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by rakejake 2y ago
From the article: ``` Anxiety has often been interpreted as the consequence of an excess of freedom, of there being too much that might happen and not enough that definitely will. Existentialists and psychoanalysts agreed that anxiety has a
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by rakejake 2y ago
Ilya is very much in favor of closed source AI albeit for different reasons. I don't see a problem here.
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by rakejake 2y ago
I have a feeling Apple will make a play for him. Apple is considered to be seriously lagging behind in ML. Just his name alone is probably enough for the time being - They can give him his own lab to do whatever he wants. Ilya will attract
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by rakejake 2y ago
I am not sure if they actually give out very many free pizzas. The language is quite vague, probably intentionally. Just looks like a gimmick.
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by rakejake 2y ago
No, it doesn't? I don't think Domino's or any pizza vendor has offered 30 minutes or free guarantees in a long time.
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by rakejake 3y ago
No. I'll check it out once I get comfortable with FreeCAD. Thanks
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by rakejake 3y ago
FreeCAD. And also reading the book on Modern Manufacturing Techniques by Groover. I work as a Software Engineer but somehow I haven't had the itch to write any personal software or work on side projects for some time now. Looking to ex
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by rakejake 3y ago
May I ask what you use the machine for?
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by rakejake 3y ago
Ah I read that versions upto v6.6 were affected and didn't notice the caveats. Thanks
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by rakejake 3y ago
Running Ubuntu with Kernel 6.5.0-26 Got this? failed to detect overwritten pte: is more PTE spray needed? pmd: 00000000cafebabe
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by rakejake 3y ago
Haha. Very true.A person who has a solid community has no reason to uproot him/herself and go through a risky venture. You could argue a healthy civilization needs a tribe of lonely rootless people to maximize their risk-taking abiliti
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by rakejake 3y ago
Yes, they could target specific portions of the brain. Have to re-read the book!
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by rakejake 3y ago
I do not recall the exact details but I remember that some of the focused individuals were kept in a grid or matrix of some sort. The aim of these grids were to translate the spider-talk and achieve some form of conversation with the spider
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by rakejake 3y ago
No idea, though being next-token predictors, it can't hurt to use LLMs?
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by rakejake 3y ago
I think Greg Egan in one of his novels has a line that goes like "Humans cannot be universe conquerors if they don't overcome their bug like tendencies to invade and destroy". Nah, it is this very tendency that makes them uni
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by rakejake 3y ago
A Deepness in the Sky was perhaps the first "hard sci-fi" novel I ever read (this was before I knew of Greg Egan). The concept of spiders and the onOff planet was just awe-inspiring. While Egan's idea-density is off the chart
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by rakejake 3y ago
I have a 4080 with 16GB of VRAM. I experimented with llama.cpp by offloading layers onto GPU and doing the remaining on CPU. I found that it gives me max tokens/sec if I set it to 8 CPU cores as opposed to the 16 available on the 7950X
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by rakejake 3y ago
Funnily enough, RAM I find I can use no matter how much I have, especially now that you have LLMs. I can run a quantised Mixtral 8x7B on 64GB RAM. But the 7950X is grossly underutilised, I don't know what to do with it.
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by rakejake 3y ago
The book "The Billion Dollar Molecule" is about the founding of Vertex Pharma. Worth a read.
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by rakejake 3y ago
Yes, with a control vector per user-persona pair. In the blog, they start with a fixed number of personas (happy, sad, baseline) and then use PCA to figure out the control vectors for each persona. You could easily do this for each distinct
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by rakejake 3y ago
I don't follow. Isn't this the flow for practically every neutral network i.e you index the sampled inputs from the embedding Matrix, forward this through every hidden layer and then finally transform to the dimensions of your tok
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by rakejake 3y ago
The word "Great" has to be qualified here. Reading the article, I don't believe the author means to say you can "work" your way to actual greatness - say being the best in the world at something, or one of the world
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by rakejake 3y ago
I have thought about this and realised it is not really a counterpoint. At the very top, there is the illusion of community and camaraderie. Thing is, it is impossible to say whether your connections will actually turn up and help you. When
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by rakejake 3y ago
Try here - https://labs.perplexity.ai/ From the drop-down you can select Llama, Mistral and Perplexity's own models
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by rakejake 3y ago
You could Llama2 70B and Mistral. Perplexity Labs are currently offering them on their website - https://labs.perplexity.ai/ You can choose which one you need from the drop-down. I've not tested it thoroughly or anythi
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by rakejake 3y ago
The width of the path is 1m, i.e the height of the parallelogram. The side of the parallelogram is not provided. So, the side of the triangle is not 54m.
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by rakejake 3y ago
Haha. Good one.
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by rakejake 3y ago
Greg Egan describes all this and more in "Permutation City"
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by rakejake 3y ago
When I read this, I also though "duh". Yet, consuming articles like this from time to time is useful to remind you of "splendid uselessness" because, as the article suggests, the world around us is orthogonal to this. So
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by rakejake 3y ago
Lucky you. I don't have a garbage collector so much as a "good-memories" collector. My mind is kind enough to surface my embarrassments and disappointments from years past (some of which are objectively irrelevant) and very r

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