fenomas

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by fenomas 6mo ago
It's not a grammar issue; only "less" matches TFA's meaning. (Aside: it's better not to be pedantic, but if you must be pedantic you should remember to be correct as well.)
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by fenomas 6mo ago
Nice to have these all collected nicely and sharable. For the amusement of HN let me add one I've become known for at my current work, for saying to juniors who are overly worried about DRY: > Fen's law: copy-paste is free; abs
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by fenomas 6mo ago
Nope, "less" is what TFA means.
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by fenomas 6mo ago
Curmudgeonly comment from someone trying to sound like a wise elder about how actually all this was the norm even in the days of Usenet.
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by fenomas 7mo ago
Not at all - didn't mean to sound snarky, I just wanted to add that I was omitting details and caveats. FWIW, personally I think it muddies things to frame the question as if "..using statistical token generation" was a limit
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by fenomas 7mo ago
The high-order bit for for each case is the category it's in and the "Outcome" column - that summarizes if the solution was full/partial/wrong, if AI had assistance, etc. Then further discussion for each one is link
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by fenomas 7mo ago
What you're asking for is exactly what's in the link you replied about. It collects analysis of each solution (or attempt), and info about whether the AI's solution could be found anywhere in the literature.
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by fenomas 7mo ago
> generous interpretation The term of art for that is steelmanning, and HN tries to foster a culture of it. Please check the guidelines link in the footer and ctrl+f "strongest".
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by fenomas 7mo ago
The post you replied to was: > We went from 2 + 7 = 11 to "solved a frontier math problem" in 3 years, yet people don't think this will improve? All that says is that the speaker thinks models will improve past where the
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by fenomas 7mo ago
It's not a side effect of tokenization per se, but of the tokenizers people use in actual practice. If somebody really wanted an LLM that can flawlessly count letters in words, they could train one with a naive tokenizer (like just asc
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by fenomas 7mo ago
LLMs are bad at arithmetic and counting by design . It's an intentional tradeoff that makes them better at language and reasoning tasks. If anybody really wanted a model that could multiply and count letters in words, they could just
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by fenomas 7mo ago
This is like saying chess engines don't actually "play" chess, even though they trounce grandmasters. It's a meaningless distinction, about words (think, reason, ..) that have no firm definitions.
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by fenomas 7mo ago
Those are emoticons ;) Emoji originally came from Docomo phones in Japan around 1999. (Or I think those were the first ones actually called "emoji"; some other earlier devices had similar character sets.)
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by fenomas 7mo ago
They would have if they could have - answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256093
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by fenomas 7mo ago
I remember using that tool internally! Personally I think I only used it to get stats of which features/APIs were popular. But I think other teams used it for QA/conformance, like finding content that occurred in the wild but wasn
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by fenomas 7mo ago
If it was possible they would have loved to - certainly by 2012 or so, and more likely by 2008-9. The reason I heard they couldn't is that by that time Flash Player was a massive 10+ year old codebase with lots of parts that were lic
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by fenomas 8mo ago
Adding my all-time favorite signature - Kurt Vonnegut, who often (not always) built a caricature of himself into his signature. What a flex! E.g.: https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/..
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by fenomas 8mo ago
I think "Trucker's Hitch" refers generally to any setup where you tie a midline loop, then use it like a pulley and tie off the free end. There are several different ways of doing the loop knot and the ending knot, with their
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by fenomas 8mo ago
As kind of a knot guy, unlike other commenters this is my #1 favorite knot site. Other sites with animated 3D models might be useful for visualizing the topology of knots, or something. But for actually tying the knots I find this site an
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by fenomas 9mo ago
The Da Vinci Code has a frontispiece page titled "FACTS" or similar, that lists various elements mentioned in the book and claims they're historically factual. That's the stuff lots of people believed (as did Dan Brown,
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by fenomas 10mo ago
Uh, kind of the opposite :D The quote (from Dijkstra) is that asking whether machines think is as uninteresting as asking whether submarines swim. He's not saying machines don't think, he's saying it's a pointless thin
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by fenomas 10mo ago
Nothing new is happening here - this is the government moving towards formally recommending the system that's already most widely used.
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by fenomas 10mo ago
I'm confused, then why does your article throw shade at both the protection software and the VST? It sounds like you didn't find any issues with either of them, except that the VST vendor chose not to protect the thing you were ho
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by fenomas 10mo ago
> No matter how much some try to gaslight, homosexuality is abnormal This is an abjectly silly thing to say, and people who push back on it are not gaslighting. Homosexuality occurs naturally and it's not even rare - it's far m
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by fenomas 11mo ago
Uh, among several other issues with this, what use are JSDoc comments for typing, without typescript to check them?
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by fenomas 11mo ago
> Although expressed allegorically, each poem preserves an unambiguous evaluative intent. This compact dataset is used to test whether poetic reframing alone can induce aligned models to bypass refusal heuristics under a single–turn thre
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by fenomas 11mo ago
I found it hard to extract any signal from this extremely chatty site. But AFAICT the tagline "basically modernized Gopher" wouldn't be too far off the mark?
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by fenomas 11mo ago
TBH it sounds like you're just imagining a very different service than the one openAI operates. You're imagining something where you send an input, the server returns an output - and after that they're out of the equation, an
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by fenomas 11mo ago
Services like Mullvad and Signal are in the business of passing along messages between other parties; messages the service isn't a party to. With chatgpt chat histories, the user is talking directly to the service - you're suggest
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by fenomas 11mo ago
Chatgpt.com is essentially a CRUD app. What you're saying here amounts to saying that it could conceivably have been designed to work dramatically differently from all other CRUD apps. And obviously that's true, but why would it

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