TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Skip the instructions part (yes, it's me again, pointing that the instructions/data part of this is a silly red herring people get hung up on). It's enough you start using shibboleth terms in key areas. Do not remark on the
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yeah, because "code/data" and "lethal trifecta" are my pet peeves this half-decade :). I don't like that we're still turning in circles as an industry, because majority seems to have a very flawed model on
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Sure they would be. But for those old models, you'd have to prompt it in a framing of a screenplay or something. You're forgetting that LLMs just output a stream of tokens - the interpreter that acts on those is a piece of class
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> "People" as a whole have not even heard about mixing instructions and data, and certainly not the reasons why it is not a good idea. Because it's not a concept in the real world. Physical reality has no such separation
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
It's neither possible nor desired, and until that fact clicks for majority of computer people, we'll be running in circles and making a mess through futile attempts at solving the problem at the wrong end.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
This is why I insist that anthropomorphising LLMs is not only not a mistake, it's a best source of high-level intuition for these systems. Long story short: on a systems diagram, LLM as a component isn't a substitute for a databas
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Code/data separation is at the heart of computer security in the same way slapstick comedy is at the heart of humor. There's an endless supply of people who think they know what is Code and what is Data, and they're always ar
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
LLMs are.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
You just did that in a HN comment, yet nothing happened :). Could it be that the whole idea is silly misunderstanding of fundamental tenets of reality in the first place?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Breaking just now: - Erroneous information left in plain sight in an externally shared document could make Copilot - or any other agentic system, including LLMs and protein-based intelligence, alter drafted or edited documents in Word (or a
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Separation of instructions and data is artificial. Reality has no such separation. A general purpose system needs not to have them either; it's a design feature, not a bug. People get too hung up on this fundamentally wrong idea, and t
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes. That's why I'm not using it. I was forced to, briefly, and first thing I did was to dig up a setting to disable this.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes. Much like our own communication. Thus is the difference between a research paper and the poem. People like the former for objectivity, the latter for beauty.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Worth remembering what the goal function behind the next token prediction is. It's what makes it go beyond moods and styles, and work with concepts of fact the same way we do.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Mathematicians, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and others. The latent space encoded in the weights of a model is itself an object of study, just as interesting as the model itself.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Not sure what you're quoting, but what the quote seems to describe is known by other names, including "intersubjectivity", and is the very thing on which all our society and civilization stands. "Family", "loya
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Windows (IE) tried to give WM visibility into tabs long ago, but this quickly revealed a problem: if tabs are now also separate windows, they enter the Alt+Tab ring, and suddenly you're Alt+Tabbing between 5 applications and dozens of
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Right. Python is excellent at waiting on things instead of actually doing things, and on the off case it does do things, most of the time it's really juggling strings around the thing instead of doing it. s/ I generally don't
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Also in Polish.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> it's no different than how you write a message, just that you don't hit backspace to go back and correct things. Yes, that. If you do that when writing to another person, you come off as blabbering, incoherent moron. Fortun
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
I do have inner monologue, and in the past, vocalizing it properly and basically talking to myself was a great focus booster. I've been socially conditioned out of doing that though, but I sometimes still do that in form of typing to
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes. Specifically, that thing on top is the "AbstractJAvaSerializerFactoryFactory over AbstractMutatorFactoryAccess over Factory; "e" is just EnterpriseBean.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Been watching the wrong sci-fi :). Star Trek had both AI modes as primary characters, in form of the ship's computer, and Data (TNG) / the Doctor (VOY). LLMs are actually great at acting as both, but I don't believe people th
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> that was cool for about 20 minutes on my pentium 1 acer computer. Hasn’t been since. Oh back in the days, i.e. 20 years ago, I had a better voice control system than anything afforded by Alexa or Apple or others, using MS Speech API
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Now, if the guy holding the skimmer had a sign with the URL on it, then we're on to something. Or a QR code. (Extra points for a hand-drawn QR code. Yes, it takes patience (or grid paper), but it's easier than it sounds.)
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Voice dictation tools? Not really. Tried various dictation tools interacting on the phone, but the quality varies, and resulting prompts are very much not like I would write them. My limiting factor is that 99% of the day I'm around pe
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Having spent a lot of time over the last months writing both refined, structured, and grammatically perfect prompts, as well as exact equivalents of the ones you quoted (modulo subject of the prompt), I have three observations: 1. I'm
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Going to guess it's more available or less overconstrained. See e.g. Fable, which is much better than Opus 4.8 and possibly than Opus 5... in the rare case of a task it doesn't punt on because of its safety guardrails.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Right, but I understood this to mean you either succeed at this job, or fail and go do something else. Succeeding or failing at individual sales isn't particularly interesting- broken down enough, every job has binary outcome subtasks.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Hypothesis: the pairing / collaboration makes it much more likely to find a fruitful road previously dismissed, because... that's what happens in fiction - including books, movies, and journalism (long-form "people stories&qu

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