experienced. We actually have a neighborhood telegram chat of ~70 people where we post about neighborhood events, parties, etc. My wife and I have a great circle of friends within this community and it led us to buy a house a few years back(before the market got all wild). We just had our first kid, and there's plenty of other newborns popping up so I'm looking forward to seeing them all grow up together!