int_19h

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by int_19h 10mo ago
And why does US have to be involved in any of that? If we really want to "promote democracy" so badly, let's start with Saudi Arabia.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Organize for what? Protests? And the administration would care about it why, exactly?
573.
by int_19h 10mo ago
Given how easily people throw around such accusations based solely on things like "it has an em dash", I think it's entirely reasonable to ignore them at this point.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I think the idea is solid, but the specifics are more involved than just making sure that it maps nicely to tokens. One thing in particular that I've noticed is that many of language features that enable concise code - such as e.g. typ
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I didn't do it because I expected it to influence the decision makers. I did it because I don't want to be knowingly aiding and abetting the kinds of things ICE does. But to answer your other questions... No, democracy isn't
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Because it is a fairly easy thing - it's a code transform that's mostly mechanical. And it also improves code quality, unusual for an optimization. So if that nets you those extra few percent, why not?
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by int_19h 10mo ago
US has fairly weak antitrust post-Bork. But even more importantly, NVIDIA is literally paying extra to the feds right now from each GPU sold to China. So they are "in good standing". Why we allow such blatant bribery is another qu
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Google at least pretends to "not be evil". Palantir is proud of their work on the ICE contract.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Palantir indeed has a lot of clients, but governments - and in particular, US federal agencies - are still the biggest and most lucrative customers. Nor is Palantir blind to what those customers are using the tech for - indeed, their whole
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by int_19h 10mo ago
This omits the crucial part of which old databases they do this to when working for e.g. the US federal government, and what the result is used for. When it came to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
581.
by int_19h 10mo ago
For what LangChain does, yes, handrolled code. There won't be much of it because it doesn't actually do all that much. As for "import openai", that's actually somewhat orthogonal, but if what you want is a common AP
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Descriptors underpin some common language features like method calls (that's how `self` gets bound), properties etc. You can still do it by special casing all those, and making sure that the way you implement all those primitives works
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by int_19h 10mo ago
That was also true back when it was actively developed though. X apps compiled a long time ago still run fine today.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
You'd be surprised at how little speedup you get from simply JIT-compiling the Python bytecode. It's so high-level that most interesting stuff happens in the layers below anyway.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Python is much, much more dynamic. E.g. look at how something as basic as accessing an attribute on an object works: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html Also Python has a de facto stable(ish) C ABI for
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Games aren't written in Python as a whole, but Python is used as a scripting language. It's definitely less popular now than it used to be, mostly thanks to Lua, but it still happens.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I doubt it would have a JIT a long time ago. Thing is, people have been making JIT compilers for Python for a long time now, but the semantics of the language itself is such that it's often hard to benefit from it because most of the t
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I'll admit that I haven't looked it in a while, but as originally released, it was a textbook example on how to complicate a fundamentally simple and well-understood task (text templates, basically) with lots of useless abstractio
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It was a thing 25 years ago already in SMS and IM.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Please require some form of annotation like an explicit `tailcall` operator or something similar. TCO wrecks havoc on actionable backtraces, so it should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
You don't need full fledged TCO for that; see Clojure's recur for an example. Zig recently added something similar but strongly typed with match/continue. These all map exactly to a closed set of mutually recursive functions
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It's a Lisp thing, obviously, but also there's a benefit to explicit delimiters - it makes it possible to have an expression as an element without wrapping that in its own brackets, as S-exprs require.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Given that it's the AI doing the coding, it would be pretty quickly so long as it's decent at Haskell. Which it already is, surprisingly so actually for such a niche language. It doesn't necessarily write great code, but it
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by int_19h 10mo ago
> Before the internet, governments already had data on their citizens. Indeed, and there were some notorious examples of how that was abused for large scale oppression (with Holocaust being the pinnacle), so why would we want them to hav
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by int_19h 10mo ago
This is also happening right now with ICE combing through the various federal databases that they previously didn't have access to. But the worst thing is that the sheer amounts of compute available to even fairly small organizations,
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by int_19h 10mo ago
That's because people didn't make it a point to performatively notice them. But e.g. macOS and iOS have been auto-inserting them for a long time now. Ditto Word.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
The benchmarks haven't reflected the real utility for a very long time. At best they tell you which models are definitely bad.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Also of note: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/us-technology-leaders-ai-facto...
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Palantir and Nvidia Team Up to Operationalize AI(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
6 points by int_19h 10mo ago|1 comments
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Meanwhile, today: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-palantir-ai-enterp... https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/us-technology-leaders-ai-facto...

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