ummonk

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Disney's Films Used to Look Different(animationobsessive.substack.com)
4 points by ummonk 1d ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 6d ago
It could go into personalization / memory. Or they could be A/B testing some system prompt tuning and consider the thumbs up / thumbs down as statistical feedback on the particular flags that are enabled for your account.
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by ummonk 7d ago
Are you saying that instead of investing in training right now they'll get higher ROI by pausing training for a year, and investing their money into taking out long positions on the stock market, all on the hope that what they label th
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by ummonk 7d ago
How would going leveraged on the S&P 500 because they expect long term rapid GDP growth help them with short term cash flow to invest in AI training that will enable that rapid GDP growth?
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by ummonk 7d ago
The other reply doesn't contradict what you're saying. Someone who was street racing is going to tell the cops / insurance company that they were lost in thought.
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by ummonk 8d ago
Especially because the data that gets fed into training is first anonymized, so they’d need to look for navier stokes related stuff in the anonymized training set and then get make some sort of ad hoc process (with Tristan’s permission and
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by ummonk 9d ago
This is an excellent point...
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by ummonk 9d ago
My best guess is that from the perspective of the OpenAI people, Buckmaster was letting his paranoia about OpenAI training tank his opportunity to receive the Clay Prize (it seems like Buckmaster and Alpoge's result isn't quite th
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by ummonk 14d ago
Yes, but again, what people call planets was stable for over a thousand years before changing rapidly in the past few centuries (first with the Sun and Moon being removed during the Copernican revolution, then Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta
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by ummonk 16d ago
No that would be an argument to return to the original definition of planets (highly visible celestial objects that migrate across the sky, i.e. the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). If you believe in the "standard
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by ummonk 21d ago
Yeah, that's what I figured, but my worry upon seeing this is "what happens if lower() changes again and people forget to update the list of exceptions?". Unless they have unit testing on the entire Unicode code space to ensu
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by ummonk 22d ago
> The fix was to create new exceptions so that str.lower() would behave as if it was using Unicode 3.2.0 for only particular function. So, we go through each Unicode codepoint and record when the behavior of str.lower() is different when
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by ummonk 1mo ago
I feel like there are a lot of use cases where I’d opt for SQLite and a lot of use cases where I’d opt for Postgres + PgBouncer. I’m curious what kinds of features push towards using Postgres alone over SQLite.
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by ummonk 1mo ago
I thought those were just allegations they made in the lawsuit, not necessarily something they had written evidence of in the form of messages.
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by ummonk 2mo ago
How big is the OpenBSD kernel and userland actually compared to a virtualization layer?
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by ummonk 3mo ago
I don’t follow. Are you under the misapprehension that ears was referring to auditory perception, rather than vestibular sense of motion?
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by ummonk 3mo ago
You just press backspace and hit the accent mark key or for a printing press stack the accent mark on top of the letter. People ditched accents because they were rarely used in English writing (only really being used for some loanwords), no
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by ummonk 3mo ago
Protp-Sinaitic was an abjad not an alphabet.
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by ummonk 3mo ago
"This is why Hebrew's alphabet near-perfectly phonetically represents the spoken language" - nonsense. That's just because modern Hebrew is based on the written language and thus reflects spelling pronunciation rather th
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by ummonk 3mo ago
Yeah and we've already seen this with Facebook getting blamed for Cambridge Analytica.
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by ummonk 4mo ago
It sounds more like this was a predefined account recovery flow, rather than some LLM agent making use of arbitrary write access.
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by ummonk 4mo ago
If someone is talking about "spinning up a separate machine" for Postgres, they're not talking about a desktop or mobile app...
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by ummonk 4mo ago
Why go through the trouble of shoehorning SQLite into a cloud database by getting solutions for HA/failover and DR, when you can just use Postgres off the shelf?
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by ummonk 4mo ago
My argument is that they would add an exception for TSMC in the event that Taiwan fell under Chinese control. The alternative would be an extreme supply shock to the industry that's responsible for most stock market and GDP growth in A
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by ummonk 4mo ago
Wouldn't the rest of the world encourage ASML to keep supporting the fab because they want the chips to keep coming?
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by ummonk 4mo ago
Interesting project in general. I wonder whether it could be adapted to behave reasonably without relying on threading. E.g. run the GC only when *alloc is called.
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by ummonk 4mo ago
I mean they brought that incident on themselves...
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by ummonk 5mo ago
That factor was downstream of its complexity though. It's far harder to implement a compiler for Ada 83 than even for modern C.
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by ummonk 5mo ago
What's a situation where one needs to use `eval` in benign way in JS? If something is precomputable (e.g. `eval("1 + 1")` can just be replaced by 2), then it should be precomputed. If it's not precomputable then it'
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by ummonk 5mo ago
I don't see why the transformer architecture can't be designed and trained with separate inputs for control data and content data.

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