slickytail

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by slickytail 3mo ago
Reminder that job postings for jobs in California are legally required to include a salary range.
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by slickytail 5mo ago
You forgot the best line: "I don't know how the US economy works, much less some kind of self-sustaining one".
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by slickytail 5mo ago
The idea of Simulacrum comes from Baudrillard. His essay "Simulation and Simulacra" is highly recommended for understanding what is so strange about the modern economy.
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by slickytail 8mo ago
I think it would, for all practical purposes, be impossible to determine an optimal warrior, even at very small core sizes. Not only is the search space huge but the evaluation function can take unbounded time to resolve. We should consider
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by slickytail 10mo ago
As a non Emacs user, I would be really interested in a full writeup of how this works.
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by slickytail 11mo ago
The site has a little game where you click to dismiss as many cookie-consent popups as possible, in 30 seconds. I suppose if you can't see the cookie consent popups, then at the end of the timer you just have zero points.
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by slickytail 11mo ago
In the words of Kronecker: "God created the integers, all else is the work of man."
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by slickytail 1y ago
Two different groups of people commenting different things.
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by slickytail 1y ago
In what sense is this 64KB? Clearly there's more than 64KB of code in the repo. And since it's typescript it's not like there's a binary that could be 64KB.
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by slickytail 1y ago
In a discrete Fourier transform, the number of frequencies you get out is the number of datapoints you have as input. This is because any frequencies higher than that are impossible to know (ie, they are above the sampling frequency). But i
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by slickytail 1y ago
Traditional suicide is incredibly stigmatized; ending one's life manually is a huge trauma to place on loved ones. The benefit of MAID is that it's dignified, and won't leave families searching for answers after a death.
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by slickytail 1y ago
The transformer was a major breakthrough in NLP, and it was clear at the time of publishing that it would have a major impact. But I will add that it is common in the Deep Learning field to give papers catchy titles (see, off the top of m
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by slickytail 1y ago
I think the biggest sign of a potential crash is that Meta has frozen AI hiring. Such a quick reversal from just a few months ago.
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by slickytail 1y ago
I stand corrected! Thanks.
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by slickytail 1y ago
Source for this? My understanding was that this was true for dalle3, but that the autoregressive image generation just takes in the entire chat context — no hidden prompt.
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by slickytail 1y ago
The memory bandwidth on an H100 is 3TB/s, for reference. This number is the limiting factor in the size of modern LLMs. 100GB/s isn't even in the realm of viability.
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by slickytail 1y ago
All of this only really applies to LLMs though. LLMs are memory bound (due to higher param counts, KV caching, and causal attention) whereas diffusion models are compute bound (because of full self attention that can't be cached). So e
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by slickytail 1y ago
The relative unimportance of the exact SDPA attention in use in modern transformers is already known: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11418 The FFN, normalization, and residual connections are absolutely irreplaceable -- bu
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by slickytail 2y ago
The linked wikipedia article below says that they asked you for your email password specifically -- is there any evidence that they would try to use your linkedin password itself?
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by slickytail 2y ago
Generally the problem with this type of argument is that the two sources are not volume-matched. Try out an ABX test here, of lossless vs various lossy codecs: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/