Majromax

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by Majromax 6mo ago
Well, the "vector field defined by the update attributable to this training sample" is a well-defined thing (even if it's not just the gradient of loss with respect to parameters), so that part translates. However, what'
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by Majromax 6mo ago
Anyone who's ever `DROP TABLE`d on a production rather than test database has encountered the same problem in meatspace. In this context, the MCP interface acts as a privilege-limiting proxy between the actor (LLM/agent) and the t
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by Majromax 6mo ago
Wait a second, they define the induced vector field (and consequently Lie bracket) in terms of batch-size 1 SGD: > In particular, if x is a training example and L(x) is the per-example loss for the training example x, then this vector f
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by Majromax 6mo ago
The math doesn't need a 'true' or 'false' distribution; that just falls out of the use of a model ('false') to approximate reality ('true'). When the bard says "there are more things in heav
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by Majromax 6mo ago
There's also another difference: beeps can reflect coherently off of surfaces, causing directionality confusion in a dense environment. White noise is much less likely to have odd interference patterns, maximizing our ability to local
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by Majromax 6mo ago
Since the advantage of standards is that there are so many to choose from, one lesser-used but still regionally acceptable approach (e.g. https://www.alberta.ca/web-writing-style-guide-punctuation#j... ) is to use en-dashes
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by Majromax 6mo ago
If you're buying and selling the power, then you don't care much about the absolute price, but rather the delta between the purchase and sale prices. Below -100€/MWh, you don't need to sell the power to profit; you&#x2
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by Majromax 6mo ago
I'm curious about your subscription/API comparison with respect to thinking. Do you have a benchmark for this, where the same set of prompts under a Claude Code subscription result in significantly different levels of effective t
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by Majromax 6mo ago
If I'm reading that page correctly, then the benchmark results don't cover the interesting "mid February" inflection point noted in the article/report. The numbers appear to begin after the quality drop began. Mor
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by Majromax 6mo ago
If you're using API pricing, then you can bring your own harness with full visibility/oversight of the prompting.
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by Majromax 6mo ago
> this is a wild fantasy when dealing with any commercial entity with a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. "Fiduciary duty" is less strict than you'd expect. Courts generally recognize a "business judgment ru
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by Majromax 7mo ago
With modern technologies, that's power over ethernet or USB-C. Other comments in this thread point out that the telephone service also routinely used 48V for the ring signal. However, higher DC voltage is riskier, and it's not at
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by Majromax 7mo ago
> My definition of AGI hasn't changed - it's something that can perform, or learn to perform, any intellectual task that a human can. Wait, could you make your qualifiers specific here? Is your definition of AGI that it be abl
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by Majromax 7mo ago
> this may also be in fact enough evidence for Anthropic to ban Cursor from using their models, just like they are doing to OpenCode. The Anthropic ban on OpenCode isn't an Anthropic ban on OpenCode, it's a ban on using a Cal
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by Majromax 7mo ago
> The worthwhile question AIUI is whether AI weights are even protected by human copyright. I'm also deeply curious about this legal question. As I see it, model weights are the result of a mechanistic and lossy translation between
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by Majromax 7mo ago
> 1) Anthropic doesn't want their subsidised plans being used outside of CC, which would imply that the money their making off it isn't enough, a Claude Code use-cases also differ somewhat from general API use, where the former
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by Majromax 7mo ago
As far as the timezone file is concerned, it's two changes but one shift. This is covered more fully in the complete news blob rather than the snippet shown at the top. Today, British Columbia moved from Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)
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by Majromax 7mo ago
> “Changing the equation” by boldly breaking the law. Is it? I think the law is truly undeveloped when it comes to language models and their output. As a purely human example, suppose I once long ago read through the source code of GCC.
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by Majromax 7mo ago
En-dashes, set off with spaces, are an acceptable substitute for unspaced em-dashes in some style guides. See for example this Canadian government guide: https://nos-langues.canada.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/en-dash
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by Majromax 8mo ago
Prompting all the way down? Have the AI create tests that document existing, known-good behaviours, then refactor while ensuring those tests pass.
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by Majromax 8mo ago
For all of the recent talk about how Anthropic relies on heavy cache optimization for claude-code, it certainly seems like session-specific information (the exact datestamp, the pid-specific temporary directory for memory storage) enters aw
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> Have we not learned anything about technical debt and how it bites back hard? I think LLMs are changing the nature of technical debt in weird ways, with trends that are hard to predict. I've found LLMs surprisingly useful in &#x2
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by Majromax 8mo ago
Thinking happens in latent space, but the thinking trace is then the projection of that thinking onto tokens. Since autoregressive generation involves sampling a specific token and continuing the process, that sampling step is lossy. Howev
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> I really hate that the anthropomorphizing of these systems has successfully taken hold in people's brains. Asking it why it did something is completely useless because you aren't interrogating a person with a memory or a rati
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> Several times in my high school shop class kids shorted out 9V batteries trying to build circuits because they didn't understand how electronics work. At no point did our teacher stop them from doing so Yes, and that's okay b
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> I don't really have a solution. The trick is to be the Oracle of Delphi, not Cassandra. Make the prediction once , with politeness and humility, and preferably in enough company that your opinion is noted even if (when) it is ove
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> And receiving a formal warning is an extremely serious signal. To be nitpicky, the article doesn't say 'formal warning,' just 'warning.' That could have been anything from a gentle let-down to a reprimand. Tha
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process. Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine. Additionally,
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> I know this is an anecdote, but try to break down the problem you have in simpler terms and it may work. This is an expected outcome of how LLMs handle large problems. One of the "scaling" results is that the probability of
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by Majromax 8mo ago
> GPUs dying during training runs was a major engineering problem that had to be tackled to build LLMs. The scale there is a little bit different. If you're training an LLM with 10,000 tightly-coupled GPUs where one failure could

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