donfotto

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by donfotto 5mo ago
Same for me even with vanilla ubuntu. "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, Ubuntu "just works" (and fast!). I want a system that works out of the box with sensible defaults. What a
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by donfotto 5mo ago
Exactly! "It just works" used to be true for macos, and linux was for tinkering. Now, ubuntu "just works" (and fast!). It's not just that macos is slow and window management is strange. Last time I had a macbook (M2
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by donfotto 5mo ago
I was using a new macbook pro and another machine with ubuntu. Compared with ubuntu, macos is soo slow I had to stop using it.
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by donfotto 1y ago
I like that you go beyond just prompt engineering and "LLM as a judge" and use finetuned (?) ModernBert and Llama models. In your previous post you mentioned that you "score 20+ dimensions". Are these generic dimensions
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by donfotto 1y ago
> choosing a small number of tasks to execute exceptionally well And that is the Unix philosophy
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by donfotto 2y ago
This is much needed on mac os. But why? Back in the day, mac os was supposed to "just work", and linux was for weirdos who had too much time and customized everything. But now, it's the opposite. Vanilla flavor ubuntu just wo
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by donfotto 2y ago
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by donfotto 3y ago
I agree that sampling only valid tokens is a very promising approach. I experimented a bit with finetuning open source LLMs for JSON parsing (without guided token sampling). Depending on one's use case, 70B parameters might be an overk
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by donfotto 3y ago
I wish it was easy & reliable to run ubuntu on an M2 macbook. That would be perfect - ubuntu is a much more capable & convenient OS at this point, but nothing comes close to the macbook in terms of hardware.
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by donfotto 3y ago
So sad that we need 3rd party apps for even the most basic functionality in mac os. It used to be that linux was a hassle to set up, and mac os worked out of the box. Now it's quite the opposite. Similar thing with using an external 4k