mmilunic

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by mmilunic 22d ago
How many Fortune 500 companies require you to buy your own Windows laptop as opposed to them providing one? Also, if your laptop is work provided, your laptop is going to have little to no privacy no matter what.
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by mmilunic 1mo ago
Interesting paper by Thinking Machines where they solve this issue. https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in... TLDR: It’s actually more about kernels changing with batch sizes, and you can solve it
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by mmilunic 4mo ago
Perhaps this is a form of Gell-Mann Amnesia (but kinda inverted) where everyone views AI as too inaccurate for their own niche , but perfectly fine for every other field that they know comparably little about.
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by mmilunic 4mo ago
The idea of the social contract impacting perceptions of AI is interesting to me. I hate to use the words “permanent underclass”, but perhaps the main difference is a fear of that permanent underclass actually materializing. In the US, it s
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by mmilunic 4mo ago
> Non-technical middle managers who have not written a line of code in their lives, now feel that the biggest obstacle between them and greatness has lifted. I find it interesting how this is almost the “democratization” you mentioned th
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by mmilunic 4mo ago
Unlike a lot of anti-AI writing I have seen which can drift into the territory of reactionist rhetoric, this feels very grounded. As a student entering the job market, I personally am quite conflicted about my usage of AI, due to all the ef
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by mmilunic 5mo ago
Kinda a smart alec response, but how do you know you aren’t going to increment off the end of the array when operating normally? I guess it is twice the danger.
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by mmilunic 5mo ago
I think in the context of these it’s more of “we’ve discovered a bug” which gives you more information than “there is a bug”. The main difference in information being that the former implies not only there is a bug but that LLMs can find it
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by mmilunic 7mo ago
Either way you would still need some check to ensure your digits are digits and not some other type of character. Having zeroed out memory read as a bunch of NUL characters instead of like “00000000” would probably be useful, as “000000” is