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by LASR 3y ago
Without starting a flame war, can we have a proper discussion on Android and iOS memory management? It seems like iOS and macOS do more with less ram. Why is that? My outdated view on this is that iOS apps are native vs Android that runs JV
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by LASR 3y ago
I wanted to go all the way to a PhD. So did my classmates. We were going to change the whole world. But after an internship at a FAANG during my 2nd year undergrad, the money was too good. Got some return offers and basically slacked off th
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by LASR 3y ago
> In my case, BTCPayServer was wrapped in a docker container because the developer loves docker... Right. But one example doesn’t mean the entire world of containers is “bloat and unnecessary”. I’ve encountered many use cases where packa
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by LASR 3y ago
I’m a Canadian immigrant. I didn’t have recognizable highschool credentials. So had to go through a local college 1st year program. I had a 4.0 GPA when I applied to a Canadian university for second-year transfer program. I applied to only
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by LASR 3y ago
Maybe Linux ISOs encoded as lossy video.
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by LASR 3y ago
This is what I've been doing. GPT-4 to generate some data from some input, followed up by a 3.5T call to verify the output against the input to verify the content. You can feed the 3.5T output straight back into GPT-4 again and it will
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by LASR 3y ago
People take issue with the controller thing because it is in the intersection of what common hackernews readers know/understand and related to this situation. So the conclusion could be that if the controller is a bad / cheap, eve
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by LASR 3y ago
Honestly being anywhere on the competitive spectrum is pretty impressive. GPUs aren’t just some commodity product. They’ve required decades of iteration to lead to the flagship products we have today. To achieve at least a fraction of that
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by LASR 3y ago
Just using encryption leads to this? We may have technology now, but what’s clear is that the human nature that lead to the witch hunts several hundreds of years ago still exists.
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by LASR 3y ago
Come on. We're dealing with qualified professionals here. The buck stops with them. A professional civil engineer blaming a new untested simulation software after a bridge fails and causes injury - does it matter what the software clai
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by LASR 3y ago
Not OP, but I think the underlying meaning is that the focus on profit is primary. As in when it aligns with better patient outcomes it’s going to happen and that’s great. But probably there are a ton of scenarios where profit is anti-align
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by LASR 3y ago
I’ve said this many times: stop using ChatGPT as a database. It does not contain facts. It may appear to contain some facts. Some may also be actually true. The truly useful usecase is as a reasoning engine. You can paste in a document and
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by LASR 3y ago
This is not a discussion of monolith vs serverless. This is some terrible engineering all over that was "fixed". Some excerpts: > This eliminated the need for the S3 bucket as the intermediate storage for video frames because o
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by LASR 3y ago
> I'm honestly baffled that people lack the ability to use LLMs in a productive and optimal manner. Huge +1. I’ve got it to do a large part of my work for me by chaining some simple API calls. The fundamental conceptual gap I see -
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by LASR 3y ago
It can’t reason - as in there no internal memory or intelligence in there. But you can ask it to generate a reasoning chain as part of its output. And then extract that output and do something else with that. That’s the reasoning it can per
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by LASR 3y ago
Interesting. Curious as to what specific task you gave it and how it failed. My team has been working on several advanced techniques using reasoning on LLMs. The stacked performance of all of these techniques combined yields is quite impres
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by LASR 3y ago
I want to use this comment to state one thing, not directly addressed to you. Stop using GPT as a database! GPT is far more useful a reasoning engine that can accumulate fuzzy data and then provide various views or transformation of that da
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by LASR 3y ago
What people forget is the underlying capability - LLMs are able to do reasoning. So the one-track thinking of garbage-in-garbage-out is not the limitation any more. What we're precisely now able to do is garbage-in-less-garbage out. Yo
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by LASR 3y ago
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox You can certainly generate unpredictability from a predictable mechanism.
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by LASR 3y ago
Life, like any other physical process, provides additional pathways to increase entropy. Otherwise that process wouldn't have a gradient to go through.
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by LASR 3y ago
Exactly. The point of a programming language is to translate human intention into machine instructions. Whatever optimizes for the accuracy of the instruction output is the best. Sometimes it means language features. But it can also mean it
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by LASR 3y ago
It’s incapable of thinking. But what it’s surprisingly good at is symbolic reasoning similar to human common sense. Most people forget that there is no memory or thought independent of whatever the output it generates. But when you ask it t
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by LASR 4y ago
I think being cancelled means the value goes up. For collector stamps anyway.
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by LASR 4y ago
It’s pretty ironic that the argument that LLMs are stochastic parrots actually sounds like the actual parrot. I think we’re now way past that now with LLMs now quickly taking on the role of a general reasoning engine.
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by LASR 4y ago
I understand where you're coming from. But there is certainly an audience for this kind of post that would like to read about the objective source of the bug without connecting it to some expectations around responsibility. I read this
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by LASR 4y ago
So it’s non-alcoholic right now. How can you powder alcohol? Any chemists care to shed some light?
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by LASR 4y ago
> into space in different directions Different directions - this is the fundamental challenge. It's hard to know what these directions are when we're flying blind at the cutting edge of technology. We're all human. I suspe
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by LASR 4y ago
If you knew someone working at MSFT, you would just ask them for some free keys.
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by LASR 4y ago
We have a whole team of folks just watching for these to come out and then go evaluate them. Short answer: none of them do as well as the OG Davinci-003. Not even close. Even the 3.5 Turbo models from OpenAI don’t do as well. We throw some
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by LASR 4y ago
Yeah I think it lines up with Davinci being 10x as expensive as Turbo.

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