anandphilipc.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy
Applying ML to clinical/medical problems (poorly) 🐧
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my fake and useless internet votes.
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i dont care if its the government doing it or some tech billionnnaire as long as you're building in the open. which really is the question we need to answer, not who should be funded, but why isnt knowledge accessible. should be enforce openness in academia fuck yes. who funds it, i dont care […]
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formed by a committee
as the old joke goes
and formed by necessity
as the GI tract goes
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decades after ive quit the church i wake up to find that church didnt quit me.
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i'd love for someone to revisit the questions and predictions made by Burton, now.
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गेस्टाल्ट गया दूध लेने
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@pbloem i think about five years ago when mozilla started the whole "we're better than others" branding thing, i was pissed, because that is almost always a good warning sign that things are going south.
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@anandphilipc I think it's like a musician or a stand-up comic selling out. Some are sell-pouts from the start, openly, and we never give them any credit. We might still enjoy their output, but we know not to take them seriously.
But when they first take themselves seriously, and rage against […]
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to be clear, i am in favor of this differential treatment.
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but you know, my craze for ensuring i am amazing at the guitar could lead to utter ruin, ignoring my career, family etc etc and not really take the path of joy or enjoying myself or the guitar, just an unceasing hunger to get better and better at it and suddenly im 70 and going why the fish did […]
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but i also get the feeling it they will find that it was finding out what i regretted the most that i regretted the most. at which point, that fella felt so bad for me, and he comes back and says something like not learning to play the guitar. and i would have been like, what. really? i can fix […]
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friends with adulting experience, please help.
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and they happen because LLMs dont read stuff, dont understand stuff, they are an algorithm to predict plausible words. in about five years, we'd have built actual summarizers, based on these LLMs. or the bitter lesson will win again and someone will build something so massive it does something […]
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Xu Z, Mo F, Huang Z, Zhang C, Yu P, Wang B, Lin J, Srikumar V. A Survey of Model Architectures in Information Retrieval. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14822. 2025 Feb 20. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14822
Good overview. learned about people trying to use state space models to replace transformers […]
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@darth-vada.bsky.social full creative freedom to interpret as you wish.
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the other is that it keeps you from being fired from work.
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#hackerjesus
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@darth-vada.bsky.social fair. although i will not shape shame dosai. they're all good dosai