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by epr 4mo ago
So are kids not going to have access to llms? Seems trivial to get around this from a technical standpoint for frontier llms no matter how this is implemented.
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by epr 5mo ago
Generally I think this is a legitemate issue, although: > the training process doesn't introduce anything novel This is not always the case. A compiler, linter, proof checker, tests, etc. can all lower entropy.
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by epr 6mo ago
To fix this I recently made myself a tiny tool I called jtree that recursively walks json, spitting out one line per leaf. Each line is the jq selector and leaf value separated by "=". No more fiddling around trying to figure out
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by epr 6mo ago
I think there's a good one if you search around for "xv6 sh.c". Hard to tell immediately from a google search just now since there are many implementations (people do it in school) and github's currently blocking request
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by epr 1y ago
When I was a beginner, A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation worked for me. As the title suggests, it gently introduces concepts in a very beginner friendly manner, so even macros are easy enough to grasp by the time you get there.
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by epr 1y ago
These are all great. If you need to do something more involved, pexpect is also worth mentioning. It's a reimplementation of expect in python that's easy to be productive with quickly. I used it in a previous job to automate confi
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by epr 1y ago
dwm and the community around it tend to use patches for absolutely everything, unlike most other projects. For most projects/codebases, maintaining patch sets is done for security, customizations, etc., but rarely are users expected to
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by epr 1y ago
I guess people downvoting this don't get the joke?
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by epr 1y ago
Everything is an object in Python as well
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by epr 1y ago
Human beings get by quite well with extremely oversimplified (low resolution) abstractions. There is no need whatsoever for something even approaching universal or perfect. Humans aren't thinking about fundamental particles or solving
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by epr 1y ago
Yes, but the main thing here is that ALL software development is now "profit" in the short term. In theory you've developed a capital good that benefits you over time, hence the amortization. Simplified 2021 example before 17
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by epr 1y ago
My bad on that typo. I write "$@" so often in shell scripts that I should know better. Also would've been caught by shellcheck. Outside the hn edit window though, so my mistake is permanent :(
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by epr 1y ago
I'm generally not a huge fan of inlining the command or cluttering up my local directory with little scripts to get around the fact that it must be a subprocess you can send a signal to. I use a wrapper like this, which exports a funct
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by epr 1y ago
A bit confusing for sure, but I think (not sure) I get what they're saying. Training a nn (for visual tasks at least) consists of training a model with much more dimensions (params) than the input space (eg: controller inputs + atari p
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by epr 1y ago
Actually no, it's not interesting at all. Vague dismissal of an outsider is a pretty standard response by insecure academic types. It could have been interesting and/or helpful to the conversation if they went into specifics or ex
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by epr 2y ago
> We studied 198 randomly sampled, real world fail- ures reported on five popular distributed data-analytic and storage systems, including HDFS, a distributed file system [27]; Hadoop MapReduce, a distributed data- analytic framework [28
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by epr 2y ago
The best answer to your question is some variant of "write more assembly". When someone indicates to me they want to learn programming for example, I ask them how many programs they've written. The answer is usually zero, and
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by epr 2y ago
For what's written in assembly, lack of portability is a given. The only exceptions would presumably be high level entry points called to from C, etc. If you wanted to support multiple targets, you have completely separate assembly mo
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by epr 2y ago
If someone doesn't understand "container", I'm supposed to expect them to understand all the namespaces and their uses, cgroups, and the nitty gritty of the wimpy security isolation? You are proving my point that it&#x27
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by epr 2y ago
> Having multiple processes under one user in an operating system is more akin to having multiple threads in one process than you think. Not than I think. I'm well aware of how "tasks" work in Linux specifically, and am pr
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by epr 2y ago
If a container is "a process", then an entire linux/unix os (pid 1) is simply "a process"
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by epr 2y ago
No, they are not. I'm not sure who started this whole container is just a process thing, but it's not a good analogy. Quite a lot of things you spin up containers for have multiple processes (databases, web servers, etc). Containe
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by epr 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347
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by epr 2y ago
Do you really believe what you're saying, or are you just trying to "win" the argument? The nukes functioned as intended...
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by epr 2y ago
> The thing that correlates highest with SAT score is household income. 1. Smart person makes lots of money 2. Smart person has children 3. Smart person's children are likely to be smarter, and guaranteed to have more money Sounds a
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by epr 2y ago
Two wrongs make a right. OK
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by epr 2y ago
I disagree. The reason humans anthropomorphize "AI" is because we apply our own meta-models of intelligence to llms, etc., where they simply don't apply. The model can spit out something that seems extremely intelligent and w
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by epr 2y ago
As someone who's been following this since the beginning, the most striking difference is the assumption that Ross was in fact the DPR ordering hits, which he repeatedly denied. Obviously, he could be lying, but that's the main qu
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by epr 2y ago
There are multiple videos already, some even in broad daylight. For example, the nbc news clip on youtube about 15 seconds in.
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by epr 2y ago
> The big problem is that NEAT can't leverage a GPU effectively at scale (arbitrary topologies vs bipartite graphs) Is that true? These graphs can be transformed into a regular tensor shape with zero weights on unused connections. I

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