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by baq 2mo ago
Performance per dollar is in the ‘too good to be true’ territory, what’s the deal here?
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by baq 2mo ago
LLMs should be unreasonably good at exactly this kind of writing because they’re good translators; regardless in practice it works well to deslopify their writing, been using this in all my prompting in the last week or so, haven’t seen a s
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by baq 2mo ago
I use sonnet as a smart grep and haiku never and that’s only when I have to use Anthropic at all
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by baq 2mo ago
Been having LLMs make TLA+ models since the winter and it does work wonders for complex stuff, I guess for the same reason it works for humans: the process of building the model helps when designing the code even if the model is thrown away
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by baq 2mo ago
Repercussions is a polite way of putting it. …as is your ‘a little concerning’ comment about the eval infra. It probably didn’t occur to them that they have something capable of doing what it did - despite Anthropic writing a very similar s
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by baq 2mo ago
waiting for W^X reinvented, renamed and marketed for the Agentic Era (r)TM
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by baq 2mo ago
from a practical point of view the point doesn't have any value, assuming it's even true; it'll take some convincing
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by baq 2mo ago
Interesting, I can see where you're coming from. Key detail is the notes are actually not supposed to be read later, just written down - the act of writing by hand helps to commit their content to memory.
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by baq 2mo ago
'I know this is true' is different than 'This is true' is different than 'It is impossible to say if it's true or false' is different than 'I've no idea', right?
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by baq 2mo ago
The idea is that focus and actually working all of your hand instead of just fingers helps learning the material more efficiently even if your own perception of it does not agree.
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by baq 2mo ago
Slow is half the point though! Memory has a very limited bandwidth. The other half: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/345 and a plethora of others.
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by baq 2mo ago
Title is a bit clickbaitish, but the content is well worth reading - came in with my pitchfork ready and left agreeing with basically all of it, with questions like ‘what if the probe could return 3 dimensions: truthfulness, knowledge confi
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by baq 2mo ago
I hope they’re planning to build hardware so the learning experience can be close to pen and paper. Keyboards and screens are a distraction and the brain learns better with a pencil than with a keyboard.
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by baq 2mo ago
I wonder sometimes how the world would look like if lisp won and the unit of deployment was a lisp machine image, if that makes sense. How would a kubernetes optimized for lisp look like? How would AWS EC2 look like? etc.
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by baq 2mo ago
as is practically all of transformer maths if you squint hard enough...
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by baq 2mo ago
It's different since there was no single physical person who executed the hack or even asked for it. Intent is the difference between manslaughter and murder and we couldn't technically in any reasonable way commit an accidental h
107.
by baq 2mo ago
I don’t see how it can’t be both. Yes, it is a felony, unarguably, but it’s also a first of its kind and I’ll be very interested in who law enforcement prosecutes and what the judiciary says about this. Almost everything is a precedent here
108.
by baq 2mo ago
Why? This is a very narrow task, it’d be surprising if the results were different actually; more interesting question would be how an even smaller model performs in the same finetune.
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by baq 2mo ago
That’s exactly how you get a good price though
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by baq 3mo ago
After two decades of using git I'm either telling LLMs to do rebases for me or use jj (or both). Life's too short.
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by baq 3mo ago
adjacent surface seam
112.
by baq 3mo ago
Only that one? Not belt-and-suspenders enough
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by baq 3mo ago
Have you been patching your systems for the past two months? It was crazy even if you completely forget the supply chain literal FUBARs and you must’ve been living under a rock to not see OpenAI (accidentally) pwning hugging face
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by baq 3mo ago
Won’t get a red dot until they pour molten lava over it.
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by baq 3mo ago
Only if you have a tiny screen. You can make them output what you would've written yourself, but that would be slower than writing it yourself, so no one does that - but it’s trivially true.
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by baq 3mo ago
'a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money' ...but this is a private(ish) business, it doesn't have a printer in the back yard, a billion is a lot no matter how you look at it, especially if
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by baq 3mo ago
That’s probably not interesting anymore, but 5.6 wasn’t able to name the conjecture when presented the notation only, but confirmed the proof and when told what it was, agreed it works. Much less psychosis than when given the Jacobian count
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by baq 3mo ago
Interesting question and I don’t share your pessimism. Feels like it’s a matter of some plain old Bayesian stats, almost a homework assignment given all experimental data is available and known.
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by baq 3mo ago
Both fable and sol are confidently wrong all the time in their most cherished domain - software engineering - I can’t quote anything because they’re working on my employer’s code bases. They’re much less wrong than their predecessors and th
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by baq 3mo ago
and the Chinese distilled western cars for years and years before that and weren't shy about it.

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