haeffin's comments

haeffin | 1 year ago | on: Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history

They themselves said it was trained on NVIDIA chips, so I’m not sure where you got that it wasn’t. It was trained on the less capable versions sold for the Chinese market.

haeffin | 1 year ago | on: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

The contents changed between then and now.

haeffin | 2 years ago | on: Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom

Why do you think there's a longer interval between inspections for Teslas? The interval for Hauptuntersuchung in Germany (which this article is about) is 2 years (except for the first one which happens after 3 years), regardless of car brand.

And a windshield wiper needing replacement wouldn't count as a "significant fault" that they force you to come back for before getting certified.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?

Unfortunately, some companies' HR departments actively encourage "trivia questions", because they ask interviewers to ask every candidate the same questions so that a "fair" comparison between candidates.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results

Why wouldn't it have good coordination? A bot has access to a perfect model of how the other bot would act - itself.

Also, computer engines didn't seal the doom of human players in chess and in go, so I don't get why it would do so in dota.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour

It's not a pro game, those are still amateur players (some of them ex-pros).

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

Physics and other disciplines were broadly using arxiv before ML did it. When I switched from physics to ML (CS) I was surprised that arxiv isn't used more.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: GCC 8.2 Released

Depends on what your industry is. If you're compiling c++ for mobile, clang is pretty much your only choice for iOS and the default choice for Android ...

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: OpenAI Five Benchmark

> Because our training system Rapid is very general, we were able to teach OpenAI Five many complex skills since June simply by integrating new features and randomizations. Many people pointed out that wards and Roshan were particularly important to include — and now we’ve done so. We’ve also increased the hero pool to 18 heroes. Many commenters thought these improvements would take another year.

The linked commenters thought that getting to "real dota" (more than 100 heroes, captains mode instead of random, ...) would take another year. So I don't think it's fair to make that statement.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think the improvements are very nice, but pointing to people saying "these people thought we would need a year, we did it in under a month!" is not what you should do if you didn't actually do what the linked people stated.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP

Because it's absurd to throw all EU countries into one pot in this regard, especially if you include (and focus on) the UK?

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat

It was mainly sold as "prevent illegal foreign gambling sites from making a profit without paying back".

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok

Geometry Dash, still probably my favorite game on the iPad, switches between left-to-right and right-to-left suddenly in the middle of levels and it's messing with my brain.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

I'm not saying "Google's Awesome!". My point is that the view you presented is far more biased than what I get from my colleagues and friends that stayed in academia. People running around like headless chickens in the "MS buys GitHub" thread was unfounded, and it is unfounded here.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

Supporting independent academic research like https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/google-faculty-research-aw...?

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

Why do you think Google doesn't encourage publishing papers? Google has a very big amount of papers they publish ... as an example, https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/google-at-nips-2017.html

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

Usually when people speak about open source, they include not only not being able to view the source, but also the possibility to modify, distribute and use it (and modified versions) in the requirements for a license to be labeled an open source license.

haeffin | 7 years ago | on: Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land

That's not a straight line (it only looks like that on this map).

haeffin | 8 years ago | on: Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash

A car that stops for no reason is a safety risk for the cars that follow it, so that's not a good option either.

haeffin | 8 years ago | on: Redesigning the Scientific Paper

When did you do your PhD? When we collaborated for papers we used Subversion (at the start of my PhD) & git (towards the end) both for code and papers (in latex).

haeffin | 8 years ago | on: Creator

I get dizzy about half an hour into using the HoloLens. I am not sure why, I think it may be because the tracking/rendering doesn't quite keep up with fast head motions making the holograms "inconsistent" with the real world. It might also be that it's because of the accomodation/convergence mismatch ...