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by hnfong 3y ago
So I was casually searching for "ugrep vs ripgrep" articles, when I stumbled upon a couple reddit posts where apparently the authors of ugrep and ripgrep seemed to have a multi-year feud on reddit, eg. https://www.reddi
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by hnfong 3y ago
21B isn't much in the grand scheme of things. But the 10 year treasury yield went to 5%. A historical high. It was noticed.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Thought it was sarcasm... (sorry..)
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by hnfong 3y ago
I thought about fractals while reading the article too. And I'm starting to worry that maybe fractal-like concepts not only apply to geometry (as in, "how long is the coastline", or "what direction is the coastline at po
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by hnfong 3y ago
Given that we already know that there was a conspiracy (by the now-ousted OpenAI board to remove Sam Altman), and that people here on HN have been theorizing about this for almost a week now, your definition makes everyone who commented a
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by hnfong 3y ago
This was on HN two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38157524 - Show HN: LLaVaVision: An AI "Be My Eyes"-like web app with a llama.cpp backend Probably worth a try. I suspect with the advances in AI
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by hnfong 3y ago
Reading about how YC handled the situation, it's quite obvious that OpenAI's board should have taken a page out of YC's playbook on how to fire an important person (or maybe even sama specifically) without stirring up unneces
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's "just" a port of GGML (written in C++) to wasm with some additional Rust code.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Are we really going to essentially outlaw releasing buggy software now? And taking down software and services once a security issue has been found? Because I don't think any software I wrote was ever 100% bug-free. And all bugs are pot
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by hnfong 3y ago
Arguably Christie's (the auction house) invented the concept of NFT before there were NFTs. I mean, the value of art may be undervalued by society in general , but paintings that sell for hundreds of millions of dollars is just insane
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by hnfong 3y ago
:-/ OK I'll bite. > Which definition will prevail if a dispute about model use comes to court in the Chinese legal system? The license specifies that the applicable laws are the laws of the PRC, and NOT the laws of Macau, Hong
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by hnfong 3y ago
It may be unlikely, and perhaps "unconvincing", but honestly curious - why does it annoy you? The idea that the flood myths came from an oral tradition ten thousand years ago doesn't even require the first assumption you ment
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians, etc. all have flood myths that are strikingly similar to the Noah myth. Not sure about the others, but at least the Chinese "flood myth", the legend of Yu the Great, is qual
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by hnfong 3y ago
Since you're trying to attribute subjective probabilities to things with "zero evidence", it seems the only disagreement here is about one's priors. You probably think your methodology is "evidence based" thoug
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by hnfong 3y ago
That's the tradeoff Debian users consciously make. And it's a good one IMHO. Not sure why you make it sound like a bad thing. For the stuff that you really _need_ to have the latest version, you have options to install it yourself
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by hnfong 3y ago
> That license asserts that Taiwan is part of China It asserts that Taiwan is NOT part of "mainland of the PRC China". The clarification is required because under PRC law, Taiwan is part of the PRC by default. > requires you
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by hnfong 3y ago
Not necessarily. The demand for doctors is generally greater than the supply. Because the profession gatekeeps. The law of one price requires free market competition.
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by hnfong 3y ago
It depends on how you measure "inflation". The standard way is to measure the amount of stuff money can buy, where "stuff" is daily necessities and so on. But prices are just relative. It can be argued that such daily ne
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by hnfong 3y ago
Technologies become more complex as people accumulate experience. Web only started in the 90s, and was intentionally designed to be simple (html and stuff). Even so, it's morphed into a very complex thing already. It doesn't feel
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by hnfong 3y ago
> inevitable difference between "true" and "provable" (ie Godel's incompleteness). Now that part is pretty much solved, we are fairly confident that the foundations of mathematics are consistent. Your assertion a
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by hnfong 3y ago
No, I mean, I'm native in Chinese and reasonably literate in classical Chinese, and my assessment is that ChatGPT's understanding and generation of classical Chinese leaves much to be desired. As an aside, if your reading of the T
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by hnfong 3y ago
GP is talking about Confucian text for f's sake... Whatever the meaning of the text that GP quoted, there is a definitely clear call for action, something to do with studying hard and taking on official duties.
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by hnfong 3y ago
As it currently stands, ChatGPT is quite bad at classical Chinese.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think it's even simpler than that. A lot of the treadmills that society places upon us are just bullshit. It's packaged as "long term goals" to make it sound more plausible (you'll either forget you were conned or
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'd add that the devil is in the details of the "copy". To accurately simulate/copy the " sensory experience ", you'll have to simulate/copy the entire "observable universe" of the person. U
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by hnfong 3y ago
> In my opinion my actions are a deterministic function of the state of my mind (including memory, personality) + input. I have no choice in the matter, only an illusion of one It's important to note that as far as materialist physi
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by hnfong 3y ago
There's admittedly a relationship, but it's very subtle and nuanced. For example, you can predict that I'm going to pay my rent with > 90% accuracy, but that has nothing to do with whether I'm paying out of my free wi
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by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW, the main developer of GGML apparently runs a M2 Ultra himself. Apple Silicon is a first class citizen on GGML and runs fast. See eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16o4ka8/running...
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by hnfong 3y ago
Although pytorch is in python, some ML features in SoTA libraries are coded against CUDA and complains if you don't have a CUDA device. A lot of things work out of the box with pytorch on mps, but not everything, and it can be frustrat
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by hnfong 3y ago
There are other ways to reach one's goals or dreams, but at least for GP's case it seems the "idolization" of Bill Gates and Microsoft has motivated them to work hard and improvement themselves to the point that they cou

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