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by hnfong 1y ago
You're right, they should never have given more resources and compute to the OpenAI team after the disaster called GPT-2, which only knew how to spew nonsense.
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by hnfong 1y ago
> the medium was still deterministic Well, you should participate more in the discussions on Undefined Behavior in C/C++....
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by hnfong 1y ago
You can set the temperature of LLMs to 0 and that will make them deterministic. Not necessarily reliable though, and you could get different results if you typed an extra whitespace or punctuation.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Indeed. Unfortunately when that case went to the Supreme Court they basically just said "yeah for this case it's fair use, but we're not going to comment on whether APIs in general are copyrightable"...
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by hnfong 1y ago
You speak as if "license proliferation" is actually a problem. But is it really? Sure, it may make some licenses incompatible with each other, but that's basically equivalent to whining about somebody releasing their code in
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by hnfong 1y ago
Fascinating. Do you have references for the motives/biases of the PO leadership?
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by hnfong 1y ago
We still have gRPC though...
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by hnfong 1y ago
In my native Cantonese (and this probably applies to a lesser extent to Mandarin as well), pronouns are inherently non-gendered, and when we speak in English we tend to randomly pick one (he/she) and thus occasionally get the gender wr
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by hnfong 1y ago
Spores of Clostridium botulinum require temperatures way above boiling point to destroy. Pasteurization doesn't do anything to them.
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by hnfong 1y ago
It does sound like the classic sunk cost fallacy. But it also implies that the would-be-fired person has become better after being "educated", and probably better than the average newly-hired person replacing them if they are fire
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by hnfong 1y ago
A lot of software (eg. ollama) has confusingly named Deepseek's distill/finetunes of other base models "DeepSeek-R1" as well. See eg. https://www.threads.com/@si.fong/post/DKSdUOHzaBB I wonder
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by hnfong 1y ago
FWIW, I've downloaded Deepseek's R1 (DeepSeek-R1-0528 -- which is released after the your linked article) model's weights and ran it locally. I asked it about what happened in Beijing 1989-06-04, and it basically gave me a st
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by hnfong 1y ago
It's survival bias. You'd never see the confusion from would-have-failed standards-wannabes that xkcd927 helped prevent.
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by hnfong 1y ago
> the entire world claims this assumption by action then my claim is inline with the entire world. That's not what you claimed and that's not what I replied to. You said you have a theory, and because of that you know something
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by hnfong 1y ago
I guess it's kinda hubris on my part to question your ability to know things with such high certainty about things that philosophers have been struggling to prove for millenia... What you said is only true for the bits of humanity you
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by hnfong 1y ago
As a somewhat colorblind person, I can tell you that the "actual green" is pretty much a lie :) It's a deeply philosophical question what constitutes a subjective experience of "green" or whatever... but intelligenc
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by hnfong 1y ago
Pretty sure in most other contexts you wouldn't agree a medieval scribe knows how a fax machine works.
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by hnfong 1y ago
> we have a theory of reality that governs things down to the atomic scale and humans and LLMs are made out of atoms. > So because of this we know reality is governed by maths. That's not really true. You have a theory, and let&#
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by hnfong 1y ago
Cheaters might be able to sneak in some loaded dice, so the dice being easy to inspect is good for the house.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Every couple months, Facebook's web interface glitches out and displays the geolocation-based language instead of my preferred language in parts of the UI. I don't know how that happens. Like, do individual teams within Meta have
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by hnfong 1y ago
> Then, as an affect of the first point, users will specify their most practical language, not some actual preference. Where does this assumption come from? Given the fact that many (most? almost all?) sites don't honor the Accept-L
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by hnfong 1y ago
In C you have to do that too, like... malloc()?
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by hnfong 1y ago
If innovation can be reliably reproduced, it wouldn't be innovation. All stories about great inventions happen in the same way: being in the right place and the right time under the right circumstances. In other words, you can curate t
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by hnfong 1y ago
50 years? Nah Like, these things seem obvious in hindsight even now. You already have the whole Internet of data. You already have GPUs. All you need to do is just use the GPUs to feed the scraped (and maybe not-so-legally downloaded) data
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by hnfong 1y ago
I still think it was different in the early 2000s, even after the dot com bubble. "Big Tech" had not been assembled yet. Microsoft was the only tech megacorp in town, and they were _hated_ back then. Apple was still recovering fro
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by hnfong 1y ago
I think you are overestimating the reach of church bells as compared to, say, social media.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Nit: share price was not $0.37, there's been a couple stock splits since.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Pretty sure the US presidential election is on par. Maybe the exact timing is ambiguous since candidates usually declare victory/admit defeat before all the votes have been counted officially, but still.
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by hnfong 1y ago
It tends to randomly barge into your UI when you thought you dismissed/disabled it. And never provides any useful information or suggestions.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Speaking personally, yes, very much so. I see your point, but the issue is that it's quite futile to shame students for playing the game that people in the industry has set up. It doesn't help that in the past, college degrees we

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