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by hnfong 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by hnfong 1y ago
Why are bad things usually "more important"? Everyone has some flaws, yet generally we remember the positive deeds that great people did in history. The positive deeds are usually exceptional, while the flaws are often commonly fo
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by hnfong 1y ago
Here's an Obfuscated C Contest entry that trains a toy model using LSTM: https://www.ioccc.org/2019/mills/index.html I suppose if you only have 5 minutes this is probably about the level you'd get.
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by hnfong 1y ago
What do you mean, the UK always had a constitution! </S>
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by hnfong 1y ago
Who the heck downvoted the parent comment? This isn't a news article, it's an opinion from some journalist who thinks Beyond Meat is doomed for bankruptcy. I googled "beyond meat chapter 11" and this HN discussion is on
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by hnfong 1y ago
Being confused as to how LLMs see tokens is just a factual error. I think the more concerning error GP makes is how he makes deductions on fundamental nature of the intelligence of LLMs by looking at "bugs" in current iterations o
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by hnfong 1y ago
> Seen these attacks in the wild many times, some at close range. Not skeptical, just curious - do you have like a list of publicly reported incidents out there that we can read to ourselves during bedtime and maybe scare ourselves into
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by hnfong 1y ago
You're probably right, Mojo seems to be more "python-like" than actually source-compatible with python. Bunch of features notably classes are missing.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Besides the LM Arena Leaderboard mentioned by a sibling comment, if go to the r/LocalLlama/ subreddit, you can very unscientifically get a rough sentiment of the performance of the models by reading the comments (and maybe even ch
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by hnfong 1y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I'm guessing the issue is just the model size. If you're testing sub-30B models and finding errors, well they're probably not large enough to remember everything in the training data set, so
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by hnfong 1y ago
What does failing those two questions look like? I don't really know Japanese, so I'm not sure whether I'm missing any nuances in the responses I'm getting...
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by hnfong 1y ago
> But you are right about one thing; no one you know cares about backwards compatibility, otherwise you'd know the difference between what you think you know, and what is actually true. What the hell is this? Even if nobody I know c
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by hnfong 1y ago
Perl doesn't have "perfect backward compatibility" in the normal sense of the word. There is only Perl 5 which is perfectly compatible since it hasn't changed for 25+ years (which is how they achieved "compatibility
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by hnfong 1y ago
Generally, I do agree that in most if not all places, if you get government funding, you can't go against government policy. However, in this case, it's quite hard to argue that Terrence Tao had anything to do with antisemitism or
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by hnfong 1y ago
Re #1: Perl did not only have mod_perl. It also had the same kind of frameworks that made Ruby and Python great for web development. It was called Catalyst and was production ready around the same time as RoR and Django. The real reason why
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by hnfong 1y ago
> Is this a case of companies just spending money on ads, but not actually checking the effectiveness of their ad spend? If you have an online advertising budget and there's only two companies to spend it on... well you don't r
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by hnfong 1y ago
From TFA: "In the last year, government ministers and intelligence agencies have warned that foreign states are using the industry to “carry out their dirty work” in the U.K. — sometimes through the surveillance and harassment of dissi
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by hnfong 1y ago
Have you even read my link? > don't have the immense backing of a state They had backing of a foreign state power, in this case Hong Kong (and by implication China) > it would only take a couple of cases to stick for real prison
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by hnfong 1y ago
> it's been authoritarian, chauvinistic (both internationally with imperialism and domestically via the aristocracy), and theocratic, ever since Harold Godwinson This. The UK was a band of feudal kingdoms that somehow managed to cre
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by hnfong 1y ago
In these cases, if you speak too much you get killed. I'll post one such case to corroborate the article, since it was big news in my community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Hong_Kong_trade_office_sp... Alle
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by hnfong 1y ago
Another shocking story to share. I have a tiny service built on top of Google App Engine that (only) I use personally. I made it 15+ years ago, and the last time I deployed changes was 10+ years ago. It's still running. I have no ide
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by hnfong 1y ago
FWIW, I hear there could be issues with (too much) iron especially for men. At any rate, do be aware that human biology is quite diverse and diets that work for one may not work for others.
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by hnfong 1y ago
His comment when I showed him this thread: "That was my ah-ha moment of recognizing the beauty of codegen"
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by hnfong 1y ago
I think you're referring to "double crypt" of the day 2 problem set. For this problem you submit the result/answer instead of the code, so it shouldn't trigger a compilation/source code limit.
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by hnfong 1y ago
When I learned dynamic programming, I was told this was in contrast to simple memoization in that memoization is a cache of computation, dynamic programming involves a "choice" in each step. For example let's look at the fibo
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by hnfong 1y ago
I think I know the culprit. The story I was told is that the person precomputed some of the results and submitted a huge source file (in tens of megabytes) of hard coded data. This probably led to subsequent amendment of the rules regarding
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by hnfong 1y ago
This is exactly the kind of cynicism that is borderline offensive. According to your logic, no new technology, however wonderful, could be considered more "incredible" than fire, electricity, farming, etc. because the "higher
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by hnfong 1y ago
Unfortunately I think you've proven the GP's point at least on the cynicism part. Unless you have something substantial to support your claim that `LLMs are definitely (emphasis yours) not “the most incredible technology ever cr
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by hnfong 1y ago
Unemployment is actually a symptom of inelasticity(?) of wages. Some people become unemployed instead of getting a minimum wage job. Until Americans can subsist on a 1k monthly salary, the cost advantage in Taiwan is real.
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by hnfong 1y ago
This is probably the right time to bring up this classic: "Did you win the Putnam?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

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