abra0

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by abra0 7mo ago
Finally! I had to set up a container with X on my headless server to get a few text files reliably synced, crazy stuff.
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by abra0 8mo ago
This is a really fun problem! I suggest anyone who likes optimization in a very broad sense to try their hand at it. Might be the most fun I've had while interviewing. I had to spend a week-worth of evenings on it to fully scratch the
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by abra0 9mo ago
Here: https://excel-esports.com/product/world-of-warcraft-mewc-202... You're supposed to do a $0 checkout for some reason and then download them
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by abra0 1y ago
> MTG-S1 is the first geostationary meteorological sounder satellite to fly over Europe I was confused for a minute on how it's both _geostationary_ and _over Europe_ -- you can't be geostationary if your orbit is not over the
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by abra0 1y ago
Tbh it still puzzles me why gameplay degradation specifically was chosen as a way to try to discourage piracy. I imagine many more people hit the degradations, thought the game was just buggy and abandoned it, compared to people who were mo
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Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge(mrwint.github.io)
267 points by abra0 1y ago|107 comments
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Reverse-engineering why 'The Games: Winter Challenge' (1991) is unwinnable(mrwint.github.io)
3 points by abra0 1y ago|0 comments
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by abra0 2y ago
The real question is whether these side-effects are going to be worse than 20 years of not taking it.
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by abra0 2y ago
That's where I am too right now for personal projects, and I ended up reimplementing parts of Dokuploy for that, but I don't feel much of a need to move from "fun little docker compose" for some reason
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by abra0 3y ago
That's a great point! I'd agree that just the extra emotional motivation from having your own thing is worth a ton. I get some distance down that way by having a large RAM no GPU box, so that things are slow but at least possible
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by abra0 3y ago
Well if you are not using a rented machine during a period of time, you should release it. Agreed on reliability and data transfer, that's a good point. Out of curiosity, what do you use a 2x3090 rig for? Bulk not time-sensitive infere
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by abra0 3y ago
I was thinking of doing something similar, but I am a bit sceptical about how the economics on this works out. On vast.ai renting a 3x3090 rig is $0.6/hour. The electricity price of operating this in e.g. Germany is somewhere about $0.
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by abra0 3y ago
The third effort is referred to sometimes as AI not-kill-everyone-ism, a tacky and unwieldy term that is unlikely to be co-opted or lead to the unproductive discussion like around the OP article. It is pretty sad to read people bash togethe
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by abra0 3y ago
More effort spent on early commercialization like keeping ChatGPT running might mean less effort on cutting edge capabilities. Altman was never an AI safety person, so my personal hope is that Anthropic avoids this by having higher quality
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by abra0 3y ago
>rightfully so How the hell can people be so confident about this? You describe two smart people reasonably disagreeing about a complicated topic
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by abra0 3y ago
If there's a lot of smoke coming, people are running out of the building and you can see an ominous red glow in the windows, shouting "FIRE" is the right thing to do even if we are not going to be engulfed in flames this very
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by abra0 3y ago
Bonus question on O-1: what do you think are the easiest boxes to check for a talented professionals in AI? High salary and critical capacity for established organizations are a given, but what else?
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by abra0 3y ago
Could some knowledge have been finetuned into it, and be outside of the prompt?
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by abra0 3y ago
Great to see investment in the most alignment-conscious of the AI orgs.
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by abra0 3y ago
What are the tools people use to draw diagrams? I've tried many things and settled on Miro on an iPad (infinite canvas + pencil), but I still think this space is underinvested in. The downside of diagrams from code is the loss of the w
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LCD, Please(dukope.itch.io)
476 points by abra0 3y ago|97 comments
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by abra0 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/38q9x5/...
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by abra0 3y ago
>It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time. Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser,
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Against LLM Reductionism(lesswrong.com)
1 points by abra0 4y ago|0 comments
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by abra0 4y ago
GPT-4 has 32k tokens of context. I'm sure someone out there is implementing the pipework for it to use some as a scratchpad under its own control, in addition to its input. In the biological metaphor, that would be individual memory, i
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by abra0 4y ago
I'm not sure exactly what the ask here is. >In contrast, for our own Entity Recognition models we can (and do) calculate probabilities that explain why a certain entity is shown. >Hence, I think for API users of GPT3, OpenAI shou
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by abra0 4y ago
Well, it should attract less investment, because presumably companies that do not value caution will capture more value.
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by abra0 4y ago
Reading this thread makes me depressed about the potential for AI alignment thinking to reach mainstream in time :(
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by abra0 4y ago
I'm talking more about the impact that AI will have generally. As a completely outside view point, the latest trend is so weird, it's made Bing the center of the conversation. What next?
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by abra0 4y ago
It seems that with higher temp it will just have the same existential crisis, but more eloquently, and without pathological word patterns.

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