Lerc

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by Lerc 7mo ago
If anything I think the WMF approach is why people are upset with the LibreOffice banner. They have been breeding bad will and it is overflowing onto others. That said, the failure of this post to recognise the problem of the WMF approach
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by Lerc 7mo ago
If you think of it from the point of view of the universal approximation theorem, it's all efficiency optimisation. We know that it works if we do it incredibly inefficiently. Every architecture improvement is essentially a way to achi
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by Lerc 7mo ago
Never tired of talking about AI. There are so many fascinating aspects to explore and papers delivering new ideas. It's a bit tiring keeping up with the new stuff but talking about what we've found is one of the things that make
544.
by Lerc 7mo ago
No but calculation becoming more efficient than recall might not make it a good idea to make wasteful fetches.
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by Lerc 7mo ago
This was the case back in the days of the Amiga and 68000 Macs. Rendering everything every frame was impossible, the only way to make it work at all was to draw only what was absolutely necessary to depict changes. Then computers got fast
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I'm currently elbow deep in making a PIO+DMA sprite and tile display renderer. Losing the high maximum data rate is quite a cost, but in my use case BIO would be the clear winner, indexed pixel format conversion on PIO is shifting ou
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by Lerc 7mo ago
There was recently a story about a reporter who faced threats because their reporting contained a detail that while not significantly impactful (although about a literal impact) in it's own right changed the win conditions on a predict
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by Lerc 7mo ago
Very obvious, but things that seem obvious might not actually be true. It is worth verifying. Getting organisations to act on the obvious if it requires changing is harder than you might think. Having research to point to and saying you a
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by Lerc 7mo ago
If [programming_language] is so great, why isn't anyone using it? For many of the same reasons. A plethora of alteratives, personal preference, weird ideology, appropriateness for the task, inertia, not-invented-here. The list goes on
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I would think that it would only be beneficial on devices that don't maintain a full frame rendering buffer or if they wanted to do partial updates. If the full frame is maintained with more values then quite a lot of things like Floyd
551.
by Lerc 7mo ago
Is their issue that ChatGPT served their customers more than it served them?
552.
by Lerc 7mo ago
My thoughts while reading this, went. What is this abstract even saying? Oh now I understand it's just needlessly wordy. Hmm paper with single author, I wonder if they posted it to HN? Let's see what else they've put out?
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I don't think milquetoast is the right term (not less because it hasn't really left North America). People seem more angry than timid. There are problems, some are very visible, some are present but not very visible, and some are
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I am a little surprised that they openly solicit code contributions with "Invest with your PRs" but don't have any statement on AI contributions. Maybe the volume for them is ok that well-intentioned but poor quality PRs can
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by Lerc 7mo ago
Is this not an observation bias? Consider the idea of trying to determine how quickly an unknown number of timers will go ping, It could be 10,000 timers that go ping when finished or 1,000,000 timers that go ping when finished. I don&#x2
556.
by Lerc 7mo ago
Mixture of Experts already have routing models, I'm just suggesting eliminate (or weaken) the distinction between layers and expert and have just the one, then iterate that one until its 'gpod enough' score plus (iterationco
557.
by Lerc 7mo ago
But how do you know if that is really their opinions?
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by Lerc 7mo ago
"If an AI had been in Stanislav Petrov’s position — the Soviet officer who prevented a potential nuclear war in 1983 — it would not have refused to launch." Academic, USA I am not sure if this would be true given how AI's hav
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I have heard people say that they find that people who broadcast their distaste for LLMs secretly use it. I was fairly sceptical of the claim, but this seems to suggest that it happens more than I would have thought. One wonders what lead
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by Lerc 7mo ago
That weird part is kind of what I was expecting. This goes to the thing that I posted on the thread a couple of days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327132 What you need is a mechanism to pick the right looping
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I have not felt that it was becoming rare. Certainly on platforms like YouTube you can see automated processes cranking blandness at scale. I haven't found it encroaching on the topics that interest me like toy electronic projects, h
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by Lerc 7mo ago
The Gigatron uses 5 chips for a 4bit ALU. It's one of the test layouts that I put in this perfboard layout program that I ened up making because trying to figure out wiring on both sides at once in my head melted my brain. https:&#x2F
563.
by Lerc 7mo ago
They are not the rules. They are some rules.
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by Lerc 7mo ago
>a) working memory (hold & manipulate information in mind simultaneously) What counts as 'in mind' is undefined. You can succeed by declaring anything manipulatable counts as in. >c) fluid intelligence (ability to r
565.
by Lerc 7mo ago
I think the insight there is that the increased productivity of AI could be used to add features where the end results are weighing the ability of the AI against the ability of an individual implementing the same thing. The alternative is
566.
by Lerc 7mo ago
All you have to to to become a member of tautology club is to join tautology club.
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by Lerc 7mo ago
This is why Anthropic has bought in standards to protect the welfare of their models. No LLM should be subjected to such a cruel and unusual task.
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I think the public in general woul be happier with the office on the moon idea than compulsory Government ID requirements to use services.
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by Lerc 7mo ago
How should they do it? Surely they don't have a responsibility to do something that nobody knows how to do? There have been numerous cases in history where governments have attempted to legislate the outcome they want without regard t
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by Lerc 7mo ago
I agree that it would be a mistake to use something like this in something where people depend upon specific behaviour of the software. The only way we will get to the point where we can do this is by building things that don't quite

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