TomatoCo

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by TomatoCo 10mo ago
I wonder how it relates to the health warnings on tobacco products?
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by TomatoCo 10mo ago
To continue the carpenter analogy, the issue with LLMs is that the shelf looks great but is structurally unsound. That it looks good on surface inspection makes it harder to tell that the person making it had no idea what they're doing
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by TomatoCo 11mo ago
If mathematicians aren't occasionally saying something that's obviously wrong to a 300-level student, are they really pushing the envelope? I'm just a programmer, but I find that my, and my coworkers, biggest insights always
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by TomatoCo 11mo ago
Half Life 2 recently got a dev commentary track where Valve reflected on their decisions from 20 years ago. One of the things that stuck out to me was that, apparently, Valve called up Microsoft and said "Hey, what percentage of deskto
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by TomatoCo 11mo ago
LLM performance depends on doing a lot of math on a lot of different numbers. For example, if your model has 8 billion parameters, and each parameter is one byte, then for 256gb/s you can't do better than 32 tokens per second. So
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by TomatoCo 1y ago
Looks like the first digit of each part of the date was incremented by 1. I think it's meant to say 1025-10-19.
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by TomatoCo 1y ago
I think you could make your fair-use defense a lot stronger by stripping the ROM. Shouldn't even be that hard! Only let it run for a few seconds, record all the memory accesses, zero everything that wasn't hit.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
You'll be thrilled to hear what they're doing with higher wattage USB-C cables, then! https://www.startech.com/en-eu/cables/s2cepr2m-usbsl-cable
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
I'm imagining a text-to-speech model that only speaks in the Transatlantic Accent
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
> I don't think we'll ever have a zero-crime society, neither should we aim to be one. This reminded me of https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
If you can't make your own protons store bought is okay.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
There's a lovely youtube historian, Drachinifel who covered this https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eQ5Ru7Zu_1I
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
A cop telling you it's okay to do something, and then getting arrested for it, might be one of the only times you can correctly claim entrapment.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Ah, I think I wasn't clear enough and you misinterpreted me! I'm absolutely not suggesting an LLM for solving the "describe to aliens what our system looks like" problem or doing the assessment of our description. I was
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Once more extrasolar surveys are done it would be cool to see how unique we are. If something (possibly LLM based) could rate your description and see how many systems you'd have to visit to find Earth again. "Eight major planets,
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
> She realized how important it was to track the state of variables as they changed, introducing a notation to illustrate those changes. The thing that really stuck out to me was how similar it was to static single assignment. https:&#x
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
This thought reminds me a lot of the Tesla unit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit) It goes from 3.2 x 10^-5 to 1200 fairly gradually and then suddenly to 10^9. My partner at the time looked at this and remarke
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Maybe it's worthless because it's all already been scraped?
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
No, I don't really write C. I was remarking on something I saw once and I wanted to share it because the original article mentions trigraphs.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
I think my favorite C trigraph was something like do_action() ??!??! handle_error() It almost looks like special error handling syntax but still remains satisfying once you realize it's an || logical-or statement and it's u
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
It's amazing what you can do with just gears, cams, and levers. Project-Rho provides a quick survey of mechanisms. https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#...
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Well, would the anecdote work if you bumped it back a few centuries and swapped trains for ships?
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Obviously the remote code could send the data to whatever three letter agency the operator wants, so the remote operator need to publish the server's code. But how do you prove that the remote operator is running the code they claim th
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
But sometimes you want to be a massive beacon! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-160_MALD
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
You're talking about a secure hardware element to ensure that the algorithm can't be exfiltrated and the dates brute forced against it. If you have a secure element that knows what time it really is, so you can't lie to it, j
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
> a modern processor is very resilient against losing its functional blocks during operation I'm very curious, can you elaborate on that?
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
With how modern video codecs use data from previous frames you could make a not-entirely-specious argument that we already have a tool that can do this and it's called ffmpeg.
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
Basically, any impact with a drone will disable it. The trick is actually hitting it. So you either need volume of fire (which implies a buttload of small rounds), precision (which might imply lower mechanical or sensor reliability) or prox
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
That'd go against the (implicit?) idea of your message being viewed by the literal next person but I like where you're thinking. If it were upfront about there being two queues, one for a sentence or less and the other for great
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by TomatoCo 2y ago
It's not exactly what you're looking for but one of the big three contenders in the AI space (after OpenAI and Anthropic) is Mistral, based in France.

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