sdenton4

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by sdenton4 3y ago
Pull request description: "Does it really, though?"
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I /definitely/ don't have perfect autobiographical memory, but do have an above-average recall for code. And a tendency to dig deep to understand how systems work. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is when some
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by sdenton4 3y ago
So Vietnam just doesn't count? It wasn't a small way by any metric that matters - it just happened to not be on the home soil of the us or ussr.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Almost certainly
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Neat! It /should/ be pretty easy to convert this to Jax, as a big party of the Jax API is just reimplementing the Numpy API. The two changes I can imagine are: a) handling randomness requires more explicit rng estate handling, and
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by sdenton4 3y ago
But could you sell $30m of Bitcoin without tanking the price?
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Here's California electricity prices for the last ten years: https://ycharts.com/indicators/california_electric_utility_r... . There's a clear seasonal pattern and steady increase over time, but isn't par
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Seems to me that fuel price volatility is a point in favor of electric, as grid electricity prices are less volatile cyclic price swings (day/night) can be planned for, and grid energy is fed by an array of sources, which reduces volat
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Frontends are pretty much always awful... They work until they don't and then you're invested and screwed. I've become a much bigger fan of well-designed libraries. Do one thing and do it well, and preview a simple API for do
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by sdenton4 3y ago
There's untold billions of tokens of Minecraft related content on the web - the controlling LLM personally has memorized every Minecraft strategy guide ever written.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
This seems bad, though? They introduce a complicated training regime to make up for tearing out a lot of known-good ideas like residual connections. (ie, not so vanilla after all.) They end up needing a lot more parameters and flops to matc
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Here's the original paper: https://www.england.nhs.uk/signuptosafety/wp-content/uploads... The obvious failure mode of Safety I is an infinite list of rules governing all possible corner cases... Sometimes yo
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by sdenton4 3y ago
A good research team is a handful of people working on a focused set of questions. A good product team is probably around a dozen people minimum? Especially if you need to hit the quality bar expected of a release from a BigCorp. You'v
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Thanks to the magic of Turing completeness, lots of the complications don't actually buy you anything... The explicit choice in the design of Go is to prefer fast reading over fast writing, which helps maintainability and debugging. Co
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The Pacific Pinball Museum is similar - only pinball, $20 at the door.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Magical Help Desk was a COVID-era LARP where you could call in and get tech support for your magic items. https://www.intramersive.com/magical-help-desk
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Neal Stevenson got away with this by getting rid of Adam and adding six additional Eve's.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
At some point I got an itch and looked into what it would take to run such a magic box myself. The lightbulb moment was realizing that of I did manage to pull a ton (or 15) of carbon out of the air by whatever method, I would then have to m
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by sdenton4 3y ago
You're simply incorrect here: the point is that the quarantined LLM has no ability to execute code and all inputs and outputs are treated as untrusted strings. Thanks to the history of the Internet, handling untrusted strings is a thin
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by sdenton4 3y ago
You lost the thread at 'write.' Try to do it in your head; we pretty much have to resort to additional tools to succeed at this task. Here's a LLM-generated python solution, which works just fine: def add_binary(a, b):
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Perhaps also consider that you (the human) are using 2-dimensional visual processing to help you solve the problem by collating your work. You also almost certainly work /backwards/ from right to left. The problem is simplified by
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Arithmetic is a known-bad example because of how the tokenization works. Similar to calling a human unintelligent because we can't recognize bat calls. Additionally 'can't do x, and is therefore a lookup table' is a very
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Also not to be confused with TradeWars 2002, the classic BBS game: http://www.tradewars.com/default.html
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by sdenton4 3y ago
2015 was the last year with much time at all below the +2-sigma line for daily mean ocean temperature since 1980. That's terrifying - the mean is moving upwards /very/ quickly.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Yeah there's really three options here... Throw everything in context, fine tune, or add external search a la RETRO. The latter is definitely the cheapest option; updates are trivial.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Only so long as a) the gains are real, and not overfitting the test dataset, and b) you don't balloon in complexity, so that stacking approaches becomes impossible to manage. Point (a) is extremely hard to discern, especially when peop
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by sdenton4 4y ago
Just gotta get to the point where we can just ask the model to code the wrapper we want to use it with...
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by sdenton4 4y ago
It's an ecosystem. There's a need for Canadian Content, thanks to media regulations, which creates a little-league feeder of actors, producers, etc. Then the best of these are easily available to call on when outsourcing work from
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by sdenton4 4y ago
Because evenness is a special case of k-evenness: A set is k-even if it can be divided into equal sets of size k. Which, for finite sets, is equivalent to the size of the set being 0 mod k, ie, is divisible by k. There are many ways to be
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by sdenton4 4y ago
I would weaken the definition of even/odd to say that a set is even if /there exists/ a way to pair things off, and odd if /there is no way/ to pair things off (ie, not even). So the countable numbers would be even.

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