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901.
Graphic Presentation (1939)(archive.org)
130 points by stared 3y ago|21 comments
902.
by stared 3y ago
Ironically, it is the most human aspect of LLMs.
903.
by stared 3y ago
Tokenization is a crude text compression, which happens at the cost of obfuscating the data. Without it, we would effectively reduce the context size and increase the training time. For OpenAI tokenizer - by a factor of 4. Is there a workar
904.
A lot of weird behaviors and problems of LLMs trace back to tokenization(twitter.com)
30 points by stared 3y ago|8 comments
905.
by stared 3y ago
Well, there are languages better at incorporating the Zen of Python than Python itself, vide (full disclosure: my blog post) https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2020/03/types-test-typescript/ . When it comes to pack
906.
Polish mint creates first "flying coin"(notesfrompoland.com)
11 points by stared 3y ago|4 comments
907.
by stared 3y ago
Learning parameter ordering is precisely a thing that I advice against memorizing. Just use IDE. Other things - well, there is Google, there is StackOverflow, and now - also ChatGPT with GPT-4. Sure, it might not be enough for learning (a
908.
by stared 3y ago
Quite a few times, I got asked, "What should I memorize when learning Python?". I always answered: "Nothing! You will naturally memorize things that matter and others don't". Obviously, it is contextual - a backend
909.
by stared 3y ago
To me, "Don't Look Up" is a sequel to "Dr Strangelove" (obviously, not nearly as iconic, but still). The core parts are the same: the looming existential danger of the time and the irresponsibility of the most influ
910.
by stared 3y ago
Poland has similar approval of the center and the right from both men and women. Yet, there is a stark difference between the far-right (almost only men, especially young) and the left (much more support from women, especially young). I wou
911.
by stared 3y ago
I suggest starting with "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant (a book, not an online course). It has an excellent overview of mathematics for a young person who one day may want to become a mathematician. Later, it depends on
912.
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' – with GPT4 (2023)(p.migdal.pl)
1 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
913.
Quantum thought experiments as quantum computing circuits(arxiv.org)
1 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
914.
by stared 3y ago
It is in the linked post, not - comments.
915.
by stared 3y ago
This very thread inspired me to read not only this book, but also this particular translation.
916.
by stared 3y ago
Tao Te Ching, seriously There is a lot of emphasis on simplicity and that things are the best when they work seamlessly. Chapter 17, from the translation by Derek Lin, which I wholeheartedly recommend: The highest rulers, people do no
917.
by stared 3y ago
I really like the calendar plugin - it makes it easy to write daily notes, https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin .
918.
by stared 3y ago
On the contrary, I think "value of life" is an important phrasing - especially given that it is extremely uneasy for anyone except some die-hard libertarians. Otherwise, we live with a dissonance - on the one hand, we consider lif
919.
by stared 3y ago
There is an adage: every social app is a dating app if you are creepy enough.
920.
by stared 3y ago
I got curious if there is one for Poland; apparently, there is: https://portalpasazera.pl/en/MapaOL
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by stared 3y ago
“[A game is a] voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles” — Bernard Suits Within this definition, in theory, programming is not a game. In practice, it often is.
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by stared 3y ago
There is a saying that "physics is a subset of reality that can be approximated by coupled harmonic oscillators". If they are purely linear - it is simple; just write a matrix of their spring coefficients and diagonalize it. If th
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by stared 3y ago
I keep getting "Failed to generate. Please try again" 10 seconds after model loading. It is hardly helpful, as trying again gives the same error. Apple Silicon M1, 32GB RAM, in any case.
924.
by stared 3y ago
Here are prompted "AI-generated" poems by him http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html "This is a poem about a haircut! But lofty, nobel, tragic, timeless, full of love, treacher
925.
by stared 3y ago
I have my personal website on GitHub. It gives much more than "not minified code". And actually, I had one interesting email on a widget I created (weighted sorting of blog posts, so it is up to the user to weigh novelty, populari
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Graphic Presentation (1939)(archive.org)
3 points by stared 3y ago|0 comments
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by stared 3y ago
Quite a lot of these lessons are not new, see Willard C. Brinton "Graphic presentation" - a book (1939), freely accessible https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/mode/... .
928.
by stared 3y ago
"Just open source it" is not always a viable option. IP can be locked for one or the other reason, and it is not always in the power of founders to release it.
929.
by stared 3y ago
A: And this rock was not soaked in the blood of slave child workers... B: So, how do you expect it to have the magical power to keep your love?!
930.
by stared 3y ago
It makes sense to waste resources on purpose (e.g. buying overpriced gemstones), at least from the evolutionary perspective - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle . Yet, the world would be better if the same

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