SgtBastard

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by SgtBastard 5d ago
Just leak them to the inference providers, obviously /s If you have self hosted models and/or self hosted APIs, maybe you don’t need MCP to provide a gateway to a secure resource. If neither of those things are true, you need an
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by SgtBastard 5d ago
I always have a Mandela-effect moment about the Dropbox and iPod dismissive comments with Hackernews and Slashdot respectively. God I’ old
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by SgtBastard 1mo ago
I asked the original commenter to confirm my understanding of what they were saying. I find it a fascinating alternative view to what is largely well understood (your counter-point). The thing that stood out is the comment that it’s an appr
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by SgtBastard 2mo ago
> A lot of people seem to think of the training process as curve-fitting data (the "stochastic parrot" model), but I think of it more as "solving an inverse problem to approximate the unknown source that generated the trai
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by SgtBastard 3mo ago
You may be discounting the tokens generated in the thinking trace but not included in the output to users.
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by SgtBastard 3mo ago
The “problem” is exactly as you’ve framed it: individual 1-1 tutoring unambiguously improves education outcomes by a significant (2 StDev’s in Blooms study) vs any other understood method but delivering this universally is (was?) infeasible
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by SgtBastard 3mo ago
Thank you for this and for parent’s comment - I know what rabbit hole I’m going down today.
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by SgtBastard 4mo ago
Mistral in the EU, for one.
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by SgtBastard 5mo ago
Mistral (a French company) shouldn’t be discounted.
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by SgtBastard 6mo ago
What makes you think 1-2, 6-8 can’t be done by agents?
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by SgtBastard 6mo ago
Yes - itself.
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by SgtBastard 7mo ago
Friend, I bet those folks living rural West Virginia are super happy that, on average, a group whose only shared characteristics is the colour of their skin are enjoying an elevated position in western society. Super happy. All racism is gr
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by SgtBastard 7mo ago
How do you feel about your current levels of dakka? </40k>
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by SgtBastard 7mo ago
Are you ok there? SAML, OIDC and a depressingly long tail of Kerberos is how modern enterprise identity security works.
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
We have multiple threads of research demonstrating in-context learning, friend. https://github.com/dqxiu/ICL_PaperList
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
This thread is about coding agents , of which a model is only one (important) part.
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
Fancy while() loops is how I describe them.
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day. Not doing so while senior manag
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
Only if you’re relying upon the models to recall facts from its training set - intuitively, at sufficient complexity, models ability to reason is what is critical and can have its answers kept up to date with RAG. Unless you mean out of dat
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by SgtBastard 8mo ago
Guilds of Knowledge hoarders and AI adepts are my bet as well.
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by SgtBastard 9mo ago
Thank you, I learnt a new term today.
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by SgtBastard 9mo ago
… the internet was not immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person. Even if you skip ARPAnet, you’re forgetting the Gopher days and even if you jump straight to WWW+email==the internet, you’re forgetting the mosai
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by SgtBastard 1y ago
Nitpick: Language is technology, it’s not something we’re genetically born with and is critical for education to happen.
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by SgtBastard 1y ago
Technically you are correct but the commenter you’re responding to means that with the amount of Western Governments spend on MS products and services, the are a d facto (if not de jure) state backed enterprise.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
Only if you profoundly misunderstand what GC is.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
Ping Identity run the largest enterprise identity platforms on the planet after merging with ForgeRock last year. Think HSBC, JP Morgan Chase-scale.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
>Humas learn dynamically In-context learning (Few Shot Prompting) is absolutely demonstrable by LLMs since GPT 3.5 at least.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
> In most rent controlled systems there is a per sqm pre-allowed rent. Those markets are frequently characterised by poorly maintained rental stock. >Don’t you have a moral obligation No.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
> In most rent controlled systems there is a per sqm pre-allowed rent. Those markets are frequently characterised by poorly maintained rental stock. >Don’t you have a moral obligation No.
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by SgtBastard 2y ago
So if someone inherits a fully paid off house, they are only allowed to rent it for a fraction of the rent allowed for the mortgaged, identical property next door? If a landlord wins the lottery, are they forced to lower the rent if they pa

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