dacox

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by dacox 2mo ago
the 1.5 and 2.0 flash models were absolute beasts. They were very cheap, and _very_ fast. We contemplated moving some of our fine tuned workloads to them because we would have gotten very substantial total latency reductions for our workloa
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by dacox 3mo ago
very cool! not sure if something is broken, but there seems to be no data past 2019 on any of the queries that i can see
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by dacox 5mo ago
As a Canadian I see little reason for optimism
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by dacox 5mo ago
Yeah, I have been seeing lots of comments, tweets, etc, but given everything I have learned about these models - i do not think the change to 1M was innocuous. I'm not sure what they've claimed publicly, but I'm fairly certai
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by dacox 6mo ago
i feel like i misunderstand the UI - it seems to show coalition strikes mostly being intercepted? or does the bottom row refer to strikes against coalition forces?
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by dacox 8mo ago
The reflexive and moralistic anti-AI takes are starting to get more annoying than the actual AI slop
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by dacox 9mo ago
the stacked changes support, for me, was an absolute game changer. the auto rebasing, etc, is -really- nice. i found it especially useful for Gitops type stuff where you have to make lots of little PRs
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by dacox 9mo ago
The iPhones autocorrect is one of my biggest frustrations coming from Android a few years ago. The biggest frustration for me is the tendency to correct the _second to last word_. I have never gotten used to this. I know i can stop it by &q
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by dacox 10mo ago
awesome! i was just looking at a bucket full of parquet files from last year trying to recall some things about them. i tried to install with brew, but it told me my cli tools were "too out of date". Never seen that before! and al
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by dacox 11mo ago
thanks! glad to know its getting fixed. if i have any notes ill send them your way!
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by dacox 11mo ago
Cool app! I think I found a broken problem (or it’s worded strangely?) and I’m unable to progress beyond it “Pick 2 that beat villain on board” “QQ552” In submitting Queen and 2 to make a full house but it just says “Incorrect. Two pair on
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by dacox 11mo ago
There is a podcast, Memory Hole, about the recovered memory movement. There is a lengthy section about this book and the people behind it (not positive)
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by dacox 1y ago
Plugging ourselves, Lumen5 based out of Vancouver. I was one of the first hires found trough the HN hiring thread many moons ago. https://lumen5.com/
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by dacox 1y ago
This is happening everywhere where I live (Vancouver)
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by dacox 1y ago
I think it should fairly clear why I'm curious, as the article mentions > Although it’s typically not viewed as a partisan board, the Biden administration had installed the entire committee. After some degree of googling the history
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by dacox 1y ago
yeah, I see that. Apparently ACIP is very much not new. I am curious to the specifics of the prevous mass appointment, however.
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by dacox 1y ago
Was this a new committee? there is a quote about this being a coup, but it is also noted that the previous administration selected the entire existing committee
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by dacox 2y ago
It's an open secret that most nutrition research is of extremely low quality - almost all relying on decades old self reported nutritional questionnaires. Sometimes dozens of these studies get wrapped up and analyzed together, and we h
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by dacox 2y ago
...k
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by dacox 2y ago
They definitely have to be trained to reinforce longer outputs, but I do not believe this adequately explains the low-ish generation limits. We are starting to see models with longer and longer generation limits (gpt-4o-mini having 16k, the
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by dacox 2y ago
Chunked prefill or some similar technique is also necessary for serving long context requests where there is not enough GPU memory available, regardless of concerns about latency. For example, consider a prompt sent to Llama 3.1 405B that u
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by dacox 2y ago
When doing inference for an LLM, there are two stages. The first phase is referred to as "prefill", where the input is processed to create the KV Cache. After that phase, the "decode" phase is called auto-regressively. E
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by dacox 2y ago
In my experience, mostly using LoRA finetunes with OpenAI, it is important to include a/the prompt in your fine tuning dataset. It is _also_ important to include that prompt at inference time. I have not seen any evidence of being able
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by dacox 3y ago
which essay is that? having trouble finding it
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by dacox 3y ago
Wow, I have exactly the same side project in progress, minus the fine tuning part. We even chose the same names and phrasing for parts of the project.
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by dacox 3y ago
Engineer is a regulated term and profession in Canada, with professional designations like the P.eng - they get really mad when people the term engineer more loosely, as is common in the tech industry. Because of this, there are "B.Sen
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by dacox 3y ago
The unspoken thing here is that PLC code often(usually?) isn't exactly written in text, or in a format readable by anything other than the PLC programming software. After a year long foray into the world of PLC, I felt like I was progr
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by dacox 3y ago
I haven't look personally in a while, but I believe the volume is very low
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by dacox 3y ago
I responded to one post on here 6 years ago and was hired as the second employee of a startup. There are about 50 of us now. We post every month or so, but don't get much traction. I believe I am the only person hired from HN.
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by dacox 4y ago
Might have to consider Apple TV+ and cancel...something

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