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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> an LLM with such little data There is a mountain of data pre-1905. Certainly enough to train a decent 30B parameter model. Now, digitizing & OCRing all of that data... THAT is a challenge.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> is really just because hardware design is a niche field Which doesn't pay as well as jobs in software do, unfortunately.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> If you feed it the entire dataset before 1905, LLMs aren't going to come up with general relativity. Link?
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Similarly, "doubt" has a negative connotation in the US, but I see it often used as a synonym for "question" by Indian speakers of English.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup I downloaded a shit-ton of anime over 56k via CuteMX in 2000. I used to start the download before bed and then watch the episode the next day after school. Little 12fps postage-stamp-
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
At -4C Boston was under literally 1 mile high of ice compared to the current skyline.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Only 8% of prisoners in the US are kept in private facilities.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Entirely? No, but check this out: https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2016/Contributions/Civ... Also, remember that the 13th amendment to the US constitution retained the right for the state to use imprison
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> I have my own life ... which is not truly separate from the society in which you live. If life sucks for your countrymen, then you (not! the royal-you, I mean you: bluGill) will inevitably be stuck dealing with the consequences. Neighb
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> I am not going to read more because I don't like that she never ages. Perhaps she's just having a really, really busy few years.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> A language or a library might change the implementation of a sorting algorithm once in a few years. I think GP was referring to heuristics and PGO.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> we never made GPT-4.5 the default model in ChatGPT Just wondering: Why was it never made available via API? You can just charge whatever per token to make sure it's profitable like o1-pro. I use it via my ChatGPT-Pro subscription,
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Taken straight from The Mentor: https://phrack.org/issues/7/3
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> The god they're sacrificed to? “Technological progress" They're wannabe-Morlocks.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
Correction: I was exhausted when I wrote this. I meant: keep time on the X, express the value of the stock in question in gold on the Y.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> the idealism of open source shouldn't have survived its contact with capitalism The US economy of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s made it possible.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> And really, really boring and slow a lot of the time. It's not boring on a giant display with the original 6-track mix playing just a tad too loud all around you. I've seen it in 70mm at the AFI in Silver Spring, MD; candy fo
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
The same can be argued for Russia. Many-- myself included --believe it's the #1 reason Putin decided to invade the Ukraine as its youth are seen by the Kremlin as "Russian enough".
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> Stock markets are at 10 year peaks. Put the value of gold on the X axis instead of the USD.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> Of course it's very disruptive for people that lose their jobs, Why would the Jevons Paradox not apply here?
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> so you know all this complexity by heart? No. It's that you've built up a personal database of libraries, best-practices, idioms, et al. over decades. When you move on to a new project, this personal database comes with you.
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by acuozzo 8mo ago
> Their biggest problem[…] is demographic in nature. https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
When I wrote my reply I was not familiar with the existing climate of LLM-advice-as-a-cudgel that you describe. > to invalidate your experience on the basis of “you’re holding it wrong” This was not my intent in replying to 9rx. I was ju
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
> if what you do is surface level (and crap in my opinion) I write embedded software in C for a telecommunications research laboratory. Is this sufficiently deep for you? FWIW, I don't use LLMs for this. > But if you have any tas
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
> You build stuff, and there is so many manual steps "The real goal isn’t to write C once for a one-off project. It’s to write it for decades. To build up a personal ecosystem of practices, libraries, conventions, and tooling that c
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
I get (and got) that. My focus was specifically on: "its not clear if, approximately speaking, anyone actually has the 'money' to buy any goods now."
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
The gap for me was mapping [continuing to hoard dollars] to [giving away free goods/services], but it makes sense now. I haven't given economics thought at this level. Thank you!
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
You're experiencing throttling. Use the API instead and pay per token. You also have to treat this as outsourcing labor to a savant with a very, very short memory, so: 1. Write every prompt like a government work contract in which you&
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by acuozzo 9mo ago
Can you please dig into this more deeply or suggest somewhere in which I can read more?

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