namr2000

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by namr2000 5d ago
I mostly agree with this sentiment, and have a hard time describing anything LLM generated as "mine". However, would you say that the designers at Apple, or Steve Jobs for example didn't "bring the Macintosh to life&quot
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by namr2000 5d ago
This is the first comment in this thread that adequately captures how I feel. If I spend a weekend working on a project, there are two equal parts that make it worth my time: enjoying the process, and enjoying the final result. It's in
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by namr2000 1mo ago
What runtime are you using with the 2x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell machine? I have the same setup and tried DSv4 Flash on vLLM and ran into a ton of kernel bugs that don't seem to have been fixed yet.
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by namr2000 1mo ago
Yeah the Yitang Zhang situation just sounds like a total nightmare all around. There was definitely at least some progress on the problem. I get the general sense that there were potential counterexamples that were close but not quite enoug
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by namr2000 1mo ago
I want to preface my response by saying that I don't buy most of what the AI labs say. I don't think that LLMs will replace most white collar labor for example. I also find many of the practices of these labs to be abhorrent. Howe
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by namr2000 1mo ago
I understand the frustration with the constant PR-hype these AI labs keep spewing out, but on other hand I just can't understand this sentiment at all. These are real problems mathematicians and computer scientists have been working on
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by namr2000 3mo ago
You don't have to train from scratch but you can. Distillation ends up being somewhere in the ballpark of 1000x faster to train [1]. It also comes with the huge advantage of not needing to create RLHF datasets, since you can just copy
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by namr2000 5mo ago
It depends on the facilities the language offers to you by default right? C++ offers much higher level primitives out of the box compared to Zig, so I'd say its a higher level language. Of course you can ignore all the features of C++
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by namr2000 5mo ago
I agree with you that package management has nothing to do with how low-level a language is. That being said Rust is definitely a much higher level language than either C or Zig. The availability of `Arc` and `Box`, the existence and relian
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by namr2000 5mo ago
The languages trade complexity in different areas. Rust tries to prevent a class of problems that appear in almost all languages (i.e two threads mutating the same piece of data at the same time) via a strict type system and borrow checker.
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by namr2000 5mo ago
Rust is a world away from Zig as far as being low-level. Rust does not have manual memory management and revolves around RAII which hides a great deal of complexity from you. Moreover it is not unusual for a Rust project to have 300+ depend
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by namr2000 5mo ago
This has not been my experience with Waymo. I drove a total of about ~3.5 hours in Waymos in LA when I was visiting and their robustness to very unusual situations absolutely floored me. I am sure you can find truly out-of-distribution case
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by namr2000 5mo ago
GPT2 was definitely a risk, just not of the same magnitude. It would have (and did!) make social media bot farms way more convincing and widespread. There was specific worry about that being used to sway elections, which is why they held ba
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by namr2000 5mo ago
Real median wages have been increasing pretty consistently since the FRED started recording it: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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by namr2000 6mo ago
I don't really understand what you mean by this. The claim is that the same prompt with the same question produces worse results when it's queried in a model that has more than 200k tokens in its context. That doesn't have to
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by namr2000 6mo ago
Does anyone know the font & colorscheme being used in the code snippets?
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by namr2000 8mo ago
Wow, I was going to make something almost exactly like this! Really cool work and thank you for sharing
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by namr2000 11mo ago
I think that's a fair assessment. To your point `cbindgen` makes the mechanics of the whole thing painless & linking was trivial. That's worth a lot especially when compared to other languages.
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by namr2000 11mo ago
I have to disagree here a little bit. Calling C functions from Rust is a very pleasant experience, but the other way around is not so nice. You usually have to manually create types that will unpack rust collections into C compatible struct
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by namr2000 1y ago
Likewise Ken Liu (the English translator for the Three Body Problem) has a really good short story "The Perfect Match" about the same concept, which you can read here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction&#x2
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by namr2000 1y ago
There are still a HUGE number of games you can play with Intel integrated graphics all of which are extremely good. Many of the greatest games of all time are quite old or 2D which means you don't need anything special to run them. At
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by namr2000 1y ago
This is a really impressive project, but I wish the Github page had more information about the design of the system, e.g 1. Is it intending to be a unix-like system? 2. is libc supported? I see that you have XECLib which looks like a custom