In order to know which weight to change, don't you need to understand the complete model first

Basically: no.

In the most straightforward case of training with SGD on labelled data, you don't need to understand the model, you just know what the output is, what it should be and what the differential is with respect to all the weights. Then you take a step in that direction. No understanding needed.

The same holds for other cases. Let's say you get a data set of things the network does badly on in a certain way (like weird repetitions). You can run the network and see which activations consistently pop up with high values relative to a control set. You can then go and down weight them which can suppress the behaviour, for example.

Not read the paper yet but those are two examples.

I don't understand how that could work. In order to know which weight to change, don't you need to understand the complete model first... like a meta-model ? Obviously more complex and bigger than the one you want to affect ?

Unless you have offstreet parking

The USA is so spread out that everyone needs to drive gasoline cars everywhere yet somehow so compact no one has a drive to charge an EV.

So, Three companies good, four is anti-competitive? When T-Mobile bought Sprint, where you for or against that merger?

Just wanting the logic here.

People work after sunset and before sunrise all over the place. Some places are open 24/7. And yet, people manage it just fine. And some places are dark for large portions of the year, and bright for large portions of the year. It's almost like the world is a sphere or something and no two places are the same! Some places are summer at the same time other places have winter. Weird huh?

UTC everywhere, all the time and just be done with Timezones and DST forever!

A small percentage of a few billion people is a big problem.

Yes, regardless of whether their name is Muhammed or Breivik.

Why not here? Because for starters, humanism isn't a religion (and I say that as a humanist). It's a philosophical stance within atheism. And atheism is the absence of religion** (it's literally right there in the name), not a religion. You can't claim "religious" exemptions as an atheist. What this person actually wants is a philosophical exemption, akin to, say, a vegetarian wanting an exemption from having to cook meat at a restaurant or whatnot.

** - Well, except for those atheists who worship Athe.

Yeah, nothing insular about the Amish.

(Oh wait...)

Computers did not, steam engine did not, cars did not.

I don't think you are right about that. They've all caused absolutely massive changes. Steam engines drove the industrial revolution.

lol oops trying to avoid the lameness filter which hates the Nahtzees. We all know who invented the modern highway!

Apparently slashdot doesn't like mention of the third empire, Nahtzees or Hartler.

It's ironic that you complain about the military while using the internet; which is based on the work done by the US military when it developed ARPANET sixty years ago.

And the web was invented by civilians working on basic science research.

Food preservation

People have been working on food preservation for millennia. Refrigeration via artificial means (i.e. not using natural ice) was invented by civilians (one cycle even invented by Einstein). Freeze drying apparently is very old, since you can do it in very cold climates using the weather. Modern freeze drying was invented by a civilian but it a heavily adopted by the military from near obscurity.

GPS: sure.

Radar: sure, the military put a lot of work in, but it didn't start there.

Nylon: nothing to do with the military
Epipens: autoinjectors or adrenaline? Autoinjectors predate military use and while they were basically the first major adopter, those ones are nothing like epipens.

And highways? You know who ELSE liked highways :) The modern highway (special intersections, separated carriageways, type restrictions) was a creation of the for the greater glory of the as something of a propaganda/self aggrandizement tool. For it to work well the dictator pushed for a "people's car", or in German, Volkswagen.

Superglue... kinda, but only kinda.

And duct tape, sure, but a lot of the heavy lifting, like pressure sensitive adhesives and tearable cloth tape was done in the civilian world. But that specific formulation with the plastic coating? OK sure.

Most of these things were initially developed without military funding. In some cases, like RADAR and GPS, the funding advanced them hugely in a short time. And in some cases it was the initial impetus for building them in America (interstates). Though in most cases this is a deeply inefficient way to go about it.

Yay another perpetual motion machine!

If you hand me a working reactionless thruster[*] I can hand you back a perpetual motion machine. If you don't believe in free energy then you cannot believe in reactionless drives either[+].

[*]more efficient than a photon rocket.

[+]Well for certain values of "you". There are some people here who will just screech invective when presented with basic physic, so it turns out a person can continue to believe hi angel'o'sphere

Do you think every CVE out there has a fired human associated with it? In order to have a sensible discussion about how LLMs relate to security relative to people you need to be realistic about people.

Depends on how much you plan on using it. If you're like

"Write me a P2P sharing program like Limewire was back in the day!" - you're going to produce a lot of slop.

If you're using it to generate small functions though 15-20 lines at a time, or plugging in your own code and letting it help debug, then it can be very useful.

Its not any substitute for knowing how to code because it still makes a LOT of errors that need to be hand corrected, but its a great time saver for trivial tasks that are technically straightforward but would take longer to do by hand.

I used to stress to newer programmers that its perfectly normal to keep another browser open with the language specification/documentation for whatever you were writing in - its just a good reference. AI functions the same way.