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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

The way I understand it (based on some introspection and reading the experiences of other autistic people), it's not a matter of ability to process information but rather the inability to not process information. We don't have the innate ability to recognize what's important and what isn't, which hinders our ability to recognize that two situations are the same and should be handled the same way. Asking "why?" is an attempt at understanding the pattern so that we can generalize in the same way as other non-autistics instead of memorizing every individual situation.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

The ah-ha moment for me was realizing that the only thing of value that you get from recycling scrap is holmium ore.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Absence of moderation is in itself a form of censorship.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you're interested in AR, you should pay attention to AI too since it looks like the two fields will be intersecting very soon, if not already. Meta has been putting a lot of work into dense point tracking models with very impressive results. It's probably safe to assume AR is their intended application of the tech given their investments in the Meta-verse.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Two more questions need answering before these findings can become actionable:

  • How do these two groups compared to a third group that can use both? ChatGPT is pretty useless on its own when correctness is important, but it improves a lot when you combine it with ways to verify its output.
  • How much time and effort would this new group need to accomplish the same task? One of ChatGPT's strengths is being able to communicate a piece of information in many different ways, and in whatever order you ask of it. It's then much faster to verify or through a legitimate source than it is to learn from those sources in the first place.
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Like father, like son.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Generation ability seems to be about the same as any other model. The advantage of normalizing flows is that operations are invertible. That allows you to not just generate samples, but also calculate the probability of a sample.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like Laurent Dinh (dude who originally came up with normalizing flows) is one of the authors of this work.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The long-forgotten technique? Normalizing flows. It feels like it was just last year that they were all the rage. It's insane how fast the field is moving.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Take from one group of poor people to benefit another group of poor people? That doesn't sound like a good thing to me.

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