this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
1387 points (99.4% liked)

Science Memes

11021 readers
3570 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1387
The 1900s (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
153 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

TBF, the veracity of the information is relatively field dependent. Structural engineering? Yeah, probably still as relevant as the day it was published... Quantum computing or astrobiology theory? Far more likely to be superseded or debunked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to see AI papers compared to today, we basically tore the guts out of everything, I don't even think most of Minsky is applicable anymore (perceptrons particularly have been replaced with vector meshes from word2vec).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Statistical modeling and machine learning theory goes back several decades. I'm not sure LLM's even use new algorithms. They may just apply various techniques that improve the performance and accuracy of pre-existing algorithms.