I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo hello sir
i am not a mathematician, but the results look correct to me?
in fact i feel like a 10x mathematician now, i can calculate and calculate all the time
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo What if we put the calculator into orbit?
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo Reminds me the early Pentium FDIV bug in the mid 90s: Recommended mitigation measures were to verify the computing results using an older but reliable 486.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo just give it autonomy and chain it to another autonomous calculator that verifies the results with an 80% accuracy.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo that will make you a solid B student instead of a C- student
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo Pentium based, I assume.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo just launch 100 calculators and pick the most common result, it should be fine
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo The real question is: your calculator burns significant quantities of methane every time you press "="?
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo Can you somehow make the calculator physically bigger? Bigger isn't better but it is inevitable and innovation.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
does it also boil the ocean?
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@MartinEscardo Can you somehow make the calculator physically bigger? Bigger isn't better but it is inevitable and innovation.
If the calculator is only correct 80% of the time, one could use two calculators, so that the correct result appears at least on one of the displays ~96% of the time.
As a side effect it would double the size.
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo much productivity, such efficiency wow! Clearly this is the future
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@MartinEscardo Have you already explicitly told your calculator to please calculate correctly? I've heard this helps.
@forster @MartinEscardo you have to tell it to pretend it is a really good senior calculator with 20 years of experience
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@MartinEscardo my reports are correct 85% of the time but that's ok, my boss is happy to double check them before sending them to our customers!
@ehproque @MartinEscardo Even 95% if you burn the whole planet and then fill the orbit with data-center satellites
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo These things get better and better. Might be correct 90% of the time by 2027!
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo we haven’t reached peak calculator yet, just think of what the future holds!
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@MartinEscardo I was taught to do at least an order-of-magnitude mental sanity check every time I used a calculator - there's always scope for pressing the wrong button.
@TimWardCam @MartinEscardo There is always scope for errors.
I love these discussions that assume humans are the golden benchmark that never makes mistakes or errors.
As you correctly were taught, check your work if at all possible.
And all the clever rules that apply to how to deal with outputs from algorithms apply to human output too. Potentially with modification, because humans can lie maliciously. And with that observation, let's close that argument with a round of “they eat the dogs”
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I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.
@MartinEscardo Funny enough, for some calculations a real calculator and the iOS calculator disagree. The physical calculator does all operations left to right, where the iPhone calculator does all operations by order of operations resulting in different sums in the end.
How many people knew that, and how many have trusted the calculator all these years?
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@MartinEscardo Have you already explicitly told your calculator to please calculate correctly? I've heard this helps.
@forster @MartinEscardo it's actually really simple, you just have to get the prompt correct. The calculator can only calculate what it's very specifically being asked to calculate, which is why it's very important to check and make sure you know the answer before you ask it the very specific question, so the answer is calculated correctly .
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@TimWardCam @MartinEscardo There is always scope for errors.
I love these discussions that assume humans are the golden benchmark that never makes mistakes or errors.
As you correctly were taught, check your work if at all possible.
And all the clever rules that apply to how to deal with outputs from algorithms apply to human output too. Potentially with modification, because humans can lie maliciously. And with that observation, let's close that argument with a round of “they eat the dogs”
@yacc143 @TimWardCam @MartinEscardo
> I love these discussions that assume humans are the golden benchmark that never makes mistakes or errors.
No one ever said that lol
Making mistakes is part of being human, but as we gain more life experience and expertise in an area the number of mistakes we make keep decreasing.Also human mistakes are very different from the kinds of mistakes LLMs make, this point always gets lost when people talk about it.
