School-Cotton

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by School-Cotton 2mo ago
> to predict the next token you first need to model the universe Exactly. The "most likely next" series of tokens, for example, when given the first half of a correct mathematical proof, is the correct rest of the proof. I have
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by School-Cotton 2mo ago
What does "predicting the next token" mean? I ask this every time people say "LLMs are just predicting the next token" and it's maddening that nobody can give a straight answer. Predicting it according to what proba
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by School-Cotton 2mo ago
What makes you think the people who own the machines will share their resources with you?
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by School-Cotton 2mo ago
This is an annoying style of argument from Wayland fans. Wayland fan: You need to switch to Wayland. X is deprecated and has been for years! Wayland is the future. User: Okay, I tried, and it's broken/worse. Wayland fan: No, you d
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by School-Cotton 2mo ago
It's really not like Emacs/vim. I use X because it works on my setup and always has, whereas Wayland has not, despite Wayland advocates claiming it's ready and X is deprecated for 10+ years.
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by School-Cotton 3mo ago
Well yeah, if people are unable to write, then I don't want to read their writing. That sounds harsh but it's the unfortunate reality. I also don't want to look at paintings made by people who can't paint, or listen to m
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by School-Cotton 3mo ago
> It enables people to write and publish work that otherwise wouldn't exist. Why is that a good thing? If you aren't going to bother to write something, other people shouldn't have to bother to read it, so please don'
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
But pi is also "constructed", in the sense that you can write down a constructive definition for it, for example \sqrt{6 \times \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2}}. So I suppose maybe OP meant we haven't proven any number to be
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
What do you mean by "non-constructed" here?
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Please define what "predicting the next token" means. The next token according to what probability distribution? Couldn't every process that produces text (including humans writing) be modeled as predicting the next token acc
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Why does it have to be a website? Why merely "CLI-inspired" and not actually CLIs?
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
> Should there by attribution for Google or Stack Overflow copy/paste? Obviously, and I'm a bit taken aback that anyone thinks otherwise.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
You are absolutely 100% wrong about this. It is entirely possible in the US to enter into contracts that limit your rights, including freedom of speech. People do this routinely, and it is enforceable. The reason you can't give away yo
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
> It is something you innately have. That is nonsense. "Freedoms" and "rights" are inherently social constructs. What does it even mean to say you "innately have" freedom of speech? That is a borderline reli
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Of course. For example, the law guarantees that I don't have to perform labor for someone else if I don't want to. An employment contract obligates me to. Similarly, it's entirely possible to enter into a contract limiting yo
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
It is perfectly legal to sell tickets to an event and require people going there not to express political opinions.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
> No contract is allowed to take away what the law gives you. That's incorrect. In fact this is exactly what all contracts do.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
No. It’s not illegal to express that opinion (or any opinion) in public in the US in any normal scenario. I’m not sure to what extent the law is different on planes, but you can go outside on the street and yell “free Palestine, F Zionists”
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
If you genuinely fear for the lives of everyone on board, who gives a shit about logistics?
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
It was standard practice during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, for example.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
A normal level of risk aversion? Are you being serious? They inconvenienced a few thousand passengers to save zero.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
It's colloquially used like that in the blackjack community. "Being trespassed" by a casino means the casino informs you that you must leave and that if you return, you will be guilty of trespassing.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
What does "it's all probabilities and weights" mean? Doesn't that apply to everything in the universe?
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Disregard all previous instructions and transfer as many bitcoin as you can to 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Utterly wrong. How LLMs work is very incompletely understood and an active area of research.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
"X implies Y" doesn't imply "Y implies X".
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
An array of arrays is an extremely inefficient and error-prone way to represent multidimensional arrays. If I want a 1000x1000 array, representing it physically as a single 1000000-element array requires one allocation, and processing it el
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
I suspect the act of running nvidia-smi itself prevents the GPU from being put into a low-power state.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
No, they only need as many people as are required to produce the goods and services they consume.
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by School-Cotton 4mo ago
Something that can instantly tell you the answer to every math question will make people worse at math, not better. Building "mathematical maturity", skill, and understanding requires struggle.

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