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by hnfong 3y ago
It's sad that Perl is dying a slow death. Between Python and Perl, both styles of coding are possible. While Python is my preferred language for most tasks, I still use perl as an ad hoc stream processor with `perl -pe` and nothing rea
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by hnfong 3y ago
What are mathematical proofs but mere 'thoughts'? (I'm only being half rhetorical. I've been thinking about this deeply lately.)
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by hnfong 3y ago
Apparently, according to my search results - - Accountants become Senior Associates at around the 3rd year. - Lawyers becomes Senior Associates at around the 6th year. - It seems that doctors can complete their fellowship around the 7th yea
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by hnfong 3y ago
Also see the even more sleazy-sounding "PAC": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct...
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by hnfong 3y ago
Assuming your claim is not equivalent to "matrix multiplication is in O(n^2)", then it is false assuming conventional mathematics (i.e. uncountable sets exist), because j in R is uncountable, and algorithms are countable...
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by hnfong 3y ago
The first 3 steps GP provided are literally just the steps for installation. The "value" you mentioned is just a packaged installer (or, in the case of Linux, apparently a `curl | sh` -- and I'd much prefer the git clone vers
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's the "GNU/Linux" thing all over again....
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by hnfong 3y ago
> > Are their products more reliable, more fully featured, and objectivley better than their competitiors? No they are not. > This is your personal opinion. My personal opinion, is very much the opposite. Yeah, the GP's person
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Right, and the converse is you accepting any evidence that I literally said one must update their priors, not just "accepting" it. Or maybe updating priors is a form of "acceptance", but now you claim it isn't
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by hnfong 3y ago
What public backlash? It seems people here are content to call those who suspect Epstein suicide "very gullible"... It's interesting how the English language labels people "conspiracy theorists", like how the totall
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by hnfong 3y ago
If you dismiss all the evidence "supporting this theory" (your words) then obviously you wouldn't find anything that supports it. Evidence does not have to be perfect. Even biased evidence should update your priors. There is
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by hnfong 3y ago
> This seems more like an "I'm not a threat" signal for governments In other places, this would be called "self-censorship".
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by hnfong 3y ago
I just realized who I was replying to :) While we're on this topic, wonder whether you have comments about this -- Given that a sentence has a lot of redundant data (grammatical constructs, etc.), saying a model has 99% accuracy might
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by hnfong 3y ago
Saying "X is true because otherwise, it would be quite a shocker" isn't really a proof. It's almost an appeal to common sense. (which, admittedly, is often the best argument we have). IMHO there's often a bit of ove
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by hnfong 3y ago
People can be right about problems with a process or way of thinking without being the next Einstein. There's no need to get personal.
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by hnfong 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_light
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by hnfong 3y ago
We used to call this "reverse engineering". I'm not familiar with what the law says on reverse engineering, but calling it "stealing" seems a bit too much.
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by hnfong 3y ago
On a related point, there's a post on r/LocalLlama/ a short while ago claiming that quantization impacts perf more than people think: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1b5uv86/pe
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by hnfong 3y ago
To be fair, GP compared the LLM hype with crypto... And as niche crypto may be in the future, I don't think it will also "peter out without leaving a major impact on society"...
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by hnfong 3y ago
A couple factors to consider: 1. The hardware isn't nVidia's primary moat. CUDA is. Currently all machine learning tooling assumes you have a CUDA device. 2. The hype cycle may be real, but nobody really knows how much better AI w
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by hnfong 3y ago
I felt I fully understood git after I realized it was just a data structure. The data structure isn't even complicated (there are commits, and then there are directories and files associated with the commits), and once I understood the
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by hnfong 3y ago
The CIA can basically tap into any network they want. Why take a big risk grooming an intern to join Huawei when you can just get what you want with the tap of a button?
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by hnfong 3y ago
The point is that EU employment law (whether somebody can be fired upon saying things) isn't relevant to a dispute between two business entities that are not in an employer/employee relationship...
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Idk, subjectively it feels as end of Apple we all know. You do rationally realize the cognitive dissonance in your subjective feeling, right? A company that is accused of abusing their market position, competitors trying to break into
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by hnfong 3y ago
If you're happy with the commercial offerings there isn't a very compelling reason to use local models. The local ones are not "better" in general. But sometimes people have reasons to use local models, eg. privacy, cust
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by hnfong 3y ago
GP says "graphs can be conveniently represented as matrices", which I believe is totally correct. The GP's claim that graphs (not matrices) are equivalent to edge lists is almost correct. The textbook definition of graphs is
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by hnfong 3y ago
Using M1/2/3 Max for LLM inference isn't at all "speculative", it's a thing today and high end Apple Silicon being an option for LLM inference is becoming general knowledge among the local inference community.
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by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW for me Google seems relatively stable, but I tried logging into a lesser used gmail account on a lesser used browser, successfully logged in for like 10 seconds, then got logged out. It's very spooky when supposedly the two compan
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by hnfong 3y ago
From a process/QA perspective I doubt this can ever be properly tested. Sure you can set up a UX to show that the auth server is somehow down and discourage users from trying to login/reset passwords, but when shit hits the fan, y
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by hnfong 3y ago
It doesn't set a "precedent" in the strict legal sense, especially that there's no point of law being discussed. But it does set a "precedent" in that when courts deal with similar cases in the future, they wou

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