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Lerc
1y ago
It is possible that some projects could benefit from triage volunteers? There are plenty of open source projects where it is difficult to get up to speed with the intricacies of the architecture that limits the ability of talented coders to
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1y ago
Do you have any data on what tends to get inappropriately flagged? I'm not sure if it would be productive to share such information, but can't help being curious about it.
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1y ago
>3) LLMs do not have a mechanism for sampling from given probability distributions. E.g. if you ask LLM to sample a random number from 1 to 10, it will likely give you 3 or 7, as those are overrepresented in the training data. I am not
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1y ago
While I agree that AI shouldn't be sycophantic, and I also agree that the AI shouldn't have said those things. > “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actua
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1y ago
I agree that this can be a method that can provide insight. It's also one of the areas where journalistic ethics are most strongly considered. A journalist has done good work if they report on their ability to smuggle a replica bomb
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1y ago
That asks you to consider the statements There is reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions require a biological base. Or There is no reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions do not require a biologica
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1y ago
This is like sending an unsolicited email to someone who might want to buy your product. A single instance is not a bad thing, but once it becomes a repeated occuance it is terrible. With this particular case, the threshold is likely to be
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1y ago
I have seen a few normally progressive types act quite conservative puritan over the NSFW ChatGPT thing. It seems there are quite a lot of people consider things to be uniformly good or bad and their opinion of the whole colours their opi
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1y ago
This does appear to be her shtick. Engaging in a thing so she can report upon it. https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-engagement-rage...
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1y ago
How Linux-like can you make a Mac act without changing OS now? It's been a few years since I used a Mac regularly, but even back then you could go a fair way towards making it seem nice enough to use.
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1y ago
It seems this was posted while I was editing my comment. Essentially I agree, but feel like you have to make allowances for beginners in both coding and in how they conform to community expectations. I can see how someone using AI would c
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1y ago
Is this an example of https://xkcd.com/810/ ? If you want something done by hand, I made kind-of the same thing in JavaScript ages ago. (actually, no I just looked and I made the emulator part in Haxe) https:/&#
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Lerc
1y ago
https://github.com/sql-hkr/tiny8/blob/main/src/tiny8/cpu.py says >A simplified AVR-like 8-bit CPU simulator. >This module provides a lightweight CPU model inspired by the ATmega family
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1y ago
>Surely you can look up how to avoid bubbles on a semi-transparent resin pour. I know how that's done (usually a combination of careful stirring and a vacuum chamber). The principle is easier than the practice. I am dispraxic and
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1y ago
>That’s not what “slop” means It's a new term so the meaning hasn't had a chance to settle. It's generally considered to be a negative term, so there's motivation for people to expand the definition to include thin
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1y ago
That... is a really good idea. I was thinking of cutting a flat piece of diffusing material to shape. My intuition is that there would be pain in 3d printing a diffusion structure because slicers etc. would not be optimised for producing a
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1y ago
Theoretically you can. It's whether it all goes pear shaped when you take a Dremel to the board to make it OO OOOO OO OO OOOO OO OO OOOO OO O OOOOOO O O OOOOOO O O OOOOOO O
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1y ago
Do you know if the panels can be bodged to be non square? There shouldn't be a lot of fancy wiring to screw up if it's all WS2812. Can you (delicately) chop a few LEDs out and bridge the connections? (hoping I have seeded this i
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1y ago
I have a bunch of these 8x8 panels on their way from AliExpress right now for an art project that a part will look remarkably like the video. V1 will probably be a 32x32 just like it. I still haven't decided if I want to have a partit
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1y ago
I wonder if anyone has employed the services of a hyperrealistic artist to depict the image they see on a CRT. Given their ability to generate a painting that appears identical to a photo, could they depict how the image appears to them, e
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1y ago
Do skills enable the AI to do things within it's contact, or does it grant the ability to process things in an entirely separate context. I was considering the merits of a news article analysts skill that processed the content adopting
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1y ago
They could easily exist somewhere else, but they would not be found there YouTube is the place where people find stuff, so if you want to be found, you have to be there. I posted something on this theme the other day. I would love for th
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1y ago
I think the implied question is do they discard, or do they destroy. Discarded things tend to get lost. Lost things tend not stay in the Anduin forever.
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1y ago
Old as in now widely discredited? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_non-humans
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1y ago
Specifically for simple character level questions, if LLMs did that automatically, we would be inundated with stories about "AI model caught cheating" They are stuck in a place where the models are expected to do two things simult
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1y ago
(This is a bit ranty, but due to a sincere desire for a better world, and being the recipient of personal attacks for believing a better world is achievable by a different path to others) I feel like this point of view is an ideal not share
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1y ago
The comment beside the first chart >Our main measure of progress. Bits per byte is, per Karpathy, "a much better measure than just the typical cross-entropy loss, because it further normalizes the loss on each token by the number o
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1y ago
I never even thought about the possibility that the t-shirt inside the box might not be my size. I was probably in my late teens, just left home at the time, such considerations were life-knowledge yet to be learned. The T-Shirt was just
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1y ago
People a different, I would prefer paper to video, but this iimplentation is not yet sufficient for what I would use. But as Doctorcarolorangyfaheer says maybe a few more papers down the line
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1y ago
Boot2Gecko or whatever the browser as Operating system was called. This was a project that should have focused on providing whatever its current users needed expanding and evolving to do whatever those users wanted it to do better. Instead
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