mopierotti

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by mopierotti 6mo ago
Good question. I agree with what I think you're implying, which is that local generation is not the right choice if you want to maximize results per time/$ spent. In my experience, hosted models like Claude Opus 4.6 are just so ef
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by mopierotti 6mo ago
Supporting all the various devices does sound quite challenging. I wouldn't expect a perfect single measurement of "quality" to exist, but it seems like it could be approximated enough to at least be directionally useful. (e.
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by mopierotti 6mo ago
This (+ llmfit) are great attempts, but I've been generally frustrated by how it feels so hard to find any sort of guidance about what I would expect to be the most straightforward/common question: "What is the highest-qualit
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by mopierotti 9mo ago
Thanks for the response! I hear what you're saying, and I apologize for my joke. I re-read your essay, and what you say about needing sophistication reminds me of the concept of proof-of-work -- "sophistication" could be a wa
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by mopierotti 9mo ago
It's clever that the the author provides both his essay and an example at the same time! Sorry, that joke felt obligatory. Miscellaneous reactions, in an elegant bulleted list: - "Simple" sentences are certainly expressive, b
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by mopierotti 10mo ago
I might be misunderstanding your point, but quantization can have a dramatic impact on the quality of the model's output. For example, in diffusion, there are some models where a Q8 quant dramatically changes what you can achieve compa
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by mopierotti 1y ago
Yeah. In the example I shared, my charitable interpretation would be that it's identifying the trick question as "a setup" where the punch line is the confusion the audience experiences. And in a meta sense, that would also d
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by mopierotti 1y ago
Here is an example of one such response in image form: https://imgur.com/a/Kgy1koi
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by mopierotti 1y ago
The recursive one that I have actually been really liking recently, and I think is a real enough challenge is: "Answer the question 'What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?'". I append my own ve
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by mopierotti 2y ago
I checked out your docs, and I agree that they flow very nicely! So often it seems that docs are either frustratingly vague to the point where it almost seems like the company is embarrassed to admit that their tool is a tool and not a &quo
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by mopierotti 2y ago
You might be the first person that I've recommended Unsong to that actually gave it a chance. :)
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by mopierotti 2y ago
True, perhaps "messy" was the wrong word. I think what I was trying to get at was that I feel "There Is No Antimemetics Division" is more accessible for the average reader -- More narrowly focused, with a more immediate
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by mopierotti 2y ago
I sent out about 8 copies of this book to friends/relatives for christmas a couple years ago, and it was very well received. It's not without flaws, but it's absolutely packed with novel concepts, relatively short, and provid
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by mopierotti 2y ago
I don't think this is a good example. The bus is clearly a simplified representation. If the answer/explanation given was actually correct then you'd also expect the bus to have other details like side view mirrors. Edit: I h
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by mopierotti 2y ago
Are you also saying that thoughts are formed using gradient descent? I don't think gradient descent is an accurate way to describe either process in nature. Also, we don't know that we "see" everything that is happening,
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by mopierotti 2y ago
Idea: It would be super cool if the camera angle also shifted a bit when you tilt your phone, making the level look more like a real object. You would have to assume the relative position of the phone from the viewer, but that assumption is
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by mopierotti 2y ago
Butter sticks in the US have marks down the side of the wrapper, like a ruler, that show you tablespoon increments. Google image search "tablespoons butter stick".
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by mopierotti 3y ago
That's not entirely true. This wasn't the case for SD 2.0/2.1, and I don't think SD 3.0 will be available publicly for fine tuning.
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by mopierotti 3y ago
Interesting idea, thanks! I will probably try this. I had stopped tweaking things too much after implementing MPAA, because most of the searches end up "short circuit"-ing relatively quickly. With MPAA you preserve all previous sh
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by mopierotti 3y ago
I've spent a lot of time thinking about fast pathfinding in order to speed up my Scala Quoridor AI*[0], and here are some tips/tricks I've learned: - MPAA (multipath adaptive A*) is great if you need to re-search the same are
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by mopierotti 3y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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by mopierotti 3y ago
In my experience/understanding, one's emotions are a better explanation of procrastination than an insufficient ability to "delay gratification". For example if you feel anxious/hopeless/overwhelmed, you might
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by mopierotti 3y ago
I would say the number of items in a set, so by that logic the number of items in every type of infinite set would each seem to be infinity. Maybe where I'm struggling is that I'm not familiar with why this notion of differently s
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by mopierotti 3y ago
There are many comments saying that one infinity can be larger than another because a bijective mapping can't be formed, but why does the presence of a mapping imply anything about the "size" of an infinity? For any infinite
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by mopierotti 4y ago
This sounds like a disturbingly effective idea. I'm glad that lootbox legislation seems to be increasing, but I don't think it would cover the general concept of commercially extorting people's desire for companionship.
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by mopierotti 4y ago
This somewhat reminds me of super smash bros, which at higher levels of play often revolves around positioning. e.g Maneuvering opponents into areas with few options, maintaining stage control
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by mopierotti 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're talking about static typing in Go specifically, but imho static typing and generics make code easier to change. I dread refactoring code that hasn't made extensive use of types, because it makes it hard
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by mopierotti 4y ago
Java's ZGC as of jdk 17 has very low pause times (e.g. a p99 of roughly 0.1 ms in this benchmark[0]). Their stated goal is to remain sub 1 ms, but in practice it stays well below that. The JVM isn't the most common game dev platfo
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by mopierotti 4y ago
One thing I'll throw out there is that I've recently been running IntelliJ using jdk 17 with ZGC as the garbage collector, and it seems snappier. (You can use the 17.0 runtime that jetbrains releases on github, this page has more
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by mopierotti 5y ago
I'm no expert, but I don't think this is true. Couldn't tasks arrive into the queue at the same rate that they are processed, resulting in a fixed queue size at 100% utilization? Put another way, in the second "No good&q

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