SonOfLilit

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by SonOfLilit 4mo ago
Why dynamic? `NAN != NAN` is just as true in C.
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
Quantum computers help simulate the unintuitive parts of physics, not those that feel natural to humanst and therefore make sense to include in a game.
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
A decade ago I was on the front page and saw ~16k uniques/hour I think?
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
This is very much within the scope of alignment research, and is in fact the only kind of alignment research that gets a lot of resources poured into it these days (because it's urgently relevant to the bottom line of a few almost-tril
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
It's not about hacking capabilities, it's about misalignment. More like the golem myth (told it to fetch some water, drowned a city) then the gollum myth (used ring, ring hacked his brain, now he's a crazy violent meth addict
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
Why did sed have access? Oh, you mean you gave the write-file tool access only to the project dir, but gave the LLM free reign to run cli commands? Yeah, LLMs treat that as consent to write anywhere your user is allowed to.
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by SonOfLilit 5mo ago
The interesting question is what was the user request. If the user asked it to restore the thing from backup, then sure, fine, why not. If the user asked it to debug an issue and somewhere in the process of debugging the LLM decided that it
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by SonOfLilit 8mo ago
"Heck" is to "Hell" like "Darn" is to "Damn" (or "Freaking" to “F--ing") - a word that sounds similar but is more polite, to be said in public in more religious places and times.
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by SonOfLilit 9mo ago
Gotta say, I assumed this is some sort of virtual/imaginary thing, but it seems like there's a point in the optical system where if we placed a screen, we'd see the FT of the image coming in! And before we had digital image p
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by SonOfLilit 10mo ago
The hacker in me is very excited by the prospect of pypi executing code from my packages in the system that builds everyone's wheels.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
It's an argument that we don't need to understand LLMs to build them. But mostly it's just a statement of fact to promote correct understanding of our world.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Have you tried giving it basic logic that isn't in its training data? I have. gpt-3.5-instruct required a lot of prompting to keep it on track. Sonnet 4 got it in one. Terrence Tao, the most prominent mathematician alive, says he'
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Evolution took millions of years to reach the minimal thing that can read, write and solve leetcode problems, so by similar logic we're at least a few million years in...
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Oh, boy, are you in for a surprise. Our theories of how LLMs learn and work look a lot more like biology than math. Including how vague and noncommittal they are because biology is _hard_.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
This is not an Apple original design, this is standard fare in DAWs and VST plugins and has been since at least the early 00s. In the beginning of the article he talks about context menus as something that is not one GUI's but just sta
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
When I was young I peeked into the C++ stdlib, which is probably the best thing to compare this to. It was orders of magnitude worse.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Are you implicitly complaining that React is not moving fast enough? What the JS ecosystem needs is for some big players to CHILL a bit and take backwards compat more seriously.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
This used to be less true at the time Carmack said it :>
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
If you ask me to guess an answer, I'll _usually_ produce the same answer as if I had time to think about it deeply, but not always...
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Show HN: Testing Masterclass(sonoflilit.github.io)
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Mandarin Chinese: 注意 (zhùyì) - "note/record intention" Spanish: prestar atención - "lend attention" English: pay attention - "give/spend attention" Hindi: ध्यान देना (dhyaan dena) - "give
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Huh, I never placed my heart to it
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I enjoyed your words and pixels!
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
They are celebs in windows security. Mark's name is synonymous with windows internals, he wrote the definitive textbook.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
There are stableish equilibria that are not 50-50, e.g. one color having a donut around the other color that has a donut hole.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
To answer your actual question: The codebases I learned from the most are Git, Postgres, CPython. Not saying they are perfect designs, but they are well maintained, solve hard problems, have seen many years of evolution, and are very easy t
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Registering your trademark makes enforcement easier, but there's a reason both TM and R exist - unregistered trademarks still hold power.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Consider rock climbing
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
My brain is screaming that there has to be a solution in <1kb uncompressed (for the non-strict version). Maybe generating a minimal list of regexes that classifies 100% of names correctly? Maybe a big enough bloom filter? Maybe like a bl
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I really don't like the use of the word memory here, even in quotes. AlphaGo has a much better "understanding" of Go positions than mine (7k).

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