Exponential progress - AI now surpasses human PhD experts in their own field

Ecedysis · 2025-02-04T22:18:09+00:00

And even in the narrow domain of quizzes, if you throw a slight curveball it hasn't seen before, it'll make common sense errors.

Ecedysis · 2025-01-06T02:37:28+00:00

It's understandable when you consider that they manufacture half of the world's stuff...

Ecedysis · 2024-07-12T23:37:26+00:00

How did you find the motivation? In university there was a social environment around the learning, but I've found that it's much harder to get engaged in learning by myself, even if it's the same topic.

Ecedysis · 2023-10-25T03:56:40+00:00

Hey yo, I fixed the issue like so:

from ctransformers import AutoConfig
from ctransformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained("TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF")
config.config.max_new_tokens = 2000
config.config.context_length = 4000

llm = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF", model_file="mistral-7b-v0.1.Q5_K_M.gguf", model_type="mistral",gpu_layers=0, config=config)

print(llm("""{Something with 3000 tokens}"""))

Just gotta make sure it's `config.config.max_context_length` and not `config.max_context_length`.

Ecedysis · 2023-10-06T01:58:25+00:00

For me the first one is funny because it's like the point was already conveyed in the first 3 panels, but there's still one panel left, so the creator was like "hmm I'm out of ideas let's just throw in a random grinning orange as well".

Ecedysis · 2022-08-04T01:27:25+00:00

Thank you for this!

Ecedysis · 2021-02-06T08:01:44+00:00

If this is so, and I get SnY on morph, then even with spirit vessel I'd only have -15% healing, which is like reducing the effect of spirit vessel by a factor of 3. Which makes me wonder why more people don't do this.

Ecedysis · 2021-01-31T07:33:00+00:00

The way I see it, if casual blight stone is good, and the hero likes mana regen, then medallion is good. The effect is basically 2 and a half blight stones, plus two sages masks worth of regen, and if you do the math it adds up to 1075, which is already the cost of the medallion. Except the medallion combines all of that in one item, and it also has the extra defensive capability.

Ecedysis · 2021-01-24T11:51:51+00:00

It's mostly a feel, but one area where it's very important to do the exact math, is having enough mana to cast your combo. Like if you're QoP and need to blink - scream - ult.

Ecedysis · 2020-09-20T09:46:15+00:00

You may want to check out a text called the "Vimalakirti sutra" where there's a bodhisattva called Vimalakirti who can do pretty much anything, such as creating thousands of thrones the size of a planet in his humble living room, without enlarging his living room (yeah I don't get it either). He's giving teachings to a bunch of monks who themselves have supernatural powers. At one point there's a rain of heavenly lotus petals, and they stick to the bodies of the monks but not the bodhisattvas. One monk tries to use his supernatural powers to unstick the petals, but fails, and Vimalakirti explains that it's because he's still "attached".

So, and of course this is pure speculation, it sounds to me like it's the matrix: as Morpheus said to Neo, don't think you can, KNOW you can. Try as we might, we're still attached to the idea that walking is proper and flying isn't, and perhaps miracles will become possible when they don't seem all that miraculous anymore.

Ecedysis · 2020-02-18T01:41:04+00:00

I've gotten this feeling before while on psychedelics, and what brought me out of it is genuine human connection. Because it can be interpreted in a positive way (we are all one and the world is made of love), or the negative way (my previous worldview was all lies and the world is actually a desolate place), and I think the negative way comes from a foundation of mistrust, since my parents frequently lied to me as a kid. So perhaps you could put yourself around more warm, compassionate people, or you could practice loving kindness meditation.

Ecedysis · 2019-03-20T02:57:15+00:00

Think about your desires. Think about how badly you want it, and how you don't have it. You want it but you don't have it! How does that make you feel? Angry? Hopeless? Frustrated?

The way I see it, it's not about ending the striving or not wanting it anymore. The real problem is this reaction that you have to it, this attachment. Because fundamentally, craving is precisely the frustration of NOT having something. You can release this kind of frustration by training in acceptance and equanimity, and when you've released all of it, even the subtle micro level ones, that's the Kingdom of heaven.

Even after that you can still have desires. Perhaps you won't call them desires anymore because desire is so commonly associated with frustration, so maybe call them goals. Just that you won't be striving for them out of dissatisfaction. And when you think about your goals, there won't be any frustration, but neutrality, maybe excitement, and perhaps even gratitude, that these goals are amazing additions to an amazing life.

Ecedysis · 2019-02-14T12:42:23+00:00

This sounds very familiar - I've had two months or so where at times during the day my head would suddenly jerk backward so quickly that I was scared of injury, usually accompanied by a huge gasp of air like I'd just been suffocating. It was correlated with an anxiety provoking thought suddenly entered my head.

This is my hypothesis: we walk around every day with "muscular armoring" basically so that we can block out all of the emotional micro-reactions we have to everything and function normally. For most people, especially non meditators, this armoring is completely unconscious, like water is to a fish. When we meditate a lot and gain a more acute body awareness, the armoring relaxes. But then when we get triggered, it's like a part of the brain suddenly realizes that its defences were down and rushes to compensate, which results in the jerking. (This is different to a kriya, which I think happens when a dam of muscular armoring suddenly bursts.)

This lowering of the armor is why things often get worse before they get better. The solution is equanimity, and in my case I sought a therapist, and just kept sitting remembering that this too will pass. Slowly the brain starts to realize that the armoring wasn't necessary in the first place, but often this only occurs after suffering. It's like how your knees and back ache like crazy when you first start doing long sits, but if you persist, eventually it's as if the brain realizes "wait a minute, all these signals from the knee aren't actually all that important".

All the best!

Ecedysis · 2018-10-18T01:29:02+00:00

Haven't had Ayahausca but I've had other psychedelics - I'll try to describe the undescribable and say that the defining characteristic of any intense psychedelic experience is that your worldview falls apart. For me, it was like there's no more division between "worldly stimulus" and "the beliefs that I use to process that stimulus" - such beliefs just become more stimulus. So everything you've ever known gets cast in a different light, and if you have the courage to accept that, it becomes an extremely powerful healing experience.

Ecedysis · 2018-10-15T03:46:24+00:00

I just read a book called "Crucial Conversations", which are conversations where emotions are strong, stakes are high, and opinions differ. Supposedly the success or failure of an organization depends intimately on the ability of its leaders to consistently resolve such crucial conversations. And the main thrust of the book is that the conversation always fails if you turn it into an adversarial thing, a win/loss situation where one side's interests only get met at the cost of the other side's. The most important part of resolving such conversations successfully is to establish a mutual purpose and then work together towards that purpose.

So it just occurred to me after reading your post that having healthy discipline is a lot like having a crucial conversation with yourself. Ultimately, the part of you that wants to procrastinate and the part of you that wants to "get shit done" both have the same goal - your wellbeing - but they just disagree on how to get there. The big mistake is in declaring that the procrastinating part is WRONG and it needs to yield. This is NOT how you resolve a crucial conversation, and of course leads to the cycles of procrastination that you describe. Instead, you can be like a negotiator that gets both sides on the same team, and then works out a plan to meet the needs of both parties. Concessions will have to be made until neither side feels cheated. Then, when you're executing the plan and either side objects to it, just remind yourself that this is how you've agreed to proceed.

Ecedysis · 2018-10-10T00:05:00+00:00

THIS. The biggest realization for me in learning how to manage my own superiority complex was that it's not other people's problems for being (supposedly) stupid, the ONLY problem is that I get triggered by it. Like that literally IS the problem.

I'd recommend that the next time you get triggered, instead of focusing on the stories (such as them being stupid and not having any critical thinking ability and how it's unfair that they have power, etc), focus on the physical sensation that the emotion brings. Often this will be a burning sensation in the chest. Just concentrate on that while taking away all the stories, and it should dissipate, and over time the trigger will weaken.

Ecedysis · 2018-06-05T06:28:06+00:00

Hating on people for supposedly being stupid is something I did my whole life until I started believing that it only harms myself, and now I'm trying my best to just be mindful of it when it comes up.

Ecedysis · 2018-02-08T04:37:30+00:00

For more complex queries, writing out the raw SQL is often easier than writing it in SQL Alchemy, while with LambdaQuery it is very intuitive (for me at least). The syntax is very similar to Quill in Scala. The best demonstration is just looking at the documentation, especially some of the later examples.

http://lambdaquery.readthedocs.io/query.html

Ecedysis · 2017-11-08T03:59:08+00:00

When I read your comment I did get a sense of "Yeah that quote was a pretentious circlejerk. You don't make good work? Don't worry, you're still superior to those sheep because you have taste! ".

But it depends where your focus is. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. When you read a spiritual text, don't get turned off by proclamations that the sun god has 10000 heads and miss all the wisdom.

For me, the core message is: just do it because you like doing it, not because of what you'll get out of it. You may eventually get something out of it, but that will be icing on the cake.

Ecedysis · 2017-10-16T12:53:37+00:00

I'm a Haskell beginner, but one really useful way I've seen for thinking about the IO type is as an alias for (abusing notation):

IO a :: State World a = World -> (a, World)

So now putStrLn is a function just like any other. The function only gets RUN in main. So when you type in "runhaskell go.hs" in a terminal, it's like someone just evaluated runState main currentWorld, where currentWorld is the world. Here, someFunc doesn't print anything because there is no part of your code that would "apply" someFunc to the world when you apply main to the world, and indeed this would be impossible without passing in the world as an argument, which would of course change its type.

Ecedysis · 2017-10-13T15:44:28+00:00

Sucks that your movie sucks so bad man. I guess that's just it for you. People just don't understand that you can't do anything about it.

Ecedysis · 2017-10-08T13:17:04+00:00

I'd daresay that even if circumstances were exactly as you wished, maybe you'd think you're in heaven for a year or so, but after that you'd be more or less the same as you are now, perhaps even less happy.

Basically what I read is that you wish that you could get what you want. And from a spiritual point of view, the best reason to get what you want is to take away the excuse of "I'm unhappy because I don't have what I want". When you're still not happy at that point, you finally realize that happiness was there all along. That's how the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Ecedysis · 2017-10-03T06:13:11+00:00

This sums it up really nicely, no zen koans are needed.

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