ur-whale

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MOBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs(arxiv.org)
2 points by ur-whale 3d ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 5d ago
Google Search is dying, and it is showing all the standard symptoms.
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by ur-whale 6d ago
Its the "with unpublished math" that I have a problem with.
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by ur-whale 8d ago
> they clearly have a contrarian business strategy to the other AI labs. Yeah, spot on. I'd add they are also betting on building specialized AI's targeting narrow yet very profitable segment markets, where general AI's à
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27: Old but Oddly Relevant in late 2026 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ur-whale 8d ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 9d ago
Programming can be art. And I totally resonate with the pleasure of crafting code and the artistic aspect of it. However, it is not just that, and when it comes to making a living, then the story changes. And for that second part, man is
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by ur-whale 9d ago
> Silicon habitats of programmers recreating nineties professional programming on Pentium PCs in dimly lit cubicles God I miss those days.
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by ur-whale 9d ago
> Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy. True, but that's not accounting for a bunch of typically Swiss cultural factors: - Swiss people tend
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Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings(arxiv.org)
121 points by ur-whale 10d ago|46 comments
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by ur-whale 10d ago
> This is... Not a good article. This is... Not a good comment. And unlike you, I don't believe I need to explain why I'm writing this.
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by ur-whale 10d ago
> It's as if a physics student tries to derive medicine "from first principles" by starting at atoms and thinking hard. It doesn't work and won't fix your appendix. An entire civilization (China) completely misse
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by ur-whale 10d ago
> I don't think you can get good at an instrument or enjoy music if you keep trying to force it to make logical sense in your brain all the time. I wholeheartedly agree with this. But then, please , don't call it "theory&
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by ur-whale 10d ago
> Which is a strange way to teach a system that essentially comes out of physics and arithmetic Oh boy, couldn't agree more, this has been a lifelong frustration for me as well: I've always been completely stumped by the utter
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by ur-whale 10d ago
What exactly prevents anyone worried about this to build an LLM that can decode the neuralese to english and use it to monitor what the model is doing? Or is the neuralese some sort of irreversibly encrypted data set that only an LLM can &q
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by ur-whale 17d ago
> The EU is tremendously effective It certainly is, but unfortunately not at very many actually positive things. When it comes to wasting money and being completely ham-fisted with regulation though, I agree with you 100%
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by ur-whale 17d ago
> Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry Good for them. Joining the EU, given the very sorry state that institution is currently in would basically be a pair of concrete shoes at the bottom of the river for Iceland.
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by ur-whale 19d ago
Fantastic work, but my gut reaction: Why? Why snowboard kids and not the ocarina of time ????
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by ur-whale 23d ago
2020's US geopolitical doctrine: 1) Pick a historically extremely innovative and disciplined culture which also happens to have massive human capital 2) Please arbitrary artificial ill-thought-out economic constraints on them 3) wait a
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by ur-whale 29d ago
finger is the best-named utility of the Unix world.
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by ur-whale 29d ago
Your definition of "elementary" is the one used by the other 100.0 - 99.999 % Thank you for making my point for me. Ivory tower much?
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by ur-whale 29d ago
> LLMs don't understand things as human mathematicians do You say it like it's a bad thing!
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by ur-whale 29d ago
"The proof ends up being remarkably elementary." Dude then proceeds to dump about 16 A4 pages worth of heavy-duty algebra which 99.999% of the humans on the surface of this planet are completely unable to read past the first two l
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/XDM2H
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
> runs on your computer Only if you have a cupertino-made toaster that is.
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
Here's an interesting ChatGPT conversation posted in the comments of the article: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a81dbb7-1934-83ea-8a47-6d1d1b4c0f...
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
> I’ll take that bet, since we ask about it in our interview questions. You evaluate candidates based on their intimate knowledge of acronyms? LOL. Pray tell where you work so we all collectively never apply for a job there.
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
One suggestion: my bet is that close to no one knows what the acronym BDD stands for. The first comment on this post is in fact exactly about that. I'd consider explaining what BBD is at the start of the front page of your project.
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
Why does Google keep announcing these subpar models? What am I missing? They can't seem to be able to produce a frontier model, fine. Just be quiet about it and work hard until you manage to put one together. [EDIT]: Come to think of i
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
> Can you help me understand how it is hard to get an API key from Google? Using Google products in general is an effing nightmare as soon as you have to give them money. The one thing you want in a business is to remove friction whe
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
> Anything that suggests curl into bash just plain sketches me out. Yeah, 100% and it's becoming more and more of a thing, see rust install for example. OTOH, if you're installing llama.cpp, you're more than likely plannin

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