compumetrika

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by compumetrika 1y ago
Get a Strix Point or Strix Halo with 128GB DDR5 RAM and you can run gpt-oss 120B at 10-20+ TPS.
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Hmmm maybe I should re-read A Fire Upon the Deep.
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Currently on the front page there are ~2/30 posts on the front page. AI hype is everywhere. On HN there is genuinely much higher quality conversation about AI than many other places. So, no, the question in the title doesn't reson
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by compumetrika 2y ago
LLMs use pseudo-random numbers. You can set the seed and get exactly the same output with the same model and input.
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Great quote, commenting just to 'bookmark' it.
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Ollama can pull directly from HF, you just provide the URL and add to the end :Q8_0 (or whatever) to specify your desired quant. Bonus: use the short form url of `hf` instead of `huggingface` to shorten the model name a little in the ollam
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Not all details are posted yet, but an interesting development.
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by compumetrika 2y ago
I haven't tried this yet myself, but have you tried plugging it into GPT or Claude or Perplexity and asking Qs? I've made some progress on thongs this way, much faster than I would have the usual way. Apply the usual precautions
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by compumetrika 2y ago
The economist Emily Oster wrote an excellent series of books about pregnancy anf early kid years, where she dives into details about various studies, whether they are causal, etc. It's one of the best practiacl explainations of reading
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by compumetrika 2y ago
I've directly experienced this in my own life. Moved during the pandemic to be near family, and coincidentally that is a much more religious and conservative community. Many people I am around daily are much more unplugged from online
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Many great recommendations in the comments here about on emergent order in complex systems -- does anyone have recommendations for reading about how such systems de-organize?
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by compumetrika 2y ago
Is there a proof or demostration somehwere about maximizing the consent of the governed? Arrows theorem always has implied to me that the next step should be quantifuing some welfare measure for voters and then exploring which system maximi
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by compumetrika 3y ago
> "Westworld was a warning, not an instruction manual!"
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by compumetrika 3y ago
By happenstance I just ran across this by the same author somewhere: https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/death-of-a-client
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by compumetrika 3y ago
Do you have a custom "intro prompt?" I have one that describes a lot of statistical work I want GPT to help me with. I got this result the first try: > Sally has 2 sisters. Since each brother has 2 sisters, and Sally is one of
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Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs(oneusefulthing.org)
4 points by compumetrika 3y ago|1 comments
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by compumetrika 3y ago
I've often found EM's things on LLM usage to be quite helpful, and it seems he's gathered a lot of things on prompting in one place here.
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by compumetrika 3y ago
I'm a little surprised no one has pointed out yet that this is incredibly close to cellular automata, which Wolfram has show can get you Turing completeness among other things.[1] Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" almost c
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by compumetrika 3y ago
I think the data are that we are working a bit less than we used to, it's rather that the norms and mental categories have shifted. For example 40hr work week is now a sort of norm, vs "sunrise to sunset." The average workday
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by compumetrika 3y ago
I worked through large chunks of the book a long time ago (perhaps an earlier version). I agree with the other responder-- if you've had zero stats it may be more difficult, but the author does an excellent job of discretizing almost e
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by compumetrika 3y ago
I'm surprised to see no one has pointed out RMarkdown + RStudio[1] as one simple, low-effort way interface with Pandoc using an IDE you may already use. I used to write papers and slides in LaTeX (using vim, because who needs render pr