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by botro 21d ago
Thank you for sharing.
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by botro 21d ago
Thank you for sharing, the oncologists are saying that at this point in the diseases progression the same things that disqualify him from getting chemo also disqualify him from this drug. That in his current state it would do more harm. I h
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by botro 21d ago
My father in law was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer that's spread to his lungs about a month ago. This news today raised my wife's hopes immensely and had them immediately doused after hearing the oncologist say that alt
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by botro 2mo ago
I wonder if LLMs modify their output when they realize they are interacting with a famous person. By famous I mean someone whose biography is in the training data. All models know a lot more about Terrance Tao than they know about me, when
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by botro 3mo ago
What are the challenges you've seen in selling air gapped? Is it the high upfront cost? Challenges with hardware maintenance or something else?
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by botro 6mo ago
How about 'slippery incline'?
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by botro 7mo ago
>On the insurance front - expect your insurance to decline this forever unless you are at serious risk of diabetes. I'm not understanding this part. If these drugs have solved obesity and the whole host of associated diseases, inclu
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by botro 10mo ago
Is it known or suspected whether Shingrix offers the same benefits as Zostavax for dementia?
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by botro 10mo ago
This is something I've stuggled with for my site, I made https://aimodelreview.com/ to compare the outputs of LLMs over a variety of prompts and categories, allowing a side by side comparison between them. I ran each p
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by botro 1y ago
I've suffered from dry eyes for many years and have tried all the over the counter options available in the US with no success, especially for overnight dryness. Could you please share a hint for the Irish pharmacy delivering to the US
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by botro 1y ago
I think that statista chart is month to month revisions, while the 900K figure is year over year, March 2024 to March 2025.
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by botro 1y ago
Yes, they put this in footnote 1: "Throughout this article “training” can refer to either pre-training, or fine-tuning." But the article is just talking about fine-tuning.
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by botro 1y ago
I posted this on HN back in 2023, reposting now because I don't think this article goes far enough: I’ll make the bold claim that the following industries / companies would not exist without the USPS: The Airline Industry: In the
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by botro 1y ago
The International Space Station was an international effort by multiple (of the richest) countries specializing in different areas. There is no one country that does it all. China built their own.
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by botro 1y ago
Thanks for sharing your real world experience, it helps in seeing how regular folk are affected by policy decisions. I understand from your post that you are a business person, buying product, performing value added services and selling for
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by botro 1y ago
This is damn near prescient, I'm having a hard time believing it was written in 2021. He did get this part wrong though, we ended up calling them 'Mixture of Experts' instead of 'AI bureaucracies'.
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by botro 1y ago
I read the article on archive and figured there was a big chunk missing. It really does not make any sense. Sutskever and Murati were methodical, they waited until the board was favorable to the outcome they wanted, engaged with board membe
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by botro 1y ago
Thanks for writing this out, it's helpful for me as a layman. Isn't part of the prohibition on trades among officers and directors also because of the inside knowledge they have? Public companies generally report quarterly but the
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by botro 2y ago
The LLM community has come up with tests they call 'Misguided Attention'[1] where they prompt the LLM with a slightly altered version of common riddles / tests etc. This often causes the LLM to fail. For example I used the pr
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by botro 2y ago
I made https://aimodelreview.com/ to compare the outputs of LLMs over a variety of prompts and categories, allowing a side by side comparison between them. I ran each prompt 4 times for different temperature values and that
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by botro 2y ago
And to take a historic analogy, cars today are as wide as they are because that's about how wide a single lane roadway is. And a single lane roadway is as wide as it is because that's about the width of two horses drawing a carria
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by botro 2y ago
Which LLM is used for the book summaries and which TTS for the audio?
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by botro 2y ago
This is a great video, thank you for sharing. My favorite part: "...next we have this rubber sheet, which is very clever, and very patented!"
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by botro 2y ago
"Suddenly, the chat window on Sequoia’s side of the Zoom lights up with partners freaking out. “I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner. “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another. “YES!!!” exclaimed a third. What Sequoia was reacting to wa
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by botro 2y ago
"The task consists of going from English-language specifications to Wolfram Language code. The test cases are exercises from Stephen Wolfram's An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language." I think this benchmark would
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by botro 2y ago
I have found that laptops with cracked or scrached screens offer a much better value in terms of newer hardware. The battery acts as a built in UPS. For example this laptop: Dell Latitude 7400 Intel i7-1165G7 16GB 256GB NVMe SSD Is $180 shi
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by botro 2y ago
In the model testing I've conducted, I've seen that LLMs from competing companies including GPT-4o, Gemini Flash 1.5, Llama 3.1 and Phi-3 all converge on the exact same joke. For a test of creativity this was alarming. They all te
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by botro 2y ago
That's fair. I'm trying to point out that the degree to which your statements illicit an emotional response from someone, by any means, has no bearing on the validity of that statement.
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by botro 2y ago
>The degree of the provocation proves the value of the statement. This is a great heuristic to practice often. I just told my wife she looks fat in her new dress, and the degree of her provocation proves the value of my statement.
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by botro 2y ago
In this scenario, who are the institutions selling to?

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