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by jll29 2y ago
The influence of the (pseudo-)random number generator is called "temperature" in most models. Setting it to 0 in theory eliminates all randomness, and instead of choosing one from a list of next words that may be predicted, always
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by jll29 2y ago
That's why meeting in person is so important, whatever the area.
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by jll29 2y ago
EC scientific expert here (occasionally judging FP7/8/Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe grants in multiple areas including AI). I also authored some bigger proposals, one rejected (score: 13/15) and one funded. It is perhaps n
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by jll29 2y ago
As much as I sympathize with this post and similar ones, and as much I personally like functional thinking, LISP environments are not nearly as advanced anymore as they used to be. Which Common LISP or Scheme environment (that runs on, say
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by jll29 2y ago
Not just "incorporated", you would also have to have ported it to various computers that were sold (as MSFT did - and that Bill Gates' parents were lawyers with IBM contacts helped a lot). NZ is a fantastic country, but is re
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by jll29 2y ago
There are reasons for Americans to be concerned; more importantly, they should protest and now hide. Rhetorical question: Who would you rather be loyal to, (a) a man who grabs women, pays prostitutes to silence them, and has been convicted
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by jll29 2y ago
The contents of the Trump administration's Signal groups are as likely to be backed up and handed over to the national archives as the contents of Hillary Clinton's or Ursula Van der Leyen's blackberries.
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by jll29 2y ago
> More importantly, separating the dynamic linker from the C library itself would allow multiple versions of libc to coexist, eliminating a major source of compatibility issues. This is exactly how Windows handles it, which is one o
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by jll29 2y ago
BiasScanner - a non-profit project to fight non-neutral news reporting with a special LLM model wrapped in a Firefox plugin (that marks biased sentences yellow when you read your news online). In JavaScript and Python -- see https:/&#
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by jll29 2y ago
...and why use LLMs specifically? In many cases, other methods run faster/scale better/use less energy.
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HR don't know what coders want, but sadly most of their clients do not care that much either. This is a pity, because happy developers are the key to retention.
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AI professor here. Anything that can separate data apoints can rightly been seen as a "supervised machine learning classifier". Todemystify the area, I literally introduce my intro to ML lecture by drawing a line on the board, giv
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by jll29 2y ago
A few years ago, Edinburgh-based Rhetorical Systems produced custom corporate voices. They were unsuccessful due to lack of demand and high cost), and (the company that is today called) Nuance snapped them up. Now, with LLMs, voice morphing
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by jll29 2y ago
Running the built-in "strings" command to extract a few file names from a binary is hardly hacking/cracking. Ironically, though, getting the source code of Gemini perhaps wouln't be valuable at all; but if you had found&
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by jll29 2y ago
The post should at least mention in passing the major problem with CSV: it is a "no spec" family of de-facto formats, not a single thing (it is an example of "historically grown"). And omission of that meams I'm goi
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by jll29 2y ago
Here are more details about the "proof of concept": https://eu-os.gitlab.io/goals#from-home This seems to be more about Linux deployment in big organizations, they say goal isn't to develop yet another distro
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by jll29 2y ago
Kevin Murphy's lecture on Frost is the best one I've ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5140uJOUDE He first recaps the conventional view people have about Frost, then reads "The Road Not Taken"
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It may console you: in some sense, the top 4900 are more valuable than the top-100. Why? Everybody here knows Paul Graham. I know Krebs and Schneier, most of you will, too. In a long tail distribution like this, the top entries (left) are t
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by jll29 2y ago
That's okay. You may still benefit from knowing each other when you run out of milk and shops are closed, or whatever favor neighbors can provide via the valuable indirect social graph connections (need a reference for a job or to ente
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San Francisco is a great city for that, because it is very walkable (if you have the energy to manage its steep hills). There is a close connection between urban architecture and whether or not community building can take place, and sadly,
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If you travel to a high risk country (e.g. USA, China, Russia - or most outside of the European Union), it's best to leave your smart phone and laptop at home. If you absolutely need something to make calls and check email, buy a non-s
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by jll29 2y ago
Beautiful sound - could anyone here point me to a method to upload such sounds onto standard keyboards (e.g. Yamaha PSR or Casio CT series), please? Thanks i.a.
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by jll29 2y ago
Very smart. The problem is not that they have unreasonable rules, but that the implementation is very erratic/volatile/arbitrary right now. Trump orders + a layer of a mix of both Trump fanboys and Trump haters makes it hit or mis
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I recommend you don't visit the US, no matter where you are from, unless your life depends on it.
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You probably meant "You were free before you used facebook."
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> The former is nicer to program while the latter is nicer to use. When I have such a situation, I'm inclined to write myself my own pre-processor (as I did for Pascal once in a previous millenium, on an Atari ST 520+), so that you
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I like the idea of collecting a list of books that you would take with you on a remote island. Imagine you would never leave that island, what would you take? - The Art of Computer Programming I-IVb - Structure and Interpretation of Compute
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by jll29 2y ago
> I agree that treating reading as the only way to ingest information is probably wrong The good news is that not only does the "private researcher" (curious individual person without a research background or job) nowadays have
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> Android is the only one that has gotten any meaningful traction. In my book, Android doesn't count as a Google product, as it was a 2005 acquisition: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-acquisition-...
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We all know a lot of people frowned when YouTube was acquired. Now we know that was an excellent deal for Google (now Alphabet), despite being a long bet. Good to have top security talent and good cloud security tooling if you're in a

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