Larry O'Brien

A higher-ordered function is worth a thousand loops.

OK. Going cold turkey on Twitter. I'll probably be back in a couple weeks. Probably.

For programmers, it's always one thing or another.

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

Here we go...

@slampoud Just read the release, not the paper.

Saved you a click: It has a super-prominent distinctive scar.

What if not believing in intelligence is like not believing in God? Incomprehensible initially, but after "IQ is logic!" "Oh, no it isn't." "IQ is pattern reco!" "Nope." "IQ is token prediction!" etc. you end up with an IQ hiding in the gaps. Unnecessary.

@Muffung @chrisalbon Tweet-length, no. At article length, maybe today, but it's an arms-race: you just make "seems human!" score the value you optimize the model for.

@chrisalbon Is it somehow possible to infer a probability whether or nor a text was written by GPT3 or any other LK Model?

I’ve been tinkering with AI writing tools and here is my biggest takeaways: 1. Amount of low quality content used to flood Google results and drive ad impressions will approach infinity. 2. Internet users will flock to where the humans are. Wikipedia, Reddit, Quora, etc.

So far, @xamarinhq had the best t-shirts. Simple, bright colors and minimalist designs.

@SoniaCuff Did it come with only half the lifeboat bricks needed?

"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." #LEGOTitanic 🧵

@dvdsgl In natural selection, diversity is a huge driver of optimization since recombination gives you 25% chance to get benefit A from P1 and disparate benefit B from P2. Homogeneous gene pools don’t evolve as quickly. Suspect same weakness with GPT-5s co-creating.

Can we quantify knowledge creation? Could we, for example, replace 99.99% of people with GPT-5, and have 0.01% of people generate a little knowledge, and get the civilization we have today? Have we actually been close to a knowledge equilibrium this whole time? Compared to what?

With Copilot going in to wide use, public repos will rapidly take up Copilot-written code. Future Copilot versions will, in turn, take this code as examples for future code. Tracing to original human source will be harder; code will converge towards Copilot biases.

@praeclarum That was such an intense use of ML! I really liked the part where the ML reacted to the movie. I also liked how it set up future ML movie reactions.

As a little art project, I had GPT-3 react to watching Star Wars. It turned out pretty fun to watch (I think) with some expected and not-so-expected reactions. Curious what an AI thinks of our beloved movie? Watch to find out: youtu.be/PcOJM2Xy6u4

@KyleCranmer @GadiNBC But raises the question of why many people aren't simultaneously reporting a phenomenon visible over such a wide area. Maybe the light/reflection is directional (similar to satellite "flares")? Motion doesn't seem consistent with free-fall orbit, though.

@GadiNBC "In the direction of the Big Dipper" doesn't really make sense if it's in the atmosphere. People in different locations will see different stars in the background. It would need to be way above the atmosphere for people to see the same background stars.

Are you a commercial or private pilot that has seen UAP's flying in racetrack patterns in the direction of the Big Dipper? My DM's are open. CC #ufoTwitter

They're going to milkshake duck the lettuce.

Very proud that I had the self-discipline to go into last night’s Welcome to Wrexham game ignorant of the result. Really good show!

Dorothy Lange photo of out of work Homer Simpson  

Firing 3/4 of your staff is not “hardcore software engineering.” “Build one to throw away” is not a prescription for HR. You’re blowing up teams, culture, processes, trust: things that take years to develop.

can we skip to the good part