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Comment Re:EVERYWHERE (Score 1) 91

People on speakerphones for no reason, holding the phone horizontally and yelling at [it].

This. I do not understand this behavior. Especially when they move their horizontal phone between their mouth and ear, so they can hear the call better.

Why don't people use their phone as it was originally designed? You know, with putting the better speaker right up to their ear? Are people really that stupid?

Comment Re:Or maybe (Score 1) 57

And that carbon monoxide training is another way to do blood doping (though apparently harder an not as effective. maybe ~3% VO2max increases vs maybe 6%-10% with EPO or blood transfusions)

I always suspected that smoking was being used to do this in the past. I actually experimented with inhaling incense fumes (10 years ago?) to get a similar effect but abandoned it since I didn't have equipment to reasonable track progress and it was just a side interest.

Comment Re:500 word blurb without "losing money royalties" (Score 4, Informative) 215

That's because the artists re-record them due to the copyright coming to an end making minor changes from the original so they can refresh the copyright to that song and continue to make royalties from it.

No, the artists rerecord because the label tends to own the master recording copyright which screws the artist out of royalties. By rerecording they can do licensing for films, tv, and commercials that completely bypass the label.

Of course now labels are putting in contractual language to forbid them doing rerecordings.

Comment Re:Same shit, different day (Score 1) 70

> Take all studies like this with a grain of salt. A doctor doesn't diagnose a patient by reading a case study. They do it by talking to the patient, examining them, deciding what tests to order, etc. This is a contrived comparison that has little connection to how doctors actually work.

LLM's can do DDX's based on getting the primary complaint and asking follow up questions. It will then provide what tests to order etc. While it can't do a physical exam, they are better than doctors at all other aspects.

Comment Re:Mostly useless for normal users (Score 1) 65

The point of the absurdly large model is to distill the logits to smaller models. Overparameterization makes it much easier to learn the underlying function. Once the underlying function is learned, a drastically smaller model can learn the output distribution (teacher student distillation).

Comment Re:I think you completely missed the point (Score 1) 98

This is been pretty well studied and extensive and large amounts of homework are counterproductive. It's just not how human beings learn.

Benefits of homework depend on volume completed (as opposed to assigned) and age (pre middle school have little benefit, middle school benefit from 1 hr, high school 1.5-2.5 hours) and whether the student actually does it (as opposed to copy, etc.)

https://www.readingrockets.org...

As volume increases, students are more likely to skip it or cheat.

Comment Re:Crazy idea (Score 1) 509

That's an American problem. Funny given that the tech is American. But then the US has always lagged behind with contactless payments.

Most of the world has widely used public transport that use contactless payment, so it is a fairly obvious transition in most countries. The US lacks decent public transport for most people, and thus they have no experience with contactless payment for public transit, hence the slow adoption.

Comment Re:I assume they mean the webapp. (Score 1) 37

Since a substantial percentage of the tokens are from Chinese media and sources, it will have the same biases seen in those sources. Just as sources trained on US media will have a US bias.

Of course to the extent that Chinese media publish propaganda the model will learn that propaganda (similar to US media publishing of propaganda), sometimes the US reporting will eventually correct the propaganda though most media don't bother.

As to deliberate censorship - the model itself appears to not be censored but rather when serving the model they have another model that scans the input and output and terminates those responses that are to be censored.

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