hatthew

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by hatthew 5d ago
Ok?
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by hatthew 5d ago
Maybe the subset of japanese content I'm exposed to is biased, but personally I encounter doubled vowels (obaasan) more often than macron vowels (obāsan). The latter is explicitly " modified hepburn romanization". Even if th
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by hatthew 6d ago
My understanding of the result that was found is that the blowup doesn't happen in the real world, and only happens in an NS simulation. The bottom line is that NS is insufficient to model the real world, because in this case the real
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by hatthew 6d ago
Huh? Nobody's talking about that because it's old news. We already talked about it the first few times that AI made notable progress on a difficult math problem. Now, most people who care about the intersection of AI and math just
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by hatthew 8d ago
I feel like this whole thing hinges on one point. OAI says[0]: > However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs unforced). How true is this? If the implied statemen
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by hatthew 15d ago
I like the part where the value is actually still 8
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by hatthew 15d ago
Investments need a return on investment. If "the thing you wanted to exist now does" is the only return, that's not enough to support anywhere near the current amount of digital product creation happening today.
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by hatthew 20d ago
I find json annoying to write a lot of the time, but I do enjoy that it's a lot more difficult to get wrong than yaml. The json spec is pretty clear, and can be learned and memorized by any programmer in 5 minutes. I'd much rather
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by hatthew 23d ago
The "File" menu is about CRUD operations on file-level objects. I think eventually (~decades) the concept of the menu bar will go away, but until it does, File is a fine name for the first menu on the bar. I don't know what i
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by hatthew 28d ago
If you're like me and struggled to parse the title, my understanding is, "To obtain certain source code from Google, you could previously reference git tags, but now you have to fill out a form and wait for a human to give you a g
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by hatthew 29d ago
This thought occurred to me too, but then I realized even 37% is very high. In a reasonable society, most individuals' earnings should go up all the time. The downward pressure that should exist is high earners retiring and low earners
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by hatthew 29d ago
My experience is that current models are pretty good at making functional changes without too many more bugs than a human would make, but are still bad at making good high quality changes. I have a degree in software engineering specificall
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I feel like those examples are considered difficult because they're niche topics, but aren't actually all that difficult in a general sense. What I consider truly difficult are things like taking a ticket and implementing it in a
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by hatthew 1mo ago
A little bit of hand waving, but I don't mind it much. A cloud of steam rising from a boiling pot doesn't have a well defined border or consistent shape, but a human looking at a nearby object can usually make a clear and reasonab
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I have a hypothesis that that majority of ad clicks are misclicks where someone closes the new page within <1 second.
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by hatthew 1mo ago
One of the ways I think about this is to treat AI as if it were another person. If I want to give information to Bob but I think Alice might do a better job of writing something, I'm not going to ask Alice and then copy-paste her respo
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by hatthew 1mo ago
Reading a copy-pasted AI response feel the same to me as reading a massive wall of text with no punctuation. It may contain valuable information, but it's harder to extract the signal out from among all the noise, and the writing sty
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by hatthew 1mo ago
What is that 30% number based on? Surely that's a model specific limit, and is based more on the absolute token length, not percentage, right? I'm not sure it makes sense for e.g. Opus 0.2M and Opus 1M to both degrade at 30% of th
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I find that if I'm driving or doing a chore or something, listening to nothing can sometimes be boring, but if I listen to a podcast I'll sometimes get distracted by my own thoughts and miss 5 minutes of it. Music tends to be the
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by hatthew 1mo ago
It depends on the target audience. Many people prefer the oversharpened content. I always find it incredible how so many people never change the oversharpened and oversaturated default settings on TVs.
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by hatthew 1mo ago
Similarly I attribute about 70% of my quantifiable success (i.e. primarily salary) to a chain of events where the "luckiest" thing was that my OS got corrupted. If not for that I would probably be in a low level software job at 30
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by hatthew 1mo ago
Nonsensical issues go viral all the time without any conspiracy behind them
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I agree that resolution and burst speed don't matter a whole lot. But this page is missing the bare minimum specs that should be of interest to any photographer, such as: approximate field of view, fixed focus vs autofocus, output fi
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I've been seeing a lot of projects that let one use large models on machines with small amounts of memory. They seem to all be doing significant quantization and/or expert streaming. What's the benefit of these projects over
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by hatthew 2mo ago
> tailscale is setting a higher expectation for themselves What exactly is the higher expectation? As someone with little expertise and no stake in any of this, the blog reads as "our products are great and could have solved this pr
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by hatthew 2mo ago
My assumption is that the difference is 90% from more memory. I'm making several assumptions because nothing here looks groundbreaking so I don't care to dig deeper, but the model + KV cache definitely cannot fit in memory on the
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by hatthew 2mo ago
Is this P2P, or hosted on proprietary servers? How is it funded? I don't like ads and I like free things, but "no ads, free forever" doesn't make me confident in its long term stability.
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by hatthew 2mo ago
I think my primary curiosity is: does "rampant AI cheating" mean "most students in most classes" or "a few students in a lot of classes"? The latter is my expectation based on my perception of pre-AI cheating,
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by hatthew 2mo ago
Every few weeks I see a headline about a teacher catching 80%+ of their students cheating with AI. I wonder how much newsworthiness selection bias is taking place here? Out of all teachers that do this type of experiment, do 90% of them the
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by hatthew 2mo ago
I feel like the basics of information theory are a valuable thing for people to learn, especially as AI that makes up information starts to become more prevalent.

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