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by dahart 3mo ago
True for today’s static models during inference. Not true for self-supervised learning, not true during training or fine-tuning, of course. Ignores that LLMs might start continuous training in the future - there’s no fundamental or technica
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by dahart 3mo ago
> Because this entire discussion is about the release of a new model Right. The sentence you quoted was about brevity improving with a new model . It did not suggest the model itself improving. I’m confused why you’re stuck on this ta
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by dahart 3mo ago
Why did you drop the first half of the sentence in your quote? The qualification there is important context for the part you did quote. And why are you talking about “better” within a model, when the sentence you quoted was talking about 5.
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by dahart 3mo ago
> A very insightful, and correct, piece. I agree, or at least it feels insightful and right, though I can’t personally validate if it’s correct. But the big question I have is who is this written for, and what do they want to see happe
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by dahart 3mo ago
> COLOR is not Huh? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/color
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by dahart 3mo ago
> I failed on ‘target’ because I went for ‘regatta’. Given that those two don’t have the same letters, isn’t that the expected outcome?
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by dahart 3mo ago
All that, and it’s still better than just reading the book on your own. :P Be thankful when you get the 25 year old PhD students & post-docs. They care more about teaching and remember learning the material recently and are more willi
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by dahart 3mo ago
I tend to be amused that the complaints about what’s on the front page don’t seem to grasp the irony of complaining to the group of people that voted it there.
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by dahart 3mo ago
It’s very easy to check & see there’s at least one paper from 2023. Also it takes time to know which papers are influential. But better to contribute than speculate… what are the seminal ML papers from the last 6 years that should be on
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by dahart 3mo ago
The close-to-home example that came to my mind while reading this is GPU programming, where the percentage multiplies. Maybe there are other similar examples where a large sounding percent needs an exponent and shrinks? With CUDA you try to
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by dahart 3mo ago
Yes you’re right; I am leaning heavily on the learning part of college and maybe I’m downplaying some of the negatives. (Or maybe it’s just objectively worse on average now than when I went to college; schools have definitely gotten more ex
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by dahart 3mo ago
Hey I hear you, school isn’t for everyone, and I don’t believe everyone should go, and I don’t believe anyone should be forced to go. I only think everyone should be aware of the job & financial prospect stats and their likely future op
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by dahart 3mo ago
> Things respond to changes in other things. Yes. For example, when people take 4 years to learn full time, by the end they generally have learned. > college ritual I don’t buy that foot binding is a valid analogy to college. Why do y
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by dahart 3mo ago
No you don’t need to do a study. We already know college is causal in the sense that you can’t get good jobs without the credential. The job market already enforces the causal relationship. And that’s a major reason why the advice to go to
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by dahart 3mo ago
> it’d be disingenuous to assume the conversation is about anything other that the economic trade off. To me it seems hollow and sad to think about higher education purely in job and money terms, but maybe I’m weird. I studied what I wan
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by dahart 3mo ago
> the assumption is (not unreasonably!) the genAI is doing all the work Yeah. I agree it’s reasonable, but there’s a fun twist I experienced myself. I used to do a type of generative digital art… artificial evolution… long before anythin
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by dahart 3mo ago
It looks spiritually similar to a CM-1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine ), but I think WOPR predates the Connection Machine. Still, watching Wargames and seeing WOPR always reminds me of a story my coll
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by dahart 3mo ago
Ha! A couple decades ago I saw the original Westworld, spotted some assembly, and thought it looked like 6502/Apple II code, so I assumed that was “probably” it and thought I was a clever nerd. Now I check this list and discovered it w
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by dahart 3mo ago
> the premise of all this is basically that there’s originality based on ideas, right? That’s part of it. But it depends. I’m not sure exactly which premise we’re talking about, since digital painting and writing apps are fairly differen
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by dahart 3mo ago
I might be able in the future to get the tiger I want, without drawing it myself. There are some famous painters who create works solely in their name but have apprentice artists do the actual painting. Not entirely unlike creative direct
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by dahart 3mo ago
Oh you’re right, sorry! Well unless the Claude Design prompt is open source licensed, then correct, it’s not legal to publish it under an open license. That would be a copyright violation.
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by dahart 3mo ago
Oh you’re assuming the content in this repo is taken from somewhere? There are other sibling threads about this; you might be mis-interpreting the title.
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by dahart 3mo ago
What do you mean? https://opensource.org/license/mit
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by dahart 3mo ago
To be fair, his “like I want it” can be a serious qualification that AI doesn’t yet meet in general. It’s still today pretty hard to control image generation specifics, and even harder to control videos. The times I’ve tried, I found the pr
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by dahart 3mo ago
> where does AI fit in? […] what am I, then? One of many. Personally I’ve never seen this as a particularly confusing or mysterious question, as long as you don’t anthropomorphize the computer. The computer isn’t writing your apps out of
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by dahart 3mo ago
I don’t see pi^2 ~= g in there… did I miss it somewhere?
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by dahart 3mo ago
> it’s called a spline, felicia. This project looks like it uses piecewise circular arc curves, no? Those usually aren’t called splines, FWIW. I’m sure the terminology is not absolute, but splines are typically defined as piecewise polyn
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by dahart 3mo ago
And if you have written one before, it might take five years. ;) At least, that was my actual experience at a game studio. The engine team wanted to rewrite the engine but underestimated how much was there, how much was worth keeping, and h
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by dahart 3mo ago
> tell me which operators you’re imagining have any resemblance with typical graphics linear algebra FWIW, since it seems like you’re unaware: most of those are used in graphics in general, and have been used since long before Torch exis
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by dahart 3mo ago
Both are large fields with many varied applications of linear algebra (and non-linear math too), and many people trying a lot of interesting & complicated ideas. The question is way too vague to answer meaningfully, it depends on what

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