"[Yann LeCun] believes [current] LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years."
Readit Newsejang0 commented on Yann LeCun, Pioneer of AI, Thinks Today's LLM's Are Nearly Obsolete newsweek.com/ai-impact-in... · Posted by u/alphadelphi
I hate how when an article about how science has discredited the concept of porn addiction wound up getting bounced off the HN frontpage within minutes of appearing on it, then flagged and deaded:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587448
And yet, this absurd sensationalist dreck will probably stay up here for longer.
Could you say more about this? This link isn't that helpful since the main content was removed.
Can anyone confirm if this is available in Canada and other countries? This site says "We are still working on bringing access to users in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area." But I'm not sure about other countries. I don't have Pro currently, only Plus.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-f...
"Pro users (located outside the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area) have access to 100 deep research tasks per month." So to me that must include Canada, right? I signed up for Pro. There it is. (For future reference, for someone else.)
Can anyone confirm if this is available in Canada and other countries? This site says "We are still working on bringing access to users in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area." But I'm not sure about other countries. I don't have Pro currently, only Plus.
The title is utterly unparseable to me. What's the subject of the sentence?
'British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the [Gaza genocide] article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”'
From this, maybe it is clearer (but not shorter) to say: ‘It’s not close’ - The inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to Wikipedia's "List of genocides" ends editorial debate
Alt phrasing: Wikipedia's editorial debate ends with the inclusion of "Gaza genocide" to "List of genocides" page
(I'm trying to not repeat "Wikipedia" several times.)
Somewhat related Wikipedia article regarding parsing sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
ejang0 commented on Dying together: Why a happily married couple decided to stop living bbc.com/news/articles/c0j... · Posted by u/blondie9x
"He’s 70, and sits in the swivel driving-seat of the van, one leg bent underneath him in the only position that eases his continuous back pain. His wife, Els, is 71 and has dementia. Now, she struggles to formulate her sentences."
The context here (since the title isn't too revealing), is that the FDA expanded approval for a drug despite essentially unanimous didagreement from the scientists actually analyzing the drug. Derek Lowe, a well-respected pharma blogger, writes about how this was a big mistake and a very bad look for the FDA.
"Apparently during the conference call, when [the Sarepta CEO] was asked about why he was so confident [about the Duchenne muscular dystrophy medication's approval], he said that the FDA's CBER head Peter Marks was "very supportive". [...]
Boy, was that the truth. The agency has just granted that use expansion, and it turns out that it was all due to Peter Marks, who completely overruled three review teams and two of his highest-level staffers (all of whom said that Sarepta had not proven its case)."
[The article then talks about how this may be "A positive vote, which marks an undeserved and potentially hazardous victory of emotional rhetoric and relentless patient advocacy over the scientific and medical evidence."]
This is interesting. I didn't know about the influence of the CEO and this narrative around this medications approval/label expansion.
I'm not sure why I'm mentioning this (Devil's advocacy?), some users on HN have also commented that maybe it is good that the FDA approves medications more liberally to give clinicians and patients a chance to experiment with them (if their situations are dire).
Anyways, in this case, it is interesting to think about how much influence one person can have in the FDA.
Sort of related, does anyone remember the approval of aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease? https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1005567149/3-experts-have-res...
And now it is discontinued: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573062/ This isn't really a good source for the full story, sorry.
All this FDA approval business is much less cut and dry than I would have thought 10 years ago.
ejang0 commented on Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle hidden-mirrors.com... · Posted by u/james_marks
I enjoyed this a lot. Thank you.
Feedback: Desktop with trackpad, I swiped and my pointed ended out of the grid and it doesn't let this swipe occur.
Echoing others: - "the numbers of taps and swipes were too small for me to notice, I’ve discovered them quite late" - "The scroll down section felt odd." - on desktop I couldn't figure out what "swipe" meant for a bit (just click-and-drag)
Thank you again for this gift.