Chabsff

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by Chabsff 1mo ago
Not necessarily. Here's a rough example (it's not what's going on here, just a representative idea): There are words/tokens that are heavily correlated to the prompt (a yes or a no, for example), and then there are other
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by Chabsff 2mo ago
I don't think it's the dream, I think it's the cynical market-driven logic. Automation has been rolling out for a long while now, and most of the low-hanging fruit of things that can easily be redesigned in a cost-effective w
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by Chabsff 2mo ago
Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used. That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still reli
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by Chabsff 2mo ago
I almost entirely agree with this. However, after coding quite a few large projects with LLM assistance, I can say with certainty that there is some form of "art" at play with regards to structuring requests for LLMs. However, t
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Show HN: Chirp, My constraint-driven metaprogramming language(github.com)
2 points by Chabsff 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Chabsff 3mo ago
Hello HN. There's still a long road ahead for the project, but since I've recently closed the loop on bootstrapping the language's core within itself, I thought now's as good a time as any to throw it out there and start
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by Chabsff 9mo ago
TU-level concepts (mostly) dissolve during the linking stage. You need to compile with -c to generate an object file in order to see the distinction. Also, the difference manifests in the symbols table, not the assembly.
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by Chabsff 9mo ago
> and to avoid the warning (error) the code is decorated with compiler pacifiers, which makes no sense! How is that a bad thing, exactly? Think of it this way: The pacifiers don't just prevent the warnings. They embed the warnings w
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by Chabsff 9mo ago
It's not just a pure matter of law, and looking at it from that perspective is naive. Legacy publishers in general (and a few big ones in particular, like der Spiegel) have been lobbying hard for legislatures to redirect big tech reven
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by Chabsff 9mo ago
In the grand scheme of things, we've only had about a quarter century where you needed a *very* specific kind of problem where prosumer hardware wasn't adequate across computer science as a whole. It's kind of amazing we go
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
There's no confusion here. It's pretty easy to make the argument that the combination of auto play and short form is orders of magnitude more problematic than the sum of their parts.
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
There is a HUGE difference in that the combined short length with the fact that the video starts playing before you even have a chance to make a decision on whether to watch it or not leads you to a "heh! I'm here already, might a
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
Honestly, I don't mind the format in principle, and the process that goes from YT's homepage to watching a single one of them is not that bad to me. As long as I get to make a decision that I want to watch something, consciously
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
If your argument is that the guardrails only provide a false sense of security, and removing them would ultimately be a good thing because it would force people to account for that, that's an interesting conversation to have But it&#x2
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
Agreed. DEATH handing out swords to kids as Santa in the Hogfather is a funny joke, not an example to follow.
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
> Have you read the literature? Do you have a background in machine learning or statistics? Very much so. Decades. > Being trained by predicting one token at a time is also not a criticism??! It is just a factually correct description
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
> They do it by iteratively predicting the next token. You don't know that. It's how the llm presents, not how it does things. That's what I mean by it being the interface. There's ever only one word that comes out
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
For the sake of this conversation "understanding" implicitly means "understand enough about it to be unimpressed". This is what's being challenged: That you can discount LLMs as uninteresting because they are "
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
Yeah, but that's their interface. That informs surprisingly little about their inner workings. ANNs are arbitrary function approximators. The training process uses statistical methods to identify a set of parameters that approximate th
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by Chabsff 10mo ago
> I feel like LLMs are a fairly boring technology. They are stochastic black boxes. The training is essentially run-of-the-mill statistical inference. There are some more recent innovations on software/hardware-level, but these are
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
Not by virtue of that alone. A choice of tech stack can never be enough to prove anything. It only establishes a lower bound on resource usage, but there is never and upper bound as long as while() and malloc() are available.
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
The black box I'm referring to is us. You can't have it both ways. If your test for whether something is intelligent/thinking or not isn't applicable to any known form of intelligence, then what you are testing for is no
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
Ok, but how do you go about measuring whether a black-box is doing that or not? We don't apply that criteria when evaluating animal intelligence. We sort of take it for granted that humans at large do that, but not via any test that wo
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
I'm glad someone picked up on my dumb joke :), I was getting worried. That being said, round-tripping works just fine, axiomatically so, until you go out of your way to discard the imaginary component.
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
And phase. People always forget about the phase as if it was purely imaginary.
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
You might have a point if this was a user problem, but it's not. It's a site operator problem. And from their POV, a CDN provides the exact same functionality.
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
I know this is tongue in cheek, but I'll give it a serious reply in case someone finds themselves "inspired". A CDN. What you are describing is a CDN. We have CDNs today and the problem still exists because most of today&#x27
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
The bots flock to where the data is. Moving to a different network is just begging for the bots to tag along.
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by Chabsff 11mo ago
My experience with SSA is extremely limited, so that might be a stupid question. But does that remain true once memory enters the picture? The llvm tutorials I played with (admittedly a long time ago) made it seem like "just allocate e
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by Chabsff 1y ago
I know that footguns are broadly "on-brand" for the flipper zero ecosystem, but exposing high-voltage leads like that without any warning whatsoever seems a bit much .

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