cshimmin

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by cshimmin 3mo ago
Interesting, I wonder if the rugby thing is a common bias. I did find myself in the weights, as the top result. But apparently there are also Australian rugby versions of me!
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by cshimmin 3mo ago
That is simply not true. The naive “glorified auto-complete / stochastic parrot” argument may have some merit when applied to generic pre-trained models, which only learn from unsupervised next-token prediction. But the post training t
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by cshimmin 4mo ago
https://xcancel.com/pj_lambert/status/2057477629528150369
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by cshimmin 4mo ago
It's on the page, if you click the little info icon in the upper-right. Here's the text but there's some nice graphics there too: Snake Game, training entirely in the browser. Built on tinygrad: the rollout / targets
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by cshimmin 4mo ago
Very helpful! Naïve question (I haven’t had a chance to read TFA at all and diffusion/flow models are not my area of expertise). Doesn’t learning the integral/solution of the diffusion process in a single pass just take us back to
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by cshimmin 5mo ago
Not gonna lie, the first thing I noticed was that the first author was in an anesthesiology department. Your guidelines for sniff-testing are not unreasonable, and can definitely be helpful to people who are unfamiliar with the research are
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by cshimmin 5mo ago
When I was a research physicist I spent a lot of time looking at the effects of ionizing radiation in pictures, although mostly in the context of digital images. The mechanisms are a bit different for photo emulsions, but to me the reason I
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by cshimmin 5mo ago
It kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.
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by cshimmin 5mo ago
The 6 is part of 3.6, the model version. 35B parameters, A3B means it's a mixture of experts model with only 3B parameters active in any forward pass.
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by cshimmin 5mo ago
Incidentally, I recently learned the origin of the term. Cyber - short for cybernetic - is from the greek κυβερνήτης (kybernetes), meaning helmsman. The original use of cybernetics is in the context of automated control systems, so steering
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by cshimmin 6mo ago
Yeah perhaps a better term for Loser is Abstainer. Because the Sociopaths also can certainly lose at the game of maximum capitalist profit. Loser/Abstainer just chooses not to play the game.
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by cshimmin 9mo ago
It's basically just a way for the LLM to lazy-load curated information, tools, and scripts into context. The benefit of making it a "standard" is that future generations of LLMs will be trained on this pattern specifically, a
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by cshimmin 11mo ago
Was this after you and two zany friends made a scheme to divert a fraction of a penny from each of your employer's transactions into a bank account that you control? And then you gave it all back but the building burned down and Milton
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by cshimmin 1y ago
So… your argument is that it’s not counterculture unless it’s mainstream culture? And that one should only credit derivative works once they become mainstream, rather than the original inspiring works because they were too obscure? I don’t
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by cshimmin 1y ago
If I understood correctly, the global lock is so that notify events are emitted in order. Would it make sense to have a variant that doesn't make this ordering guarantee if you don't care about it, so that you can "notify&quo
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by cshimmin 1y ago
P-1 AI | Hybrid (SF) and Remote (US) roles | Full time P-1 is trying to do for physical engineering (mechanical, aerospace, electrical), what Devin, Cursor et al. are doing for the software world. Founded by ex Airbus execs and DARPA prog
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by cshimmin 1y ago
some of us have to wear glasses anyway :/
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by cshimmin 1y ago
Thank you for finally making this make sense to me.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
almost as though the AIs were trained on a corpus of text written by... humans
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by cshimmin 1y ago
It’s not unreasonable to suspect they are doing the same. The article starts with a description of a lawsuit NY Times brought against OpenAI for similar reasons. The big difference is that research presented here is only possible with open
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by cshimmin 1y ago
My favorite example, which was an honest translation error from a non-native speaker friend: Hand job (he meant to say manual labor)
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by cshimmin 1y ago
There's a board-game version of Tetris that I've been playing with my toddler, and is pretty much the same low-stress approach. It's also multiplayer (the next piece everyone must use is decided by drawing cards from a deck).
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by cshimmin 1y ago
“I've moved around a lot - and I realized I'm losing track of friends across a lot of apps, locations, and time-zones.” From the first sentence, sounds like this isn’t an option. I can relate.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
You don’t have to convince me that this is a bad thing for America. Yes it’s exactly how turkey and russia and other failed/failing democracies got to where they are.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
One thing you need to keep in mind is that in the US things are stacked against people who would want to protest or engage in any kind of activism. Take a day off work to go to a rally or peaceful protest? “At will” employment means you can
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by cshimmin 1y ago
Interesting that they changed the author order to put Kip Thorne first... marketing?
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by cshimmin 1y ago
Yep, I mostly interact with these AIs through Cursor. When I want to ask it a question, there's a little dropdown box and I can select openai/anthropic/deepseek whatever model. It's as easy as that to switch.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
Oof, wow. I'm very much in the tech space and I literally had never heard his name before your post.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
They did start planning around then. I don’t remember the exact date of when the FCC working group officially convened but they’ve been working on it at least since I was a grad student in the early 2010s.
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by cshimmin 1y ago
If you're making technical parts, I highly recommend just biting the bullet and learning parametric cad with fusion 360. There's a ton of learning resources on youtube etc. OnShape seems like a quite promising alternative but I as

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