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by eggsyntax 2mo ago
Papers using the term in their title or abstract: https://arxiv.org/search/cs?query=abliteration&searchtype=al... Note that they're all talking about the same technique, namely applying ablation specifically
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Your LLM-assisted scientific breakthrough probably isn't real(lesswrong.com)
5 points by eggsyntax 1y ago|2 comments
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by eggsyntax 1y ago
Many people have been misled by LLMs into believing they have an important breakthrough when they don't. If you think you have a breakthrough, please try the reality checks in this post (the first is fast and easy). If you're wron
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by eggsyntax 4y ago
Yeah, that's it exactly. For me there's a power and an ease of flow that comes from having the REPL in the context of your running software, with access to program state and the easy ability to modify your code as it runs without
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by eggsyntax 4y ago
So far: complex data visualization, transportation logistics, voting-related nonprofit, medical research, and augmented analytics. I like to explore new domains :)
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by eggsyntax 4y ago
> It's just incredible what a surplus value this dude alone provides to the ecosystem) Seconded; it's pretty jaw-dropping! > The tight feedback loop you have while molding a running program in your editor and the constant do
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by eggsyntax 4y ago
> read an article about how niche languages can be lucrative. (I want to say that article was here on HN but too lazy right now to search for it) I'm not having any luck finding it -- if you find yourself more eager (heh) I'd l
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by eggsyntax 4y ago
I can say that I (like many others) have built a thriving career on Clojure. I like to change jobs every couple of years, and I've never yet had any trouble finding a Clojure job I'm excited about (and I only consider well-paid re
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by eggsyntax 7y ago
I switched a few years ago from MBP to ThinkPads running Ubuntu (with Gnome). It's been an overall improvement for sure, and there are very few things I miss (iTerm2 is the big one; there's no Linux terminal emulator that has all
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by eggsyntax 7y ago
Thanks, that clarifies it completely!
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by eggsyntax 7y ago
There are two things I found confusing in the first part of the guide (ie the part up to "Reading the Source"). The first is 'where', which is addressed in another thread on this page. The second is this: This is a p
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by eggsyntax 8y ago
May not qualify as cheap, but I believe 23andMe will tell you about the genes you've got which control your CYP1A2 levels, and predict your coffee intake accordingly.
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by eggsyntax 8y ago
Will you point out where it says that? I really did find this paper unusually cryptic about concrete takeaways. Table 2 suggests that to match the performance of studies 3 and 4 (done by other researchers), which each gave 600 mg of caffein
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by eggsyntax 8y ago
"It's alertness effects go away after repeated use and subsequent tolerance building" Link to evidence? I don't remember seeing anywhere in the literature that caffeine stops being effective when used daily and long-term
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by eggsyntax 9y ago
"even Rich himself has been converted" I'd love to know where you learned this, or why you believe this. I'd be very interested to hear what he had to say about the change of heart.
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by eggsyntax 10y ago
My company's also been using 1.9 alphas for months, have maybe encountered a minor bug or two, but very few & nothing major.
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by eggsyntax 11y ago
Thanks so much for the post -- I've been wrestling painfully with some of these exact issues off and on for the last six months (particularly getting the vim/fireplace/cljs toolchain working properly). It's actually real
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by eggsyntax 12y ago
National Climatic Data Center - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov - Asheville, North Carolina Scientific software developer, full-time NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather and climate data, and a leading source of c
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by eggsyntax 13y ago
Here's the pricing, which took a little while to find: https://vuo.org/subscription
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by eggsyntax 13y ago
Relevant new Wondermark comic: http://wondermark.com/969/
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by eggsyntax 13y ago
I've had really good luck with certain kinds of minimalist music. In particular, Simeon Ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" seems to actively help me focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc Most perfor