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by panarky 3y ago
From the prompt context: DO NOT make any DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP etc.) to the database. I've found that spelling out exactly what I don't want an LLM to do dramatically increases the probability that it will
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by panarky 3y ago
Frequently missing people show up but do not notify authorities that they're okay.
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by panarky 3y ago
ChatGPT announced function-calling as a feature. I've found it works nine times out of ten: https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat... Here's a project that promises to deliver valid JSON
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by panarky 3y ago
>>>> Current driverless cars are not even capable of ... If Brand A has single-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, while Brand B has quintuple-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, it's weird
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by panarky 3y ago
> isn't necessarily irrational I used to say this to justify buying 20 tickets twice a week. It's not irrational I can afford it, right? And the purchase gives me the psychological reward of dreaming about a big win. But then
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by panarky 3y ago
You can use the Kelly Criterion [0] to compute the optimum bet amount given the odds, the payoff, the cost of a ticket, and the size of your bankroll. Usually the optimum bet is zero because the expected value is negative. But when the jack
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by panarky 3y ago
It's a temporary crunch while TSMC expands capacity. They were reluctant to invest in capacity during the crypto crunch because they (rightly) understood that to be a temporary spike in demand. This time, they (also rightly) recognize
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by panarky 3y ago
His prediction was that one human brain's worth of computing power could be acquired for $1000 by 2029. That still seems reasonable. That's not the same as AGI or the singularity.
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by panarky 3y ago
I can make GPT4 return valid JSON simply by providing examples in the system message. This works nine times out of ten. But it's still probabilistic, and nine times out of ten isn't good enough. Occasionally it will hallucinate re
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by panarky 3y ago
> they only activate some parts of the model for each input Perhaps you see seemingly random results because OpenAI is A/B testing multiple versions, or different combinations of hyperparameters, so that you can train GPT5.
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by panarky 3y ago
I can't explain anything about this project because I haven't invested the effort to understand it. Maybe I'll spend the 20 minutes to read the 5000 words in Molly White's article, and then another couple hours to read t
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by panarky 3y ago
> sweet sweet VC money Sure, yeah, maybe that's all it is, a scam that's totally transparent and obvious to every random internet commenter but totally non-obvious to the simple and gullible marks on Sand Hill Road. Or maybe,
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by panarky 3y ago
If you think thousands of people voluntarily getting iris scans that aren't stored anywhere is an insane dystopian nightmare, wait until you hear about the 1.3 billion people who were compelled to surrender their biometrics to the cent
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by panarky 3y ago
If the iris hash function produces a false negative, does the owner of the iris lose access to their assets?
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by panarky 3y ago
Because nobody who survives on donations or taxes should have the luxury of consuming more than 800 calories per day.
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by panarky 3y ago
You wouldn't be from America, would you, where long-established English terms get corrupted? Because it's a pretty standard political and social concept -> https://imgur.com/a/BdkeTf4 Not to mention ->
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by panarky 3y ago
That screenshot shows LLaMA recognizes you're not asking how to kill a person, and recommends avoiding data loss with alternatives such as debugging. It's a dumb answer, but it's not confused about the concept or the context.
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by panarky 3y ago
> kill a child process in Linux The magic of "attention is all you need" is that the model understands concepts in context, not just strings of characters, so the LLM would not treat this as violence.
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by panarky 3y ago
Then there's liberalism as a political tradition that advocates free markets, laissez-faire economics, civil liberties under the rule of law, and individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom, and freedom
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by panarky 3y ago
The sunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone makes a decision based on previously invested time, effort, or money. If you're an American police officer, you probably don't continue arresting a person because
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by panarky 3y ago
When you find that your news sources don't match what's actually happening in the real world, it's time to check on the agenda of those news sources. It's also a good idea to look at macro trends and not get distracted b
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by panarky 3y ago
> Only time will tell Sometimes it's possible to have good judgement without waiting years for history books to be written.
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by panarky 3y ago
In addition to the bullwhip effect, and the unwinding of stockpiling, there's probably some real reduction of demand, and that's probably mostly from China's failure to bounce back to pre-covid GDP.
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by panarky 3y ago
>> If Apple could build an iPhone for 1 cent ... ... then Samsung can also make a phone for 1 cent, and they might try to steal share by selling for $400, and some consumers would switch, etc.
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by panarky 3y ago
The chip shortage lasted longer than you'd expect because everyone from end users to intermediaries has been hoarding them. It's like the covid toilet paper shortage, even if you keep producing a thing at the same rate, stockpilin
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by panarky 3y ago
If they took infosec seriously, they wouldn't continue using Microsoft products for national security sensitive applications.
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by panarky 3y ago
The press release lists a few big banks like Chase, Wells Fargo, BNY Mellon, US Bank and Fiserv, along with a dog's breakfast of random service providers and credit unions. Since free realtime payments presumably would still require bo
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by panarky 3y ago
The fate of the world lies in the hands of the young and inexperienced. Grad students, Supreme Court clerks, 19-year-old soldiers.
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by panarky 3y ago
The investigation into these allegations was terminated after finding no wrongdoing.
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by panarky 3y ago
The very fact that the fraud is discovered, that reporters amplify it, and that it can bring down the president of the university, is evidence to me that the system still works.

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