mrtranscendence

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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I mean, obviously they're going to be related. Even in a perfectly competitive environment, if everyone's costs increase then so will the going price. The operative question is whether these increased costs will be passed onto the
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors, after all.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
It's nice of you to clearly state what reasonable persons should believe violates the law. Alas, your contention about what reasonable people believe about the law isn't actually the law.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
How can no one see what we have today? You only need six instances of an LLM running at the same time, with a system to coordinate between them, and then you have to verify the results manually anyway. Sign me up!
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
What does it mean to get something right? If I ask GPT-4o (or any model, really) whether it's usually hot in Topeka during the summer, it will give me the correct answer. The model may or may not understand what it means for Topeka t
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Important is pronounced not with two hard t sounds, but with a glottal stop: Impor[glottal stop]ant. That's not laziness, that's my actual dialect of English spoken by actual adult people.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I wouldn't say speaking is mostly for short exchanges of information. Sometimes it's the opposite: my wife will text me for simple comments or requests, but for anything complicated she'll put the phone to her ear and call
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Prompt injecting their own article would indeed be an incredible show of incompetence by the New York Times. I'm confident that they're not so dumb that they put their article in their prompt and were astonished when the reply cou
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I'll agree that "interesting thoughts" may be up to interpretation, but imma fight you on the charisma thing. I looked up "flat affect" in the dictionary and there were no words, only a full-page headshot of Lex Fri
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I haven't listened to Dwarkesh, but I take the complaint to mean that he doesn't probe his guests in interesting ways, not so much that he doesn't criticize his guests. If you aren't guiding the conversation into inter
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I don't know Dwarkesh but I despise Lex Fridman. I don't know how a man that lacks the barest modicum of charisma has propelled himself to helming a high-profile, successful podcast. It's not like he tends to express intere
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Well, they're not AI companies, necessarily, or at least not only AI companies, but the big hardware firms tend to have engineers at the helm. That includes Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. (Counterpoint: Apple)
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Back of the envelope, maybe 0.75TB? More than you have, probably ...
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
No, but there's a reason so many adjacent libraries and software packages name themselves after Llama (Ollama, llama.cpp, etc)
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Or how it took Google ages to address the scam "You Win!" YouTube comments disguised as if coming from the videos' posters. How hard could that be, exactly?
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
It is. You can see a little "G" icon indicating that it searched the web with Google.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
It appears they're using Google for web searches, a la Perplexity.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
I don't need a million tokens, but 8k is absolutely too few for many of the use cases that I find important. YMMV.
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by mrtranscendence 2y ago
Well, exactly, and that's why IMO they'll end up pulling out the EU. There's barely any money in non-targeted ads.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
It depends on your expectations. I'm used to the idea that I have to drive everywhere and it never occurs to me that I would prefer walking or bicycling. In my current suburban home I'm a three minute drive from a relatively big s
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I think you have the mistaken impression that I was arguing with you (certainly my comment makes it clear that I don't feel that LLMs are a panacea). I merely thought that you might be curious how GPT-4 would respond. > My guess is
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
You can't not include native libraries, at least if you want your benchmark to be realistic. Almost every Python library where performance matters is written (at least partially) in a compiled language.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I'm a Python-slinging data scientist so C++ isn't my jam (to say the least), but I changed the prompt to the following and asked it to GPT-4: > Write me an algorithm in C++ which finds the begin and end iterator of a sequence w
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Python on 2024 hardware vs C++ on 2004 hardware ... I don't think it's obvious that C++ always wins here, though it would depend on the use case, how much of the Python is underpinned by native libraries, and the specific hardware
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I'm a data scientist and I agree that work meant to last should be in a source-controlled project coded via a text editor or IDE. But sometimes it's extremely useful to get -- and iterate on -- immediate results. There's no
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> The exact definition of a word has nothing to do with it. It has something to do with it. There will be scenarios where the definition of "copyrighted material" does matter, even if they come up relatively infrequently for
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Are you alleging that Nancy Pelosi invested in Databricks, a private company without a fluctuating share price, because she learned that they would soon release a small, fairly middling LLM that probably won't move the needle in any me
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Quorn exists in the states as well. I eat it routinely, it's not bad.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Agreed. I only played Cyberpunk on the Deck for a few hours, but I was impressed how well it ran. 40fps worked fine for long stretches, and the text size wasn't an issue in the slightest.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
With the OLED model the lowest you'll get is maybe 1.5h on heavy games. That seems .. okay to me. It's not super great, but it's more than enough to play a more demanding game during a break or something. I played nontrivial

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