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Anomalous tokens: a mysterious failure mode for GPT(lesswrong.com)
18 points by cimi_ 4y ago|1 comments
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by cimi_ 4y ago
The article's original title is 'SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)', I used the tl;dr.
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by cimi_ 4y ago
Since you're here, care to reply to the article? I'm curious how you are planning to validate that this works and doesn't have negative side-effects. > That’s in part because it’s highly controversial. Little is known abou
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by cimi_ 4y ago
The article says 1500 in Europe, I read your message to mean 'in England'.
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by cimi_ 4y ago
I first thought you're right and the joke is not ok - but it's not a joke: https://archive.ph/Afnyl How is it sexism if it's true? Or should people not bring this up because she's a woman? I think the pr
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by cimi_ 4y ago
The article you linked says: > Hammond was right, of course, on his primary counts, as well: the temperature topped 40 degrees at London’s Heathrow airport and over 1,500 people died across Europe as a result of the heat wave. There was
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by cimi_ 4y ago
These are the same people that are selling 'unbankrupt yourself' t-shirts after going bankrupt. See this (entertaining) video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTwzM0_PjPw
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by cimi_ 4y ago
Brian Cox was mentioned in one of the replies, but without any context so I'll add some here. The stories he tells are beautifully constructed and he addresses fundamental questions like why are we here? Why is the universe the way it
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by cimi_ 4y ago
There are tools that help with visualising requests between services, provided the information is augmented with some extra observability data. Most APM/distributed tracing products have ways of visualising distributed traces so we can
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by cimi_ 5y ago
We have a multi-project gradle build, all our code is in Kotlin, we use micronaut as our base framework and we use IntelliJ as our IDE - this setup has worked great for us over the past year.
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by cimi_ 5y ago
Do you genuinely think these banners help with anything?
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by cimi_ 5y ago
You're of course free to do whatever you think makes sense, but please don't expect other people to follow. The world is full of risks, but everything is a tradeoff - it's really bad if we start thinking random people are a d
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by cimi_ 5y ago
Assuming what you're saying is correct (I don't know), what other effects does spraying disinfectants everywhere have? I would be very surprised if doing this is a good idea, even if it kills covid and/or flu.
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by cimi_ 6y ago
Through severe restrictions on travel, people coming in the country and invasion of privacy. I know Australian people in Europe who haven't been able to visit home in a year. I know second-hand that in China if you had multi-stop fligh
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Denmark to cull up to 17M mink amid coronavirus fears(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by cimi_ 6y ago|0 comments
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by cimi_ 6y ago
CyberChef[0] has a 'magic' decoder that tries out different encodings for you. [0] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Magic(3,false,false...
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by cimi_ 7y ago
I fully agree with this. Education is evolving and people come to the industry much better prepared compared to a few years go. I feel the problems haven't changed much and it's normal to see people with less experience be more pr
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by cimi_ 8y ago
> They have some amount of Rails, and JavaScript has to be there, but if you want to experiment with, say, Go, Kotlin, or anything else, you are going to get nothing but push back. I missed this - starting 2018 we were writing all our ba
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by cimi_ 8y ago
Context: I spent five years as an engineer at Amazon, the last two as a tech lead on an internal developer tool (think SaaS for performance engineering). This article is not untrue but it misses the fact that teams are empowered to own thei
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by cimi_ 8y ago
Monzo has had a banking license from the PRA and FCA in the UK since April 2017: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/07/is-monzo-a-bank/ Revolut has been licensed in Lithuania in December 2018: https:&#
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by cimi_ 8y ago
Audit seems to be checking the formula code not the source of the download? https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage > Check formula for Homebrew coding style violations. This should be run before submitting a new formula. Will exit
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by cimi_ 8y ago
I enjoyed going through The Book of Shaders[1] by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo. It comes with an interactive programming environment that's great if you're just getting started. It's free but please consider donating if you find it
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by cimi_ 8y ago
If you like the music, I recommend one of Max's AV shows, they are spectacular. Here's one of them: https://www.aether.live His latest album is different musically from Emergence but it has a central narrative, this ti
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by cimi_ 8y ago
The Art of Visualising Software Architecture by Simon Brown is an interesting presentation on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcmU-OE452k He references this other talk by Adam Tornhill on a similar topic: https
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by cimi_ 8y ago
I understand the point you are trying to make, and maybe I am too pessimistic when thinking that the negative outcomes are more likely to happen on large scale than the positive ones. I think 'who holds the power?' is a good lens
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by cimi_ 8y ago
Setting who wants to do this aside in order to avoid the constant 'X is worse than Y' arguments. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that in a near future we will have cameras that can do much more than identificat
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by cimi_ 8y ago
Thanks, this makes sense. If you think of this in terms of distraction, it's huge.
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by cimi_ 8y ago
From the the linked post in the article ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-overestimated-key-vide... ): > Ad buying agency Publicis Media was told by Facebook that the earlier counting method likely overestimated
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by cimi_ 8y ago
From the linked FB post ( https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric... ): > This error should not stand in the way of our ultimate goal, which is to do what’s in the best interest of our partne
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by cimi_ 8y ago
> But there’s another trick a bad BMC can do — it can simply read and write main memory once the machine is booted. Doesn't ASLR[0] mitigate this? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza

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