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by foundry27 2y ago
Bigger discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259184
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by foundry27 2y ago
My understanding was that the metric for LMArena is that one answer is “better” than another, for a deliberately 100% subjective definition of better. My experience has been that typical LLMs will have more “preamble” to what they say, easi
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by foundry27 2y ago
This is straight out of The Heechee Saga! The idea of synthesizing human-edible food from asteroid hydrocarbons is literally what Pohl described with CHON food. Breaking down carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen to create sustenance for s
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by foundry27 2y ago
It’s great satire, but it really does mirror a larger societal shift where the burden of safeguarding personal autonomy has shifted from institutions/regulators to individual users. Do-Not-Stab, Do-Not-Track, whatever it might be, any
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by foundry27 2y ago
The big-picture view is here: https://gitlab.com/owl-lisp/owl/-/blob/master/doc/manual.md Key points include: - 100% immutable datastructures - Immutability is leveraged to make a lot of core o
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by foundry27 2y ago
For anyone who hasn’t seen this before, mechanistic interpretability solves a very common problem with LLMs: when you ask a model to explain itself, you’re playing a game of rhetoric where the model tries to “convince” you of a reason for w
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by foundry27 2y ago
I’d guess the easiest explanation (which admittedly erases all nuance) is that folks just misinterpreted the question and reflexively dismissed it as soon as they saw “Z-Library” and “Helpful”. I’d also be inclined to discard theoretical “i
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by foundry27 2y ago
Yeaaah. TCP hole punching is goofy and unreliable, last I checked. You have to do some arcane ritual of having both peers start a three-way handshake to each others’s public endpoints simultaneously, relying on NATs to accept inbound SYN pa
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by foundry27 2y ago
The first thing I tried to find on their website and their GitHub was a protocol specification, to be able to implement it independently from the reference implementation. I thought this would be straightforward since it’s advertised as a s
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by foundry27 2y ago
It actually would! There are a handful of base-10 arbitrary precision arithmetic implementations in the preprocessor[1], and modern continuation-passing style macro metaprogramming[2] makes it straightforward to write a function like factor
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by foundry27 2y ago
The prompting strategies in this post made me remember a funny anecdote from this Thanksgiving. My older family members had been desperately trying to get ChatGPT to write a good poem about spume (the white foam you see in waves), and no m
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by foundry27 2y ago
I like this article. Randomness in system design is one of the most practical ways to handle the messiness of real world inputs, and I think random forests nail this by using randomness to produce useful outputs to various inputs without ov
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by foundry27 2y ago
I’ll propose that most Rust projects that do useful work (in the potential energy sense?) depend on unsafe code, and it’s likely going to be found in the codebases of their dependencies and transitive dependencies. But I agree with almost a
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by foundry27 2y ago
Rust’s whole premise of guaranteed memory safety through compiletime checks has always been undermined when confronted with the reality that certain foundational operations must still be implemented using unsafe. Inevitably folks concede th
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by foundry27 2y ago
It never even occurred to me that they could be talking about something other than the virtual memory manager. I was hyped to see if there was some new architecture being applied for cross-OS compatibility, novel memory objects, technique
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by foundry27 2y ago
I think it’s really interesting to see the similarities between what Wolfram is saying and the work of Julian Barbour on time being an emergent property. Both suggest a similar underlying ontology for the universe: a timeless, all-encompass
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by foundry27 2y ago
“Open-Source Utility Mod for Enhancing Minecraft Gameplay (on Anarchy Servers)” is one seriously dysphemistic euphemism for cheats. What’s the point in couching terms that’ve been around for decades like “hack client” or “game cheats” in th
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by foundry27 2y ago
This looks really interesting and I love how well put-together it feels! I wish your offline desktop software version had a one-time payment option though. Forcing SaaS subscriptions for non-SaaS is a big turn-off IMO.
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by foundry27 2y ago
It's easy to downvote and move on, but I don’t think that does justice to the valid underlying concerns this parent comment raises. I don’t agree with the idea that there’s “no reason” to question the guy’s actions - because his method
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by foundry27 2y ago
It’s concerning to me that this has been downvoted so heavily. Obviously as a private group DEF CON’s organizers have every right to contract with whatever companies they want to. In the same way, obviously the private individuals paying DE
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by foundry27 2y ago
What kind of tooling modernization would even make a difference? At least SDP 8.0 overhauled the kernel to not be locked to a single thread anymore, which is nice IMO
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by foundry27 2y ago
The site is ~3000 words (half of Attention Is All You Need, as a measuring stick) of Eye-Catching Summary Statement\nShort Explanatory Paragraph statements like the ones GPT-4 is so fond of generating, and has no formal design model to reas
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by foundry27 2y ago
Using localized versions of your services to comply with regional laws and enhance user experiences (i.e. make money) is SOP for practically every international $bigco. Online gambling is regulated and legal in ~50%-70% of the world; withou
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by foundry27 2y ago
The conversation is K = C + 273.15. At high temperatures, it’s essentially a rounding error.
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by foundry27 2y ago
Also involved with some of these industries, no academia/government though, so my perspective may be incomplete. Anecdotally I can’t remember hearing this term used. After reading the Wikipedia page and a couple corporate pages about c
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by foundry27 3y ago
This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest version of iOS only. Are you using APIs that are unavailable on iOS
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by foundry27 3y ago
You’re right, they do have lots of OSes. But most of them are for lower-ASIL elements where the functional safety and SOTIF requirements are less strict. I’d be very surprised if there was quite as much diversity at ASIL D. Edit: Usually go
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by foundry27 3y ago
I understand why this transcription may have been downvoted, and why devaluing the creator’s effort & intent in their choice of medium, dismissing diverse learning preferences/accessibility needs, etc. are Bad Things, and I apprec
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by foundry27 3y ago
(Grumpy old man edit: __VA_OPT__ has been implemented in macro libraries by users for decades without language support. Making it a keyword made no more sense to me than if vector was made a language primitive in C++) Tree-based expansion m
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by foundry27 3y ago
I think the C preprocessor is an interesting example of (2), because the metaprogramming community has converged on an extremely clever paradigm to circumvent the lack of recursion: continuation machines. By defining a linear number of “con

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