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by lqstuart 1y ago
Comments like this view the ML ecosystem in a vacuum. New ML models are almost never written—all LLMs for example are basically GPT-2 with extremely marginal differences—and the algorithms themselves are the least of the problem in the fiel
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by lqstuart 1y ago
I like Chris Lattner but the ship sailed for a deep learning DSL in like 2012. Mojo is never going to be anything but a vanity project.
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by lqstuart 1y ago
The fact that there’s even a debate about banning smart phones in classrooms tells you all you need to know. Cell phones were de facto banned in school in like 2002, not sure when it became the norm but it seems like a no brainer.
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by lqstuart 1y ago
In fairness, the biggest breakthrough in AI has been calling more and more things “AI.” Before LLMs it was content based collaborative filtering.
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by lqstuart 1y ago
It’s frequently suggested by people with no background and/or a huge financial stake in the field
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by lqstuart 1y ago
“AGI” isn’t a thing and never will be. It fails even really basic scrutiny. The objective function of a human being is to keep its biological body alive and reproduce. There is no such similar objective on which a ML algorithm can be traine
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by lqstuart 1y ago
I tried it once and couldn’t understand why it exists. Neither windsurf nor cursor seem to offer anything Cline doesn’t, and the real Microsoft developed tools like Pylance are also broken and can’t be replaced with shitty AI.
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by lqstuart 1y ago
Windsurf already had sold their code and most of their devs to DeepMind. The company is worthless, idk what Devin thinks they’re buying.
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by lqstuart 1y ago
This is definitely true. You see it constantly in deep learning applications, where eg NVIDIA’s fancy fp8 stuff needs C++11 ABI, so they need to compile torch from source, which means everything with C++ dependencies on torch needs to be re
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by lqstuart 1y ago
Haha yeah. I’ve seen you mention the llama cpp wrapper elsewhere, it sounds cool! I’ve worked enough with vLLM and sglang to get angry at xgrammar, which I believe has some common ancestry with the GGML stack (GBNF if I’m not mistaken, whic
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by lqstuart 1y ago
I don’t really see a need for token IDs alone, but you absolutely need per-token logprob vectors if you’re trying to do constrained decoding
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by lqstuart 1y ago
Counterexample: the Linux kernel
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by lqstuart 1y ago
Stephen Hawking had a pretty good idea as to how and why - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation This is not to be confused with the infrared light that’s relatively easy to detect, which isn’t leaving the bl
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by lqstuart 1y ago
TIL there’s a Nancy Grace telescope
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by lqstuart 1y ago
This is really old
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by lqstuart 2y ago
People started using search engines to ask stupid questions. An LLM like Gemini etc is hands-down better for that. A search engine is still better for actually searching. I do not need a 5000 word screed about a guacamole recipe.
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by lqstuart 2y ago
So by “we hacked Gemini and leaked its source code” you really mean “we played with Gemini with the help of Google’s security team and didn’t leak anything”
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by lqstuart 2y ago
I have no comment on any of the general whining about the ineffectiveness about academia and the public sector, but what struck me about this article is how tiny the funding amounts are. They’re talking about a £40 million endowment like it
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by lqstuart 2y ago
This appears to be a bot or some kind of malicious actor that contributes nothing but political propaganda
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by lqstuart 2y ago
I think this spirit is totally lost on most people in this field. It’s tempting to say younger generations but it’s everyone. It always amazes me when I meet someone who has spent 10+ years in this field and doesn’t even care how anything b
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by lqstuart 2y ago
I'm an American, and I have worked for both Zuck-owned and Chinese-owned companies, and you really, REALLY might want to re-think your stance. It's extremely ironic that we as Americans have this "question authority" thi
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by lqstuart 2y ago
In all the internet posts about this, I've never seen a response to the fact that China has been doing this to US tech interests basically forever, and even the EU has done its utmost to severely handicap US tech companies for the same
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by lqstuart 2y ago
> I’m very unexperienced when it comes to reverse engineering Lol… where does that leave the rest of us in comparison
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by lqstuart 2y ago
I used to be one of those kids that hated on Java for being boring, until I spent six years doing nothing but deep learning in Python and C++. I miss you, Gradle…
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by lqstuart 2y ago
Articles like this are a nice reminder of just how wonderful life is in America, and just how far civilization has to fall if shit REALLY hits the fan someday. If you need a reason to be grateful in spite of mundane crap like housing costs
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by lqstuart 2y ago
…and then they sold out to a Wall Street dickhead, and here we are
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by lqstuart 2y ago
That’s because you don’t understand what group A strep is or what it means to eliminate it
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by lqstuart 2y ago
Nothing wrong with Elon making big bets if he wants to. Polymarket is hardly an efficient market. They also show Republicans winning both the presidency and popular vote as about as likely as them winning just the presidency, despite virtua
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by lqstuart 2y ago
> Although the penicillin family of antibiotics is highly effective against strep A, many Ugandan families instead visit traditional healers, whose treatments include scraping tonsils with a spoon or a sharp piece of wood until they blee
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by lqstuart 2y ago
Not a doctor, but I did grunt work in a pathology lab to pay through undergrad. > the doctors and nurses, so used to taking care of living patients, stared at one another stupidly, as if not knowing why they had come together or why they

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