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by daveguy 1mo ago
Looks like most things definitely stump even a "smart LLM"... Best score on this is 30%. Which is what you should assume for tasks you give an LLM if they aren't exactly the same as an existing benchmarked task. They're
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by daveguy 1mo ago
How is an llm parser_spec to parser better than something like lex?
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by daveguy 2mo ago
I prefer to have a Clippy agent that identifies code that should be copied and pasted into random locations for no good reason. You may think it's not necessary given how LLMs operate, but I have found it's critical for 10x gains.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
That's the point. Huge increases in pull requests. Virtually no increase in features or reliability.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Sigh. Apparently you didn't understand what I meant by second most basic. Basic + an extra step is still pretty damn basic algorithmically. You are correct in that I didn't catch the "CryptoNote" variant. But a different
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Oh. I assumed it was the same baseXX encoding with padding as any other. As listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding#Exampl... Or here: https://bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/base5
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Well I would hope so. That's the most basic "translation" a computer can do. Converting one set of characters into another set of characters from a lookup table. How many r's in strawberry is a more difficult question. C
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Parent of your response: > ...may be hard to identify which company or who’s responsible when you fired all of the people from the department that it’s supposed to police those type of things. You responded to a post quite literally abou
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by daveguy 2mo ago
GP's phrasing was not precise, but I think most people understood it was liability ownership and not copyright. Ownership with respect to copyright and ownership with respect to legal liability are two completely different concepts.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
So.... Exactly the people they need right now?
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Nah.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
It's good that you clearly see the "Great Idea" spam for what it is. That comes from the reinforcement-learning human-feedback (RLHF) that is used to keep you coming back for one more pull.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Dude straight up lied to everyone. Most blatantly corrupt incompetent fraud in US history. Just because he's narcissist enough to not care doesn't make it better. And yeah, lots of mistakes to fix that led to McConnell / D
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by daveguy 2mo ago
I thought this would be a push for a nationwide open weights effort / initiative, but I was surprised to see this: > Distillation ... reflects a long tradition of learning from, building upon, and improving existing technologies, a
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by daveguy 2mo ago
The entire reason we are in this war is the current administration's ineptitude. Anyone who voted for this president should be ashamed they fell for a con.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
Thank you for the clarification. I figured I was missing something in your meaning. Although "if it comes so cheap that..." means it will probably come cheap for other providers, and the margins wouldn't be there in the end
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by daveguy 2mo ago
100% this. OpenAI created a for-profit subsidy (that is now an SBC and only controlled 26% by the original non-profit). Guess when they did that? After GPT-2 (Feb 2019) and before GPT-3 (June 2020). Not remotely surprising they started the
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by daveguy 2mo ago
You do realize "subsidizing" means charging less for something than it costs to provide, right? So they'll lose a dollar on every sale, but they'll make up for it in volume? E2E is usually where the profit comes from.
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by daveguy 2mo ago
3 years ago is about when the BS "AI can do anything!" hype started. So, it is not a misinterpretation, but an accurate assessment of the hype cycle. Exactly the kind of things managers are bumbling into because "AGI any da
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by daveguy 3mo ago
But immitating others is about the only thing genAI does. Sometimes "others" is a 'programmer', sometimes "others" is an 'artist', but regardless, it still does it poorly.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Not OP, but I'd settle for something that actually learns, instead of being a static pile of linear algebra. Pretending it learns because you change the input (context) doesn't count.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
> That Ford story was really misleading. It wasn't about modern LLMs, and the way it was reported implied that Ford had fired and then hired people but if you read closer that wasn't necessarily the case at all - it sounded mor
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Be sure to short the shit out of that company after you leave, assuming something in your employment contract doesn't prevent it (doubtful). Especially if they are software development focused.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Sorry, but labs working hard doesn't make non-polynomial problems suddenly polynomial.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
The revolution is way overblown.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Yes, definitely a case of bad-think. Certainly not double-plus-good like AI. Dangerous.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Well, it didn't take long for this post to be disappeared from the front page. Edit: ahhh, I see why. In the list of ways to keep your sanity through the AI mania -- "I no longer visit Hackernews, Reddit, or really anywhere where
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by daveguy 3mo ago
The context is the input to the LLM model. It seems like you need to study up on how LLMs work, instead of spouting hype.
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by daveguy 3mo ago
Seriously? Supid is literally incapable of learning. That is the underlying model. It does not change, therefore it does not learn. LLM models are quite literally stupid. No one gets a new model no matter how much they yell at it in the c
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by daveguy 3mo ago
You are incorrect. "memory.md" and other context manipulations do not change the underlying model.

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