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LogitScope: Analyzing LLM uncertainty from token probability distributions(github.com)
3 points by mncharity 7d ago|1 comments
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by mncharity 7d ago
Brief blog post, with picture of UI: https://plasticlabs.ai/blog/research/Plastic-Labs-at-ICLR-20... (site has an scroller bug with anchor seeking - relevant bit is half-way down the short page). Github: https:&#
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by mncharity 8d ago
> it uses very clear legal language. I was wondering how I could get it to speak like that all the time At least with smaller models, reframing a task can alter code style. As in, we're not creating an X app, we're creating an
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by mncharity 8d ago
UX report. I wished to examine attention state step by step, but I found the animation moved along too fast for that. So I tried pausing... On Chromium/linux, pressing pause doesn't pause, instead resetting the animation to it&#x2
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by mncharity 11d ago
I was wondering a few days ago, if for teaching geography, one might collect compelling images/stories, which combined, might weave a familiarity with the layout of the planet? Commonplace, is Earth having a water hemisphere, and lande
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by mncharity 11d ago
TFA is background for Kickstarter[1] CHC5: Open Camera System - World's First Commercially available Modular, Customizable, Programmable Machine Vision Camera with Open Source Software . [1] https://www.kickstarter.com&#x2F
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by mncharity 12d ago
Too compressed? Something better unpacked?
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by mncharity 13d ago
> 1500 t/s [...] all you can eat tokens as fast as you can eat them Pfft, you can eat tokens far far faster than that. Many orders of magnitude more. Just switch from frontier-style bespoke artisanal pets to cloud burst-parallel,
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by mncharity 14d ago
Or base 2. 2^1.5 (2.83) is the low bound on two orders of magnitude base 2. So tripled fits. All this concern, when he merely assumed everyone would realize he meant oom base 2. :P
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by mncharity 14d ago
> has grown 100x (minimum number of "orders") Two orders of magnitude is 31.6 to 316 (10^1.5 to 10^2.5), so 32x would be sufficient. Most Uber 5-year growth numbers seem less than 3x. Steelmanning, some programs seem new in 202
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by mncharity 17d ago
An contrasting addendum: Most causal chains^H roots are deep and hairy, and most roles are supporting roles, rather than a principal with clear story impact. That friend who forwarded Ansary's email onward. So maybe your question promp
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by mncharity 17d ago
Just a thought, which at T+36 min hasn't been mentioned yet. Many systems are chaotic. At particular points in state space , a very small delta can result in very different subsequent trajectories. Viral influence being one example. I
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by mncharity 20d ago
> The valley where the floods occurred in Nepal has a V-shape https://earth.google.com/web/@28.34107217,85.43477356,2834.6...
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by mncharity 23d ago
> it's a fascinating story worth reading Nod. Thus my comment, mostly aimed at the poster, that the (then) absence of votes/comments/engagement shouldn't necessarily be taken as lack of HN interest, but might reflect
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by mncharity 23d ago
Interesting. At the time, the vote count was notably low given the post age, and there were no comments IIRC. So my thought was, to avoid the poster thinking "well that didn't work - I guess HN didn't like this - doesn't
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by mncharity 27d ago
In case anyone wonders over the low vote count, for me just now, the link only briefly shows the article before swapping it for a paywall.
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Fwiw, just to share old work, here's[1] an archived page (slowly loading; wasn't intended to be public; variously broken) exploring sort of a "teach scale down to atoms, and then nucleons up to materials" approach, based
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by mncharity 1mo ago
> we're not even coding anymore, AIs will take the fun of it. Or... Writing a compiler from a large language test suite is already an LLM sweet spot. Writing code which is atypically pretty and readable isn't... but there'
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Oh my... Braided stacking of a global pedagogic exploration supply chain? Conceptually a repo with long-term ngss and gaokao forks, and a third neutral space (IB schools?) integrating them? Entrepreneurial Sarasvathy-effectuation market co
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Yes, teaching and assessment of estimation can get quite dreadful. Wish I'd saved a video I saw years ago, intended as an exemplar of best practices in early primary, where it was clear neither teacher nor students had a clue, all the
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Nod. A random TIL from Friday, courtesy to qwen.ai: In contrast to USA educational estimation, which emphasizes point estimates, China reportedly emphasizes directional estimation to establish an envelope, upper and lower (strict) bounds -
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by mncharity 1mo ago
A kindergarten science education person suggested their kids have a human right to understand their world then , rather than a lifetime (for them) later. So atoms, etc. I think that far far harder than they thought - "adapt later
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Like [1]. But for an "oh, that's cute", here's [2] Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies (2024). The Moon's gravity field has lumps (mascons), so low lunar orbits are unstable (increasingl
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by mncharity 1mo ago
Perhaps not when it's a failure to consider groupthink in others ? I don't often see something very vaguely like "Financial folks are anticipating X, but as a community they don't have a great track record of anticipati
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by mncharity 1mo ago
I played with XR UX years back. Three quick thoughts. I liked a hierarchy of context switching devices. Open tabs, windows, workspaces, for me are distracting clutter, scaled by some distance metric. Having to physically carry a laptop to e
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by mncharity 1mo ago
> right about everything else I suggest people greatly underestimate how localized expertise is. How very rapidly someone's expertise deteriorates as you move away from some focus, from the usually-very-narrow region where that
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by mncharity 2mo ago
UX report: On desktop chromium, clicked on a "14 restaurants nearby" restaurant item, and... nothing changed on the map. Little idea where it is. Got address from popup and... map wasn't showing that street name. Zoom in, pan
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by mncharity 2mo ago
> unfortunately, WebXR restrictions make AR passthrough and the camera feed mutually exclusive It looks like Chromium-based browsers might be doable?[1][2] Meta: About a decade ago, I rolled my own WebXR-like stack with passthrough, and
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by mncharity 2mo ago
> [local, but for] extremely niche or higher intelligence tasks Access to a centralized copy of the web/literature/media, scraped and indexed/integrated, seems another non-local center of gravity. Versus a local model&#x27
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by mncharity 2mo ago
>> I consider the colormap choice to be completely arbitrary though > Arguing about colormap choice seems very strange to be – this is such a common practice in astronomy (and other fields!). Let's see if I can give a feel for

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