PheonixPharts

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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
Cocoa is having an even more dramatic rise in price[0], blasting through record highs right now, likewise related, primarily, to climate change. 0. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
What kind of organization culture do you have where someone leaving after two years causes an "amount of pain" and you have to spend considerable resources on-boarding new hires? That sounds like a deeper problem to me. I tend to
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> I’m in a mild panic about my future career despite knowing I’m capable. I may end up using my CPA to switch back into accounting for the time being Having started my career in the shadow of the dotcom bust, I can say that this is exa
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I'm guessing your career started during the asset bubble (that we're arguably still in)? Historically speaking, just because you "solved the problems" doesn't mean you "get the job". When I first started w
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
What's wild to me is that anyone could read chapter 4 and not look up the original papers in disbelief. Long before the controversy was public I was reading that book and, despite claims that the reader must believe the findings, i
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
While GPUs are still the kings of speed, if you are worried about VRAM I do recommend a maxed out Mac Studio. Llama.cpp + quantized models on Apple Silicon is an incredible experience, and having 192 GB of unified memory to work with means
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I'm not sure why this is being down voted. The classic argument in favor of taking a (potentially major) pay cut to work in academia as opposed to industry was always that academia is an environment for true learning and doing proper r
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
As someone who has used linear algebra, statistics and calculus as part of my day-to-day work for years, I would be very cautious of relying on ChatGPT as your "tutor". Occasionally I've tried to substitute ChatGPT for the
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
Given that LLMs are basically doing Sequential Monte-carlo sampling in latent space, the "thought" part of chain-of-thought certainly seems more akin to the necessary warm up period whenever you do any kind of SMC sampling. Anyone
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
Reddit IPO'd today and the purpose of this piece is to add whatever hype can be added to that IPO so that PG and other early investors can maximize their return, and then likely, slowly and carefully unload their positions into the pub
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
This is not true. The one benefit of all the AI hype is that there are many small teams of smart people getting funding. Maybe in 2-5 years they'll all get acquired or go under, but right now is some of the most fun I've had in in
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> The rest left tech for good. This is an important reality check for many people. I entered tech in 2004, during the immediate aftermath of the dotcom crash. At that time software engineers got paid well, but not insane. Additionally, e
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> The future will be agentic. Minor pet-peeve, but I can't take anyone who uses the term "agentic" seriously. Computer Science has long used the concept of an "agent" and the adjective form of such systems has be
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> NIMBYs worry that the mere existence of nearby multifamily will decrease their home value. In rare and unsympathetic cases ... that may be true. It's not rare. I've known multiple people, myself included, who have decided not
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
It's worth pointing out that on their eval set for "issues resolved" they are getting 13.86%. While visually this looks impressive compared to the others, anything that only really works 13.86% of the time, when the verificat
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I use these models every day, and have for quite awhile. More specifically the vast majority of my work on them has been evaluating their performance. While there is certainly untapped potential with this models, what we've seeing is
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> That's problematic because the entire point of an LLM Could you detail what the results of that problematic behavior are? Do you suspect structured generation performs worse than unstructured? > squishing the result into a js
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> The most obvious usage of this is forcing a model to output valid JSON Isn't this something that Outlines [0], Guidance [1] and others [2] already solved much more elegantly? 0. https://github.com/outlines-dev&#x2F
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Surely you recognized there is a context to the "no interrupting meetings" guideline. The protester felt that meeting was playing part in the support and facilitation genocide, I think that'
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
If you earnestly believe there's no important distinction between employees of a multinational corporation and a guest in your private home then I don't think there's any more possible room for discussion. I am curious though
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
This same logic can be used to justify any system of exploitive power. Companies control my ability to eat and be housed , these companies drive global politics. If the voice and ethics of the people are not allowed to influence these, t
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
The trouble is that "reasonable expectations" are set by those in power. Slave overs set "reasonable expectations" for slaves, feudal lords set "reasonable expectations" for peasants. In such a world "reas
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
But how he did it is the important part. I mean Aaron Bushnell could have written angry letters to his representatives, but he didn't. He lit himself on fire outside of the Israel embassy after declaring he would not take part in gen
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
What that means is "only status quo opinion and politics". It's implicit support of the mainstream ethos of corporate America, one which has well established it values profits over people. Management works to serve those corp
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> propaganda news outlets. Most major news outlets are still wildly pro-Israel. My and most people's opinions on the subject tend to not to drive from main stream media accounts, but research and journalistic investigations into the
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I'm confused by your logic here, the fact that all other big tech companies would do something is hardly grounds for considering an action "right" in any moral framework I know of. "Unsurprisingly so" I can get behi
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
The benchmarks are so easy to game it's not meaningful unless you see a major difference and even then it can be questionable. For example, did anyone read the Gemini paper[0]? The team details the slight modification they made to the
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket? Once you are dead, you are dead, it's the same as if you never existed in the first place. I completely fail to unders
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
It's sort of like the twist at the end of Soylent Green. The real twist isn't that "Soylent Green is people!" the twist is that you can see this with your own eyes, shout it in the street, but ultimately no one really
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I was chatting with a few Chinese crypto people the other day, and the general consensus in that community seems to be that Worldcoin basically operates as an ATM for Sam Altman. He undoubtedly owns a considerable amount, and it doesn'

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