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by groby_b 4y ago
If Scott's wondering whom specifically to blame: Accretion of safeguards. It's inevitable, it seems. Something goes wrong, the process is amended to avoid that failure case. Something else goes wrong, add another amendment. All in
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by groby_b 4y ago
Have you... talked to engineers? It's not about "precision and reliability". It's about acknowledging margins of error in contexts of varying precision, and how to achieve reliability in the face of uncertainty implied b
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by groby_b 4y ago
No. Most human beings are aware of immediate context, and are more focused on mutual collaboration than nitpicking linguistics. An "I doctored my fries" post on a medical discussion site would at best be a mild chuckle, and everyb
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by groby_b 4y ago
Yep. And more importantly, give an indication you're going to make noise, and give people an option to turn it off before it starts.
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by groby_b 4y ago
Absolutely no cases in my family, and it's still screaming sleep apnea. I mean, apnea literally means "stops breathing". A doctor who doesn't recognize that is maybe not the best possible doctor. To put it very mildly.
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by groby_b 4y ago
Well, if you're growing, you're still dying. You're a human, not a cancer cell.
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by groby_b 4y ago
That knowledge was readily available through numerous other legal channels. Libraries do virtual lending. What the IA did in that instance was a reckless gesture that did not change actual ability to access. That's worse than nothing,
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by groby_b 4y ago
Let's put it that way. I've had the privilege to work with world class experts in three domains. (And no, I wasn't one in any of those domains, I just got really really lucky) The people who truly knew what they were doing? U
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by groby_b 4y ago
Meanwhile, over here, I just stare at https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5 and mumble "any reasonable dev, front of mind".
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by groby_b 4y ago
I mean. Yes, LLMs hallucinate. Yes, they have incomplete info and small context. But seriously, at the very least ask about security here. A very simplistic "just list cve's and security issues" for the first example yields 6
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by groby_b 4y ago
We're going to at some point talk about the fact that the IA decided to do the absolutely most stupid thing they could possibly do to ensure they'd create the setup for the most devastating ruling possible, yes? Yes, our current c
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by groby_b 4y ago
This is, frankly, hot air. The IA resisted nothing, achieved nothing, made nobody's life better, and created an opportunity for bad precedent. It was an utterly boneheaded move. (It has also nothing to do with "exhaustive preserva
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by groby_b 4y ago
Everybody on this thread so far has provided anecdotes and opinions. There's nary a fact in sight. So, let's go with at least one fact site: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californ... At
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by groby_b 4y ago
As a Prusa customer: Close it up. Let the freeloaders learn a lesson. I'm so tired of the entitled whining of "the money was never his in the first place"
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by groby_b 4y ago
Does it matter who generated the text people don't bother to read? And how will lack of attention to detail affect prompt generation?
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by groby_b 4y ago
I promise you that all financial and legal systems worth rewriting require a lot more context than 32K tokens. Given the utter absence of solid test coverage, a much more likely approach is massive coverage generation via ChatGPT test gen
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by groby_b 4y ago
I believe that, absolutely. I just can't see any examples that exercise this outside of toy examples. (And I have severe doubt LLMs will reliably evaluate those complex examples by themselves. You're better off adding memory and a
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by groby_b 4y ago
"Language without formalization is unreliable; " What makes you believe LLMs will stick to the rules of your formalized language? It's likely. There are only probabilistic guarantees, which kind of obviates the benefits of a
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by groby_b 4y ago
Why? What is wrong with "10 best hip hop artists of 2014, as a numbered list, only names" I'm not saying your approach is wrong or anything, but I am trying to understand the value you get from it? I get almost the same outpu
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by groby_b 4y ago
So... you use a formal language to create a system that ~handles freeform language, which you then instruct to interpret a semi-formal language? This might well be useful, but I'd like to see one example of what you can do in SudoLang
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by groby_b 4y ago
You know what - tough for the actual customers. Who largely keep buying knockoffs. You want the cheapest shit without any innovation, you'll sooner or later get your wish.
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by groby_b 4y ago
As much as I think VC is problematic: Those folks have a host of previous experience. When they share advice with you, it's a distillate of seeing lots of companies go through similar things. And that's all any advice is - &qu
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by groby_b 4y ago
"You buy what you can afford. " The problem is, there is "almost everybody can afford this", and there is "completely bespoke". We have eliminated the middle ground.
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by groby_b 4y ago
This is a core point. It most stuck out to me when the article talked about car colors - most cars are black or white because car makers mostly make black or white . Buying a car with a splash of color is hard. Red is your best chance. Fol
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by groby_b 4y ago
Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here, picking bugs out of GPT4 code. But sure, 100x developers. It's good at well-known tasks. The more you veer into the unknown, the worse it gets. (It's the nature of LLMs). Will it impact CRUD
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by groby_b 4y ago
I'm aware we have "one", but I'm also aware I sound like my great-grandmother when I use it. One has to make tradeoffs ;)
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by groby_b 4y ago
As a manager who told folks that maybe they should consider what their main lane is: There's nothing wrong with learning a different lane. There's a lot wrong with showing up in a different lane as if you had all the answers. Our
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by groby_b 4y ago
14% of Americans are black. Without debating that the US is full of systemic racism: Do you really think anybody believed "well, with 14% less cars, this works"? And this isn't even accounting for the fact that white people b
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by groby_b 4y ago
More power to you. If this is what your heart desires, get a few - just don't go claiming they say something about your qualities as a person :)
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by groby_b 4y ago
A while ago, I would have agreed. I've long since learned that the reason our industry has the management problems it has because we don't prepare people for leadership. At all. We just throw them in the grinder and hope it works

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