jedbrown

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by jedbrown 4mo ago
And this strict liability will come with an expectation of insurance. The insurance policies will necessitate audits, which will actually improve security.
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by jedbrown 5mo ago
Strong disagree (especially under US law). Consider what this means for union organizing in the context of this 2022 NLRB memo. > Under settled Board law, numerous practices employers may engage in using new surveillance and management t
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by jedbrown 1y ago
Provenance matters. An LLM cannot certify a Developer Certificate of Origin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origi... ) and a developer of integrity cannot certify the DCO for code emitted by an L
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by jedbrown 1y ago
The colloquial definitions have always been more cultural than technical, but it's become more acute recently. > I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a polit
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by jedbrown 2y ago
Many journals require LaTeX due to their post-acceptance pipeline. I use Typst for letters and those docs for which my PDF is the final version (modulo incomplete PDF/A in Typst), but for many journals in my field, I'd need a way
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by jedbrown 2y ago
If you are asking a professional high-stakes questions about their expertise in a work context and they are just bullshitting you, it's fair to impugn their motives. Similarly if someone is using their considerable talent to place bull
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by jedbrown 2y ago
Their developers have intent. That intent is to give the perception of understanding/facts/logic without designing representations of such a thing, and with full knowledge that as a result, it will be routinely wrong in ways that
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by jedbrown 2y ago
> customers at the national labs are not going to be sharing custom HPC code with AMD engineers There are several co-design projects in which AMD engineers are interacting on a weekly basis with developers of these lab-developed codes as
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by jedbrown 2y ago
The point is that LLMs are never right for the right reason. Humans who understand the subject matter can make mistakes, but they are mistakes of a different nature. The issue reminds me of this from Terry Tao (LLMs being not-even pre-rigor
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by jedbrown 3y ago
The cross-over can be around 500 ( https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2016.58 ) for 2-level Strassen. It's not used by regular BLAS because it is less numerically stable (a concern that becomes more severe for the fancier f
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by jedbrown 3y ago
> It's trivially easy to find a real-world situation where conservation of energy does not hold (any system with friction, which is basically all of them) Conservation of energy absolutely still holds, but entropy is not conserved
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by jedbrown 3y ago
What is the state of tiling in Plasma 6 and how does it compare to Pop Shell ( https://github.com/pop-os/shell ) for GNOME?
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by jedbrown 3y ago
They tripled the price of my grandmother's service over a five year period despite no speed increases so I figure they were going to charge you more regardless.
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by jedbrown 3y ago
If you spend weeks drilling flash cards on copyrighted code, then produced pages of near-verbatim copies with copyright stripped, any court would find you to have violated the copyright. A lot of people right now are banking on "it&#x2
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by jedbrown 3y ago
The LM industry valuation would be way smaller if they were not laundering behavior that would be illegal if a human did it. If "AI" were required to practice clean-room design ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by jedbrown 3y ago
Language models don't understand anything, they just manipulate tokens. It is a much harder task to write a spec (that humans and courts can review if needed to determine is not infringement) and (with a separately trained tool) implem
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by jedbrown 3y ago
Even MIT licensed code requires you to preserve the copyright and permission notice. If a human did what these language models are doing (output derivative works with the copyright and license stripped), it would be a license violation. Whe
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by jedbrown 3y ago
This is possible using branded indices. https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/paper.pdf https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/FP/ghostcell/-/blob/master/ghostc...
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by jedbrown 4y ago
> it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an amazing level of comprehension of what a series of words means It comprehends nothing at all. It's amazing at constructing sequences of words to which human readers ascribe meaning a
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by jedbrown 4y ago
Relevant context: Mencken is the namesake of a white supremacist hate group.
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by jedbrown 4y ago
"random index lookups into sparse arrays" is almost always an anti-pattern in HPC. Successful data structures are designed for streaming access and fine-grained parallelism, even when the problem domain seems irregular. Bounds che
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by jedbrown 4y ago
It's a start (and I use it too), but it's so far from parity with Magit that even when working in VSCode (where rust-analyzer is better), I often switch to Emacs for Magit.
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by jedbrown 4y ago
> AMD/Intel were long at 16 operations and only the latest Intel went up to 32 operations. Intel has had 256-bit dual-issue FMA since Haswell (2013); that's 32 flops/cycle/core. AVX-512 doubled the vector length for X
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by jedbrown 4y ago
TexText (Re-editable LaTeX graphics for Inkscape) is a neat plugin. https://textext.github.io/textext/index.html
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by jedbrown 5y ago
Five years ago, I got a 40-inch 4k@60Hz for under $400. I recently got a 43-inch 4k@60Hz for $450. The new one is lighter and somewhat more color accurate. I don't get the obsession with small pixels; my eyes prefer if I stand/sit
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by jedbrown 5y ago
A very similar technique is popular for rootfinding (since the 80s, convergence analysis in this 1998 paper), where scaling by the norm of the gradient (eq. 1.5) enables q-quadratic convergence. https://doi.org/10.1137/
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by jedbrown 5y ago
lddtree is much faster, but libtree has more detailed info.
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by jedbrown 5y ago
export is a shell builtin -- it can't be executed by xargs and even if it could, wouldn't be in the context of the shell you want.
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by jedbrown 5y ago
"The easiest way to make software scalable is to make it sequentially inefficient." -- Bill Gropp (1999)
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by jedbrown 5y ago
This is honestly quite disappointing compared to prior art. https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::EyeDrops

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