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jwjohnson314 commented on Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?   dbreunig.com/2025/08/01/d... · Posted by u/dbreunig
logicchains · 25 days ago
>It's not better because of huge computation resources, it's actually more computationally efficient than some classic alternatives

It's similar with options pricing. The most sophisticated models like multivariate stochastic volatility are computationally expensive to approximate with classical approaches (and have no closed form solution), so just training a small NN on the output of a vast number of simulations of the underlying processes ends up producing a more efficient model than traditional approaches. Same with stuff like trinomial trees.

jwjohnson314 · 24 days ago
Can you elaborate on this? I am curious what processes are being simulated to feed the network.
jwjohnson314 commented on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale   afterbabel.com/p/industri... · Posted by u/cwwc
thedougd · 4 months ago
Continuously frustrated to see the YouTube app return to my Apple TV home screen. I can appreciate why Google makes it hard for me to block their apps on their platforms, but why won't Apple allow me to explicitly allow or disallow which apps can be installed on my Apple TV? Why don't screen time limits apply to the Apple TV?
jwjohnson314 · 4 months ago
The lack of screen time limits on the Apple TV just demonstrates Apple's complete lack of credibility in this area too.

And the parental controls on their other devices are illogical and remarkably buggy. Clearly not a priority.

jwjohnson314 commented on A university president makes a case against cowardice   newyorker.com/news/q-and-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
disambiguation · 5 months ago
The political and ideological divide speaks for itself, but on behalf of the common folk universities have been failing their core mission - to provide the people with a quality education. The inversion and disconnect between the cost of tuition and economic outcomes is stunning. Too many kids who don't know better are pressured into pursuing higher education and taking on massive debt, only to graduate without any job prospects or reasonable hopes of paying off their loans. The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students.
jwjohnson314 · 5 months ago
> The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students.

Maybe the elites. State schools and small colleges are not flush with cash and many have been shuttered or severely downsized recently. Though they could still spend their limited funds better.

jwjohnson314 commented on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?   support.vizio.com/s/artic... · Posted by u/decimalenough
jwjohnson314 · 5 months ago
This is remarkably dystopian. ‘Bought our tv? We are going to show you ads and you can’t even turn it off’
jwjohnson314 commented on The Government Knows AGI Is Coming – The Ezra Klein Show [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Btos-... · Posted by u/juusto
nabla9 · 6 months ago
Klein is usually good but that was a disappointing discussion.

They just say AGI and mean something vague that might replace many current white collar jobs.

jwjohnson314 · 6 months ago
And no evidence - literally nothing - presented to support the idea of looming AGI except ‘some people in the business/in the government said so, and I believe them.’
jwjohnson314 commented on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone   bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o... · Posted by u/hahahacorn
mvdtnz · 6 months ago
What's the difference?
jwjohnson314 · 6 months ago
I think of hallucinating as a phenomenon where the model makes up something that appears correct but isn’t. Citations to papers that don’t exist, for example. Regurgitating training data (which may or may not be correct) is a different issue.
jwjohnson314 commented on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone   bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o... · Posted by u/hahahacorn
jwjohnson314 · 6 months ago
The interesting thing here to me is that the llm isn’t ‘hallucinating’, it’s simply regurgitating some data it digested during training.
jwjohnson314 commented on Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction   newsweek.com/bald-eagles-... · Posted by u/geox
jjulius · 6 months ago
Yeah, there are only a few pockets of grizzlies left in the lower 48, and one of them connects to their larger territory in Canada. They used to roam throughout Washington's Cascades but are completely gone, so much so that there are efforts to reintroduce them in the NCNP soon.
jwjohnson314 · 6 months ago
To say nothing of the California golden bear, which graces the state flag despite being hunted to extinction around 1924. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
jwjohnson314 commented on Francois Chollet is leaving Google   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/xnx
magicalhippo · 9 months ago
As someone who hasn't really used either, what's pytorch doing that's so much better?
jwjohnson314 · 9 months ago
PyTorch is just much more flexible. Implementing a custom loss function, for example, is straightforward in PyTorch and a hassle in Keras (or was last time I used it, which was several years ago).

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