leodavi

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by leodavi 13d ago
What? No. Have you ever worked with programs that do floating-point math on a GPU? It's not deterministic, definitely across platforms, and often within a single platform, too.
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by leodavi 3mo ago
How does that apply to AI Overview in Search, though? As far as I can tell it's pure spend on every search, which I know adds up even for nano models.
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by leodavi 3mo ago
> Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning That's abnormally heavy usage for Pro plans which don't include a whole lot of usage to begin with. Opus is generally too much for them but you can
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by leodavi 3mo ago
How is this meaningfully different than simonw's pelicans riding a bicycle? If anything, this seems to be of a higher caliber?
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by leodavi 3mo ago
I agree with you that labs are benefiting from those outputs but I'm skeptical that labs are purposefully training the models to produce those outputs. Raw pre-training data includes plenty of conversations between professional builder
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by leodavi 4mo ago
Insincere apologies ought to be mocked to shit but this apology seemed well-meant. (I know you're not mocking them and the last sentence is actually something Claude would say.) I post this angry comment because LLMs are colonizing the
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by leodavi 4mo ago
I want more of this. Trees using coordinated cell transpiration to control the weather is so fictional but so possible. It's the kind of thing that makes Earth so cool. What do you read? Anything digestible to a curious layman with
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by leodavi 5mo ago
Well, in C++ the constructor must return a value of its class type - you can't return an Option<T> from a constructor on T, for example, and since constructors are the canonical way to construct an object, it creates stylistic an
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by leodavi 5mo ago
> in a highly controlled and predictable environment Why this constraint? A common sentiment I see online (sorry, to group you in) is "[tool] will be capable, actually, but only in a context that trivializes its usefulness." I
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by leodavi 5mo ago
Probably not. The active parameter set may change from token to token, based on my understanding of MoE, so you'd be streaming (at the worst case, unlikely for a real scenario but frames the problem) 49B parameters from SSD for every
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by leodavi 8mo ago
The narrative style reminds me of the novel-game Caves of Qud. Very well done.
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by leodavi 8mo ago
To the author: this work you've published rests on some background knowledge that I'm familiar with but also a lot of background knowledge that's foreign to me. For the parts I was able to follow, I thought the mental gear-t
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by leodavi 10mo ago
A visual editor for creating video games on the browser and on Linux desktop: https://stickyfingies.github.io/g2ngine I've done this with C++ in the past, but ran into substantial friction with the CMake toolchain, spe