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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 31 I bought nano tape this year. I would've loved this stuff as a kid: it is sticky, yet has no sticky *stuff*. It's absurdly strong, you can stretch/squeeze it, you can reuse it, you can even wash it if it gets dirty, it's transparent... What could I have done with this & Legos?7,5992913.8%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 31 Strange to think, given how ubiquitous and simple it is (just acidify a milk), that there is no 'natural' 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘦 anywhere in the wild except possibly briefly in the stomach of dead young animals (before the scavengers get to them and eat the 'cheese', anyway).2,972642.2%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 29 TIL Gento continues rolling releases (including major features like official binaries gentoo.org/news/2023/12/2 …) while funroll-loops.info has long since devolved into AI spam. The defilements are powerful energies, but inherently shortlived; use them wisely, like stimulants.3,2491314.0%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 29 DALL-E 3 for a snarky thumbnail for gwern.net/larping gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … Rejects: gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … (MJv6 struggled with control of the plaque and overall scenario.) pic.twitter.com/9ivMvNvk0w3,6691042.8%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 29 Some experiments in Midjourneyv6 /describe for imitating twitter.com/AngryGooseberr … : gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … None nail it, but fun.3,8441273.3%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 29 For some more comparison, some successful samples for I/J/V dropcaps using the new Midjourneyv6: gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff … pic.twitter.com/LKKyh6dkYd5,6191352.4%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 29 I take it from the lack of responses that probably it does not, or else people would still be using it.2,001201.0%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 27 Some population ethicists argue that, because existing is a good, we are morally obligated to breed small brachycephalic dogs who suffer & have shorter life expectancy instead of healthy dogs, as turnover ensures more total dog existences; this is called the Repugnant Conclusion.5,6261172.1%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 24 :) We hope to do maybe Thanksgiving & Fourth of July too, if the SVG pipeline works out - it'd be a lot of fun to have themed rulers which go in a cycle like 'rocket stand' / 'rocket' / 'firework'.3,176431.4%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 24 Melly Clistmasu (Eve)! May your KFC be hot & spicy, and your gf not stand you up tonight. (11 Christmas logos total.) pic.twitter.com/mfgsbNB7v75,7433536.1%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 23 I hate asking for people to report the impersonator account @gwernbranwen1 again, but it's still live and people are DMing me asking me why 'I' am sexually harassing Julia Wise. 😮💨 And Twitter just turned down my latest reporting of it. twitter.com/gwern/status/1 …12,6848076.4%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 23 Every once in a while I read about Yeltsin or the collapse of the Warsaw Pact or '90s Russia, and I feel like we ought to have a federal holiday to honor the Russians & Westerners responsible for a simple fact: 'no Russian nukes used since 1990' history.com/news/bill-clin …7,6922803.6%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 22 It's easy to just generate a bunch of PNGs and dumping them in a webpage. So everyone can and does do that! (Which is why a vaguely illustrative image now looks bad.) But you hardly ever see people doing icons or logos or content themes or dropcaps, despite the power of MJ/DALLE3,006291.0%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 22 That is: this workflow makes generating web assets as trivial as images you just plop in the page. Want to replace your <hr>s with a rocket for Fourth of July? Replace your site logo with a vampire version for Halloween? Cat dropcap for essay? 1 minute in MJ->pipeline->webpage.2,895501.7%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 22 tfw you replace 'CICO' with some real meaningful scientific contributions theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ … pic.twitter.com/Vhzq2TGYYS2,224783.5%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 21 (And muting? My suggestion is 'mute charades': a mute PC is no longer allowed to talk; when it's his turn, he gets 10s to act a move; everyone writes down their guess, and the DM takes the majority vote or picks at random if no majority guess. Also, colorblind scroll traps...)4,924370.8%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 21 A genuinely interesting 'accessible' D&D dungeon would have ramps, but only downwards, Braille labels, which occasionally lie about colors, and involve fighting your way to a great prize... and then the crippled, injured, half-blind/deaf party now fighting its way 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬.2,694421.6%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 19 Minor Q for v. old researchers: on old papers I often see in the margin a little price like "$3" or "$5". I assume this was the price of a reprint of just that paper. How exactly did that work? Did you, like, put 3 dollar bills in an return-address envelope & write the citation?7,2241592.2%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 19 If I've written too many long replies to you and you've wearied of reading them, then forgive my selfishness: I was simply talking to myself, and the AIs.7,1862783.9%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 16 AI reaction increases with integration. The layman's "double fallacy of AI generalization": believing that scaling (eg GPT) can't generalize any more than past AI could (eg Deep Blue); but then believing slapping together GPT-4+Whisper is an astounding AGI advance. 2 wrongs...4,1411433.5%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 16 Another way to put it: 4 years ago, AI people were dismissing GPT-2 because all it did was write 16 sentences about a herd of unicorns with only a few errors or self-contradictions. (Normal people, ofc, didn't hear about it at all.) Now GPTs write these undergrads' class essays.4,6901142.4%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 16 The workflow would be Midjourney->curation->remove-background + convert-SVG in Recraft.ai -> Vecta.io/nano minification. Then you can just mv 100 .svgz files into a dropcap/foo/ directory & the JS picks a random one each page load. Make a set in an hour.2,859622.2%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 16 For an SVG pipeline we're going to try out recraft.ai (via @natfriedman): it seems pretty good at converting complicated PNGs to SVGs. filesizes after downscale+minification aren't *too* bad. (100-300kb vs 10-30kb) If it works, this would let everyone make dropcaps!3,1811043.3%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 15 Ah, the dratted blind spot... unless it's actually BPEs this time? 😞 pic.twitter.com/KgEuZfnDfK2,7241154.2%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 Also perspective: outside AI people aren't paying attention. For the 99% of the rest of the population, 2023 wasn't the 'year of ChatGPT', but a year of bread & circuses—'the Year of Ozempic & Taylor Swift' specifically. (Carbs; youtube.com/watch?v=seU5y5 … thehighlandernews.com/2332/archives/ …)4,2413107.3%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 What other field would, say, mathematics work so well in, to give early scientists the sheer unmitigated gall to imagine that they could *ever* tackle other fields like biology or physics with any possible elaboration of arithmetic or geometry?4,1911633.9%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 This is a serious question BTW. Is there any field of science or technology, where, even in retrospect with all possible benefit of hindsight, there are better challenges for biased, ignorant, irrational humans struggling to invent science, than celestial mechanics etc?4,2671934.5%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 Was astronomy "the first science" because it is the 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 of sciences? Where else does Nature pose daily problems to biased humans, quantitatively predictable years in advance to the minute, where results are unmanipulable & visible literally worldwide?13,4847165.3%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 ME: "Too inefficient? Yeah, that'd take a minute to run. But we can optimize it. Just take a few seconds to copy over my usual OA API script and then we can prompt GPT-4: 'Calculate the first 30 digits of pi:'" THEM: "I stopped listening a minute ago. You can't hurt me anymore."2,9901173.9%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 ME: "Heck, I even still remember everything about how to do Bayes theorem and update. Like your classic binomial update on binary data. Just write down your priors with `rbinom()`, sample a million times, keep the ones which match the data, et voila!" THEM: "Please stop." 🤮3,441972.8%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 THEM: "Of course college is useful. Even gwern knows calculus. Or he did, anyway." ME: "Hey, I still know calculus! I can still integrate—just open R, define function, sample 10,000 Monte Carlos, sum." THEM: 😮 ME: "Geometry too. What's π? Just drop needles on a plane..." 😱11,5789137.9%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 14 For perspective on AGI timeline predictions like '2027' (Metaculus, Legg, Anthropic etc): then if you have a kid who just entered college this fall semester (& they graduate on time), they will graduate with a bachelors & debt—right as they become replaceable by a few $/hr of ⚡️14,1747825.5%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 13 I think e/acc would, far from 'inaugurating the Superman', make Nietzsche cry. Nothing could make him sadder than Moravecian contempt for human stories (wired.com/1995/10/morave …): a 'Disneyland without children', where opera is generated not performed, & understood but not felt.2,4591616.5%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 13 I didn't watch any until long after I'd moved on, but watching _Carmen_ (then others, then graduating to Wagner) made me realize how little I understood Nietzsche's philosophical writings or preoccupations at an *emotional/esthetic* level, rather than merely verbal or academic.2,390401.7%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 13 My advice to any teenager considering their first shot of Nietzsche is to watch some operas first. (I suggest _Carmen_, not Wagner.) Opera was one of the great loves of his life, and key to his relationship with Wagner. You don't understand opera, you can't understand Nietzsche.7,9302873.6%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 10 The glitch-art wireframe cities were particularly fun: - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … pic.twitter.com/ZTbLtsOPlu2,900953.3%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 10 2 4 H O U R S R E M A I N - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … pic.twitter.com/fp5mFG0xkZ1,4721147.7%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 10 Nifty castle-moon effects: gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … pic.twitter.com/a5IvkFM6Kp1,447463.2%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 10 I never quite managed to recapture the moon from one of my walks, but what I got wasn't too bad, and I wound up straying into some pretty cool glitch-art moon & cityscapes afterwards, so that was a good way to unwind. Rest: - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … - gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/tran … pic.twitter.com/jKR8DRxCy21,265594.7%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 10 For comparison, the Midjourneyv5 failure attempts to imitate via /describe & prompting: gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diff …1,319534.0%View post activity
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Dec 4 I walk into the gym. 4 young men are there on benches and machines, hunched motionless over their phones. I do 3 exercises before any of them stir. I think one was on his phone the entire time I was there. I wonder why they were there. I wonder why they are alive. pic.twitter.com/UeSQdZynwU4,0651864.6%View post activity
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