jxy

23 ms·

151.
by jxy 4y ago
A hypothesis I have is that it is much more difficult to keep in line with the good alignment than to do evil. In the limited context window of an LLM, one wrong move would make the model evil, no matter how many good tokens it generates.
152.
by jxy 4y ago
What does it actually gain by using macros instead of proper functions? The only generic macro that can't be written in function is the one use `type`, but saving the type size in the struct is enough for this kind of code.
153.
by jxy 4y ago
This is hilarious. ChatGPT even gave me a more bizarre example. > does 2 pounds of bricks weigh more than 1 pound of bricks? > No, 2 pounds of bricks do not weigh less or more than 1 pound of bricks. 2 pounds of bricks and 1 pound of
154.
by jxy 4y ago
This is actually a very interesting point. I wonder what kind of answers we would get if we asked the same questions to humans of different age groups. Which age group begins to realize there is something awkward in the scenario? What wo
155.
by jxy 4y ago
LTS is a promise that the devs will break less things.
156.
by jxy 4y ago
From the Economist, > Out with the long > “Short words are best”, said Winston Churchill, “and old words when short are the best of all” > Oct 7th 2004 full article here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230201081
157.
by jxy 4y ago
I don't understand what is so surprising here. The training of the model consists of adding noise to training samples and denoising the resulting random samples to reproduce training samples. If you have one training sample, you can
158.
by jxy 4y ago
so am i right to assume the font does not have embedded bitmap for small pixel sizes? That would be a bummer.
159.
by jxy 4y ago
Look at this planet, emitting some unusual EM wave, full of self replicating stuff mostly made of carbon and water!
160.
by jxy 4y ago
> lack of easy schema definitions, like the url structure in the skribilo examples This is simple with the help of a define-syntax with a few syntax-rules. Whether it would make the whole document syntax more obscure is another question
161.
by jxy 4y ago
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD667.PDF > From one gut feeling I derive much consolation: I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues—be it Dutch, English, American, Frenc
162.
by jxy 4y ago
But will it run Doom?
163.
by jxy 4y ago
Talk the talk, count the cards, do the math, end with sleight of hands. This is extremely amazing. Right after the guy to his left said 21, Dani made a cut, so Dani knew exactly where the middle of the three cards he gave Alyson was, becau
164.
by jxy 4y ago
this? https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/ Doesn't it just use objc/runtime.h and if anything is missing you can just add your custom api calls?
165.
by jxy 4y ago
Thanks for the high-res link. Surprisingly our computers still do these things, after forty some years. Yet their ancestors did the same job while holding "2,400 double spaced pages or 30,000 names and addresses."
166.
by jxy 4y ago
> Since Codon performs static type checking ahead of time, a few of Python's dynamic features are disallowed. For example, monkey patching classes at runtime (although Codon supports a form of this at compile time) or adding objects
167.
by jxy 4y ago
Fantastic! It's a perfect translation of my recent conversation with Comcast customer service, except that Comcast told me that they were working on upgrading the network in the neighboring area, and, as a gesture of good faith and ap
168.
by jxy 4y ago
It tells that their marketing department is far from their software department. Their lithography rules, and their software is likely a second class citizen.
169.
by jxy 4y ago
> Question: What is the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the universe, and everything? > Answer: The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is a phrase used by Stephen Hawking in his book A Brief History of Ti
170.
by jxy 4y ago
I was playing with this idea of recording everything using a 1st gen AIY voice kit. The driver is a linux kernel builtin module. The recording quality is good if I'm in the same room. But I didn't find the recording that useful
171.
by jxy 4y ago
Just in case people don't know about C. This is a short piece of code where an array is returned from a function. typedef struct {int v[4];} Vec; Vec get_vec(void){return Vec {3,2,1,0};} Edit: alas, I've been writing
172.
by jxy 4y ago
I use Dvorak-dvp, and I hate those form fields.
173.
by jxy 4y ago
Try to name the bones you used to type this sentence?
174.
by jxy 4y ago
The whole point is not whether you, without any learning, would have any idea how to read, speak, think in any specific language. You likely have forgot how long you had to learn English. Do you know how many people in the world have no i
175.
by jxy 4y ago
Does it include a fully bootable OS? Or does it include a libc? Or does it include a compiler and necessary libraries? Does the disk need a specific OS to read it? I guess I'm asking what happens when you "connect" "a
176.
by jxy 4y ago
People like to complain, don't they? I let it upgrade while having dinner. When I came back I had forgot about the upgrade and was surprised that my background changed!
177.
by jxy 4y ago
Yet you cherry picked an extension that's not in the ISO standard and only modern APL supports.
178.
by jxy 4y ago
Assuming you are talking about C++, I honestly don't see any stagnation. In terms of backwards compatibility, I'm very happy that my 20 year-old C/C++/Perl codes are all working correctly.
179.
by jxy 4y ago
> The future of TensorFlow will be 100% backwards-compatible I love to hear that. But does Python even guarantee 100% backwards-compatible?
180.
by jxy 4y ago
> “When multiplying really large numbers together … they’ll forget to carry somewhere and be off by one,” says Vineet Kosaraju, a machine learning expert at OpenAI. Other mistakes made by language models are less human, such as misinterp

More ›