empath75

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by empath75 1y ago
An interesting thought I had while reading the section on how larger brains allow more complicated language to represent context: Why are we crushing down the latent space of an LLM to the text representation when doing llm-to-llm communica
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by empath75 1y ago
Can you give me more resources to read about this? It seems like it would be very difficult to incorporate web search or anything like that in Cursor or another IDE safely.
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by empath75 1y ago
Given the value of finding zero days, pretty much every intelligence agency in the world is going to be pouring money into this if it can reliably find them with just a few hundred api calls. Especially if you can fine tune a model with lo
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by empath75 1y ago
Rust and Go errors are not really effectful in the "side effect" sense, they're just an ordinary return value of a function. There's really no difference between returning a result and any other enum. Otoh, panics are
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by empath75 1y ago
Also Chrome is basically useless as a money-making product without the google integrations. There's no way to monetize it without search and ad integrations.
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by empath75 1y ago
There's two reasons to use a measurement system -- one of those is for sort of every day work -- cooking, home carpentry and the like, and in that case, having something like the imperial system is nice, because you can divide things u
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by empath75 1y ago
There's a lot of liability issues with people that are hosting LLMs -- everything from copyright infringement to slander to obscenity laws. If you want to run your own LLM on your own hardware, do whatever you want with it, of course.
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by empath75 1y ago
It's easy to not initialize the buffer, the hard part is guaranteeing that it's safe to read something that might not be initialized.
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by empath75 1y ago
> $6.5 billion all-stock deal It's 6.5 billion in monopoly money. OpenAI has an insane valuation right now, and they're using it to buy stuff with it, as they should.
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Because LLM's as they exist right now are incredibly useful and you can make a lot of money from them? AGI isn't god. It might not even be especially useful.
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by empath75 1y ago
> Domestic saving is in no way equivalent to productive investment in the US economy. Are people keeping money in their mattress considered accounting discrepancies? Companies hoard cash like dragons. What investment in USA? Have you see
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by empath75 1y ago
The point of this exercise for Microsoft isn't to produce usable code right now, but to use and improve copilot.
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by empath75 1y ago
One problem with any method like this is that this is not a single player game, and there are lots of companies that create AI generated resumes for you and also have data about who gets hired and who doesn't.
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If you have an ordering bias, that seems easily fixed by just rerunning the evaluation several times in different orders and taking the most common recommendations, and you can work around other biases by not including things like name, etc
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by empath75 1y ago
> The gender bias is not primarily about LLMs but rather a reflection of the training material, which mirrors our culture. It seems weird to even include identifying material like that in the input.
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by empath75 1y ago
I agree. LLM's can make convincing arguments for almost anything. For something like this, what would be more useful is having it go through all of them individually and generate a _brief_ report about whether and how the resume match
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by empath75 1y ago
I think any time people say that "LLM's" have this flaw or another, they should also discuss whether humans also have this flaw. We _know_ that the hiring process is full of biases and mistakes and people making decisions for
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by empath75 1y ago
The consequences of a new thing being invented are not entirely dependent on progress of innovation in the thing itself. It takes quite a long time for people to build _on top of_ a new technology. LLMs could not appreciably improve at al
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by empath75 1y ago
There's actually a youtube channel that has a bunch of excerpts from various trips to the west (and other cross cultural journeys), if you're interested in that sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvPxCu
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My favorite part of this thread is like a dozen different people replying that it's already been deciphered and none of them posted the same one.
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by empath75 1y ago
There are two ways to think about your work in IT, one is as a person who really understands how to use a particular technology, and the other is as someone who can figure out how to use technology in general to achieve some particular end.
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by empath75 1y ago
For whatever reason, all the LLMs of a certain size _seem_ to have a very strong sense of right and wrong. (I say "seem", because it's mostly consistent with what a person who had a strong sense of right and wrong would say,
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by empath75 1y ago
I think there is a pretty significant chance that someone _does_ make a TV series out of it, and it's almost ideally suited for it because it's all background material, so there's a lot of space for a showrunner to actually p
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by empath75 1y ago
I had similar thoughts about it, and the thing it's actually closest to is world building chapters in RPG books. It's almost pure world building without any actual story. Super interesting experiment.
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by empath75 1y ago
This is exactly why I think the concerns about AI taking people's jobs are overblown. There is not a limited amount of knowledge work to do or things that can be invented or discovered. There's just work that isn't worth th
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by empath75 1y ago
> There are programs that Rust will simply not let you write. If you're writing purely safe code, I will say this is true in a practical sense, but you can almost always use unsafe to write whatever you think rust won't let you
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by empath75 1y ago
I think people might under appreciate how easy LSD was to get in the US in the 90s and early 2000s. I was living in a fairly boring suburb, and was a complete nerd and had access to as much LSD as I wanted at less than $5 a hit when I was i
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by empath75 1y ago
No -- the controversy is also over whether distributing the weights and software is a copyright violation. I believe that is. The copyrighted material is present in the software in some form, even if the process for regenerating it is qui
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by empath75 1y ago
Yeah, there's an _artistry_ to the barbican that isn't captured by just listing off the features of the complex and apartments. Whoever designed it had excellent _taste_.
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by empath75 1y ago
With greenery on it, the concrete takes on the aspect of a cliff or a rock face, so it feels more they homes were carved out of stone, than poured out of a truck.

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