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by kgeist 3y ago
Here they simply used different models for different turns and apparently it gave more "engaging" results: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02994
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by kgeist 3y ago
Intel embraced Amd64 ditching Itanium. Wasn't it a good decision that worked out well? Is it comparable?
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by kgeist 3y ago
>that context is available to tie the lifetimes of the main program (goroutine) to child goroutines without coloring functions (like with async-await) Isn't it also a kind of function coloring: a function with a context argument vs.
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by kgeist 3y ago
Same. Actually I've had it the other way around a few times, when a site doesn't work in Chrome but works in Firefox. Perhaps though it was some caching issue because it worked OK in Chrome's Incognito mode. However, it was e
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by kgeist 3y ago
What I originally envisioned was that we would first dip our toes in the water by quickly adding a very simple, easy-to-implement feature (the "improve my writing" feature mentioned above). If we received positive feedback from cu
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by kgeist 3y ago
Our CEO believes LLMs are a fad, so there's nothing really strategic about it in the company's roadmap, but I was able to assemble a skunkworks team of enthusiasts who integrated ChatGPT into one of our eLearning products. It allo
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by kgeist 3y ago
>The question is it reasonable for English speakers with a generally European heritage to be the stewards of niche world cultures? Something better than nothing? It's very unlikely that a tribe in Africa or Polynesia is going to cre
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by kgeist 3y ago
UUIDs are nice for exposing them outside, such as: 1) exposing in URLs (you can't scrape all data by iterating over IDs) 2) passing them around between microservices/systems (less confusion where an ID comes from when debugging&#x
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by kgeist 3y ago
Heh, my collegue is in top 200 for Russia, which doesn't sound right either (he's not that active). P.S. Oh, it says, "You need at least 52 followers to be on this list". He gives lectures at a uni and does code reviews
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by kgeist 3y ago
Doesn't look right for Russia either (3 mln accounts). According to government statistics, Russia has ~820k programmers as of 2023, and from my experience, not all of them have a Github account (I do job interviews).
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by kgeist 3y ago
>I trained a small (~10 million parameter) transformer following Andrej Karpathy’s excellent tutorial, Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out As soon as I learned about Andrej Karpathy's NanoGPT, I trained it on War and
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by kgeist 3y ago
There's also this type of articles where the first half of the article is easily understandable by a layman but then they suddenly drop a lot of jargon and math formulas and you get completely lost.
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by kgeist 3y ago
Webpage caching used to be a quick and easy way to by-pass government censorship in my country. AMP pages still work and allow you to access banned resources such as BBC.
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by kgeist 3y ago
We have different schools of thought internally. Some prefer to tailor the backend API to the needs of the frontend, others prefer to have the backend API super generic so that changes in the frontend (say, a redesign) didn't require c
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by kgeist 3y ago
>Your back-end and front-end are always coupled. So trying to split them in anything but the most extreme circumstances is an exercise in futility. >If your back-end team want to move in one direction, they've got to align with t
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by kgeist 3y ago
Isn't it limiting? Say, the language evolves and its scoping rules change, new control flow features are added etc. Now you can't ship anything in the new version because of the old clients. With bytecode, language implementers ha
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by kgeist 3y ago
It's an old rule from before the 20th century which is not really active anymore. While it's still true for old names due to convention (Harry, etc.), new foreign words with h- in it are now often rendered with kh- (letter Х). Ori
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by kgeist 3y ago
Interesting, I also manage an IRC bot with multimodal capability for months now. It's not a real LMM - rather, a combination of 3 models. It uses Llava for images and Whisper for audio. The pipeline is simple: if it finds a URL which l
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by kgeist 3y ago
Maybe our company is not representative, but the only engineers I know of who left Russia (about 5 people out of ~150) - I wouldn't say they were the best engineers at the company. They only left after the mobilization started (feared
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by kgeist 3y ago
You're on HN. It has a similar rule: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by kgeist 3y ago
>"woke" people were massively downvoted and banned, then people who thought women deserve same rights as men, then anyone who criticized government Interesting, the poster below has the opposite view: >Owners and moderators
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by kgeist 3y ago
Here in Russia we have a popular platform for long-form tech blogs called Habr. It's basically the go to platform for software and hardware engineers (for example, it's where Flipper Zero started). Usually, to have a good article,
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by kgeist 3y ago
Reminds of the Russian "chodit na rabotu".
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by kgeist 3y ago
I guess it depends on what sites you want to visit using VPN. People here in Russia openly use VPN to visit Instagram etc., and no one seems to have an issue with that. But if you want to read some opposition sites, however... Now that&#x27
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by kgeist 3y ago
I haven't been able to use my OpenVPN server since August 2023. All connections are reset. Surprised someone could still use it. Perhaps it was rolled out on a per-ISP basis.
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by kgeist 3y ago
That's basically the only argument I've heard so far - if a hacking activity happens between 06:00 UTC and 14:00 UTC then it must be the Russians, otherwise it's someone else. Doesn't sound like a very strong argument? &
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by kgeist 3y ago
It still doesn't answer how they know that: 1) they were hacked by that exact group 2) that group is sponsored by the Russian government. The only evidence I've seen before in cases like this one was that they found that the hacks
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by kgeist 3y ago
But how do they know that it's sponsored by Russia? They saw the paychecks?
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by kgeist 3y ago
>Microsoft has identified the threat actor as Midnight Blizzard, the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium How do they identify those groups?
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by kgeist 3y ago
From my experience as a developer from Russia, it's usually the other way around from what's found in the article. Since 2022, there's been a lot of instances of malware being found in dependencies which target Russian develo

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