amoss

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by amoss 6d ago
https://xkcd.com/1319/
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by amoss 15d ago
You should let them eat cake.
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by amoss 15d ago
Cloud services expose their UI/UX through a web-browser will all of the pain points of running a stateful blob of javascript on the client, talking through a mostly stateless protocol to a "mess of stuff" that aims for eventu
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by amoss 18d ago
Good to see that people still have this spirit of rolling their sleeves up and doing something like this for fun. Underneath it there is a very real point about mono-cultures and the increased magnitude of the impact of a risk, although mor
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by amoss 21d ago
huge if true. meanwhile this bill gates will be remembered for asking his friend epstein how to secretly treat his wife for the std that he gave her.
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by amoss 21d ago
But the reason why it remains load bearing is key.
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by amoss 22d ago
Some of it is well sourced but the remainder is well sauced.
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by amoss 24d ago
Amazingly enough we have different words to mean different things. What is going to really blow your mind is that the word for the part often differs to the word for the whole.
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by amoss 27d ago
No, it is the application of learning and that is why learning is central to the definition tgat you pointed at.
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by amoss 28d ago
Quoting directly from the dartmouth conference: "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
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by amoss 28d ago
If you place an LLM into a harness, alongside evaluation, feedback and problem decomposition / solution integration - it is still an LLM? There is an LLM acting as a component in a larger system. But that larger system is not an LLM. C
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by amoss 29d ago
> Modern models, when properly managed with a human in the loop, write higher-quality code than humans and introduce significantly fewer bugs. I don't think anybody believes this, and interjecting it into every thread is not really
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by amoss 1mo ago
What you have to remember is that the people who decide who to appoint into these roles are another step removed from the problem domain. They will have no programming experience, or the ability to evaluate programming experience. They will
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by amoss 1mo ago
Tried it after seeing the comment about it yesterday and loving it so far. Very clean, easy and fast to build. Performance is great, and the minimal UI is a breath of fresh air.
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by amoss 1mo ago
I'm on the Swedish list and I get exactly zero spam calls. As the parent post pointed out it is country specific.
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by amoss 2mo ago
Whether they are or not is irrelevant to the difference- there is still an explicit division between training and inference, with reinforcement of the statistics of the training set.
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by amoss 2mo ago
I think it is uncontentious that we are not designed at all. But to address the intended spirit of the question: are we restricted to output that is a close fit for our training set? I would argue that we are not - because we do not have a
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by amoss 2mo ago
The tu quoque argument doesn't really work here. LLMs are specifically designed to output either material from their training set or instances that look statistically like it. Humans are not.
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by amoss 2mo ago
If you are relying on live updates to change state in a dynamic language then you are not doing it "surgically", unless there is some other definition that means hitting it softly with a large rock.
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by amoss 3mo ago
Kind of weird how LoC has become a metric for people to chase again.
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by amoss 3mo ago
I don't think you can describe his beliefs using booleans like that: you have to use a numeric scale. It would be be correct to say: Elon would need a hell of a lot of ketamine to believe a colony on mars is a possibility.
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by amoss 3mo ago
Alternatively you may want to be a passive investor using the current rules for index inclusion, rather than having them altered to favor this loss-making trashcan on fire.
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by amoss 4mo ago
> The world seems to be fragmenting, into those that see the value in the latest from Google, and those that resist changes like this. This reads as a strongly closed minded claim that has been "whitewashed into corporate appropriat
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by amoss 4mo ago
That is the ugliest Ferrari I've ever seen.
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by amoss 4mo ago
kind of wild that you think there has been no shift in culture between 1970 and 2020
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by amoss 4mo ago
with a mastercard from a swedish bank that is the experience that i get. all online transactions pop up a page from my back with qr code, this is authenticated through an app that shows me the transaction details and requires pin confirmati
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by amoss 4mo ago
Dead code elimination is run multiple times, including after other optimizations. So code that is not initially dead may become dead after propagating other information. Converting dead code into an error condition would make most generic c
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by amoss 4mo ago
Nobody said one rack. Your entire rant is misguided. He analyzed what it would take to put one rack on one starlink like package in order to build a constellation.
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by amoss 4mo ago
Later in the video he runs through the changes needed for 100kw per rack.
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by amoss 4mo ago
The details might bury his point rather than illustrate it. The driving theme throughout seems to be that a tool tuned for correct syntax, with deep understanding of semantics will look like a Dunning-Kruger machine. The specific errors tha

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