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by jwilber 1y ago
A stat no doubt brought to us by genai-automated scraping. FWIW, this post seems longer than most of OPs usual posts. I’ll also add: as a longtime user of em-dashes, the constant low-effort dismissal of any writing using an em-dash as “must
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by jwilber 1y ago
I agree that LLMs are hurting the general population’s capacity to think (assuming they use it often. I’ve certainly noticed a slight trend among students I’ve taught to use less effort, and myself to some extent). I don’t agree that this w
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by jwilber 1y ago
I’m making no judgment as to whether or not it’s smart. Just an observation on the state of affairs. I do think a zeitgeist where it being openly done is applauded as smart is a sad state of the country.
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by jwilber 1y ago
Only 100 days on and we celebrate open crony capitalism as a smart business decision.
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by jwilber 1y ago
Hired left and right != interviewed left and right != interviewed quite a few at Crowdstrike. Maybe you’re contributing to the narrative with the posts like above. It’ll certainly drive engagement.
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by jwilber 1y ago
The key is the “…over a certain size” solely benefiting the richest man in the world, who just so happens to be heavily involved (despite no election) in the very government setting the policy and determining the size.
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by jwilber 1y ago
LLM/state space models have been popular for some years now, see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14052 More recently, hybrid architectures that utilize attention plus other operators are gaining traction. See https:&
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by jwilber 1y ago
Any leading model. Ask it to generate the ui from the screenshot. Follow up and describe the required animations, and it will give you the css/js. Do it all the time.
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by jwilber 1y ago
This is just selling components someone else wrote, right? Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matter of seeing others work, taking a screenshot, asking ai to recreate it, and then
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by jwilber 1y ago
Amazing work. Motherduck and the duckdb ecosystem have done a great job of gathering talented engineers with great taste. Craftsmanship may be the word I’m looking for - I always look forward to their releases. I spent the first two quarter
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by jwilber 1y ago
You’re conflating social taboos with societal taboos.
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by jwilber 1y ago
See also My War Gone By, I Miss It So - a book about the author’s time as a war correspondent in Bosnia during the Yugoslavian War. After the war, he became addicted to heroin for lack of the excitement that the war brought. https:/&#
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by jwilber 1y ago
There’s an interactive visual of Entropy here in the Where To Partition section (midway thru the article): https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/
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by jwilber 2y ago
The implication is they're all in the same club. And if you know any family members of members of Congress, you know this to be true!
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by jwilber 2y ago
Maybe it's a friend of Trump. Maybe it's a friend of Pelosi. Might even be a member of Congress! "Rules for thee not for me."
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by jwilber 2y ago
Can you provide an example? I’ve been using d3 on-and-off for almost 10 years, and the core docs have just gone from README’s to static-hosted pages with the same (version-specific) content (eg https://d3js.org/d3-selection&
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by jwilber 2y ago
Anecdotally, I get dramatically better sleep after good cardio. Weightlifting doesn’t seem to have much of an effect.
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by jwilber 2y ago
"Observable is obnoxious if you want to add a D3 pie chart to your Vue application and have to untangle calls to D3’s API from reactive cell values, which look like ordinary JavaScript, but are not, and will cause compilation and runti
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by jwilber 2y ago
What makes you think this? Separate, possibly unrelated question: what was trump’s goal when he created and rug pulled the Trump coin?
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by jwilber 2y ago
"You can use as many italics as you want but I don’t think it’s a wildly bold claim and your counter example is simply silly." I don't understand the relevance of any of this, but I think I've done a fair job outlining m
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by jwilber 2y ago
This is a very bizarre take. If you want to just blindly copy and paste d3 code, you may have issues with the docs being hosted on observable. But absolutely zero part of the d3 api (or core design patterns of use) have anything to do wit
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by jwilber 2y ago
Convolutions are used in many non-image applications, including language (eg dilated convolutions have been popular for some time) and 1D cases. The paper I linked references the hyena operator, which is literally a convolution replacement
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by jwilber 2y ago
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer here, but in my experience, for long contexts, perf for conv-based methods outperforms strictly attention-based methods. See evo2: “With the current implementation of Evo2, we do not have the heavily opti
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by jwilber 2y ago
Achieved by “applying convolution operations over queries, keys and heads, allowing nearby queries and keys to affect each other's attention weights for more precise attention” Cool to see convolutions making such a comeback lately in
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by jwilber 2y ago
You absolutely do pay to be on that list, definitely an anti-signal.
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by jwilber 2y ago
What’s your viewpoint on Americans being sent to el Salvadoran prisons because they keyed a Ford?
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by jwilber 2y ago
Link works fine for me, thanks op. Hegseth’s consequence free, ego-first behavior is about what one would expect from a talking head turned secretary of defense. So much for merit.
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by jwilber 2y ago
Agree. Loved Svelte, but after the update I made the switch to React and can’t imagine going back outside of small, static viz apps.
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by jwilber 2y ago
The link I’m reading (the one you sent) starts with planning, not font loading? The second link seems very irrelevant, but makes Mozilla look good. The long time contributor in that thread is giving a showcase on how not to behave in open-s
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(New York Times, 2021) Liberal Hypocrisy Is Fueling American Inequality(youtube.com)
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