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by adeon 2y ago
I used to be a NetHack speedrunner. Pressing the keys real fast. All of it in terminals. I had the fastest run for almost 10 years. Input lag was a thing I thought sometimes. Everything below is based on pure gut feelings because I never me
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by adeon 2y ago
I hope the article didn't make you feel bad and discourage you from writing. IMO what you are doing is not slop, and the author saying "I really do judge those who copy/paste directly from an LLN to human-space text arena&quo
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by adeon 2y ago
Wow. That was fast. I guess I'll have to check will that stick beyond a funny Google result. If down the line I actually get pieces of my "profile" as a result from some LLM, in a way that it doesn't rely on a tool (i.e.
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by adeon 2y ago
> One of my friends was impressed recently that Claude new my name and basic facts about me, because I’ve written a decent amount online which has undoubtedly been slurped up into a pretraining dataset. I don't have an online pres
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by adeon 2y ago
From the article about how LLMs will pick out who you are slowly from online bits: Write for Future AIs, a.k.a. “Claude Knows My Name” Tyler Cowen: You’re an idiot if you’re not writing for the AIs. They’re a big part of your audience, a
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by adeon 2y ago
Maybe we are the opposite. As a kid, I could only do cross-eyed-focus-in-front-of-screen, but not "focus beyond the screen". Or a book at the time. So I was able to see the 3D in Magic Eyes, but the 3D effect was inverted. Today a
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by adeon 2y ago
If 90% of students have a good experience but the 10% of students have a similar experiences to the poster there, then I still think Lambda is another ethical disaster of a start-up. "It's better than a typical USA student loan&qu
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by adeon 3y ago
If I piggyback off one of the commenters on the 11 hours ago post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868810#39869769 > I think none of these issues really matter. I think that's probably it. I.e. it's a no
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by adeon 3y ago
Ah I see, I wondered where the heck is a reply e-mail, I didn't see any reply email spelled out anywhere and didn't notice the button, I thought maybe the archive site deliberately wanted to hide the email adderesses. Kinda looks
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by adeon 3y ago
This mailing thread is quoted in the 2022 part on the page on the xz maintainer being pressured to add new maintainers for xz: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.h... Seems like the usual story
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by adeon 3y ago
I'm trying to think to myself if I was running a project and had a canary, what would be the threshold to kill the canary on a voluntary enquiry. If it was CIA and they sent me: "Please give us all information on XYZ so that we ca
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by adeon 3y ago
NetHack did this when Fandom was still called Wikia. Luckily, the new forked site won search engines over easily and nethackwiki.com easily comes on first results if you search for NetHack stuff. Unlike NetHack, the Minecraft Fandom site is
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by adeon 3y ago
Are they actually good though? (the ATS systems) I've only recently learned how important they are in general and I'm not familiar with their capabilities. I would think that even with OCR, this resume might be confusing because t
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by adeon 3y ago
The author says they've been applying to thousands of jobs. This is the resume the author is linking in the article: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v2sv6ev393z9fkk62v1hw/Paul-Fu... I wonder, if this pers
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by adeon 3y ago
Sounds like a "winning move" did not exist from the start for this poor fellow. Either your director fires you for speaking the truth or you possibly become accomplice in fraud. All you can do is cut your losses. If they go into t
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by adeon 3y ago
Mine is a Pixel 4a. The Google comment from the article was talking about Pixel 3. Both phones had the same 3 year support, so it applied to my case too. This is the article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx&
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by adeon 3y ago
After my iPhone dropped into a pool last month I commandeered and wiped a Google Pixel 4a I had used as a work phone in the past. Oopsidoopsie, it went out of support last month and no longer has guaranteed security updates. This phone was
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by adeon 3y ago
Location: SF Bay Area Remote: No preference, as long as I don't have to move away from Bay Area. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I'm a backend/SRE and low-level coder type: Python, C, Rust, Golang, Haskell, AWS, Terrafo
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by adeon 3y ago
I think not much will change in short term. I can't imagine every programming practitioner is going to switch to AI tools even if they get a lot better than they are now. There will be contrarian people making new languages and writing
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by adeon 3y ago
I have not. I have read the paper though. I do want to try it and likely will at some point. Next up after this project is that I want to test some metalearning ideas. I read some papers where the idea is that all weights are actually tinie
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by adeon 3y ago
I think I saw a paper that argued that CMA-ES is making an approximation to the natural gradient, which is not the same gradient you see in typical NN trainings. Or at least so I understood it. (I have no background in data science or ML, I
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by adeon 3y ago
I have actually attempted this recently. I took a small 10M parameter Shakespeare language model used as an example in nanoGPT, swapped out gradient descent, tested various black-box optimizers from what I could find in literature. It takes
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by adeon 3y ago
While doing some checking, here's some things I found: W4 games (accused in the post of not using $8M seed fund for Godot), does actually give money to Godot: https://fund.godotengine.org/ (they have an icon as "P
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by adeon 3y ago
I did a bit rabbit hole checking. Looks like they do donate: https://fund.godotengine.org/ (W4 games is an icon there as "Platinum Sponsor"). It doesn't say how much but given the amounts in the lower tiers i
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by adeon 3y ago
They also say: """ W4 Games is a new company created by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, and veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato. Our mission is to strengthen the open source Go
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by adeon 3y ago
If you found a company with the tagline "Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem", speak for Godot, get $8M dollars of funding, and have nothing to show for it (allegedly) for the project then I think the Godo
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by adeon 3y ago
At the start of the game at medical level, you can hear SHODAN's introduction to citadel station, without the corrupted style she has for the rest of the game. And wow it sounded really nice, crisp, modern, but still unmistakably SHODA
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by adeon 3y ago
Ugh, I wonder if they made it worse. Do you know a link where I can read what kind of things were rolled back?
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by adeon 3y ago
The old System Shock was the first 3D game I played in my life. I was a kid and could not read English and did not understand what's going but had tons of fun. I played the remake recently. I was decent, but I think it was _too_ faithf
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by adeon 3y ago
One of the footnotes mention that you can get a JSON version of a Reddit page by adding .json to the end of the URL. Sure enough I tried it and it works: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/.json TIL. I wonde

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