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by p-e-w 3y ago
> No company (not even Google) was able to make something better than GPT-4. GPT-4 Turbo, which was only released in November, is better than GPT-4 while having a much larger context. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's still
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> There are many types of diversity and in the US only eight are protected. Indeed. When people call for more diverse corporate boards, they don't mean "we need more plumbers in there". They mean "we need more of the
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Living near each other, though, seems to me to be something that would have to evolve alongside a more equal society. That sounds like you agree that diversity isn't the cause of anything. In other words, actively seeking out di
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Nearly all post-scarcity fictions depict societies in which all are given equal opportunity to realize their personal ambitions. Which, as GP pointed out, is a social dead end. If your opportunities don't depend on your parents&#x
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The most revered/successful societies on earth are the complete opposite of diverse. And "primitive" societies, which through evolution shaped how our social capacities operate, also have essentially zero diversity in th
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It doesn’t seem likely that this will (or can) happen without diversity increasing That sounds like a complete non sequitur to me. Can you explain how Triangles will become richer by living near Squares? Or, to turn it around, how Squa
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I first read that post several years ago and re-read it now, and I found that what bothered me back then is still bothering me today: The article goes to great lengths, with amazing visual presentation, to demonstrate how a diverse societ
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The correct way to safely drive a car is intuition – not a "mental model" of anything. That's why experienced drivers drive so much more safely than novice ones. It's certainly not because in the meantime, they somehow l
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Not true in practice. Billions of websites work just fine when viewed on wildly different platform stacks, without developers or users ever having to care about differences in CPU architecture or kernel design.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The purpose of the VCS is to abstract away how its concepts are implemented. It should be possible to replace the standard Git implementation with any other that provides the same external interface without the user being affected, or eve
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It's funny you mention that, because Design of Everyday Things has a whole part about how people abstracting away the implementation leads to people having extremely wrong ideas about how things work. Which, funnily enough, isn&#x
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> is “how Git implements it” really the right way to explain it? Of course not, and nowhere outside of software engineering will you find such widespread confusion between concepts and their implementation. Do we think of pressing the ga
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Because if the client specifically requests GPT-3.5, but is silently being served something else instead, the client will rely on having GPT-3.5 capabilities without them actually being available, which is a recipe for breakage.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Ooba is a monstrosity with gigabytes of dependencies. I love it and use it daily, but if all you need is a compatible API, it's massive overkill.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
AFAICT, Nitro is just a wrapper around llama.cpp. Therefore, you can simply look at llama.cpp benchmarks, of which there are plenty.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's true, but not my point. My point is that if the request specifies GPT-3.5, Nitro knows that it cannot possibly serve that model, so anything other than returning an error is simply lying to the client, which is a really bad id
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this! On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Mea
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by p-e-w 3y ago
This looks cool, but I paused when I saw that according to the curl examples, Nitro will accept a request specifying "gpt-3.5-turbo" as the model and then presumably just roll with it, using whatever local LLM has been loaded inst
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Strange choice to make this portrait instead of landscape. If I'm going through the trouble of attaching a hardware keyboard, I want the largest size that's still practical. A landscape keyboard of the same type might even be poss
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> But it can show the relative speed of pure Python at purely computational tasks. But that's irrelevant if nobody uses "pure Python" for computational tasks. It's like asking "how well do these languages run on
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> If you are using python, you have no chance. Of course you do. Every special-case multiplication algorithm you might need already has an optimized implementation that you can just `pip install`, and move on with what you're actual
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It demonstrates that Python needs libraries like NumPy. People use matrix multiplication libraries (often written in Assembly) from every language if they really care about performance. That's because such libraries incorporate 10
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What is this supposed to demonstrate? There appears to be roughly the same code structure, ported to every language, while for some languages, arbitrary optimizations are introduced (such as using `array` instead of `list` in Python). But n
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The standard "explanation" is some hand-waving about social media, but I suspect that the root causes are to be found in the profound cultural disintegration that started long before the Internet became a thing, and whose ultimate
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Please, reach out to your congressperson and urge them to force the IRS to provide more clarity and guidance on this issue. Good luck with that, considering that the vagueness and uncertainty is almost surely the purpose of such meas
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> as a society we do not say that men deserve it. Are there individuals that do say that? Visit any Mastodon server and you can see this and other blood-curdling statements posted every day, often by people under their real name, and to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> how would you rewrite this headline? "An Analysis of Suicide Rates in the Anglosphere" Shocking, right? It's basically an admission that the facts are too complex to compress into a half-sentence, and if the reader wants
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> the title seems to me as accurate and the most significant outcome That's exactly my point. The title is accurate. In the sense that its factual claims are correct. But the same headline also implies conclusions that are not c
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> He explicitly points out in the article that even now, teen male suicide far outpaces teen female suicide. Which makes the headline, which is the only thing the vast majority of people will look at (something the author is well aware o
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Ok, I'll bite: The conclusion implied by the headline ("Especially for Girls") is that female suicides are a larger problem than male suicides, while the numbers say the exact opposite, by a huge margin.

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