groestl

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by groestl 10mo ago
The point about the stakes is a good one. But there is an individiual factor to it. And maybe it's exactly because of the stakes you mention: if you perceive your personal stakes to be low, or might even gain something out of redistrib
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by groestl 10mo ago
Yes, but in that story, parent only has the word of that Journalist. I personally don't even have that, I only have a post about it. My deeper point is that it's arguably very difficult to establish a global, socially acceptable l
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by groestl 10mo ago
Ironically, there is no evidence that woman ever said that.
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by groestl 10mo ago
A common pattern you'd find in reliable research papers is that authors tend to understate their findings, which in practice strengthens the impact of their conclusions.
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by groestl 11mo ago
I think the answer is somewhere in the middle, not as restrictive as parent, but also not as wide as AI companies want us to believe. My personal opinion is that hallucinations (random noise) are a fundamental building block of what makes h
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by groestl 11mo ago
> "hallucination" ... "behaviour that only sometimes resembles thinking" I guess you'll find that if you limit the definition of thinking that much most humans are not capable of thinking either.
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by groestl 11mo ago
We have two optimization mechanisms though which reduce noise with respect to their optimization functions: evolution and science. They are implicitly part of "standing on the shoulders of giants", you pick the giant to stand on (
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by groestl 11mo ago
The way AI (and capitalism really) makes CEOs obsolete is by replacing all companies with just one. So only one CEO needed eventually.
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by groestl 11mo ago
Local storage, sticky sessions, consistent hashing cache
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by groestl 11mo ago
A strong believe of mine: there is no storage, only communication. I hold that thought since I first heard of SRAM, and I think it applies to everything, knowledge, technology, societies, our universe in general..
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by groestl 11mo ago
And then it turns out the bug is actually very intentional behavior.
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by groestl 11mo ago
> in part by giving them a box to put you in and to understand you Identity is a lookup for a custom zlib dictionary, so communication compresses better! Which means we can pick and choose per communication channel. :) Thanks for that th
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by groestl 11mo ago
> the central bank requested That's the answer, it's regulatory bodies causing this.
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by groestl 1y ago
Deploying to bare metal Hetzner for years, very happy with the service. Smart hands work fast and reliable. As soon as you got your stack worked out (which admittedly takes a while), maintaining bare metal is not much different from maintai
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by groestl 1y ago
"Got it. Here's the booking confirmation for your trip to <destination>. I made sure the wooden plank is large enough to fit your whole family."
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by groestl 1y ago
Because they are like very eager Junior devs.
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by groestl 1y ago
Exactly, that's my point.
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by groestl 1y ago
> Right now there's an incremental model arms race Yes, but just like in an actual arms race, we don't know if this can evolve in a winner takes all scenario very quickly and literally.
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by groestl 1y ago
Just the arrangement, the structure, of the simpler things a system is made of, which allows a system to a) sustain and b) replicate.
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by groestl 1y ago
> why do we experience anything? Because the Essence that is the arrangement of molecules replicates onto other molecules, and it is more effective at replicating when it dedicates some of it's molecules to perceive and model it&#x2
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by groestl 1y ago
> a long-standing bug was accidentally fixed In some cases (e.g. in our case) long standing bugs become part of the API that customers rely on.
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by groestl 1y ago
I don't think this is "apologizing mode", rather "funny post-mortem blog post" mode. I found it ironic when the company claimed it will "perform a post mortem to determine exactly what happened" when what
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by groestl 1y ago
They'll probably make you reauthenticate as soon as you do anything, but who knows...
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by groestl 1y ago
> and being unintuitive is the only one that this will fix That's also how I'm approaching it. If all the condensed common wisdom poured into the model's parameters says that this is how my API is supposed to work to be in
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by groestl 1y ago
Engineering: "Will the bridge hold? Yes, with a confidence of 99.95%"
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by groestl 1y ago
I think a validated guess is exactly what a prediction is.
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by groestl 1y ago
Funny how you use a scientific term to discredit applied statistics. I've built useful non-deterministic systems many times and they had nothing to do with AI. Also, particle physics would like to have a word with you.
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by groestl 1y ago
Well, to get the right thing into the context in a performant way when you dealing with a huge dataset is definitely engineering.
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by groestl 1y ago
One could say the whole point of wrapping exceptions is to add additional metadata _if such data is available_. Otherwise, the most basic metadata is tracked automatically: stack locations.
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by groestl 1y ago
No, actually the opposite :)

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