simsla

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by simsla 20d ago
Any papers you'd recommend?
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by simsla 26d ago
The thing that bothers me about most paywalls is that they want you to take a subscription to remove it. I've got more than enough subscriptions in my life. Why does no one use the Google Pay or Apple Pay integration for single article
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by simsla 2mo ago
Automatic Phoneme Recognition (APR). There are some models that do this, but they're only so-so.
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by simsla 2mo ago
It looks more similar to the 1929 crash to me, where "too big to fail" blue chip stocks were overinvested and overvalued, and the value adjustments rippled through the rest of the economy. If NVIDIA does get a meaningful value adj
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by simsla 3mo ago
There's a pretty big difference between "we need laws and regulations" and "let Trump do whatever he feels like today."
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by simsla 3mo ago
How does a billion break down into 49 million? I'm assuming you mean 400 and 90 million?
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by simsla 3mo ago
100%. It really depends on the application domain and system complexity. I see a lot of people speaking about a 10x productivity improvement and so on. When I work on hobby projects, I do see that. Just last weekend, I set up a hobby projec
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by simsla 3mo ago
I set up mine with WSL and used a Linux terminal over xserver. Once you have a decent unix shell (and a good terminal) it's fine. VSCode etc work fine. This was 2020ish, things might've gotten easier now. But I do prefer a Linux o
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by simsla 3mo ago
I think there are no safe harbor investments at this time. Even gold is unpredictable. Personally I went 80% world excl US and 20% equal weight S&P500 to hedge against what I think is an AI bubble. But if the market decides to adjust Nv
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by simsla 3mo ago
The notation is supposed to mean: you have a matrix Q, and also a shared K=V matrix. I agree with GP that it's super confusing to us the minus sign as a delimiter between formulas. The tuple notation suggested elsewhere would be way cl
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by simsla 4mo ago
IMO the easiest way to open the straight is for the US to back down. "The EU helping the US" doesn't sound like a great way to achieve that. I don't want the EU to join a protracted Iran war.
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by simsla 4mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but this is not something I can send my colleagues. You can be annoyed and right, and still avoid being crass.
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by simsla 4mo ago
Established accounts are worth money, often for scamming/propaganda. Not too dissimilar to people bot-leveling in MMOs to the sell the accounts.
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by simsla 5mo ago
I'm afraid you're mistaken. He hired a cartographer to iterate over the design, but from the images, he likely used that feedback to create a map style . For example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_st
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by simsla 5mo ago
Genuinely curious: what would you have had him do instead?
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by simsla 5mo ago
Everyone is writing. Nobody is reading.
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by simsla 5mo ago
I do wonder if it's fair to expect users to absorb cache miss costs when using Claude Code given how untransparent these are.
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by simsla 6mo ago
Where I live, your employer basically has to give you notice (weeks to months, depending where you live). It's common for that notice period to turn into "garden leave" though, i.e. get paid but don't show up. Mass layof
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by simsla 6mo ago
Typical stages of training for these models are: Foundational: - Pretraining - Mid/post-training (SFT) - RLHF or alignment post-training (RL) And sometimes... - Some more customer-specific fine-tuning. Note that any supervised fine-tun
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by simsla 6mo ago
I think my experience as an interviewer has helped. If you ask non-leading questions, sycophancy doesn't come into play as much. Instead of saying "are you sure?" or "shouldn't we do X instead?" you could say &
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by simsla 6mo ago
For reference, I knew a guy who built bespoke cheats (less likely to get caught by ban waves) and he charged a few thousand per project.
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by simsla 6mo ago
I've never experienced this, but I guess I always respond with something like "No, [critique/steer]" or "Mostly fine, but [critique/steer]".
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by simsla 7mo ago
Choose to enable backups.
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by simsla 7mo ago
The blog post literally explains how to do so.
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by simsla 7mo ago
Also because normal usage has predictable usage patterns, which allows them to optimise and predict costs. Flat rate pricing only makes sense in that regime.
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by simsla 7mo ago
While I agree, if you need high profits to survive, you're not off to a great start as a nonprofit.
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by simsla 7mo ago
There is a financial incentive to make the search results worse. (More searches, more ads, more money.) There is no incentive for adding false positives to lists of malicious websites.
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by simsla 7mo ago
Permissions scoping
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by simsla 7mo ago
I've used stuff like this for a hobby project where "effort to write it" vs "times I'm going to use it" is heavily skewed [0]. For production use cases, I can only see it being worth it for things that require
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by simsla 7mo ago
And that's probably the opposite of being school-shaped. School is hellishly boring if you're ahead of the curve.

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