This is not obvious to me! For example, if you locked me in a room with no information inputs, over time I may still become more intelligent by your measures. Through play and reflection I can prune, reconcile and generate. I need compute to do this, but not necessarily more knowledge.
Again, this isn't how distillation work. Your task as the distillation model is to copy mistakes, and you will be penalized by pruning reconciling and generating.
"Play and reflection" is something else, which isn't distillation.
The initial claim was that distillation can never be used to create a model B that's smarter than model A, because B only has access to A's knowledge. The argument you're responding to was that play and reflection can result in improvements without any additional knowledge, so it is possible for distillation to work as a starting point to create a model B that is smarter than model A, with no new data except model A's outputs and then model B's outputs. This refutes the initial claim. It is not important for distillation alone to be enough, if it can be made to be enough with a few extra steps afterward.
You’ve subtly confused “less accurate” and “smarter” in your argument. In other words you’ve replaced the benchmark of representing the base data with the benchmark of reasoning score.
Then, you’ve asserted that was the original claim.
Sneaky! But that’s how “arguments” on HN are “won”.
No, I didn't confuse the two. There is not a formal definition of "smart", but if you're claiming that factual accuracy is unrelated to it, I can't imagine that that's in good faith.
Exactly. I think people want to be treated like owners more than they want an obtuse legal status of being an owner. In other words, a seat at the table when strategic objectives are being defined is what will make them act like owners, not a RSPA document.
It all depends on the people. I know lots of people who prefer working for startups not because they're looking to get rich, but because the startup is doing something new that particularly excites them.
And in my statups, I want that group of people, and actively don't want the ones who are just looking for a big payday.
I assume you are either already rich or want to become rich because of your startups. Why wouldn't you expect people to want to also be rich?
I will say every time I hear someone claim that their employees should want to join them for non-monetary reasons, I assume its to try to keep more of the rewards for themselves.
> I assume you are either already rich or want to become rich because of your startups
You assume incorrectly. I am not rich by the standards of rich people (although I am rich by the standards of many others, but I think it's safe to say that most of the people reading my comment right now are wealthier than me), and I don't form startups because of a desire to gain wealth. I have no actual interest in amassing wealth as such.
I form startups because they give me the opportunity and freedom to engage in projects that deeply interest me.
"Not rich by the standards of rich people" is a moving target as your social class improves and you rub elbows with the more wealth as you make more money. There are people making $500k a year in the Bay Area or NYC who don't think they are rich. But the simplest dividing line I can think of is "has fuck you money". That is, could you (financially, not socially or being bored) retire tomorrow if you felt like it.
I never said anything was wrong with it. I only claimed that's not the motivation for everyone, and in my own startups, I prefer people who are motivated by passion for the work over those who are motivated just by income potential.
That's not a value judgement, that's just being interested in finding people who are more on the same page as me.
This analysis has been done several times. To the best of my knowledge, even the covid policy contrarians don't see a a problem with its obvious conclusions. Here, let me google that for you: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
The results on the "Weekly Number of Deaths by Age" dashboard are pretty clear - Covid had little impact on the death rates in the under-44 group. This is not surprising, as every country that records this data shows the same result.
I'm not sure of the situation in the US, but here in the UK all of the data dashboards and death stats indicate "deaths with Covid". This is simply how they were recorded, nothing more nothing less - if you tested positive for Covid within 30 days of dying, you were a "death with Covid".
The results on the "Weekly Number of Deaths by Age" dashboard are pretty clear - Covid had little impact on the death rates in the under-44 group. This is not surprising, as every country that records this data shows the same result.
(Separate replies, as I included both statements in a reply that then got flagged. Curious which one is offensive!)
I'd use it for basic process automation, airtable data IO, triggering marketing campaigns or slack bots, etc.
It's a heavy weight feature request but if I could lean on it in the way I lean on Prefect.io now for spinning up cloud workers on demand I'd use it for a lot more.
We're working on something similar - several scene layers packed and transmitted over h265 streams and unpacked into a 3D client for 6DoF playback. Captures from something as simple as a GoPro and then our CV compares perspectives of the scene across time to reconstruct it in 3D for the encoding/transmission steps.
Targeting exercise market (where we got our start) but it could go beyond it in time.
This is where we were looking to go with our "metaverse for sports" app https://ayvri.com - Blending of 3D world geometries with video and photos captured from ground view, built into 3D models. I believe this is the future of video, I was calling it "spatial media" at the time.
We still operate Ayvri, but have mostly moved on to other projects.
Sometimes someone links me to Ayvri (due to our overlap here) and it's always super impressive. As the capture tools get better, and something as sturdy as a GoPro can capture stable video suitable to watch on VR, the concept might pick up.
Thanks for the support, we still operate Ayvri, but we've moved on to a space that is perhaps better suited to or abilities and market timing in the sleep space https://soundmind.co
I don't comment here on HN often, but this is impressive! It could be a game changer for someone like me who finds exercising indoors boring but could stroll outside for hours on end. I could see myself using this.
How does platform support look?
We are building a VR exercise game/app [1] and those environments look awesome, but we are using GodotEngine not the usual Unity/Unreal ecosystem (same question goes for the OP)
We're doing everything in Unity. The hard part is really in the encoding, so there is no reason we couldn't have the client be in Godot or even simply webGL, but that isn't our focus just yet.
At Active Theory we work at the frontiers of fitness and technology to build better ways to keep people moving. Our popular application BitGym delivers immersive fitness tours to people working out on bikes, treadmills, ellipticals and rowing machines.
Open Positions:
- Unity3D Developer: Expand our small dev team as primary developer for our BitGym client. You'll be working on something many people love and use every day.
- Graphics Developer: Join our R&D team to bring out cutting edge but research stage 3d codec into more practical use. Depending on your interests you can explore VR, ML and CV in efforts adjacent to this.
