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topaz0 commented on Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191... · Posted by u/brandonb

teiferer · 3 days ago

What is an "accuracy" of 83%? Do 83% of predicted diabetes cases actually have diabetes? Or did 83% of those who have diabetes get diagnosed as such? It's about precision vs. recall. You can improve one by sacrificing the other. Boiling it down to one number is hard.

topaz0 · 3 days ago

They use the area under the receiver operating curve, which is a pretty standard way to boil that down to one number.

topaz0 commented on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale derwiki.medium.com/do-thi... · Posted by u/derwiki

pimlottc · 8 days ago

I agree that not everything has to go huge. I don’t see how ChatGPT has anything to do with this though.

topaz0 · 8 days ago

This was my first thought as well -- even some of the examples in the post are pre-llm.

topaz0 commented on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale derwiki.medium.com/do-thi... · Posted by u/derwiki

loumf · 8 days ago

Because when you quote someone, you should credit them. It's not believable that they don't know the source of the quote because it's trivial to find.

topaz0 · 8 days ago

It would be one thing if the post was arguing for or against the substance of that essay, but it's really not -- it's about a different thing you can do, in a different context.

topaz0 commented on AI-induced dehumanization (2024) myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley... · Posted by u/walterbell

nineplay · 9 days ago

My partner has become tiresome about this - even if I was to tell them that I responded to your comment on HN, they'd go "You probably just responded to a bot".

Are bots really infiltrating HN and making constructive non-inflammatory comments? I don't find it at all plausible but "that's just what they want you to think".

topaz0 · 9 days ago

I've seen chatgpt output here as comments for sure. In some cases obvious, in other cases borderline. I wouldn't guess that it's a major fraction of comments, but it's there.

topaz0 commented on AI-induced dehumanization (2024) myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley... · Posted by u/walterbell

shredprez · 9 days ago

I started noticing this behavior a few months ago and whew. Easy to fix if the individual cares to, but very hard to ignore from the outside.

Unsolicited advice for all: make an effort to hold onto your manners even with the robots or you'll quickly end up struggling to collaborate with anyone else.

topaz0 · 9 days ago

I'd take this advice one step further: just don't use the robots

topaz0 commented on Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2

neom · 11 days ago

You're absolutely right! I was locked in with GPT5 last night and I actually discovered that salt is a geometric fractal containing a key insight that can be used by physicists everywhere to solve math. Don't worry, I've emailed everyone I can find about it.

topaz0 · 11 days ago

I hope you used the llm to write the emails

topaz0 commented on Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2

brokencode · 11 days ago

We don’t know whether ChatGPT gave medical advice. Only that it suggested using sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride. For what purpose or in what context, we don’t know. It may even have recommended against using it and the man misunderstood.

topaz0 · 11 days ago

Chatgpt doesn't give advice at all, but could say "after interpreting chatgpt output as medical advice"

topaz0 commented on Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2

some_random · 11 days ago

Is it just me or is the title kinda unclear?

>The patient told doctors that after reading about the negative effects of sodium chloride, or table salt, he consulted ChatGPT about eliminating chloride from his diet and started taking sodium bromide over a three-month period. This was despite reading that “chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning”. Sodium bromide was used as a sedative in the early 20th century.

In any case, I feel like I really need to see the actual conversation itself to judge how badly chatgpt messed up, if there's no extra context assuming that the user is talking about cleaning doesn't seem _that_ unreasonable.

topaz0 · 11 days ago

I'd say that the thing that messed up was the AI hype machine for pretending it might ever be a good idea to take chatgpt output as advice.

topaz0 commented on Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11491... · Posted by u/qsort

hiq · a month ago

What about formal proofs? Don't we expect LLMs to help there, in a more "blue team" role? E.g. when a mathematician talks about a "technical proof", enumerating cases in the thousands, my impression is that LLM would save some time, and potentially help mathematicians focus on the actually hard (rather than tedious) parts.

topaz0 · a month ago

A computer can be helpful for enumerating cases and similar mechanical work. But an LLM specifically would be a terrible way to do this.

topaz0 commented on Building better AI tools hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/eternalreturn

swiftcoder · a month ago

The scenarios in the article are all about mission-critical disaster recovery - we don't even trust the majority of our human colleagues with those scenarios! AI won't make inroads there without humans in the loop, until AI is 100% trustworthy.

topaz0 · a month ago

Or it will, and disaster will ensue.

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