malaya_zemlya

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by malaya_zemlya 10mo ago
You can download a base model (aka foundation, aka pretrain-only) from huggingface and test it out. These were produced without any RL. However, most modern LLMs, even base models, would be not just trained on raw internet text. Most of the
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by malaya_zemlya 1y ago
I suspect the microtransaction idea was in the air in the 1960s. Nikolai Nosov's "Dunno on the Moon" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon ) which is a Soviet satire of American capitalism desc
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by malaya_zemlya 2y ago
There was a time where somebody in SF has figured admin access code to older apartment intercoms (I believe they were manufactured by Linear and maybe other companies too). These intercoms would call the programmed in phone number whenever
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by malaya_zemlya 2y ago
What do you mean? Gemini app is available on IOS, Android and on the web (as AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/ ).
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by malaya_zemlya 2y ago
40% of Russian budget is allocated to defense, that's roughly the same level as US during Vietnam war.
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by malaya_zemlya 2y ago
There's a theological doctrine called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification that claims that statements like "there's God" or "there's afterlife" are perfectly fin
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by malaya_zemlya 2y ago
As I Understand It
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
>also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing. Or a joint project between several organizations.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Me: Solve the riddle: You have three fantastic animals: Aork, Bork, and Cork. If left unattended, Aork would eat Bork, and Bork would eat Cork. When you are with them, they behave and don't eat each other. You travel with these three
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Wouldn't ChatGPT in homomorphic encryption mode do something like that already? You put in a query - the system processes it in mysterious ways, and returns the answer in constant time.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
deeplearning.ai has a short coursee on the topic https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/large-language-mod...
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
So do alcohol, gambling and bad relationships.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
>Obviously retail pseudoephedrine was never a substantial contributor to methamphetamine production I don't know how it compares to organzied production, but people certainly do cook meth from retail pseudoephedrine. In my neck of w
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
It's weird to see pieces of Typescript in there.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Before CORS, JSONP was one of the few ways to work around the same-origin policy.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
That happened not that long ago, in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Coincidentally, the ACME DNS verification process that LetsEncrypt uses is vulnerable to the QUANTUM attack. If NSA injects a fake DNS response in the right spot, and have the their response arrive before the official response, they can get
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the verification that DigiCert performs is 1. the company exists in various Business listings 2. the phone number listed in whois has a human behind it and the human confirms the phone number belogs to the company. Sou
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Dior and Louis Vuitton love putting their logos all over their products, especially accessories. I think it cheapens the brand, but i'm not their marketing person.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either. Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...weird.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Rich people screwing over other rich people is much more prevalent.
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
I imagine you could still build a dream team of GPT3.5, GPT4, LLama2, Vicuna and their friends
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Is that surprising for a resource oriented economy? Aramco (Saudi Oil) is the second biggest company in the world, yet GDP of Saudi Arabia is about that of Poland
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
It's all relative. By western standards, Yandex is a mid-cap company, but whereas US has FAANG+, Russia has just Yandex and maybe VK/Mail.ru
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
monontheism is far from an universal consequence of agriculture. It's really limited to Abrahamic religions and religions influenced by them. Pre-christian Roman empire, Ancient Greece, China, India are all examples of advanced ancient
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
My guess, they delay risky procedures until senior doctors get back from the conference
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
weak and strong forces are mediated by particles that have mass and therefore their force falls off basically exponentially, as exp(-m*r) it's not really the same as decaying in extra dimensions, because in that case the force law woul
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
Do you think it's a coincidence that almost every perfume uses some pheromone-like ingredients? Musk and civet are the most famous examples but also see hedione, a major ingredient in perfumes since the 1960s, because it enhances prett
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
https://hal.cse.msu.edu/assets/pdfs/papers/2023-nature-heat-...
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by malaya_zemlya 3y ago
They are rampant in RU and UA. One of the craziest stories is how Ukrainian phoine spammers weaponized their skills to coax Russians into setting fire to government offices https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/01

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