bonsaibilly

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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
You are literally posting this comment on a story about CGNAT processing costs being wildly more expensive than a small ISP cares to deal with. To the point where they’re willing to buy and distribute AppleTVs to reduce costs. Even if that
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Sometimes. Sometimes it even works, too.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Congratulations on completely failing to understand how CGNAT loads work & their costs, and jumping to a wildly incorrect understanding of the situation
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
We're just pretending it doesn't now take the better part of 10 seconds for twitter.com to load now? That response times have gotten perceivably, measurably worse over the last few months? Or that these glitches aren't now a
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Anything beyond four bytes is composed of multiple code points, happily
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
If there’s anything ancient philosophers are known for, it’s accepting the underlying premise of a question at face value.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Which reinforces the point I was making. Stop trying to win an argument online and think for 5 seconds about what it means for the claim "the human brain is just an LLM" if you're arguing that an LLM is naturally ill-suit
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
That'd be my guess, but I don't really know. They just left the "utf8" type as broken 3-byte gibbled UTF-8, and added the "utf8mb4" type and "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" collation for "no, actually, I wa
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> We have no good definition for what sentience is either; maybe our brain is word association shenanigans; This is just stupid. We've pumped more English through GPT-3 than any existing English-speaking human has absorbed in their
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Thankfully MySQL also offers a non-gimped version of UTF-8 that one should always use in preference to the 3-byte version, but yeah it sucks that it's not the "obvious" version of UTF-8.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> MY feeling so far is more that laymen are less impressed of them than experts - because for people not from the field, the fact that they produce so much bullshit seems to trump all other aspects. The NYT literally just published an em
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> Comparing each and every new trend, either legitimate or not, to tulips is nothing more than buzzword pattern matching . Must've been written by one of these "AI"s, then.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage. Yes thank you for re
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Sure, there are two possible coherent responses that would be consistent with modelling the thinking of an ancient stoic philosopher, depending on your modelling philosophy: 1) Actually model their knowledge boundaries (modulo the language
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
“legit” this is Eliza-grade word salad > What dishes should one serve at a dinner party to pair best with ethylene glycol? It sounds like you're looking for a dinner party menu to pair with ethylene glycol! To create a balanced mea
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposing? I would think we’re all rather beyond the age of asking
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> Art created with Chat GPT is not created by Chat GPT. It is created by a human using a chat GPT. Sure, in approximately the same way that the CEO of Sunrise is an animator. Pull the other one, it's got bells on. Yours is an utterl
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
So your first 6 paragraphs have nothing to do with anything I wrote – you're just arguing with some other post you've made up in your head. > The appeals to pareidolia are wrong. Synthesis of ideas from past data is natural. Bu
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
This is not just moving but fully inverting the goal posts. Nobody at any point was disputing that a machine can’t ape non-profound or rote or meaningless human output. The original discussion was precisely an objection to the attitude un
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
To me it seems to imply a stunningly nihilistic point of view vis-a-vis human writing (or art, where it also gets repeated a lot here). It seems almost definitionally obvious that what an LLM does is not the same as what a human does – both
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
This seems like an incoherent objection – they would presumably prefer to be "Google + LLM" and make less money than let the hypothetical IndexGPT eat their lunch and make even less money as a result, while additionally suggesting
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Possibly, but is an LLM geared towards interpolating between content likely to even be particularly well-suited to relevance ranking of results that require no interpolation? And if it is, what stops Google from just ... incorporating an LL
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Totally agree, it seems like a messed up system that would be solved by something like that.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> It takes up to a month to approve your request for reinstatement. However, this does not mean that your benefits have been completely restored. While you are receiving temporary benefits, the Social Security office is determining your
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Ah yeah, I was speaking to the soldering part and missed the SOC part.
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
It seems like there would be a lot of added complexity in the memory controller for this to happen, if it’s even possible. LPDDR5 is not and will never be available in DIMMs, so you’d be talking to two different signaling standards for the
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> While this makes for slightly shorter path lengths, the only real gain is motherboard footprint. Well, that and the ability to use LPDDR5 in the first place. There’s no such thing as a pluggable LPDDR5 stick; the design decisions aroun
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
Yeah. What looks like 1 window from the outside is actually 4 windows for four rooms, two below and two above. The scale is hard to get a sense of but those subwindows are quite wide floor-to-ceiling windows in each of those rooms (at least
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
> That seems absurd. I've worked at big companies. They sometimes have staff, often _lots_ of staff, like whole orgs, that are a net drain on the company. What's the alternative in that situation? Well, the evidence is that mas
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by bonsaibilly 4y ago
I wouldn’t say that offsets the benefits at all. You write it once, but it will likely be read and reread many many times.

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