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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Related—“Too DRY - The Grep Test” by Jamie Wong: http://jamie-wong.com/2013/07/12/grep-test/
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Ha, this is neat!! I’d never heard of the Lucas sequence before, thanks for the new knowledge!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Wow, I'm actually really interested in how you did that. Did the differences between chunks correspond to changes in word/token frequencies? Or did you embed the logs into some other space first? This is a pretty nifty idea; the o
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Yea that’s a good point! On the one hand, it’s cool to look at the JavaScript the LLM generates to test its hypotheses in the logs (you can click “expand” to see them). On the other hand you’re right that especially given that it’s (presuma
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Yea! Do you think the LLM learns a Fibonacci-specific circuit? Do you think it is possible for an LLM to learn a general pattern-recognition circuit?
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Haha thanks for catching that—fixed! That’s pretty ironic. Looks like I’m the LLM and you’re the human :P Now I can’t remember whether the house was 3147 or 1347. The pattern might have been to add the first digit to the last digit (unrot +
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Hi HN! I'm about to go to bed, but I promise to go through comments when I wake up later today. Happy Friday! The source code for the demo is on GitHub: https://github.com/jyc/stackbee
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LLMs struggle to explain themselves(jonathanychan.com)
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
PDF natively supports selectable/extractable text. Section 9.10 of ISO 32000 is literally “Extraction of Text Content.” I’ve implemented it myself in production software. There are many good reasons why PDF has a “render glyph” instruc
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
That's super interesting to learn, thanks for letting me know! I'm a software guy but I love learning about sensors, it's always amazing.
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I also could not believe inertial navigation systems worked as well as they do when I first learned about them. At some point in time the most sophisticated IMUs were actually export-controlled! Maybe this has changed or is ineffective now
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> The new guidance platform also added a gyrocompass under the alignment block, a special compass that could precisely align itself to North by precessing against the Earth's rotation. At first, the gyrocompass was used as a backup
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Thanks for this! I tried joining a few other channels on Libera like #robotics and ##typetheory but they’re kinda dead. Usenet Newsgroups are also all spam. Will check it out.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I mean the problem is there won't be any books directly refuting Nate Silver's argument because it's essentially just "people who disagree with me are irrational." Right-of-center, "Wait But Why" by Tim Ur
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
"The River" is just a weird rebranding of the same gray tribe/rationalist (Slate Star Codex) high-rung vs. low-rung/golem (Tim Urban of "Wait But Why") stuff. The late David Graeber put it better than I can: &g
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Also interested in recs. The only comments I'd heard about baijiu before actually trying it were in the vein of the rather hyperbolic sibling comment that compares it to cow feces. I was surprised to find the particular baijiu I tried
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Nope. Most compression does not mix up characters the way JBIG2 does (see the article), and most OCR does not substitute plausible text in for text it fails to scan. Let's say the text is "The laptop costs $1,000 (one thousand dol
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
It's a very interesting idea, but the potential for hallucinations reminds me of JBIG2, a compression format which would sometimes substitute digits in faxed documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
You asked for an explanation of why you're being downvoted. Here is another comment that is effectively an advertisement, but one that adds value: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41113750 More than anything, your
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Just wanted to say I really appreciated the high-quality comparison. How something compares to existing work is my #1 question whenever I read an announcement like this.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I’m not even a big OCaml fan (you can use Algolia on my comment history…), but this article is just factually wrong. > For example, let's say you're iterating over some structure and collecting your results in a sequence. The m
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
They also somehow broke scrolling via the scroll bar, swipe to go back, and jumping to text search results on iOS! This is the first site that I’ve seen break so many browser features.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I’m not too familiar with gacha games, so I was intrigued. I thought the criticism of EA’s former CEO was funny. But the rest of the article felt like a lot of term-dropping and examples that aren't linked together into a cohesive theo
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> fully fonctionnal Wii (as in, it works on its own as you would expect from a regular Wii) compared to this one where it needs other accessories to be able to play. I don’t believe the Wii you linked includes an IR bar, which is what yo
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
You might have replied to the wrong comment. You are talking about people wanting better paying jobs. I am talking about people wanting their house to be an investment. Perhaps you are implying that even if the price of houses increases, if
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I find it particularly infuriating when people want their house to be an “investment” while complaining about increasing rates of homelessness. How is the price supposed to go up unless supply fails to meet demand?
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Laughed out loud at the unexpected "90/100" rating at the end. Very interesting read. Thought this was interesting in particular: > When serving in Iraq or Iran, my biggest fear in those places was always the threat of phy
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Congratulations on the sale!! I love your blog and have really appreciated your retrospectives.
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
Not GP, but thanks for your detailed comment and the paper reference.
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
I’ve been a Netlify users on the Pro plan for a few years now. Moving from Netlify to CloudFlare after this; “this didn’t come through in the initial support reply” doesn’t cut it for a $100k bill.

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