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Well ... https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/94326/a-cryptic... (Someone made a cryptic crossword[1] whose clues and solutions were in the Bahasa Indonesia language, and it was solved by a couple of peopl
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Well, I unfortunately have expensive tastes in laptops anyway, so the delta is substantially less than $3k, and it's possible that from time to time I'll run across other things that benefit from the fancier machine, and if I don&
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Thanks! One reason why I'm asking is that I'm in the market for a new laptop and am wondering whether it's worth spending more for the possible benefits of being able to run ~30-40GB local LLMs. Unfortunately it doesn't
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I understand the reasons for not wanting to use a remote LLM. My question was about how useful local LLMs are. It might turn out that for some people remote LLMs are unacceptable for privacy reasons and local LLMs are unacceptable because
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What's your sense of how useful local LLMs are for things other than ... writing blog posts about experimenting with local LLMs? :-) (This is a serious question, not poking fun; I am actually curious about this.)
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Ah, we're getting into more concrete considerations now. I think that's better. (I mean, if you choose to use "mean" in a way that implies certain details in the causal history that I think aren't needed, and choose
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I think an entity might be unable to mean things (or some things) but still able to understand what they mean. Kinda-trivial example: I cannot say and mean "I have a pain in the sixth finger on my right hand" because like most p
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I think Lederer (who, by the way, is a she) isn't saying that she herself wants to say those things, she's describing one reason why something like the Chatham House rule might be popular. It's not perfectly clear from th
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I agree that it's possible for someone to say words that in other context would have meaning, without their having that meaning when they say it. Most of what you say merely asserts that when an LLM says something it can't truly
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The truth conditions for the sentence "The composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750" are not directly accessible to me. Can I mean that, if I say it? The truth conditions for "The god of the evangelical Christians exists&q
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I think it's remarkable how the goalposts have shifted. For an AI model to be "a big deal", apparently we need to be able to give it a hard problem in an arbitrary field, one that humans have not yet solved[1], and have it sp
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medo-bear, you might want to know that you appear to be shadowbanned -- all your comments for the last ~10 days are dead. (I have some plausible guesses at what provoked this, though I have to say that I didn't see anything that looks
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That's very weird. My comment referred to this link: https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2022/08/Americ... and the person replying to it quoted what I wrote but changed the link . (Pres
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Yeah, that's one reason why the arithmetic is crude. The PDF says the following things: About 1/3 of US adults have been arrested by age 23 . About 1/3 of US adults have a criminal record . Black men in the US are about 6x
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It'll vary a lot by demographic. It's not that 1/3 of every group of US adults has ever been arrested, it's that there are some groups where hardly ever have and some groups where a huge fraction have, and it averages ou
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I gladly affirm that in principle it is possible for advertisements to be beneficial on net by informing people with needs about how suitable products meet those needs. Now turn off your ad-blocker, look at the next ten ads you see on the i
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How does that work in practice? Do you connect the LLM up directly to the app somehow, or do you ask it what to do and then do what it says and see what happens? How much RAM do you need to make those work acceptably well? I assume Llama 3.
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Ask HN: What are local LLMs good for?
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Most of those "random APIs" have good reasons for being there that have nothing to do with fingerprinting. For instance: Your browser needs to be able to render text in different fonts, which means that without paranoid design (an
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There's another, arguably even simpler, optimization that makes me smile. (Because it's silly and arises only from the oddity of the task, and because it's such a huge performance gain.) You're picking 1,000,000 rand
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Feynman. Von Neumann. Teller. Ulam. (At least, they all seem pretty non-mystical from what I know of them; I am willing to be corrected by others who know more about their lives and minds.)
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Mentioned in a footnote in that book is the following, which I have always rather liked: "A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly p
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"There is another remark which suggests itself here and which physicists may find paradoxical, though the paradox will probably seem a good deal less than it did eighteen years ago. I will express it in much the same words which I used
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What exactly are you saying this is an example of? It's certainly not something that people believed and built stuff on the basis of; it was never regarded as anything more than a conjecture and I would be a little surprised if even
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Do you actually know that switching from "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day" to "Parents' Day" has anything to do with trans people? Without the context of your comment I would have guessed it was
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Except that "del" is also (and I think more commonly) the name for the upside-down Delta used in vector calculus for div, grad and curl. (I usually say "partial dx by dt" or whatever, which seems OK to me.)
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That's delightful, but I fear many in the audience here may not quite see why. So, at the risk of explaining too much: The Greek letter xi is one of those where the capital and lowercase versions are very different. Lowercase is a bit
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It is absolutely not rigorous enough, I'm afraid. Sure, it feels wasteful to cover any part of the disc twice. But it also feels wasteful to cover bits near the edge with strips that have only a short length of overlap with the circl
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COVID-19 has only been around for about five years, as the name indicates, so "I'm in my late 30s" says nothing about how many opportunities you've had to get it, whereas being in one's late 30s does say something a
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The Gostak , by Carl Muckenhoupt. Its opening text reads as follows: Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and

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