mercer

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by mercer 1y ago
For me, I generally don't go far beyond the commands in the article, but I /do/ make a lot of use of git rebase -i in my branches.
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by mercer 1y ago
I mean, Trump also probably asked? https://apnews.com/article/trump-citizens-prison-el-salvador...
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by mercer 2y ago
I am a fan of mindfulness, but grounded in (a) faith or religious/spiritual framework. When it comes to 'corporate-style mindfulness', I like to think of the mindfulness as brushing a set of fake work-teeth that you may or ma
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by mercer 2y ago
if they used something like Whisper for transcription, the quality of understanding what I'm saying would already massively improve.
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by mercer 2y ago
I wish everyone who read the above comment would report back to confirm or deny that they also think of cheeseburgers now when Stairway to Heaven comes on.
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by mercer 2y ago
To me it's been wild to be using whisper for stunningly good transcriptions and whenever I ask siri to set a reminder for "vacuuming", I end up getting a reminder to "fuck you". which /is/ funny, to be fai
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by mercer 2y ago
I've been using phi4 a lot, in most cases to process incoming transcripts of recordings. based on keywords or keyphrases, these transcripts get sent with a custom prompt, or the prompt is in the transcript itself. I'd say it'
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by mercer 2y ago
If this was reddit I would of made a silly comment
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by mercer 2y ago
Let's not forget this tasteless AI shit sandwich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI
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by mercer 2y ago
In my experience people will vent and complain and then just return to the previous normal. In some cases it's still mentally 'easier' to go back than to reassess fundamental beliefs.
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by mercer 2y ago
In my own experience, I have all sorts of ways that I try to 'drag' the llm out of some line of 'thinking' by editing the conversation as a whole, or just restarting the whole prompt, and I've been kind of just doin
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by mercer 2y ago
lol, they're pissing off 4 of those actively, or am I getting the count wrong?
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by mercer 2y ago
lol
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by mercer 2y ago
Wow. That's even cooler (and somehow simpler) than I thought it was.
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by mercer 2y ago
I thought the innovation was that these phrases are 'manually' inserted to force the model to consider different options. Did I get that wrong?
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by mercer 2y ago
tbh I can see even some benefit from just the need to think ahead and put it into 'regular' words, and then not having to type all the non-ergonomic markup-soup that isn't entirely avoidable. EDIT: On the least-spectacular en
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by mercer 2y ago
I imagine it could be easier to make sense of the 'biological' patterns that way? like, having bottlenecks or spatially-related challenges might have to be simulated too, to make sense of the ingested 'biological' inform
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by mercer 2y ago
I've found phi4 to be very good for this.
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by mercer 2y ago
I've only started using LLMs for code recently, and I already tend to mentally translate what I want to something that I imagine is 'more commonly done and well represented in the training data'. But especially the ability to
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by mercer 2y ago
I understood that at least some of these big models (llama?) is basically bootstrapped with code. is there truth to that?
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by mercer 2y ago
I do agree with that. What I'm seeing (and building for myself) really boils down to 'for anything I am remotely uncomfortable trusting the AIs with, I trust them enough to conveniently present me the action or actions they want t
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by mercer 2y ago
it's local, but I can see how the wording is ambiguous (not the author, so I can't vouch that there is no secret shenanigans)
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by mercer 2y ago
It doesn't have to be deterministic. Anyone who wants assurances would simply get a full plan of actions to take, and could edit the individual tasks before confirming their execution. Just like with a real assistant, one could set ver
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by mercer 2y ago
indeed, reviewing notoriously takes just as much effort as producing the artifact under review!
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by mercer 2y ago
It's good enough for me on an M1, 16Gb, and slow but good enough as a background job on my older intel mbp with 16Gb. I somehow expected it to not work on intel macs at all, so that's a freebie.
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by mercer 2y ago
I mean that's just confabulating the next token with extra steps... ime it does get those wrong sometimes. I imagine there's an extra internal step to validate the syntax there. I'm not arguing for or against anything specifi
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by mercer 2y ago
These threads are my favorite kind of pedantic :)
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by mercer 2y ago
The way people were regularly 'treated' at these hospitals probably also figured into it.
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by mercer 2y ago
Can I have some of those sorts of interns?
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by mercer 2y ago
it's stochastic parrots all the way down

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