lifthrasiir

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by lifthrasiir 6d ago
I recently had a misfortune to draw every country flag with a limited palette of shapes (axis-aligned rectangle and triangle, ellipses, {a/b} regular polygons) and operations (union, subtraction). [1] It is really annoying to be as fai
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by lifthrasiir 1mo ago
Apart from the usual hypocrisy, > Safety controls may be lost – models trained on Claude's Outputs won't have our safety measures, potentially leading to harmful or dangerous AI systems. We also have no visibility into deployme
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
I'm on a mobile right now so I can't give the exact paper link but you can learn about the CORE-MATH project [1]. [1] https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
The dilemma is hypothetical (because we now know the exact precision requirement for those functions over all 64-bit doubles) but let's assume that we don't know that and also we happen to use decimals instead. What if, some f(x
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Common sense testing only tells about the presence of common sense, that's it. It is clear from recent events that LLMs do definitely possess some sort of intelligence even though it might have been polarized to certain domains.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
It is a project-wide concern, so the stake is obviously high.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
They learned English or gave up.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
All of which have been challenged though. As the stake is high, any such reason (for or against LLMs, to be fair) has to be backed with Wikipedia-level evidences at the very least.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
The OP said the Mandela effect [1] which is definitely about the past event. Anyhow, I'm okay with Codeberg's decision (I'm not even its stakeholder, so what can I say about that anyway) but it has to be honest about the inte
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Many influential F/OSS projects started with a small number of users (and contributors), and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Codeberg effectively says that it only welcome mature enough projects that it feels worthy
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Do yourself a favor and look at the actual HN thread [1] when Codeberg was widely discussed for the first time. It is crystal clear that Codeberg was seen as a direct alternative to GitHub at that time, and even the founder's quoted st
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
I think an even better advice is that everyone should know array programming, because you generally need that mindset for SIMD optimizations as (packed) SIMD-specific techniques are surprisingly rare. And array programming gives you a gener
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
In the other words, free() is a flawed API. :-)
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
This follows what SourceHut did in 2022 [1], but I think SourceHut did much better job to announce that (as of this writing). [1] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre...
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Apparently in early this month.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
> In the three examples below, the model accurately renders Japanese, Korean, and Spanish respectively. And yet the Korean text is not accurate... [1] [1] E.g. "드레스 컬렉션 dress collection " has vowels ㅔ mixed with ㅐ, "초웜한&q
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
I used to make a hybrid bitmap-vector font called Unison [1] a decade ago and I made it in that way so that I don't have to learn the fine art of (vector) typography. Or at least that I could skip most of it (for example, kerning is st
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Probably, but knowing that redirection operators can be freely moved within normal arguments [EDIT: thank ButlerianJihad for pursuing me to make this more accurate] is useful.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Don't do this: cat file | wc -l => wc -l < file cat file | head -n 5 => head -n 5 file cat file | awk '{print $1}' => awk '{print $1}' file cat file | sort => s
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
How does it compare with utf8proc [1]? I'm aware that Mojibake does a bit more than utf8proc (e.g. bi-di) but that seems marginal to me. [1] https://juliastrings.github.io/utf8proc/
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Context: 码 means "code" in Chinese and prominently appears in words like, e.g. 源代码 (source code).
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
> exfiltrating user data (including env files, entire source code etc) which is what grok-build did here I think env files are filtered out [1]. Anyway, the most suspicious code would be `upload_session_state` which is currently a stub
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Is this the infamous "cloud upload" routine? I'm not sure it is indeed insidious, though it is of course possible that the code has been filtered out. https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Sharing those things to coding agents and model providers is probably inevitable for the use. The memory with random tidbits is not.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
I think it is already done via a subagent, otherwise the context window would be flooded with long responses. In this case the subagent should've reported that a (attacker-controlled) authorization is required anyway.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
That's why I don't turn memory on. (Claude Code too though for a different reason.) After all the current memory system is too crude to be useful anyway.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
You are right. (Ziv's rounding is essentially a method that keeps error bounds and increases the precision on the inconclusive result.) I think atan2 suffers from the same problem as well, but haven't actually looked up.
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
> as was famously the case with glibc's pow at one point Pow is famously hard anyway because it's bivariate and there is no currently known way to work around the table-maker's dilemma (TMD). CORE-MATH even crashes upon a
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Personally I don't think that matters, because the article is problematic enough when it can be read like ad hominem. Assuming that the question was phrased reasonably neutrally (but not necessarily free of hidden biases), the fact t
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by lifthrasiir 2mo ago
Reality check. The confirmation that the author is not alone in having this particular feeling by using an LLM as a proxy.

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