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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Perhaps only if you can also be very certain that the output is correct whenever the logprobs don't trigger the filter. If that's not the case then it might just trigger bad risk compensation behavior in the model's human ope
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I'm not an expert, either, but I've poked at this a little. From what I've seen, token logprobs are correlated enough with correctness of the answer to serve as a useful signal at scale, but it's a weak enough correlatio
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I'm not sure it's easy to understand what a big change there has been in the perceived pace of computer technology development if you weren't there. I'm typing this on a laptop that I purchased 11 years ago, in 2013. It&
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Dark matter is not a theory, per se. There are many, many theories that attempt to explain dark matter. Some of them have yet to produce testable hypotheses, others have already been tested.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Testable hypotheses are at the core of the scientific method, yes. But that's not just limited to the actual testing of hypotheses. All the work that goes into formulating hypotheses is also explicitly part of the scientific method.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I think that similar arguments were made about Ma Bell and Bell Labs back in the day. And it's true, a lot of great things did come out of Bell Labs. In fact, it almost seems like the only people able to produce great things in the 197
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
The central premise of the article seems to me to be a likely misunderstanding of the problem. I would bet that a Scrum Product Owner who uses a "command and control" leadership style and doesn't know how to properly delegate
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
The old chestnut about AI just being a term for things we haven't quite figured out yet might apply here. "Products that are well-known... and are used on a daily basis by a significant amount of people" are almost by definit
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
But do I even want an actually smart Siri? Microsoft's been trying to ram essentially that down my throat for the better part of a year now, and it's mostly convinced me that the answer is "no". I don't want to have
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Clarke's Third Law is, has always been, and always will be the best explanation for how futurists think about these kinds of things.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Moreover, this is exactly the frustration I've experienced when working with outsourced developers. Which tells me the problem may be fundamental, not a technical one. It's not just a matter of needing "more intelligence&qu
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
It's important to accept that you will screw it up. Repeatedly. Interfaces have to be designed before you can start using them, which means that you will never have less information about how a module will be used than you do when yo
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Similar experience here. I went to four high schools. The best ones, academically, were the bog-standard schools that people love to use as an easy punching bag. The ones where classes were a breeze and barely challenging at all were the pr
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
My favorite thing I've ever heard said by the principal of our kids' elementary school: "Our test scores are down, which is great, maybe that will keep some of the school shoppers away this year." Our city has a school c
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
It is. But I think that, for that purpose, I like F# even better. Even beyond getting access to the .NET ecosystem, you also get some language design decisions that were specifically meant to make it easier to maintain large codebases that
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
The ruling's section on transformativeness explains the distinction. Note that "derivative works" under US copyright law works differently from how it gets defined in typical open source licenses. My understanding is that, fo
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
We've also got to think about the actual value of preserving all of these works in a completely indiscriminate manner. Curation is important. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that we could keep everything forever, actually do
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Or at least that's what it amounts to in the information age. When you get down to it, this is just not a good sphere for deontological ethics.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
The ruling discusses this starting on page 33. The gist is that they set up a non-transformative service that is substantially equivalent to competing ebook services and CDLs, but unlike those it is not paying the customary price to publish
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Something like that, yeah.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
That would be an easy mental jump for skilled python users, but I think that it would be surprising for many less experienced users. Just giving it a function call syntax would be more in line with the principles established in PEP-20 IMO.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I'm in both groups and I'm getting tired of how Python's syntax additions increasingly turn it into a mechanism for mid-level engineers to assert their dominance over colleagues by writing code that only people who have been
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Looking at the commit history is a great start. Especially if your team actually empowers people to reject code reviews when the commit messages are unclear or insufficiently detailed.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Its predecessor launch system had 10 successes and 2 failures for the crewed flights. One, they got the crew home safely, but it was close. So that's a 17% failure rate and a 8% rate of failures killing the crew. Not saying the Shuttle
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I wish code like this still felt normal to me, but over the past ~10 years it seems that many people have come to value brevity over explicitness. I strongly prefer the explicitness, at least for important code like this. More than once in
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I heard somewhere that lack of integration testing is one of the chronic problems facing the Starliner project. And that, in turn, is arguably because after a couple decades' worth of outsourcing, Boeing itself is no longer integrated.
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I have a family member who used to be the director of an urban area's primary emergency department. (Now retired.) At some point he and his administrative staff saw a similar trend, and also figured out that their top 10 most expensive
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
I don't think you need that specific interpretation to decide that this work reveals something important. We have a phenotypic difference that leads to a big in vitro difference, and it's not a huge jump to infer that that would
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
Survivor bias is so strong here, though. None of us can predict the future, and for every iPhone there's a swarm of largely forgotten devices like the Newton, WebTV, or Nokia M510. See also: https://rationalwiki.org/wik
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by mumblemumble 2y ago
No. Next question?

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