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srslack commented on Hertz desperate to unload Tesla inventory, asking customers to buy rentals jalopnik.com/hertz-is-so-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

jgalt212 · 8 months ago

Yet, TSLA is trading at an all time high and 127 PE.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

srslack · 8 months ago

From the perspective of the market, TSLA is not a car company. It sells carbon offsets/credits. That is their business.

srslack commented on Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110... · Posted by u/platz

protastus · 2 years ago

The SNR of this saga is very low. A speck of something floating under a magnetic field on a blurry video is not proof of room temperature superconductivity. We've seen memes, jokes, shitposting, bravado, Soviet fan fiction, play-by-play updates from non-SMEs cooking stuff under improvised conditions. No actual resistance measurement of LK-99 with a 4 point probe.

If this is real, then discoverers found this in 1999, apparently couldn't synthesize with good yield, couldn't analyze rigorously, sat on the discovery for 24 years, were recently rushed to publish half-baked papers, and are now silent. None of this inspires confidence.

LK-99 could hypothetically be the real deal, and I want to believe, but I'm patiently waiting for people who actually know what they're doing to offer experimental evidence.

srslack · 2 years ago

>No actual resistance measurement of LK-99 with a 4 point probe.

https://postimg.cc/TyYbv284

http://journal.kci.go.kr/jkcgct/archive/articleView?artiId=A...

Machine translated: https://www.docdroid.net/UiUrs8c/kci-fi002955269-1-pdf

Interview: https://hackmd.io/@sanxiyn/seize-interview

srslack commented on Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110... · Posted by u/platz

protastus · 2 years ago

The SNR of this saga is very low. A speck of something floating under a magnetic field on a blurry video is not proof of room temperature superconductivity. We've seen memes, jokes, shitposting, bravado, Soviet fan fiction, play-by-play updates from non-SMEs cooking stuff under improvised conditions. No actual resistance measurement of LK-99 with a 4 point probe.

If this is real, then discoverers found this in 1999, apparently couldn't synthesize with good yield, couldn't analyze rigorously, sat on the discovery for 24 years, were recently rushed to publish half-baked papers, and are now silent. None of this inspires confidence.

LK-99 could hypothetically be the real deal, and I want to believe, but I'm patiently waiting for people who actually know what they're doing to offer experimental evidence.

srslack · 2 years ago

>No actual resistance measurement of LK-99 with a 4 point probe.

You are misinformed. It's in the original Korean paper.

srslack commented on Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110... · Posted by u/platz

delabay · 2 years ago

all the full levitation videos are questionable in origin. I'd even go so far as to call every single one of them fake.

No credible reproduction has featured a levitating sample.

srslack · 2 years ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516

https://nitter.net/altryne/status/1686279028523847680

srslack commented on Code Interpreter has been disabled for all ChatGPT users twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen... · Posted by u/GavCo

srslack · 2 years ago

There was a wild article that inaccurately overestimated the context of the for the code interpreter fine tune a while back, it’s still 8k like the base model and not the wild 100k like it presented.

I implemented a version of it while I was waiting for openai to roll it out to me with pyodide and it worked well. Got it to re-encode videos right in the browser with a bit of tweaking of the langchain plugins prompt. When I did get it, it was a very nice breath of productivity though their interface could be better for many things beyond that. But their fine tune was better for sure than the API + system prompting.

With Meta supposedly releasing their new model soon, I think anyone who cares about control over their language calculator and not having to be predictably and incessantly lectured by some moralizing RLHF should try to contribute to the community and build out the infrastructure, fine tunes and tools instead of just relying on an org who wanted their moat so badly that they decided to fear monger and confuse the public.

srslack commented on Authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT businessinsider.com/opena... · Posted by u/bratao

pfsalter · 2 years ago

Considering that I'm not allowed to copy any of the physical books, films or songs that I own as it breaks copyright then copying it and putting it into a generative AI should also be illegal. Just because you change it from words into weights, it's just another form of compression. I'd rather not live in the world where AI models have better rights than people.

srslack · 2 years ago

Can you point to any substantial reproductions of copyrighted novels that are output by LLMs? If it’s just compression, you should be able to pull a substantial reproduction of the works out of them.

srslack commented on Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement theverge.com/2023/7/9/237... · Posted by u/Tomte

TillE · 2 years ago

One is a person, the other is a computer program.

Legally quite distinct! Note that nobody is even seriously claiming we have an AGI, there's no Star Trek discussion of whether an android is a person. Everyone agrees this is just a computer program.

srslack · 2 years ago

It doesn't matter if it's a person, or a computer program, or not. This discussion is moot. Is there a substantial reproduction of the works in the output? If not, there's no copyright infringement here.

Try reading this legal opinion: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/53/5/notes/files/53...

srslack commented on Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con softwarecrisis.dev/letter... · Posted by u/EventH-

kytazo · 2 years ago

To be honest, there have been occasions where I've been failing miserably for some time to come up with solutions to some sysadmin nature problems with my own systems and I've taken my problem straight to GPT-4 with a clear explanation of the issue alongside with any diagnostics I thought would make sense.

To my very surprise, GPT-4 did an astonishing job reasoning on the specifics of my system (aarch64 exotic setup, alpinelinux on asahi) and came back with a very specific on point list of suggestions which included the very solution as #1.

I've had it hold my hand many times while navigating relatively complex and niche systems like android smartphones with custom partitioning schemes booting linux and what have you and yes, it still was still, very reasonable, to say the least.

So to conclude, it has the ability to reason properly for systems and situations that it's not necessary trained in and displays the ability for coherent reasoning on specifics over things which at least for September 2021 were relatively unknown. I'm really wondering how far this thing needs to get in order for some people to admit its more than a model spitting a token next to another, or some type of mentalist doing an excellent job in hypnotising most of us into thinking it already displays incredible intelligence but its smoke and mirrors.

srslack · 2 years ago

Can you share the log?

srslack commented on · Posted by u/polterguy1001

srslack · 2 years ago

I'm not singling out the author or his company, but it's really hard to tell if this article is taking itself seriously, much in the same way that I've seen a group of 19 year old "AI scientists" talk about how everything will be automated in five years.

Let's just take it on its face. OpenAI, the most "powerful" foundation model has a rolling release of every 4-5 months. I've witnessed loss of "reasoning" and outright ignoring of instructions in some cases using the latest models unless you push some things through the functions parameter, which will probably break a lot of prompts, especially the agentic ones. Imagine that, there's no free lunch with a fine tune. You're pretty much at the mercy of a company you're basing your business on not breaking your shit every 5 months. And with how they handled deprecating davinci, it'll keep happening.

In other news, a lot of the VC cash that is flying around right now and is a bit deluded and chasing some vague concept of "AGI" that's coming soon(tm), but given typical Bay Area bullshitting who knows if they are actually a true believer(tm)(c) or they're just throwing around cash looking for your typical unicorn. Strikes me as delusional too. I'm sure you'll have multimodal models any day now that can do everything from pick strawberries to writing and maintaining some bottom of the barrel web app.

So, more delusion and more bullshit. Lately, in general, and it's not a personal thing against the author or his business at all. It's just much in line with the frenzy that I see elsewhere.

You don't need acquired capital for your business because you can rent a VPS and generate social media posts cheaply? Here's your sign.