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2y ago
Can you talk a little about the pain points you encountered, which this presumably solves?
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2y ago
Sure, but there are different variables in the training data that may influence each inference more or less. So if you can observe which variables influenced the inference and how much then you can (at least attempt to) construct an explan
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2y ago
No need to waste a strawberry. Just test the furniture in the library. Either you have super intelligent chairs and tables or not.
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2y ago
You're of course free to use whatever terminology you want, but hallucination is the accepted term in the field for LLMs bullshitting.
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2y ago
Probability is only half of the expected value equation. When the outcome is excessive then you should care even if the probability is low as long as it is non-zero.
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2y ago
I got this same error (in Chrome).
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2y ago
It works better to give it access to functions to call for actions and remembering stuff, but this approach does provide some interesting results.
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2y ago
I don't know how anything about getting a cut works, but my understanding is that authors don't have to allow their books to be in the library at all, and libraries specifically need to get permission to lend e-books.
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3y ago
From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2 : Here we report the discovery of a natural protein, citrate synthase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus, which self-assembles into Sierpiński triangl
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3y ago
There's no compiler or compile time.
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3y ago
> In the context of startups, everyone's at beginner level. Why would this be true? There are plenty of startup veterans that have been doing it for years.
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3y ago
Before I clicked I assumed it was just going to be a pencil.
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3y ago
If quickly navigating the tables is your goal VisiData would probably be a better option.
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3y ago
It would appear that asking multiple users and taking the consensus does the trick.
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3y ago
> I don't use the "Act as a X" format any more, I'm not at all convinced it has a noticeable impact on quality. I think it's yet another example of LLM superstition. It's very contextually dependent. You re
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3y ago
This implies that there needs to be changes pushed live without review in order for an LLM to make a mistake. Which is obviously very much not true.
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3y ago
> Surely it would be better to use a Maybe type for this instead? > > 0 / 1 = Just 0 > 0 / 0 = Nothing This would make it impossible to compose mathematical expressions of more than one operation without discharg
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3y ago
I happened write a parser for a binary protocol using attoparsec before ever trying megaparsec and I found it to be a nice stepping stone.
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3y ago
Honestly, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
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3y ago
My favorite resource on Tacit programming is Point Free or Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seVSlKazsNk
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3y ago
Because Clay Shirky stated it at some point, and someone quoted him on it, and it stuck. Hope this helps.
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3y ago
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3y ago
Interesting that so many people are still interested in fishing rods in this era of guns.
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3y ago
> but it will never catch up with the UK Well, overpopulation would balance the scales eventually.
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3y ago
> A note; typescript does nothing to ensure types are correct at runtime. Especially in the browser. You need to do runtime checking even if you're using typescript. I'm not sure I understand - in what situation would you need
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3y ago
Obviously in this context it refers to "blockchain, NFTS, metaverse".
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3y ago
Yeah it'd be a real shame if someone were able to intercept the unencrypted traffic. They'd be able to read all the articles!
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3y ago
PostgREST is an app that turns the db into an API. This takes the place of a traditional app server, but it's still an app server.
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3y ago
> Has anyone here seen a database where your users are users in the db itself? PostgREST does this and it was a pretty nice experience when I used it. https://postgrest.org/en/stable/references/auth.html
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3y ago
The threat people perceive with AI isn't that they will hack systems.
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