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by blutfink 1y ago
Of course an LLM uses more space internally for a token. But so do humans. My point was that you compared how the LLM represents a token internally versus how “English” transmits a word. That’s a category error.
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by blutfink 1y ago
The LLM can also “say” “cat” with few bits. Note that the meaning of the word as stored in your brain takes more than 24 bits.
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by blutfink 2y ago
(2020)*
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by blutfink 5y ago
Betteridge's Law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by blutfink 8y ago
But your total defense spending should be informed by your enemies' total defense spending, not necessarily by the size of your economy. From that perspective I find the above statement pretty illustrative.
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by blutfink 8y ago
I wonder if the family of Benjaman Kyle [0] will eventually be found as more and more people are added to the databases. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle
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by blutfink 8y ago
There are equivalent formulations of SR using quaternions.
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by blutfink 8y ago
Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
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by blutfink 8y ago
Wikipedia article about the psychiatric disorder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_delusion
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by blutfink 9y ago
The cost of a WebObjects deployment license was about $50,000 then.
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by blutfink 9y ago
;) Selection by the photographer might create the impression of a more prevalent, more perfect symmetry than appears in nature.
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by blutfink 9y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Part of it may be selection bias, though.
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by blutfink 10y ago
My "little" brother is 11 months and 20 days younger than me.
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by blutfink 11y ago
The "Reactions" table is hilarious – thanks for the link.