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by gwd 2y ago
Unless you have reason to believe the ruling is unjustified, it is a great day for rule of law, upon which democracy rests.
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by gwd 2y ago
In "World War Z" (the book), the scientific "questions" regarding how the zombies work are brought up but not answered. For instance, in the book, the zombies freeze solid in winter and when spring comes thaw and just s
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by gwd 2y ago
In a sense, the neural network structure is the "hardware" of the LLM; and the weights are the "software". But rather than explicitly writing a program, as we do with normal computers, we use the magic of gradient desce
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by gwd 2y ago
> It seems like quite a paradox to build something but to not know how it actually works and yet it works. That's because of the "magic" of gradient descent. You fill your neural network with completely random weights. B
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by gwd 2y ago
> RL learning involves training the models on entire responses, not token-by-token loss... The obvious conclusion is that they plan. It is worth pointing out the "Jailbreak" example at the bottom of TFA: According to their fig
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by gwd 2y ago
What about a chatbot that can render HTML for you, including forms of which it can read the results when you hit SUBMIT, and a text window where you can add extra clarification that it will read?
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by gwd 2y ago
What percentage of the population are in K-12 any given time -- 15%? 20%? To have 1-1 tuition for all of them, we'd have to have at least that many adults also in education.
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by gwd 2y ago
Language is defined by its speakers, as basically a "vote". I'm going to keep voting for "literally" meaning "this actually happened" as long as it's practical, because 1) there are dozens of other w
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by gwd 2y ago
The moreso that those things don't even figuratively set my mind on fire.
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by gwd 2y ago
It never has, it always will. We've already lost a host of words that meant "I'm not exaggerating, I actually mean it": "really", "very", etc. I'm going to keep up the fight.
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by gwd 2y ago
> Imagine at the end of the American Civil War, a confederate army retreated to an island like Cuba or Hawaii, they took it over and have been calling themselves the real America ever since. I mean, for a decade or so, try to re-unify, s
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by gwd 2y ago
Some authentication schemes have a short-lived "authorization token", that is valid for like 5 minutes, and a longer-lived "refresh token", which is valid for like a week or two; and return a 403 when the authorization t
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by gwd 2y ago
The person I was replying to seemed to think that the competitive free market would push news organizations away from "being stupid and advancing stupid news". That would be an example of the market pushing towards "being s
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by gwd 2y ago
> Otherwise I can literally go and start up a newsletter pushing free market views and it'll eventually overtake the competition if they persist in being stupid and advancing stupid views. ...or so one would hope. The fact that Fox
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by gwd 2y ago
> I don't understand the argument that knowing the column names doesn't help an attacker? So Kevin Mitnick supposedly did most of his hacking using "social engineering". He'd call up some person, pretend to be
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by gwd 2y ago
> It doesn't really matter what their intent is when the result is the same. I mean, yeah, people die regardless of the motive. There's some saying about how boys may throw rocks in jest, but the frogs die in earnest. That&#x
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by gwd 2y ago
Thanks for the heads-up; I was pretty confused why I was getting downvoted, as it seemed like "Here's a counterexample to your claim" is pretty on-topic. Unfortunately I only noticed it after the window to edit the comment wa
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by gwd 2y ago
But was that malice, or stupidity? Do you think they disbanded pandemic prep because they wanted people to die in a pandemic? It seems much more likely that they were too stupid to realize that being unprepared for a pandemic is way mor
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by gwd 2y ago
> Phrased this way without any help, all but the thinking models get it wrong I C&P'd it into Claude 3.7 with thinking, and it gave the correct answer (which I'm pretty sure is #2). Including the CoT, where it actually doe
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by gwd 2y ago
Interesting that the "correct diff format" score went from 99.6% with Claude 3.5 to 93.3% for Claude 3.7. My experience with using claude-code was that it consistently required several tries to get the right diff. Hopefully all
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by gwd 2y ago
Just started playing with the command-line tool. First reaction (after using it for 5 minutes): I've been using `aider` as a daily driver, with Claude 3.5, for a while now. One of the things I appreciate about aider is that it tells
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by gwd 2y ago
Interesting deep-dive; but I'm afraid the diagnosis for authoritarianism at the end doesn't really ring true to me. He sees More defending things he must know deep down can't be true; but he doesn't actually see why, he
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by gwd 2y ago
Ah, but which pronunciation? English has quite a few...
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by gwd 2y ago
I'm not a fan of Bill Gates in a lot of ways, but he actually has experience building and running a large, successful, long-lived organization. There's no way he'd come in and make drastic changes to an organization he knows
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by gwd 2y ago
> Multiple readers are okay but a single writer will cause transient errors in all other concurrent read and write operations They don't cause "transient errors", they cause transaction failures, which you should be handli
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by gwd 2y ago
One side says, "I remember this thing from when I was 1 year old". Another says, "You cannot remember it, you must have reconstructed it from being told or from pictures." The memory itself can certainly be falsified: if
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by gwd 2y ago
Why do you think you know that? How would you know if you were wrong?
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by gwd 2y ago
First of all, I'd say his question is a bit ambiguous -- even reading his little history there, it's not clear what answer he wanted. It appears we have two renamings: - Brachiosaus brancai (species) -> Brachiosarus (Giraffati
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by gwd 2y ago
You've got nearly 50 languages on there. This is the second language-learning site I've seen launch on HN with a huge number of languages, far more than the team creating the site can possibly have expertise in. I can't hel
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by gwd 2y ago
> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reaso

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