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January 26th, 2024 at 1:13:46 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764	Proposed new coffee table book. "Enjoy the Experience of Burping with Confidence" (as yet unwritten) You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

January 26th, 2024 at 2:53:10 PM permalink
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4178	Didn’t read the article, but headline caught my eye (nose?). Plane forced to return to original airport due to customer’s ‘excessive farting’.

January 26th, 2024 at 8:09:44 PM permalink
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969	Quote: SOOPOO Didn’t read the article, but headline caught my eye (nose?). Plane forced to return to original airport due to customer’s ‘excessive farting’. I just got off a plane about 45 minutes ago and someone had some bad gas (or pooped themselves). At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent.

February 3rd, 2024 at 7:27:07 AM permalink
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5112	a claim I have not checked for myself " Groundhog Day is actually an astronomical event - it is the first "cross-quarter" day of the year, halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox" I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]

February 14th, 2024 at 2:52:20 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764	Robert Wagner looking pretty near kicking the bucket. https://apple.news/AZKF5DaiJQHG_T06NLUbElg You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

February 14th, 2024 at 4:24:24 PM permalink
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4525	Quote: rxwine Robert Wagner looking pretty near kicking the bucket. https://apple.news/AZKF5DaiJQHG_T06NLUbElg I will be happy if I look that good at 94. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin

February 14th, 2024 at 6:44:53 PM permalink
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4969	Quote: kenarman I will be happy if I look that good at 94. I hope I look that good on my 64th birthday. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent.

February 16th, 2024 at 3:13:25 PM permalink
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764	Other headlines of the day. From “Texas Monthly” “His best friend was a 250lb warthog. One day it decided to kill him.” You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

February 17th, 2024 at 4:48:15 AM permalink

rxwine

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A company that has an accident like the train wreck and chemical release is in for a world of complaints. Assuming the placebo effect has an action similar to what happens in drug trials around 20% would still complain of reactions to chemicals even if there is none in the air in their area. Add this into real complaints, and potential actual fraud complaints, and it adds up to a lot of complaints. Not that I feel sorry for a company when there is some malfeasance.

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

March 8th, 2024 at 10:22:16 AM permalink

rxwine

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Form the world of Ai

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Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1764722513014329620

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

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