philovivero

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by philovivero 3mo ago
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by philovivero 4mo ago
SRE. "You ship it, you take the pager. Once it's stable, then SRE org will take the feature. If it gets unstable again, SRE will hand it back." If someone vibe codes something, and it works, then no reason not to merge it. So
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by philovivero 4mo ago
Weird. I had LLM (Claude) work with OTF to generate an entire infrastructure HCL (from existing). It built a very nice project that seemed idiomatic from my experience. Then used it over the course of several hours to refactor it to take va
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by philovivero 5mo ago
Yeah. HN is a bubble. Hollywood has an axe to grind, and it's not a good one, but HN ideology is in-line with Hollywood ideology.
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by philovivero 5mo ago
I don't know about theatres, but I do know about hotel rooms. If you lower the price too much, you get a different sort of clientele. The sort of person who wrecks the place and annoys all the other patrons nearby. Then the cleanup cos
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by philovivero 3y ago
Who grey-texted this comment? So confused who could disagree with it. Is that the problem, this comment is so obviously true, it's just redundant?
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by philovivero 3y ago
I'm assuming this is a joke of some sort?
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by philovivero 3y ago
But correlation is correlation. At least, for most people's definitions of the word.
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by philovivero 3y ago
Running a model isn't binary, it's per amount of time spent generating tokens.
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by philovivero 3y ago
First, I am also frustrated by companies trying to prevent unauthorised used. But second, the reasons are: (1) For AI company, someone publishing: "I asked the model a question about crime, and it talked shit about black people! Look!
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by philovivero 3y ago
Start searching SuperHOT and RoPE together. 8k-32k context length on regular old Llama models that were originally intended to only have 2k context lengths.
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by philovivero 3y ago
> While many software problems can cause you to lose money, engineering problems can cause you to lose time. I'm guessing you were trying to say something else here. I literally cannot think of a single software engineering problem
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by philovivero 3y ago
Someone else posted this down in the bottom of a comment thread somewhere, but I think it deserves to be at the top level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw3aKbw5Wo This is a smart, motivated audio engineer talking about
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by philovivero 3y ago
> Both of those are systems which had to work right. Large language models are not even close to being safe to use in such applications. Until LLMs report "don't know" instead of hallucinating, they're limited to very
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by philovivero 3y ago
Replying to self to answer thread questioners. No. Owen was the engineering powerhouse. Kevin was the PR front-man (the pretty face). Ron (Gorodetzsky) was the DevOps mastermind. Who I am referring to was named Amar (his name is common enou
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by philovivero 3y ago
Some of the most hilarity I've ever seen was asking various 7B models: "How old is a child who was born 9 years ago?" Paragraphs and paragraphs of complex calculations, ending up with "9.5" or "11" or some
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by philovivero 3y ago
I wasn't a Digg founder, but I worked with them from the earliest days on Digg until its downfall. The real story is probably way more interesting than anyone really would guess. I'll summarise it as so: What made Digg work really
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by philovivero 4y ago
I really wish I could figure out the formula. I have had so many shirts that I wear for a year or two, then they're dead. But there's this one shirt I bought back in 1999 that still now, today, looks about the same as it did then
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by philovivero 4y ago
"Scott free" is way too strong. Like, a whole extra T strong. It should be scot free. All that said, I'm not sure how this will play out. He cozied up to the right people, but so did Epstein, and he... definitely did not get
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by philovivero 4y ago
No-one believes in the right of the individual overruling all else. I'm not sure how you are coming to that conclusion. If you offend all of society (or more realistically, most of it), then sure, you are going to have a bad few years.
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by philovivero 4y ago
No-one believes either of those things. You should familiarise yourself with the arguments and beliefs of people outside your ideological bubble. To be charitable, I suppose what you mean is: "I don't believe gays/blacks are
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by philovivero 4y ago
We are in a recession. Unless the redefinition of the word is successful, and there's a strong push to redefine the word. So you're going to see some confusion on this topic until the politics around it settle down a bit.
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by philovivero 4y ago
Nothing. Dealers know to check the owner button. Whenever I'm buying something on CL, like say a car, I always ask the person who answers the phone: "I'm calling about the car. Tell me X about it." If they reply "Wh
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by philovivero 4y ago
> Nothing discovered since the 70s compares to the advances in science and technology made in the first half of the twentieth century. Not buying that in the slightest. Reusable rocket boosters? Battery tech? International money movement
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by philovivero 4y ago
Spend 7 years in a fever pitch screaming the worst partisan things you possibly can, and eventually even the people inside your filter bubble will start wondering... where is that evidence of Russian collusion that was 24x7 coverage for 3 y
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by philovivero 4y ago
> Do I need to make it painfully clear that it's my subjective opinion? Yes. Because a sentence written in the Arial font, as much as I might find that font distasteful, is more readable than the same sentence written by a Captcha-g
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by philovivero 4y ago
Oh. So this is why clickbait and trolling have increased so dramatically? The kids are being encouraged to do it by their teachers? Eternal September gets worse when their teachers are teaching them bad habits from the get-go.
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by philovivero 4y ago
Indeed. I started working with Ruby for at least a year before I started working with Python. To this day I still can't do anything useful in Ruby, and I'm proficient in Python. Python is far more readable and comprehensible than
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by philovivero 4y ago
Like many others, I don't think I will bother talking about JPEG2000 as a preservation risk. I guess it is, given the bugs and difficult implementation. But for me, the problem is just how unwieldy the files are. Nothing seems to work
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by philovivero 4y ago
I like how this comment just sits here, unceremoniously ignored. Perhaps you're a little too cynical in how you've framed this, but it has a correct central thesis. The reason most people aren't as bothered by this situation

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