ForceBru

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by ForceBru 9mo ago
In fact, I agree with the article! For instance, many indeed offload thinking to LLMs, potentially "leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains". It also makes sense that students
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
Yep, fully agree with this
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
True, but teachers don't train LLMs. Good LLMs can only be trained by massive corporations, so training an "LLM for schools" must be centralized. This should of course be supervised by the government, so the government ends u
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
> pushing back against preconceived notions and challenging users to reflect and evaluate Who decides what needs to be "pushed back"? Also, I imagine it's not easy to train a model to notice these "preconceived notion
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
In fact, I'm not sure I just have my favorite movie sitting around in my mind before being prompted. Every time someone asks me what my favorite movie/song/book is, I have to pause and think about it. What _is_ my favorite mo
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
"Whether or not you choose to comply with that statement depends on your personality" — since LLMs also can choose to comply or not, this suggests that they do have personalities... Moreover, if "personality is the thing ...
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
Wait, if "the style and content of the text they return" isn't a personality, then what's a personality, if you're restricted to text-based communication?
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by ForceBru 9mo ago
Is it just me or is the phrase "human beings" used more often than simply "humans"? I've just started to notice this: the next word after "human" is very often "beings". Whenever someone wants to
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
You can simply not upgrade to Tahoe and iOS 26. I didn't upgrade and am simply waiting for the next version which will hopefully ditch liquid glass. If no such version becomes available, I'll still stick to the last non-liquid-gla
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
You're probably thinking of another post ( https://xania.org/202512/11-pop-goes-the-weasel-er-count ) where an entire loop was optimized to a single instruction
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
Care to elaborate? Why do you think it's bullshit?
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
> LLMs are still trained on significantly more data pretty much no matter how you look at it ... 10-15 million words ... vs trillions for LLMs I don't know how to count the amount of words a human encounters in their life, but it do
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
Yep, LLMs have a greater breadth of knowledge, but it's shallow. Humans are able to achieve much greater depth because they have more data about the subject.
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
> Compared to humans, LLMs have effectively unbounded training data. They are trained on billions of text examples covering countless topics, styles, and domains. Their exposure is far broader and more uniform than any human's, and
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
> Gaussian mixture models In what fields did neural networks replace Gaussian mixtures?
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
No I mean _arXiv_ has had experimental support for generating HTML versions of papers for years now. If you visit arXiv, you'll see a lot of papers have generated HTML alongside the usual PDF, so I'm trying to understand whether t
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
Is this new or somehow updated? HTML versions of papers have been available for several years now. EDIT: indeed, it was introduced in 2023: https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv...
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
Unfortunately, the whole point is that along with the fridge/whatever tech you purchase a billboard and willingly bring ads into your home. Of course ads on purchased devices should be mandatory AND we customers will soon be expected t
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by ForceBru 10mo ago
When it's a competition among individual producers, we call it "a free market" and praise Hal Varian. When it's a competition among countries, it's suddenly threatening to "disrupt American AI markets and effor
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by ForceBru 11mo ago
Reading the next sentence clears the confusion: > SPy is not a "compiler for Python". There are features of the Python language which will never be supported by SPy by design. Don't expect to compile Django or FastAPI with
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by ForceBru 11mo ago
Are LLMs still trained by (variants of) stochastic GRADIENT descent? AFAIK what used to be called "backprop" is nowadays known as "automatic differentiation". It's widely used in PyTorch, JAX etc
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Wow, I'm NOT upgrading to iOS 26, this looks terrible. Moreover, I see people complaining about poor performance and worsening battery life.
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by ForceBru 1y ago
LMAO that actually fits really well given all the πthon jokes
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Yeah, 15 different "Little books of..." here: https://github.com/orgs/little-book-of/repositories . Seems LLM-assisted. This post about neural networks is from the "Math" book: https:/&#x2
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Why not just say what you want to say??? Surely these statistics are supposed to suggest some "obvious" conclusion, probably that the article is somehow bad. What do you mean by these numbers???
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Has anything changed since then? What are y'all's thoughts about correctness in Julia in 2025?
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by ForceBru 1y ago
> he doesn't know what it will be like ... lots of pronouncements ... would have been wrong Sure, but that's not a problem, right? People are wrong all the time, it's fine. Also, it seems quite natural that a person who ha
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Meh, "only 22" doesn't mean they have to be hesitant about making pronouncements about the whole human life. You're living a life, I'm living a life, the 22-year-old author is living a life. Why would any of us need
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Yes, it's really good

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