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Hugsun
15d ago
Nice claudish! It's crazy how obviously human made this comment is, despite the superficial similarities to Claude. It truly has a distinct style.
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15d ago
Interesting! My impression was that this was an artifact of RLVR where this slightly preferred writing style got amplified to the nth degree. It's probably some mix.
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1mo ago
Docker containers use Linux kernel features to create an isolated environment, running on the same machine as docker is. This creates a virtual machine, with its own kernel, and runs the container in there. This gives stronger isolation and
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2mo ago
That can only be true if the workload is compute bound, not memory bandwidth bound.
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3mo ago
Iceland has mostly been governed by the center right conservative independence party, which has been quick to sell land and resources to anyone interested. Kárahnjúkar is the canonical example of this, a huge hydro plant powering aluminium
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3mo ago
Is there anything of value in this project? It sounds interesting at a glance, but it seems to be AI slop. So it's hard to tell if there are any interesting discoveries there, or just some worthless results described with performativel
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4mo ago
Have you tried Qwen 3.6 or Gemma 4? They're not frontier level but certainly have their uses.
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4mo ago
Note that your monitor is a QD-OLED, not a QLED monitor. Despite the similar names, these are two very different technologies. QD-OLED is a OLED panel that uses QD (quantum dots) to achieve a wide color gamut. QLED is a LED backlit LCD pane
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4mo ago
That HN agent review is pretty usable. Very cool!
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5mo ago
It is unbelievable that this is a controversial opinion.
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5mo ago
That seems like a decently sized market. Maybe not for an AI lab though.
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5mo ago
Two things can be true at once.
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5mo ago
The whole post and that paragraph in particular sound AI generated, that triple "No" is a big tell. I'd not be surprised if that confirmation complaint is just a random suggestion proposed by the AI that wrote this.
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5mo ago
They're comparing Qwen's moe vs dense (smaller difference) against Gemma's moe vs dense (bigger difference). Your proposed alternative misses the point.
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5mo ago
Unfortunately, llama.cpp quantization technology has been stagnant for two years. The main quantization developer left or was kicked out of llama.cpp due to an attribution dispute. He created his own fork ik_llama.cpp where he has made mult
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6mo ago
LLMs produce a distribution of token probabilities which is then sampled. This sampling is the only random part of the system. If you just take the most probable token every time, the system becomes fully deterministic. We don't do thi
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8mo ago
SCOTUS is indeed compromised.
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9mo ago
I heard from a medium reliable source that this loophole wasn't as popular as the zeitgeist implies. I'd love to know how true that is and if so, how the rich finance themselves.
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10mo ago
I listened to a few episodes on a recommendation. The episodes lead you to believe that the host is some agnostic person that's just curious about these reports. They are not as the original lead is from another superstition believer p
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1y ago
I've found GPT-5 Thinking to perform worse than o3 did in tasks of a similar nature. It makes more bad assumptions that de-rail the train of thought.
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1y ago
The version of llama.cpp that Llamafile uses supports structured outputs. Don't waste your time with bloat like langchain. Think about why langchain has dozens of adapters that are all targeting services that describe themselves as OAI
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1y ago
I gave up after it didn't let me see the prompt that went into the LLM, without using their proprietary service. I'd recommend just using the API directly. They're very simple. There might be some simpler wrapper library if y
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1y ago
I was under the impression that this is not the case. Aspartame has been studied a lot and not found to be harmful.
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1y ago
I discovered that this is very common when posting a long article about LLM reasoning. Half the comments spoke of the exact things in the article as if they were original ideas.
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1y ago
I was very pleased to discover that Mistral's Le Chat has inbuilt support for python code execution and sympy is importable. It will regularly use it and reliably when asked to.
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1y ago
Consensus seems to be forming around the fact that Ollama is not genuinely trying to be part of the open-source community.
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1y ago
Ollama are known for their lack of transparency, poor attribution and anti-user decisions. I was surprised to see the amount of attribution in this post. They've been catching quite a bit of flack for this so they might be adjusting.
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1y ago
I've experienced this a lot as well. I also just yesterday had an interesting argument with claude. It put an expensive API call inside a useEffect hook. I wanted the call elsewhere and it fought me on it pretty aggressively. Instead
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1y ago
I have not yet found any compelling evidence that suggests that there are limits to the maximum intelligence of a next token predictor. Models can be trained to generate tokens with many different meanings, including visual, auditory, textu
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1y ago
How are you using them? Who is enforcing the daily quota?
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