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m3m3tic commented on ChatGPT-4o vs. Math sabrina.dev/p/chatgpt4o-v... · Posted by u/sabrina_ramonov

deely3 · 2 years ago

> You can easily use the OpenAI API with the temp=0 and a predefined seed and you'll get very deterministic results

Does that mean that in this situation OpenAI will always answer wrongly for the same question?

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

temp 0 means that there will be no randomness injected into the response, and that for any given input you will get the exact same output, assuming the context window is also the same. Part of what makes an LLM more of a "thinking machine" than purely a "calculation machine" is that it will occasionally choose a less-probable next token than the statistically most likely token as a way of making the response more "flavorful" (or at least that's my understanding of why), and the likelihood of the response diverging from its most probable outcome is influenced by the temperature.

m3m3tic commented on Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac gizmodo.com/marc-andreess... · Posted by u/jweir

giantrobot · 2 years ago

I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck. They seem incapable of recognizing that being in the right time and place is a huge component of any sort of success. Their egos are so wrapped up in their fortunes that their success must be their omniscience and not the fact they won the tech stock lottery.

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

There's luck involved, but if you listen or read some of Marc Andreesen's ideas there's no doubt he's highly intelligent and thoughtful. Ben Horowitz even said he was the smartest person he'd ever met in his book. While he was obviously working on the right thing at the right time, his fortune is not what I would consider blind luck.

m3m3tic commented on Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’ fortune.com/europe/2024/0... · Posted by u/cwwc

p1esk · 2 years ago

They are only firing 40% of the managers. There will be plenty left.

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

Just another run-of-the-mill post-ZIRP bloated org chart cleanup with a nice PR spin. Spend more time innovating on your products, it's a mistake to innovate on company hierarchy, despite what PR departments like to suggest.

m3m3tic commented on Two Ethereum DeFi traders just made $120M using a strategy called 'looping' dlnews.com/articles/defi/... · Posted by u/wslh

sushid · 2 years ago

Yes it's literally just leveraging

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

it's recursive leveraging using multiple different market makers that are giving you further leveraged bets on already leveraged assets

m3m3tic commented on ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/EA-3167

ChainOfFools · 2 years ago

It's only a matter of time until someone comes up with a GPT that takes whatever off-axis theories a research paper writer wishes to promulgate, and searches the entire corpus of academic literature for references that can be strung together in such a way as to support any argument one likes.

A quack's dream come true, substantiating an argument by backsolving from its feeble or malevolent conclusion to a set of well-known premises but-with-citations. converting untenable speculation into something that passes many superficial tests of legitimacy, which is more than enough to boost it into broader and less critical visibility.

"thick with citations, therefore truthy" is a big blind spot in the casual heuristic used ro gauge the quality of a given piece of research writing, especially at the undergrad level where this tool, lets call it CheatGPT, would be stupendously popular.

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

This is already possible with search engines, there is enough information on the internet that you can substantiate just about any claim regardless of how much evidence there is to the contrary. (see flat-earth, plenty of plausible sounding claims with real, albeit, cherry picked evidence).

m3m3tic commented on What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong nytimes.com/2021/08/12/he... · Posted by u/paulpauper

paulpauper · 2 years ago

this seems to goes against almost everyone's experience and my own

-maybe we're bad at tracking calories from a decade or longer ago?

-eating too much and not knowing it?

-inactivity?

-stress du to family and job causes subtle changes that lead to weight gain

-change in gut bacteria?

-increased skin, organ, bone, and tendon/ligament mass? (non-muscle lean mass)

Some people balloon after the age of 20-30 or so, like during college or after. Look at your facebook feed of friends or family. this is way worse than just a few percent. Are scientists comepltelty oblivious to this for what is obvious to so many others?

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

"chronic stress aside, that decline in BMR mirrors almost perfectly the curves of PUFA consumption rates in the general population. Namely, as the BMR curve has steadily declined over the last 100 years the PUFA consumption rate curve has steadily moved upwards over time. Unless this trend of ever-increasing PUFA consumption is interrupted, I don’t see the decline of BMR flattening (let alone reversing) any time soon." eating massive quantities of highly processed seed oils that are ubiquitous in our food supply because they are much cheaper than "real" food is surely a contributor.

http://haidut.me/?p=2195

m3m3tic commented on Show HN: 3D Binpacking Algorithm Visualized skusavvy.com/bin-packing-... · Posted by u/m3m3tic

hamhock666 · 2 years ago

On my phone, there seems to be a float issue where the boxes are too close together and they draw out of order.

m3m3tic · 2 years ago

yeah the issue is on desktop too, I battled with it for awhile but ultimately gave up, it seems to be a notoriously difficult problem to solve with ThreeJS

https://discourse.threejs.org/t/threejs-and-the-transparent-...