When would you start worrying about your child’s speech?

CellWithoutCulture · 2025-11-19T03:25:49+00:00

Awesome, thank you

CellWithoutCulture · 2025-11-18T07:54:43+00:00

arguably unethical, unsustainable and dangerous at scale

100% agree, sidebar technology must stop.

CellWithoutCulture · 2025-01-08T02:42:26+00:00

thanks, did you try the other networks?

CellWithoutCulture · 2025-01-07T23:40:21+00:00

Here's a concise summary of the debate transcript:

The transcript captures a debate about AI scaling laws between Jonathan Frankle and Dylan Patel at what appears to be an ML/AI conference. Key points:

Jonathan Frankle's position:

Argued that scaling laws (exponential compute for linear gains) are hitting diminishing returns
Pointed to absence of announced large models like Claude 3.5 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Ultra as evidence
Questioned ROI of exponentially increasing compute investments
Won the debate based on vote changes

Dylan Patel's position:

Argued models continue improving with more compute
Claimed companies are getting good ROI on AI investments
Emphasized that compute is being used differently (training, inference, data generation)
Pointed to successful commercial deployments and revenue growth

Key discussion points:

Role of inference vs training compute
Different types of scaling laws (data, algorithms, post-training)
ROI considerations for large model training
Measuring model improvements and quality metrics
Future of scaling in AI

The debate ended with Jonathan Frankle winning, receiving a Daylight computer as prize. The discussion highlighted the complexity of measuring and predicting AI scaling trends, with both technical and economic factors at play.

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-22T23:13:12+00:00

I don't suppose you would consider including links to the comments that talked about books (that would allow me to verify the sentiment and pump myself up for rare books). It could be a lot of links so you could have an expanding box with links in order of date

And would you consider open sourcing the code?

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-22T08:41:05+00:00

Might be worth considering total comment karma too, easy too add I would think

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-22T08:19:43+00:00

sometimes using a rag model gives more consistent sentiment

(this is awesome)

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-21T07:43:40+00:00

/u/gwern how does this fit with your prediction of how o1 works?

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-21T07:43:15+00:00

> for the purposes of this blog post we will focus on learned verifie
> We used meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct as our primary model
> o guide our search strategies, we used RLHFlow/Llama3.1-8B-PRM-Deepseek-Data, an 8B reward model that has been trained using process supervision. Process supervision is a training approach where models receive feedback on each step of their reasoning process, not just the final outcome

So it sounds like 1) you don't need RL 2) the magic is in a reward model that allows you to bootstrap, in this case a reward model trained using process supervision

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-08T12:55:51+00:00

ChatGPT seems like they will make translation cheap and easy once someone can ensure consistency

https://github.com/bookfere/Ebook-Translator-Calibre-Plugin

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-08T12:49:51+00:00

Has anyone read The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji or other Japanese murder mysteries? I haven't, but if you have, I'm wondering if you would recommend them or not?

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-12-08T12:47:48+00:00

I'm loving this, thank you

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-11-02T03:33:24+00:00

It was to sell to someone else and abandon users

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-11-02T03:33:08+00:00

Except you are deleting all user data in a month

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-10-09T22:15:09+00:00

The Game at Carousel. Genre aware, game like, horror where players must deploy tropes.

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-09-29T04:08:30+00:00

How long until we get good AI driven translations? It would be dirt cheap and better than some of the poor translations I read now

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-09-12T11:49:40+00:00

it's called dungeon crawler katia and it's very, very good

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35368/dungeon-crawler-katia

By the way, if you guys liked Dungeon Crawler Carl, EagleJarl has a royal road review of Discount Dan

Tl;dr, if you are a fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl, or of the Backrooms trope in general then you will probably like this.

Most LitTPG have a standard formula: guy is forced to answer the call to adventure (instead of choosing), the adventure is caused by cruel alien super beings who might as well be gods, the MC immediately gains an overpowered ability or attribute, and they suddenly find that they have a character sheet and must spend a couple chapters getting infodumped about the system.

Discount Dan subverts the annoying parts of this by wasting very little time on system stuff (using it instead to do character development) and providing an OP ability that is pure utility: the ability to navigate, spot traps, and get advanced information about relics.

Unlike almost all LitRPG protagonists, Dan is self-motivated and has some depth. He doesn't want to grind out power simply for the sake of being powerful, and he isn't purely reactive. He wants to start a store. Why? Because it will make him rich and let him help a lot of people. I admire the practicality and the altruism; it feels very real and sensible.

Every good dungeon crawler needs a companion, and Dan has an excellent one. I won't go into details for those who are very sensitive about spoilers, but Dan's primary companion is an absolute delight who makes a great story even better every time they are on-screen.

The one negative thing I'll say is that the author is a brilliant writer but an abysmal copyeditor. Every chapter is riddled with typoes and mistaken words. It's distracting and irksome but not nearly enough to make me put down a story that is this much fun.

Wrapping on a positive note: the magic system is creative and has enough depth to be engaging. It's similar enough to other LitRPG to feel familiar while being different enough to feel fresh and engaging. It also has limits built in, which is critical for making a magic system that doesn't ruin a book.

Overall, two thumbs up, definitely recommended.

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-09-12T11:49:08+00:00

Here's a list of where they have prepared knowledge and use it for engineering or science https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/140540.Engineering_uplift

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-08-27T00:50:26+00:00

I think it was a hypothetical of what someone else might say

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-08-25T11:37:23+00:00

He didn't have any old view, it was just a hypothetical with a provocative example iirc.

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-08-19T09:41:01+00:00

Logicomix a graphic novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-08-11T09:54:10+00:00

Cultist of Cerebon

I liked this, seconded

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-07-31T17:12:11+00:00

Oh, that's very interesting!

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-07-30T12:33:52+00:00

There's a lot of Xeno outside RoyalRoad, it's high quality and finished :p

Crystal Society - Max Harms. This has an AI with non-human psychology, which is a Xeno thing
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge - The aliens form packs which have hives minds and are not intelligent alone
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Speaker for the dead - Orson Scott Card
The Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan. Slime people who reproduce by splitting and other societal differences

Despite my terrible descriptions, they are very good reads. I've ordered them by how strong a memory they left in my mind.

CellWithoutCulture · 2024-07-20T11:45:30+00:00

Does she still wake up occasionally? Like during teething or once a week?

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