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by hnfong 3y ago
"Prompt engineering" isn't as bad as "social engineering" IMHO. That said, if one's job is just to write prompts (hence "prompt engineer" without the "-ing")... maybe that's actually ba
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by hnfong 3y ago
You can't "Demystify LLMs for people" if you don't know how it works. And it definitely isn't a Marcov model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model ) like you implied it is. As far a
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by hnfong 3y ago
... Slashdot? :P (I mean, I say that with a tongue in cheek but it's probably actually a legit answer...)
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by hnfong 3y ago
To expand on the BEGIN IMMEDIATE part in the context of Django (since this is/was a pet peeve of mine), they recently added the option to do so after keeping the bug open for years: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket
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by hnfong 3y ago
Right. Also, FWIW, 5th edition also didn't have a set symbol, but the "Visions" set was released at around the same time and had a "V" symbol... (I only realized how confusing it was after 27 years lol...
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by hnfong 3y ago
There is some nuance to the assertion that if one doesn't get something they didn't want it enough. But, as pointed out in another comment, the idea is that you either get it or die trying. As long as you haven't given up, th
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by hnfong 3y ago
What makes you think people aren't trying to engineer a solution that uses less RAM? There are millions (billions?) of dollars at stake here, and obviously the best minds are already tackling the problem. Only plebs like us who don&#x2
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by hnfong 3y ago
A maxed out Mac Studio probably fits your requirements as stated.
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by hnfong 3y ago
It doesn't matter whether anyone is "spoiled" or not. The fact is large language models require a lot of VRAM, and the more interesting ones need more than 24GB to run. The people who are able to afford systems with more than
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I wonder why I have wasted so much of my life assembling this tonight. I should've been sleeping. I know that feel :) If it makes you feel better, I read through the whole thing and gave you an upvote. Peace :)
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by hnfong 3y ago
A rather late reply, but in case anyone is reading this.... Django is basically designed to have sqlite deadlocks, and there's a trivial fix (that the dev team refused to include) that allows fixes the problem and allows you to run u
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by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW, having tried both (and having access to both in walking distance), I personally very much prefer most variants of tofu over snake meat. That said the occasional meal of snake soup is also nice!
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by hnfong 3y ago
Yea, the problem is that bad managers likely end up being bad because they don't have this humility.
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by hnfong 3y ago
With the CS and ML hype in full force these days (people with CS majors increasing at double digit % points every year), it does seem like the courses you mentioned might have been taking in a bit too many students and they genuinely have a
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by hnfong 3y ago
I couldn’t agree more. The idea that “working hard and smart leads to success” is “toxic” in so. Any ways one of which you’ve explained. The other is how it leads successful people to (often falsely) believe that their success is mainly att
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by hnfong 3y ago
There’s a difference between being the owner of a construction business and being an employee. The business owner assumes the risks and upside if real estate is to become expensive, but the employees are mostly affected by supply and demand
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by hnfong 3y ago
For non-US investors who resides in a jurisdiction that does not have tax treaty with US, dividends are taxed at 30% rate, while capital gains (expected outcome of buyback) are not (taxed by US govt). The recent movement against stock buyba
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by hnfong 3y ago
It depends whether you include the standard library into consideration. atoi()? strrchr()? srand()? I’d argue the obtuseness of the standard library function names at least influence the legibility of the programs written against them.
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by hnfong 3y ago
> The law is ridiculous if it only turns on whether you had a lawyer ahead of time to tell you what not to say while operating the identical scam. You'd be very shocked... ... but that's essentially what criminal defence is abo
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by hnfong 3y ago
Right, and the ironic thing is that the founder having majority voting shares was allegedly justified by the idea that it would solve the innovators dilemma by not having the founders ("proven" capable of building successful produ
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by hnfong 3y ago
> If you want to say that a problem can be solved by additional intelligence, you need to posit a mechanism. I can posit a mechanism, but that's not my point. The original claim included an argument how intelligence can manipulate p
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by hnfong 3y ago
“I can’t do X, so why would a hypothetical super-intelligent computer be able to do X?”
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by hnfong 3y ago
python3.xx -m venv .
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by hnfong 3y ago
You’re saying after a student learns physics from a copyrighted textbook they have to pay the textbook publisher royalties to work as a physicist?
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by hnfong 3y ago
Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta sunk billions into ventures that aren’t half as profitable as your hypothetical 8B deal, and shareholders haven’t sued yet. Of course the founders have majority voting shares, but that doesn’t pre
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by hnfong 3y ago
I understand your article was about the tech. But you did mention the motivation of geoip for detecting location for selecting a language, and given that's what people still do these days despite Accept-Language headers being available
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by hnfong 3y ago
From your comment it sounds like you affirmed GP's claims...
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's extremely {whatever}-centric to assume that IP location in any way implies anything about one's preferred language. There are multi-lingual countries. There are cultural minorities. People travel. (Not to mention VPNs becomin
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by hnfong 3y ago
One very compelling argument against the idea that current gen LLMs have personal beliefs etc is that they don't have a feedback loop, so they don't really "see" themselves in the way that we can inspect our own thoughts
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by hnfong 3y ago
Then that’s basically saying there is a O(n^2) algorithm which I dealt with in my first sentence.

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