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by reshlo 2y ago
> it’s just a standard s-expression syntax I.e. they are correct that it is arcane. What percentage of programmers today do you think have ever seen code written in any Lisp dialect, let alone understand it?
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by reshlo 2y ago
You’re still failing to understand that a model being able to output a prediction of something is not the same thing as it “knowing” that thing. The Newton-Raphson method doesn’t “know” what the root of a function is, it just outputs an app
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by reshlo 2y ago
The important part is that the algorithm doesn’t either.
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by reshlo 2y ago
You are the one claiming that LLMs are conscious, so it falls to you to prove it. I argued that LLMs do not have the capacity to have ideas or to know things, and you tried to prove me wrong by providing examples of papers that show, for ex
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by reshlo 2y ago
If we run the Newton-Raphson algorithm on some input and it hasn’t run long enough to come up with a good enough answer yet, then we are uncertain about the answer. It is not the case that the algorithm is uncertain about the answer. It
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by reshlo 2y ago
You’re missing my point. Take one of the articles described in that comment, titled “The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying”. It states “In this paper, we provide evidence that the LLM's internal state can be used to r
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by reshlo 2y ago
It may be terminology that some people use in that way, but it’s becoming increasingly common for people describing LLMs to use such terminology to mean that the LLM literally has the capacity for understanding. Personally, until recently I
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by reshlo 2y ago
The point is that neither the model nor the sampler algorithm can possibly have “confidence” in its behaviour or the system’s collective behaviour. If I put a weight on one side of a die, and I roll it, the die is not more confident that it
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by reshlo 2y ago
A statistical model which is instructed to output the token that is most likely to come next doesn’t have “confidence” in its choice based on the distribution of possible tokens. We might, but it cannot. A statistical model cannot be co
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by reshlo 2y ago
The total length of the relevant sections of the Southern Cross Cable is 12,135km, as it goes via Hawaii. The main reason I made my original comment was to point out that the real numbers are more than double what the other commenter called
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by reshlo 2y ago
I did misunderstand it, because looking at it again now, they spent the entire post talking about how difficult it is to make the cables, except for the very last sentence where they mention die area one time, and it’s still not clear that
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by reshlo 2y ago
You explained why 10G Ethernet cables are expensive, but why should it be so expensive to put a 10G-capable port on the computer compared to the other ports?
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by reshlo 2y ago
> Anyone who lives in Asia or Australia should relate to this. 100ms RTT latency can be devastating. When I used to (try to) play online games in NZ a few years ago, RTT to US West servers sometimes exceeded 200ms.
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by reshlo 2y ago
You just used the letter f 13 times to make that file, though.
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by reshlo 2y ago
You might be able to get by in Haskell if you avoid case expressions.
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by reshlo 2y ago
Many websites are using passkeys not as a primary factor, but as the second factor, or as both factors. That implies that they are meant to serve as some combination of “something you are” and “something you have”. The fact that you logged
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by reshlo 2y ago
Yes. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
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by reshlo 2y ago
> choco and scoop And winget.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> In Windows you… google and download random .exes? Windows has an official package manager now too.
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by reshlo 2y ago
I meant that hiding your boredom from everyone on the call is more professional than revealing you are bored, regardless of whether your camera is on or not.
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by reshlo 2y ago
That’s obviously better than being seen as unprofessional.
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by reshlo 2y ago
Isn’t the whole point of a passkey that it’s meant to use a chain of trust to prove that you’re you via biometrics or a physical factor? I’ve read that they’re intended to remove the need for 2-factor authentication because they are both fa
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by reshlo 2y ago
FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out.
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by reshlo 2y ago
That’s the main subject of the linked post by Doctorow.
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by reshlo 2y ago
> I mean, isn't the idea from them that you have 2 or more of them? So now I need to buy an extra phone from a different manufacturer than the one I already own, or sign up for another paid service? I’m starting to see what their mo
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by reshlo 2y ago
Passkeys are terrifying, and I don’t understand why the companies pushing them are doing so. What are their motives? What do they gain from catastrophically increasing the risk that users completely lose access to our ability to conduct our
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by reshlo 2y ago
I’ll answer your question with a question: can you memorise your passkey for a given website?
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by reshlo 2y ago
Not to mention the money spent on funding food stamps for Amazon’s underpaid employees.
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by reshlo 2y ago
Why inflict that thinking on environments that aren’t consulting projects if you don’t have to? That kind of thinking is a big contributor to the lack of trust in consultants to do good work that is in the client’s best interests rather tha
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by reshlo 2y ago
> What key concept underlying how we now think about QM doesn’t go back to this list of people? Off the top of my head: quarks, and therefore the existence of the colour charge quantum number; and the Higgs field. All of the people in th

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