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by astrange 10mo ago
One thing I've always wondered about is why crazy people are always fixated on quantum physics and then vague musical terms like "resonances". LLMs do the same thing when they develop psychosis* except GPT also starts talking
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by astrange 10mo ago
That is ispc. You don't want "vectorization" though, you either want a) a code generation tool that generates exactly the platform-specific code you want and can't silently fail. b) at least a fundamentally vectorized la
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by astrange 10mo ago
Basque and Pirahā are the good ones.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Ah, so what you're doing here is confusing "caring" with "borderline personality disorder". This is also why men like dating crazy girls. It's not actually a good relationship or management style. (To balance t
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by astrange 10mo ago
Yeah and they suck at it. They keep having to cancel entire features like MPX! But to do this, Intel CPUs have updatable microcode, which is a feature that comes at a cost and which not all CPUs have.
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by astrange 10mo ago
How much care do you think it takes to design a CPU correctly? Remember, you can't patch out any bugs in it.
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by astrange 10mo ago
There are many performance engineering jobs open at Apple if you would like to search the careers page.
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by astrange 10mo ago
MS doesn't want your data in the first place. Nobody cares about or wants your data. You are not special.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Intel designed a super high threaded CPU like that, Knightsbridge. It was useless. Single threaded programs are good.
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by astrange 10mo ago
That's a comparison to "CoT via prompting of chat models", not "CoT via training reasoning models with RLVR", so it may not apply.
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by astrange 10mo ago
What I meant is more like, if you write tests for something you know it works, and if you don't write tests you don't know that.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Hm? 5.1 Thinking is much better than 4o or o3. Just don't use the instant model.
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by astrange 10mo ago
If they trained the model to respond to that, then it can respond to that, otherwise it can't necessarily.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Oh yeah, GNN (graph neural network) is the common term, "graph attention network" is pretty confusing because a GAN is a totally different architecture. (Well, not necessarily architecture. Training method?)
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by astrange 10mo ago
> I think LLMs are GANs. They aren't, but both of them are transformer models. nb GAN usually means something else (Generative Adversarial Network).
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by astrange 10mo ago
"gen" stands for "generative". If you read the GenCast paper they call it a generative AI - IIRC it's an autoregressive GNN plus a diffusion model. Which is surprising to me because I didn't think it would work
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by astrange 10mo ago
No, you don't need usage analytics for Siri. (You need it for music to fulfill your contracts with the artists though.)
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by astrange 10mo ago
That is a government using a court order to get access to something?
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by astrange 10mo ago
A smaller company is even less able to deal with fraud. You wouldn't have the product at all.
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by astrange 10mo ago
"Harvesting user data" doesn't make money. The reason people think this is that on HN people have main character syndrome that makes them think their personal data is interesting, plus an assumption that making money is evil
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by astrange 10mo ago
ChatGPT has personalization settings that you can use to set part of the system prompt. Other chatbots usually have this too. How much they follow it depends. Sometimes they know you wrote it and sometimes they don't. Claude in particu
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by astrange 10mo ago
Compiler theory a) doesn't seem to have much to do with production compilers b) is unnecessarily heavyweight and scary about everything. In particular, it makes parsing everything look like a huge difficult problem. This is my main pro
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by astrange 10mo ago
Japan doesn't do that. Those part time jobs don't pay very well. There's just much lower overhead to having them, you don't have to own a car or a giant house to be in commute range etc.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Incredibly cheaper batteries and solar panels. Much better induction stoves.
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by astrange 10mo ago
The "business" doesn't care about this, but individual employees care about their job duties, not their business. And some of them do have a job duty where they care about this. (i.e. this cynical complaint is exactly the opp
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by astrange 10mo ago
We are hiring juniors again now and haven't in the last few years.
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by astrange 10mo ago
It's a joke about one of his old fits. https://x.com/coldhealing/status/1747270233306644560
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by astrange 10mo ago
It's pretty common for infographics to be wrong. The people making them aren't the same people who know the facts. I'd especially say like 100% of amateur political infographics/memes are wrong. ("climate change is
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by astrange 10mo ago
That doesn't work, they beat it so hard into ChatGPT it won't always listen to you about it. You can't stop it from doing the "if you like I can <three different dumb followup ideas>" thing in every reply eith
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by astrange 10mo ago
> He said they have no idea how to make money, that they’ll achieve AGI then ask it how to profit Seems reasonable to me. If it can't answer that it doesn't work well enough.

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