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by clauderoux 2y ago
This is the same problem that I have with creationists, when they say that life cannot emerge from "rocks". Still, we are a walking bag of electrico-chemical reactions based on the same basic minerals that are found everywhere on
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by clauderoux 2y ago
Mazda is pretty great actually. I have a CX30 (3 years), where the screen is not sensitive and everything is controlled with mechanical buttons... The best of both worlds...
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by clauderoux 2y ago
As long as the US has H1B visas, everything will be fine...
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I find the narrative that Chinese researchers are stealing AI technology from the US very weird indeed. I have been working in AI for more than 30 years and in the last 15 years almost every major paper on the topic has had at least one Chi
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by clauderoux 2y ago
Putain!!! So many memories. I started with an Australian clone of a TR80 with 16kb of memory (15772 bytes) and a tape reader to record my programs. I even implemented some basic routines for the Z80 processor that I would translate into byt
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I live in the French Alps and many of my friends are ardent trailers. Most of them are beyond 50 and they still do 160km trails regurlaly.
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I reached 60 this year... So please give me a break with this idea that you are old at 60 in 2024. My mind is as sharp as it was 20 years ago... I have decided to train myself on LLMs after years of research in computational linguistics, th
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by clauderoux 2y ago
Actually, Bande Dessinée means: Comic Strip
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I fully disagree with many of the comments I read so far. This is my experience from France, but I guess it was quite similar in most countries. Every time a scientist would be invited to a debate about the status of research, the journalis
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by clauderoux 2y ago
As a French speaker, what is quite surprising is how close the use of "fuck" mirrors the use of "foutre" in French. However, in French, the word has become pretty weak as an expletive. Nobody would be shocked if you say:
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by clauderoux 2y ago
The exceptions are usually due to words that were borrowed from other languages and hence do not follow French rules. Many of the words that were mentioned here are borrowed from the Occitan language.
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by clauderoux 2y ago
Sam Altman looks more and more like Lex Luthor in the last Superman franchise... He is not releasing any kind of alien creature on the world, of course... Wait...
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I don't buy it, unless there is something that I missed. But for this concept to work you need some initial energy to break down the water molecules, then the output of your power cell should be large enough to power your car and break
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by clauderoux 2y ago
There is a whole economy that depends on people working 5 days a week, such as hospitality. Furthermore, as someone who is now 60, I can tell you how disastrous for the health it is when you have to work also during week ends. As you can ne
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by clauderoux 2y ago
As far as I can remember I've always been sick in cars, when I'm not driving. When I first tried my Q3 headset, I couldn't stand it for more than 10mn in a row. The trick I discovered works for me, but I wouldn't bet on
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by clauderoux 2y ago
The technology has been around for about one year now. For people who have been working in the field for as long as I have (> 30 years), the output is absolutely incredible. Really incredible... However, for the vast armies of academics
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I'm always surprise by this kind of article or comments of people who don't know anything of how LLMs work or what they can do. The problem is that it requires, as it is the case for most tools, some learning curve. Prompting is n
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by clauderoux 2y ago
I read the article and I found it quite lacking. Why on Earth would you force your LLM to translate sentence by sentence? It ruins the whole interest of LLM, which is to use large contexts to drive your generation. I used Deepl a lot in the
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by clauderoux 2y ago
Also as a matter of technology, using "if" to get out of loops is bad with modern processors and their internal predictive algos. My solution for a long time was to add the test within the "for" itself, but it is often c
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by clauderoux 2y ago
@OskarS I agree with you... In fact, I have been avoiding gotos as a matter of principle for years and now reading the different discussions, I think I was misled. This case is very, very common. You have 3 intertwined loops and you want to
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by clauderoux 3y ago
Gary Marcus tries to exit his personal hole of irrelevance. I have been working in the fielf of computational linguistics for 30 years. Back in 2000, I worked with a team of linguists to implement a pretty refined syntactic parser (XIP) bas
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by clauderoux 3y ago
His name basically means: apple trees in French... You can't escape your fate...
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by clauderoux 3y ago
In French, we use the expression: "Sortie de route" (going off the road) when someone says something awkward or terribly wrong. Basically, the real meaning of this expression is that you lost the control of your car and went off r
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by clauderoux 3y ago
You are kidding right. Taking a raw text file and detecting every single header, sub-headers, keywords and pieces of code to add the right markdown tags is a simple task to you? Have you ever tried to make a Python program to do exactly tha
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by clauderoux 3y ago
Recently I had to share a documentation written in Word, which I had to format in Markdown to put it on Github. I transformed my document into a text file for each chapter and then I asked chatGPT to transform each of these files into a Mar
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by clauderoux 3y ago
AI today is in a weird position. What I can do today with AI was _inimaginable_ just 1 year ago. However, for a lot of people, the concept has worn out so fast, that they don't realize anymore what has happened... Some very intelligent
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by clauderoux 3y ago
Lately, I had a manual written in Word that needed to be stored on Github for easier access and translated into different languages. What I did was to extract each chapter as a raw text file and then asked Chat to convert it to Markdown. No
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by clauderoux 3y ago
Among European languages, English is maybe the language with the less consistency, when it comes to writing, but it is far from being the only one. French is another one, and English borrowed not only a lot of French words, but a lot of the
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by clauderoux 4y ago
Language models have been around for a very long time. However, they were much smaller than today and were mainly used to check the fluency of a text, basically if a text was a problable text in English or in French for instance. These mode
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by clauderoux 4y ago
Gary Marcus has been incredibly vocal against LLM for quite a while now. The problem is that the guy does not understand that modern LLM are no longer just classifiers, as the article seems to imply. The underlying transformer architecture

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