farresito (u/farresito)

farresito commented on The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-s... · Posted by u/cubefox

on_the_train · a month ago

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farresito · a month ago

This is the first time I read that someone uses an acronym for ragebait purposes. The acronym "RL" is very well known. Dwarkesh's podcast is mostly AI related, so it's not a surprise that he will freely use acronyms. I think your take is very cynical.

farresito commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd

kebsup · 7 months ago

I've been looking into FSRS since I'm building a language learning app[1], but I haven't implemented it yet. Can FSRS work if I don't want to have 4 choices - bad, good, hard...? I have found myself to get into a decision paralysis so just bad/good works better for me. Plus I can swipe the cards tinder style! :D

My second reason is that I'm worried about the complexity - both from non-nerdy users perspective and me having to debug it.

[1] https://vocabuo.com

farresito · 7 months ago

According to the FSRS author [1], it will adapt to two buttons.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/16t2lva/comment/k2cor...

farresito commented on Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science theseedsofscience.pub/p/y... · Posted by u/paulpauper

Perenti · 10 months ago

Yes, there is a pattern. Most of my relatives are very quick, those tested all come out 120+. Two of my sons have absurd IQs like me. My second is about my level (170+), and my youngest is some kind of megamind mutant. His brain scares me. He's very very clever.

farresito · 10 months ago

What was your experience like in school and university? Have you come across people who you thought were at a similar level intelectually as you?

farresito commented on Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science theseedsofscience.pub/p/y... · Posted by u/paulpauper

Perenti · 10 months ago

Yes. IQ tests are easy. Life, now that's a real challenge.

farresito · 10 months ago

Do you have any other family members with very high IQs?

farresito commented on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers apnews.com/article/trump-... · Posted by u/tedsanders

deknos · a year ago

This is so much money with which we could actually solve problems in the world. maybe even stop wars which break out because of scarcity issues.

maybe i am getting to old or to friendly to humans, but it's staggering to me how the priorities are for such things.

farresito · a year ago

I disagree with you. I think the impact of AI on society in the long term is going to be massive, and such investments are necessary. If we look at the past century, technology has had (in my opinion) and incredibly positive impact on society. You have to invest in the future.

farresito commented on Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker blog.polybdenum.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

stouset · a year ago

Your supposition about Rust is correct.

I’ll add that—having paid that upfront cost—I am happily reaping the rewards even when I write code in other languages. It turns out the way that Rust “wants” to be written is overall a pretty good way for you to organize the relationships between parts of a program. And even though the borrow checker isn’t there looking out for you in other languages, you can code as if it is!

farresito · a year ago

As someone who is interested in getting more serious with Rust, could you explain the essence of how you should always approach organizing code in Rust as to minimize refactors as the code grows?

farresito commented on Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/amichail

diegs · a year ago

+1 to 0.3mg, larger doses can lead to nightmares and other issues.

It also may take longer to have an effect than is commonly said. For me, it's ~3-4 hours. I'm a natural night owl but 0.3mg melatonin at 6pm has me falling asleep on the couch at 9:30-10pm.

farresito · a year ago

That's interesting. For me it takes 30 minutes, give or take, to start to feel sleepy, and I'm also a night owl :-)

farresito commented on Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/amichail

marliechiller · a year ago

Thanks for the advice - do you use melatonin every night or just nights where you know youre going to be restless?

farresito · a year ago

Not OP, but I've been using melatonin every night, no exception, and it's been very helpful. I use a much lower dose (between 0.3mg and 0.5mg), and it's worked completely fine, so I would suggest that you start very low and only increase if you really need it.

farresito commented on Terence Tao on O1 mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11313... · Posted by u/dselsam

__loam · a year ago

It's going to be incredible watching you people write way more code than you can feasibly maintain.

farresito · a year ago

Once we have AI-based language servers, which will, at some point in the future, be able to track entire repositories, I think maintaining projects will actually be far easier than right now.

farresito commented on Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com/index/learning... · Posted by u/fofoz

deisteve · a year ago

so o1 seems like it has real measurable edge, crushing it in every single metric, i mean 1673 elo is insane, and 89th percentile is like a whole different league, and it looks like it's not just a one off either, it's consistently performing way better than gpt-4o across all the datasets, even in the ones where gpt-4o was already doing pretty well, like math and mmlu, o1 is just taking it to the next level, and the fact that it's not even showing up in some of the metrics, like mmmu and mathvista, just makes it look even more impressive, i mean what's going on with gpt-4o, is it just a total dud or what, and btw what's the deal with the preview model, is that like a beta version or something, and how does it compare to o1, is it like a stepping stone to o1 or something, and btw has anyone tried to dig into the actual performance of o1, like what's it doing differently, is it just a matter of more training data or is there something more going on, and btw what's the plan for o1, is it going to be released to the public or is it just going to be some internal tool or something

farresito · a year ago

> like what's it doing differently, is it just a matter of more training data or is there something more going on

Well, the model doesn't start with "GPT", so maybe they have come up with something better.