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by lhnz 3y ago
The UK is increasingly resembling the rest of the world's rentpig. The UK government has made Britain into one massive investment vehicle for foreign capital -- our utilities, leading firms, football teams, landmarks and property all s
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http://sebinsua.com I started to do short blogs on algorithmic problems and also neural networks for a beginner-but-tenacious audience.
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I don't want to get into an argument with you and didn't explain the argument very well, however, it's not as if I'm just coming up with weird opinions on my own here. The basis of my argument comes from the director of
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On the contrary, the ability for startups to be purchased by larger companies is the majority of the financial incentive towards creating startups. If competition regulators prohibit these transactions, it will harm the startup ecosystem an
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I think perhaps conservative means something different to you that it does to me. You can write code conservatively by avoiding higher-level abstractions and preferring boring technologies. If you look at the engineering indulgences discuss
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Yes, we value understandability if an application is succcessful. My point was that even if logic isn't valuable understandability helps the person reading it decide whether to delete it or replace it. Code that can't be underst
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> If you're unfamiliar with the problem space, just bang away at it. > Write that god object, that 500 line function, hardcode all the things. > You wouldn't be able to come up with useful abstractions so don&#x2
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Maybe I'm not senior enough, but I think this misses the point. If I'm not prototyping, I don't try to "code the shortest path first", I try to code using the most popular libraries, and the most concrete, broad-str
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Thanks, I've fixed this now. I assume you were on mobile before.
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I agree with you that JavaScript's async abstractions are nice, but I think a lot of people will misunderstand the example you've given, as ensuring that the asynchronous value for `b` and `c` will be resolved prior to the asynchr
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Not going to comment about Go here but JavaScript code like what is written above confuses many people. `Promise`s begin to resolve immediately on creation whether or not we've attempted to unwrap their value using `await`. Therefore,
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by lhnz 3y ago
Not going to comment about Go here but JavaScript code like what is written above confuses many people. `Promise`s begin to resolve immediately on creation whether or not we've attempted to unwrap their value using `await`. Therefore,
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by lhnz 3y ago
Not going to comment about Go here, but the JavaScript code above is confusing for a lot of people. Promises begin to resolve immediately on creation whether or not we've attempted to unwrap their value using `await`. Therefore, it&#x2
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SEEKING WORK | REMOTE WORLDWIDE, LONDON, UK Take a read of my blog if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have
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by lhnz 3y ago
Take a read of my blog if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com To summarise, I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experienc
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I've heard that nowadays subword/token embeddings are learned during the training phase, and that they are useful for reconstructing the embeddings of words that contain them, and in fact allow the model to handle typos like &quot
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While it's true that we don't differentiate the input samples, we do differentiate the loss function's output with respect to each of the network weights. We use the chain rule to calculate each of these "gradients"
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I think it applies because lookups can be done by multiplying one-hot vectors (or masks) with matrices; this is roughly analogous to what happens when we multiply Q with K^T in a self-attention head. Read this: https://e2eml.scho
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Type-safe tensors(sebinsua.com)
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The argument that this is necessary isn't close to being convincing enough for governments to consider following through with such a drastic cause of action. And, the "AI-might-end-up-killing-everyone" community doesn't
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No, that's not really what has happened. If you ask a question, it tends to mean you lack knowledge about something, and therefore you don't have enough context to produce a question that perfectly teases out the correct answer fr
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Why are you convinced of this? From what I can see, GPT-4 is incredibly useful but you have to be very careful to lead it in the correct direction otherwise it produces bad outputs. I say this as somebody that probably uses it every 10 minu
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I have a few funny analogies that I think kind of work. 1. "gradient descent" is like tuning a guitar by ear and listening to the beat frequencies ("loss") and then decreasing these by tuning a string up or down. 2. the
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Hm, I don't think that's quite it. I went through my own process of learning how neural networks work recently and wrote this based on my learning: https://sebinsua.com/bridging-the-gap As far as my understanding
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Hm, watching Neel Nanda videos recently and I do get the feeling that there are lots of unknowns in ML and also in what trained networks have learnt.
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It'd be more sensible to invest this money directly into Google DeepMind, which already exists and is based in London.
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This is actually particularly bad. They followed company policy and pointed out the compliance issues but Microsoft did not reprimand the employee involved and instead promoted them into a position that they could more easily evade accounta
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> and remember not to use the loopback device as input for the video chat app. I laughed out loud.
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From what I can see, @jart had spent a considerable amount of time on this problem and had posted an interesting-but-not-production hack to it ( https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/5b8023d9354010... )
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I believe you meant to respond to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35430052 However, I won't respond to you here, since (1) it should be quite clear that I think @slaren wasn't given enough recognition for th

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