girvo

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by girvo 3d ago
I associate him more with MDPV-derived psychosis, personally.
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by girvo 5d ago
> But it's important to say if this happens again in the future it's arguably much harder to try and make this case. That’s the point though. This has happened multiple times, and it’s their algorithm that they are choosing to
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by girvo 5d ago
I don’t understand how it’s not illegal
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by girvo 12d ago
I can’t tell if it’s just normal art-writing nonsense or AI-helped nonsense anymore
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by girvo 18d ago
SGLang also accepts vibe coded PRs, but seems to be more careful about what goes in
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by girvo 19d ago
Cursor has a surprising amount of inertia, though, at least where I work.
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by girvo 20d ago
Well, the entire context is Nvidia acquiring HF, which is very much in the "lab" side of things, so it's in my opinion slightly blurrier than that. But it is a good example of people talking past one another and not communi
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by girvo 21d ago
"Labs" here specifically means "AI/LLM model lab", which that part of Nvidia is unquestionably one of the most open. Nvidia is also one of the most closed hardware developers around. Two things can be true.
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by girvo 21d ago
Yeah censoring in modern chinese models is mostly done using inference-time censoring, not training-time. A lot less RLHF. Run the weights yourself and you can see that, though it does depend on which company. StepFun for example, will happ
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by girvo 21d ago
While starting my career in the late 2000s in web design agencies wasn't good for my stress levels, it absolutely gave me an appreciation for some things that working at a ~15k employee corporate just doesn't. I can tell exactly w
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by girvo 21d ago
I love my Spark-like, but even for training you're better off using Vast or Runpod or whatever to rent cloud compute. Much faster and cheap as hell, to be honest. I do set up my initial runs and likes like quantisation-aware-distilla
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by girvo 21d ago
> it never pays for itself. Exactly; its a development box for fiddling with GPU hardware with a large amount of video-addressable memory. It's not an inference box, really, though it's neat that I can at all!
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by girvo 21d ago
They also need to tell people what quantisation they're using. Because some 4 bit version is not the same as BF16, no matter what KLD suggests.
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by girvo 24d ago
This is my current world, at least. Bit of a shame. But they pay me well enough still and the work is interesting enough that I don’t mind too much.
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by girvo 27d ago
I don’t think that’s true? I’ve been here quite a while now and it goes back a long long time in the startup world
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by girvo 29d ago
The argument is that the scrutiny is in practice not sufficient, as usual in these cases.
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by girvo 1mo ago
And you can’t tell anyone if you do, on pain of jail.
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by girvo 1mo ago
Gardening is my stress reliever for this reason. Though going to war with pests is… less stress relieving sometimes.
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by girvo 1mo ago
The one time an interviewer started describing fizzbuzz as a problem for me to solve, I said “oh FizzBuzz?” And he said “oh never mind then” haha. Got the job offer too, though I didn’t take it
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by girvo 1mo ago
Fish rot from the head, as they say.
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by girvo 2mo ago
Which some companies have done! Nvidia, I believe, among others.
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by girvo 2mo ago
I liked Nim’s take on checked exceptions personally, was quite lovely
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by girvo 2mo ago
I’ve always done that in my typescript code bases too, and I’ve never regretted it
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by girvo 2mo ago
Vinegar etching helps heaps with that I’ve found :)
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by girvo 2mo ago
The joy of working with a well seasoned carbon steel pan is similar, I find
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by girvo 2mo ago
Such a great operating system. I miss it.
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by girvo 2mo ago
> I doubt that you’d ever call them lazy to their face — why do it here? What makes you so sure about that? Posting LLM generated obviously un-reviewed slop and wasting people's time deserves scorn.
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by girvo 2mo ago
God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.
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by girvo 2mo ago
VALORANT for me is the only game keeping my gaming desktop on Windows
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by girvo 2mo ago
If you want to talk about this century and human rights, then you better look inwards. You're obviously a nationalist yourself, accusation in a mirror as is typical.

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