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fileyfood500 | 1 year ago | on: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

It would be amazing if bioRxiv and medRxiv were included! I was curious how bioRxiv compared in usage/size to arXiv, and dug through the stats on each site. Both sites report paper download stats, and arXiv is about 12x larger (~50+ million downloads/month vs 4 million downloads/month for bioRxiv).

Interestingly, the sites have grown at a similar rate. Going back to 2020, arXiv had 25+ million downloads/month and bioRxiv had ~2.1 million.

[1] https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_downloads [2] https://api.biorxiv.org/reports/usage

fileyfood500 | 2 years ago | on: Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster

It's very powerful, I can enter implementations for any algorithm by typing 5 words and clicking tab. If I want the AI to use a hashmap to solve my problem in O(n), I just say that. If I need to rewrite a bunch of poorly written code to get rid of dead code, add constants, etc I do that. If I need to convert files between languages or formats, I do that. I have to do a lot more code review than before, and a lot less writing. It saves a huge amount of time, it's pretty easy to measure. Personally, the order of consultation is Github Copilot -> GPT4 -> Grimoire -> Me. If it's going to me, there is a high probability that I'm trying to do too many things at once in an over-complicated function. That or I'm using a relatively niche library and the AI doesn't know the methods.

fileyfood500 | 2 years ago | on: Why Socialism? (1949)

Specifically for the US and Germany literacy results, I see a difference between these and past methods of measuring literacy. In the first link, the most basic sample question required the user to interpret a simple table. The second and third level questions required users to navigate websites, including a task of finding the correct link to navigate to the correct page of a site.

I think this establishes a great point that we have an ever changing society with growing demands, where we now need to consider much more than just reading words. Internet literacy is a huge barrier, and it’s great to see it getting measured and accounted for as countries continue to adapt education to the changing times.

fileyfood500 | 3 years ago | on: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"

I often see mistakes when chatgot is faced with more spatial reasoning, and I wonder if changes as simple as deep convolutional subnetworks in intermediaries layers would help the language model fit better in these situations. In short, I’m excited to see where things go, and can definitely see room for great improvement through improvements to the architecture!

fileyfood500 | 3 years ago | on: Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products

I agree with your sentiment, and I am comforted by competition balancing things out. I think these price distortions are coming from companies with less competition (or they're just losing out on customers!) Most competitive software applications are offered for free (social media, web browsing, word processing) no matter how wealthy the users are, because nobody would pay more for an equivalent product.

This is definitely a good argument for encouraging competition and increased price transparency.

fileyfood500 | 3 years ago | on: Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

Apple produced a weather app and bought out a leading competitor. This hurts the consumer because there is a loss of consumer choice and competition in the space.

In a related vein, it's exciting that Apple is investing in Apple Maps as a competitor to Google Maps, especially since Google bought out Waze a few years ago.

fileyfood500 | 3 years ago | on: Quantum Virtual Machine to accelerate research and learning

I just tried IBM Quantum Composer[1] after reading through this Colab and finding I didn't know enough about quantum circuits to do anything besides clicking play. Quantum Composer gave me a super simple drag and drop GUI for getting familiar with basic circuits/building blocks.

I made it 20 minutes before having to look up a Bloch sphere (happens when you start experiments with 'S' and 'Z' blocks which add phase shifts). I don't directly use a lot of IBM products, and I had a great experience with this one!

Link: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer

fileyfood500 | 3 years ago | on: Internet drama in Canada

I live in the US, and my experience is that internet is consistently fast in most places. Many locations offer 1GB internet plans, and the speeds increase every year. From a quick glance at the wikipedia rankings, it looks like the US internet speeds are about the 10th fastest in the world, and are faster than all European countries and Canada (more than doubling average speeds in Canada).

Competition is definitely a problem, especially in rural areas, and I'm excited for the increased competition from offerings like Starlink in rural areas and 5G internet in cities. Starlink is especially great in that it adds an option in many countries, not just the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

I think what's missing here is that Israel trying to defend itself from Syrian aggression. Israel's occupation of the Golan heights is in response to multiple Syrian invasions and attacks from the position, and Israel has offered to return the Golan heights to Syria in return for peace. Unfortunately, Syria still chooses not to recognize Israel, and as you point out, hosts Iranian forces on Israel's border. It's fair to say Israel has violated international law in an attempt to protect its sovereignty from Syrian aggression.

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

Israel doesn't want to own or control these populations. The west bank is largely self governing, and Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip and helped orchestrate free elections there. Not exactly the same, but if quebec separated from canada and attempted to join the united states, was rejected, and then was self policing but monitored for crime by the US government in response to periodic violence, would you say the US is therefore not a democracy since they barred the people of Quebec from joining the country? Alternatively, if some of the people in Quebec said the US shouldn't exist and devoted the government to eliminating the US, and the US responded with a naval blockade to prevent arms from being shipped to Quebec, would you then conclude that the US is not a democracy? I think you can definitely question Israel's handling of interactions with the West Bank, especially around the military interactions. But I wouldn't say that Israel isn't a democracy. There are people in Israel who want to annex those territories, and make the people in them citizens. But most people in the territories and in Israel don't want that. The people of the territories refuse to be annexed, and most Israelis don't want to annex them.

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry

A reason Iran is threatening to Israel is because Iranian leaders don't recognize Israel's right to exist. I don't have data on when Iran will/can develop a nuclear weapon. There is a fear that they would make use of it though, which is definitely a problem. In contrast to Iran's stance, Israel does recognize Iran's right to exist, and while it is in possession of nuclear bombs, has not used them. Iran also provides funding and weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah, which are both internationally recognized terrorist groups on Israel's borders that launch rockets into the country. So while Israel is technologically ahead, Iran demonstrates intent to be an aggressor against Israel given the opportunity. In the interest of avoiding a war between Iran and Israel, where I argue there is no real winner when lives are lost, it's worth making sure Iran doesn't have the opportunity to start a war. Israel would much prefer to have peace.

I agree with the concern about the 1 year claim. Iran definitely has the right to use civilian nuclear power, and I don't know the math behind the 1 year line. It may be that 1 year is the fastest possible amount of time that Iran could conceivably develop a nuke, in which case, I totally agree, it's propaganda to be citing that.

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

FDR/senior government and military officials in the US army knew. They made choices to focus on American interests at multiple points, even as they closed on victory on the European front, they prioritized strategic targets over concentration camps. The USSR ended up being the one to free most of the camps, and conquer most of Germany. Strategic targets are definitely important for protecting soldiers, but really the point here is that the military leaders were aware, and the fact the soldiers were surprised/shocked is a result of them not being informed and/or it being a shocking thing to see even when you know it’s coming.

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

I agree, I think this situation fits in nicely with the discussion of how stock compensation doesn’t directly result from the results of your work. Employees who aren’t passionate about or motivated by their jobs seek out compensation in return for retention. And even then, they scale their efforts at work based on their interest. I like the independence of Amazon teams, but the independence is limited when the teams don’t control their own finances.

fileyfood500 | 5 years ago | on: Diamonds aren’t special and neither is love

I imagine they are knowing victims, and there’s a lot of social pressure to conform. I’m sure many people would not be excited to repeatedly explain the De Beers situation to everyone who questioned their decision not to get a diamond. And it’s even harder to make an “against the grain” decision on behalf of your spouse. And if they don’t want the diamond ring, you still may choose to get it for your own social comfort. So with De Beers as the historical root cause, you have a situation where both spouses need to want to go against the grain to not get a diamond ring.
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