Ugh I wish I could just read things without the ChatGPT “it isn’t X, it’s Y” tic jumping off the page at me.
Readit Newsdidgeoridoo commented on · Posted by u/mikestew
Unless these are new-construction luxury apartments (which the article doesn’t specify), no net migration is implied by a sale. Someone sold, someone bought. What a strange article.
"I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice."
Get out of here, Nwabudike. This doesn’t concern you.
didgeoridoo commented on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/xnx
Why should I assume that a failure that looks like a model just doing fairly simple pattern matching "this is dog, dogs don't have 5 legs, anything else is irrelevant" vs more sophisticated feature counting of a concrete instance of an entity is RL vs just a prediction failure due to training data not containing a 5-legged dog and an inability to go outside-of-distribution?
RL has been used extensively in other areas - such as coding - to improve model behavior on out-of-distribution stuff, so I'm somewhat skeptical of handwaving away a critique of a model's sophistication by saying here it's RL's fault that it isn't doing well out-of-distribution.
If we don't start from a position of anthropomorphizing the model into a "reasoning" entity (and instead have our prior be "it is a black box that has been extensively trained to try to mimic logical reasoning") then the result seems to be "here is a case where it can't mimic reasoning well", which seems like a very realistic conclusion.
I’m inclined to buy the RL story, since the image gen “deep dream” models of ~10 years ago would produce dogs with TRILLIONS of eyes: https://doorofperception.com/2015/10/google-deep-dream-incep...
didgeoridoo commented on Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/doener
If I’m reading this correctly it sounds like it might a kind of beneficial graft-vs-host reaction?
The HIV-free transplanted immune system sees the original immune system as alien, and proceeds to wipe it out at the cellular level. This presumably takes the HIV with it, even if the new immune system is not itself resistant.
I guess this means that quiescent HIV is not at a stage in its lifecycle where it can reinfect cells if its host cell is destroyed. My hilarious mental model of infectious HIV virions floating inside a CD4+ T-cell like angry bees inside a balloon is clearly mistaken.
didgeoridoo commented on Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/n1b0m
For me this term makes them sound inefficient or even redundant, as in somebody reinventing the wheel.
Perhaps that’s the point.
didgeoridoo commented on AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out apolloacademy.com/ai-adop... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Adoption = number of users
Adoption rate = first derivative
Flattening adoption rate = the second derivative is negative
Starting to flatten = the third derivative is negative
I don't think anyone cares what the third derivative of something is when the first derivative could easily change by a macroscopic amount overnight.
Yeah, what a jerk.
But but the CEO was completely unaware of this until someone pointed it out to him recently! And they never could've predicted the free tier would be "unsustainable" after spending huge on "indie hacker influencer" marketing squarely aimed at exactly the type of dev to use only a free tier! These are some very hard calculations and unforeseen circumstances, please understand.
laughs bitterly in Heroku
https://aella.substack.com/p/the-joy-is-not-optional