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kleene_op commented on The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
But it feels like it’s about to pop!
It really is hard to stay objective as predictors all seem to point one way.
If people are so convinced the market is gonna crash very soon they can just short it and make millions easily.
Funny how no one's doing that amidst all the concerns and outcries expressed online.
That's good for CS and CE related work. Too many people went there not because they liked programming or engineering but because they wanted to get rich fast.
Hopefully this means the clogged up job market will stop being the clown circus it is now.
kleene_op commented on Don't force your kids to do math blog.avocados.ovh/posts/h... · Posted by u/happycats
Very poor take. The author clearly has very limited experience with raising kids. Most kids won't do difficult things if you don't push them. Playing music, learning to spell correctly, doing mathematics, and so on. A very small minority of kids will do all of that easily and for the fun, but you can't rely on it. If you don't push your kid to do their 20 minutes of piano every day, they will half-ass it and will stop after 1 year and conclude they are not good at music. Same for sport. Same for reading books. Same for maths. And you know what? It's your fault. You chose to be lazy and complacent and didn't push them because it's hard to be a good parent. And now you expect me to validate your laziness? Nah.
That was exactly my sentiment.
My parents pushed me hard to do piano when I was around 10-12. After a year that went pretty well I was starting to get lazy and put very little work and investment into preparing for the next lesson. They still had me play piano a full year until they eventually gave up and bitterly told me what a waste my resignation felt to them.
20 years later, I got back to playing piano, and I can't thank my parent enough for having me to continue playing in my teenage years. Because it only took me a few month to be able to play pretty advanced piano sheets compared to some of my relatives who are struggling with the basics starting it in their adulthood.
Same for maths. I feel that a lot of people like the author of this blog post are being extremely misdirected thinking math can and should be taught in a fun or amusing manner every time.
Sure, a lot of topics in Maths can be made more digestible by "gameification" to help younglings develop an intuition. But a very big part of Maths actually requires you to sit down and painstakingly crunch down the numbers/equations, memorize and learn when to apply the correct methods to solve some problems. And even though this part can feel fun and engaging after a while, you can't expect children to exhibit such interest right of the bat without having them first struggle with the classics.
Kids don't know better. Your role as a parent is to navigate along the fine line of forcing your kid to get good exposure to the (boring) activities we adults value and letting him enjoy what he enjoys. Only in doing that will your kid open up to the world and grow up into a functional human being.
I always thought it stood for Almost Implemented
Or more the more charitable Always Improving
kleene_op commented on Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024) foundationcapital.com/why... · Posted by u/pcurve
kleene_op commented on Diffusion for World Modeling diamond-wm.github.io/... · Posted by u/francoisfleuret
This video https://x.com/Sentdex/status/1845146540555243615 looks way too much like my dreams. This is almost exactly that happens when I sometimes try to jump high, it transforms me to a different place just like that. Things keep changing just like that. It's amazing to see how close it is to a real dream experience.
I noticed that all text looked garbled up when I had some lucid dreams. When diffusion models started to gain attention, I made the connection that text generated in generated images also looked garbled up.
Maybe all of those are clues that parts of the human subconscious mind operate pretty close to the principles behind diffusion models.
kleene_op commented on In the beginning, there was computation nautil.us/in-the-beginnin... · Posted by u/yarapavan
Do you know any machines where single constituent parts can have hundreds of functions and will switch between them at random?
Transistors.
Where's my medal?
> If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next?
The article in question is titled “Auto sales rev up in October” and is an exceedingly dry slab of statistic-laden prose, of the sort that LLMs love to err in (though there’s no indication of whether they have or not), and for which alternative (non-prose) presentations can be drastically better. Honestly, if the entire thing came from “here’s tabular data, select insights and churn out prose”… I can understand not wanting to do such drudgework.