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geraneum
8mo ago
I want the big_model take.
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8mo ago
> The future seems to be one operator working on the entire puzzle, minus the hierarchy of people. Given the rest of your argument that makes no sense. Why should that one operator exist? If AI is good at big picture and the entire puzzl
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geraneum
8mo ago
Seems like you’re in a thread about people’s quality of life and talking about giant mega corps’ big money. Has it been trickling down yet?
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8mo ago
This compiler experiment mirrors the recent work of Terence Tao and Google. The "recipe" is an LLM paired with an external evaluator (GCC) in a feedback loop. By evaluating the objective (successful compilation) in a loop, the LLM
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8mo ago
> you could design a lot of things successfully just assuming that the value of 'pi' was 3. But when things had to fit together, they wouldn't. Apt analogy. I’m gonna steal it!
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8mo ago
> with the second revision of Claude 3.5 (October 2024), long-horizon agentic coding workflows began to compound correctness rather than error. What does it mean to compound correctness? Like negative acceleration in rate of errors? How
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8mo ago
We’re gonna see an economic boom any minute.
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8mo ago
Perhaps 4.5 could also do it? We don’t know really until we try. I don’t trust the marketing material as much. The fact that the previous version (smaller versions) couldn’t or could do it does not really disprove that claim.
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8mo ago
> This was a clean-room implementation This is really pushing it, considering it’s trained on… internet, with all available c compilers. The work is already impressive enough, no need for such misleading statements.
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9mo ago
Some people are not aware that they are one race condition away from a class action lawsuit.
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9mo ago
Wie bitte?
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9mo ago
People sometimes conflate inelegance with buggy code, where the market fit and value matter more than code elegance. Bugs still are not acceptable even in your MVP. Actually I think buggy software especially if those bugs destroy user exper
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9mo ago
Imagine hearing this in Alan Watts’ voice.
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9mo ago
That’s not happening in run time, when you send the prompts for the next token to be generated. The comment seems to imply a run time phenomenon.
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9mo ago
> And incredibly good ways to assess & test it's weights What weights are you referring to? How does [Claude?] code do that
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9mo ago
> The majority of the Iranian diaspora in the US is self selecting and not representative of the full population. My guess as well. As an Iranian outside of Iran, I see that my folk in Iran are way angrier, more disappointed, braver and
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9mo ago
> If there’s a way I could avoid all the babysitting I have to do with AI tools that would be welcome OP mentions that they are actually doing the “babysitting”
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9mo ago
> What did the 4 million strong Iranian diaspora did on that matter The progressive’s version of “why don’t you go back to your country and fix it” in response to someone who’s clearly asking for empathy. This is hilarious.
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9mo ago
> people who fled in the aftermath of the revolution and are extremely antagonistic towards the regime Iranian who left Iran here. Do you have stats or reference for this critical piece of information? It’s as if someone’s says, since Ba
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9mo ago
> if something doesn't work for me I can't really draw any conclusions about it in general. You can. The conclusion would be that it doesn’t always work.
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9mo ago
That’s skipping over more than 100 years of recent history. Iran started transitioning to a democratic form of government with establishment of parliament after constitutional revolution starting from 1905. Twice, foreign super powers meddl
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9mo ago
I wonder how affordable or accessible is it in US to follow this effectively. I know it’s important to have an informative guideline, but isn’t it strangely reminiscent of “just say no”?
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10mo ago
Did you just referenced an article by Kenneth Love? I’m sure you already know but for anyone else who might see this, a U.S. District Judge Michael B. Mukasey in Love v. Kwitny (1989) suggests that he played a role in the coup himself! Love
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10mo ago
Are the any credible independent sources for these? Just curious.
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10mo ago
Now that you’re here, what do you mean by “scientific hints” in your first paragraph?
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10mo ago
And what did people vote for in that “outside of legal process” referendum? edit: typo
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10mo ago
> Mossadegh was elected but was also illegally trying to dissolve parliament. You’re being too liberal with meaning of “illegal” here. There was a referendum to dissolve the Parliament then.
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10mo ago
> There's always some previous war. As in everywhere else.
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Yea I’m talking about people and that’s honestly what matters here. At the end of the day this tools is used by people and how people use it plays a big role in how we assess its usefulness.
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10mo ago
A lot of important details/parts of a system (not only code) that may seem insignificant to the end user could be really important in making a a system work correctly as a whole.
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