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by dwringer 3y ago
Brake lights being the color of stop lights is helpful because it's a reminder to stop, just as turn signals being the color of caution lights is helpful as a reminder to be cautious of a turning vehicle. Green lights don't fall i
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by dwringer 3y ago
Kind of funny that the word was capitalized, presumably, due to imitation. [EDIT: Now changed, so this thread makes less sense, but the original headline was "Artificial intelligence systems found to Excel at ..."]
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by dwringer 3y ago
I would have agreed with your comment 100% after my first visit to such a restaurant, but after my most recent visit I cannot do so. The amount of patience required depends entirely on the quality of service, and this is not necessarily con
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by dwringer 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "jailbroken" essentially a term for "used Bayesian techniques to determine what we think somebody probably slipped into the LLM context or trained it on at one point, in theory&quot
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by dwringer 3y ago
As I understand you, what you state is exactly what I meant. If you train with a bunch of text containing substrings of those 50-grams, but not the full 50-grams themselves [or, expose it to the same vocabulary used in the same parts of spe
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by dwringer 3y ago
One can fine tune a smaller parameter model like GPT-NeoX on a home GPU pretty readily, and it's absolutely capable of doing what you specified. Teach it with a bunch of example sentences that have parts of speech like verb and noun fo
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by dwringer 3y ago
Does anyone know what the state of FreeBSD is these days regarding the possible support of CUDA devices? It always pained me that installing it as an OS on my old hardware meant losing access to that, and a large part of the usefulness of t
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by dwringer 3y ago
I've always had great relative pitch but not "perfect pitch"; hearing a note out of the blue without any known context and being able to name it was always a struggle for me, but I did manage to do it first try on this quiz.
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by dwringer 3y ago
I know it wasn't the same everywhere, but back in 2001 my high school had an IT staff that consisted of a single teacher with no real technical literacy to begin with. There was no real sort of firewall or security, including the compu
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by dwringer 3y ago
I'm not sure... hundreds or thousands of code repositories with subtle issues sounds like... the real world of code repositories. And I'd think through analogy and redundancy of some common algorithms, the LLM trained that way mig
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by dwringer 3y ago
There is an extremely weird juxtaposition between the idea of watermarking the outputs so AI-generated samples can be detected if they make up even part of a song (which is arguably considerable as fair use of even copyrighted material
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by dwringer 3y ago
I too like Windows and use it as my daily OS everywhere, but I am firmly against ever upgrading to Windows 11 and, with each update, Windows 10 gets more unpleasantly like 11. Recently I tried to open an image, and the Windows Store asked m
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by dwringer 3y ago
I think "texture" makes sense, if only by analogy to the calligraphic hand Textura, or the etymological derivation of "text" itself.
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by dwringer 3y ago
I agree in part with this philosophy and had success for many years that way, but at some point I started having pain of which simply observing just revealed to me that it was my posture that was partly to blame, at which point I did everyt
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by dwringer 3y ago
Generally making disparaging bigoted comments about a nationality is to be avoided here. It's certainly not productive to this discussion to label anyone as hateful, greedy, and selfish, and it runs afoul of the HN comment guidelines.
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by dwringer 3y ago
> Before you call my opinion fringe/extreme, go ahead and speak to some low-income folks at your local dive bar. Now ask them for their opinions on fossil fuels.
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by dwringer 3y ago
Hmm... I do see it, but when I left my comment last night it would seem I had been looking at the grayscale version of the color noise image by mistake. I can still make it out in the blue noise image but it's quite a bit more eyestrai
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by dwringer 3y ago
Interestingly, perhaps, I found that one to be easier to make out the fine detail than any other magic eye that I've seen before. However I did find it a bit more eyestrain inducing as well. This is a great blog and makes me want to e
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by dwringer 3y ago
Almost every post that I read about the subject seems to omit that fact. Ultimately it boils down to a kind of fuzz test and a form of inference over the results. It would be interesting to study the possibilities of quantifying such certai
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by dwringer 3y ago
I believe that the application of multiple streams in parallel is a natural evolution of using a single stream. I've used some local models for help in creative writing, and some of the most productive results I got were from running t
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by dwringer 3y ago
Emacs user here... Today I learned why sometimes my YAML files seemed inexplicably to end up with tabs in them.
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by dwringer 3y ago
As someone who's worked in the field of used books, I can say from personal experience that's not quite true. It's pretty common to have to type in an ISBN for a variety of reasons. Many times the barcodes have been covered u
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by dwringer 3y ago
I've always felt ligatures that condense two or more glyphs into something that takes up the space of only one in a monospace font are going beyond what a font should handle and into the realm of what an editor should do. I have severa
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by dwringer 3y ago
I don't know what I was expecting but that isn't Hurt, it's Surfin' USA with Hurt's lyrics that sound extremely jittery and grainy. I'm curious though if some AI soon could in fact synthesize the Beach Boys&#x2
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by dwringer 3y ago
You can get llama CPP or kobold.cpp binaries and load a quantized model right into them on the CPU only, no need to install Python or have an Nvidia GPU.
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by dwringer 3y ago
It might be better if you can spin up separate LLM's for each one, each with its own unique context or even fine tuning (or, at least, start each one's response with a fresh session using its own individually-tailored prompt and c
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by dwringer 3y ago
One approach that I've been using with a local LLM, mostly brainstorming for my friends and my dungeons and dragons sessions, is to set up a prompt to be completed with some certain detail of storyline, character background, etc., Then
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by dwringer 3y ago
Isn't the majority of what Snowden leaked still being privately held from the public?
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by dwringer 3y ago
From the AP story on this: > Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said he will introduce legislation to regulate AI. He has held a number of briefings with government officials to educate senators about an issue that’s attra
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by dwringer 3y ago
> Today when you will buy "connected" car the manufacturer wants YOU to pay the internet bill for your car. My Toyota has an optional subscription to allow its data connection to be used for roadside assistance services, but th

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