Ratelman

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by Ratelman 2mo ago
"The “after” curve is higher than the “before” curve to the right of 140ms which means more requests are finishing slower than before." Think they made a typo - "before" curve is higher than the "after" curve t
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by Ratelman 2mo ago
Yeah - it does feel a bit overly dramatic, books mentioned from a potentially related article are from like 2018 ( https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-fi... ). Let's not pump the dra
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by Ratelman 2mo ago
So this isn't groundbreaking results and the article itself is of questionable quality without sufficient detail as to why this is a newsworthy result. How is this the top rated article on hacker news? A more meaningful example would
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by Ratelman 4mo ago
I actually like this idea - makes sense at face value - as long as they design the test in such a way that it aptly applies the knowledge instead of just learning for the sake of passing test like questions...
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by Ratelman 4mo ago
I get where you're coming from, was shocked when I left a relatively well organised corporate and did work at a relatively older company with a ton of legacy systems - when I asked what the strategy was they explained the structure to
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by Ratelman 4mo ago
A financial services company in Africa
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by Ratelman 4mo ago
I've seen legitimately good outcomes with AI - a backlog has been cleared, features that were left on the cutting room floor have been pulled back in AND delivered all thanks to the use of AI coding tools. AI workflows have brought do
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by Ratelman 6mo ago
If you are eyeing the South African market - I can promise you granting credit here is waaaaayyy ahead of the US. There is a very solid credit bureau and a few of the banks are already on the "use AI to process docs" train. For
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by Ratelman 11mo ago
Reflecting on my own experience - frequency of contact (if I see them once a year, can't really count them as close friends) How involved they are in my life - are they people I turn to when I'm facing a problem, do they turn to m
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by Ratelman 11mo ago
What makes you consider them close (aside from length of friendship)?
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by Ratelman 11mo ago
Boils down to the basics of proper science - how does one measure/quantify close friends?
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Yeah, he was quite vocal in his opinion that they would plateau earlier than they did and that little value would be derived from them because they're just stochastic parrots. Agree with him that they're probably not sufficient f
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Was my thinking exactly - but also semantically equivalent is also only relevant when it needs to be factual, not necessarily for ALL outputs (if we're aiming for LLM's to present as "human" - or for interactions with LL
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by Ratelman 1y ago
In a few years we've gone from gibberish (less poetic maybe, less polished and surprising, but none the less gibberish) - to legit conversational, and in my own opinion, well rounded answers. This is a great example of hard-core engine
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Which statistics in which study? Given the current system any sampling from college/university would be cherry picking vs general populous (unless you also sample general population with similar constraints to ensure a like for like co
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Interesting/unfortunate/expected that GPT-5 isn't touted as AGI or some other outlandish claim. It's just improved reasoning etc. I know it's not the actual announcement and it's just a single page accidentally
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O3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by Ratelman 1y ago|1 comments
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Extensive post on how neurosymbolic AI, the marriage between connectionist and neuro-symbolic approach to AI is potentially finally vindicated - opinion-piece by Gary Marcus
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by Ratelman 1y ago
In America maybe, in south africa it's quite the opposite considering the government provides a lot more support for poor non-white folks than for white folks (specifically based om race)
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WINA: Weight informed Neuron activation for accelerating LLM inference(arxiv.org)
2 points by Ratelman 1y ago|0 comments
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by Ratelman 1y ago
Might be missing something but how is this on the front page of hackernews? It feels more like an ad than anything else.
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by Ratelman 2y ago
The closest article I could find to "Smith, J. et al. (2023). "Advances in Probabilistic Forecasting." Journal of Forecasting" was from the April issue of Journal of Forecasting, but the article was titled: Advances in f
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by Ratelman 2y ago
So Minimax just "open-sourced" (I add it in "" because they have a custom license for its use and I've not read through that) but they have context length of 4-million tokens and it scored 100% on the needle in a ha
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by Ratelman 2y ago
FYI limited to to US only - they refer you to their sister project: https://darwinsark.org/ if you'd still like to contribute in a similar fashion but reside outside of USA.
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by Ratelman 2y ago
I'd say human rights violation is a bit of a stretch - the negative impact of social media use on an adolescent's psychological well-being is well documented - so possibly even the exact opposite.
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by Ratelman 2y ago
What do you mean with MAPs? Sorry, haven't seen the acronym before.
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by Ratelman 2y ago
There is quite a variation in its wing position while flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odvYot6Rldw&ab_channel=Earth... So at least some butterflies do actually move their forewings significantly forward of their
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by Ratelman 2y ago
Link to the post: https://huggingface.co/spaces/PR-Puppets/PR-Puppet-Sora If you read through it, they clearly state: "We are not against the use of AI technology as a tool for the arts (if we were, we proba
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by Ratelman 2y ago
Meh, not entirely sure what would work better. Having read through the huggingface post a few times now, suppose it's less of an emotional reaction, more actual protest to abusive practices.
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by Ratelman 2y ago
True, true - didn't think that one through

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