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by stephantul 7mo ago
Buddy… your son gets a top post on HN in which he clearly mentions you, yet you feel the need to make an account just to correct him in the first comment? Can’t you send him a message and let him correct it?
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by stephantul 7mo ago
The fact that this was on the set of training problems with a custom harness basically makes the headline a lie. What if you give opus the same harness? Do people even care about meaningful comparisons any more or is it all just “numbers go
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by stephantul 7mo ago
Mannnn, here I thought this was going to be an informative article! But it’s just a commercial for the author’s consulting business.
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by stephantul 7mo ago
Do you have benchmarks? Naively I would compare this to Numba? But maybe I am way off the mark here
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by stephantul 7mo ago
This is it. Getting something on the table for stakeholders to look at trumps anything else.
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by stephantul 7mo ago
I’ve never been so conflicted about an article. It has clearly been generated by an llm, but still has useful content. It’s a good article, but…
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by stephantul 7mo ago
Same. Admitting to it is one thing, but still it takes a certain kind of attitude to outright forbid people to write tests.
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by stephantul 7mo ago
This is such a funny interaction
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by stephantul 7mo ago
Are you an llm? That would be so ironic
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by stephantul 7mo ago
Tokens saved should not be your north star metric. You should be able to show that tool call performance is maintained while consuming fewer tokens. I have no idea whether that is the case here. As an aside: this is a cool idea but the pros
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by stephantul 7mo ago
This is a thinly veiled commercial, not really useful.
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Qwant is somewhat focused on France, so coverage really depends on whether that is the market you’re looking for.
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Genuinely curious: what would you like to pay for? Not seeing ads? Unlocking new features? Or just supporting us?
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Ecosia is not just Bing, we offer a bunch of indexes, including bing and Google. We’re moving to our own index, which we are building in collaboration with Qwant, under the name European Search Perspective. I do see the point of the article
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Georgi is such a legend. Glad to see this happening
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Yes. This is known as a knn classifier. Knn classifiers are usually worse than other simple classifiers, but trivial to update and use. See e.g., https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/neighbors/plot...
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Yeah sorry, reading it back I was a bit too harsh haha. It was my pre-coffee comment. Nice post!
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by stephantul 8mo ago
The speed comparison is weird. The author sets the solver to saga, doesn’t standardize the features, and uses a very high max_iter. Logistic Regression takes longer to converge when features are not standardized. Also, the zstd classifier t
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by stephantul 8mo ago
What an interesting long-form portrait. Looking at your phone while driving is extremely dangerous, please don’t do it.
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by stephantul 8mo ago
IMO: trust-based systems only work if they carry risk. Your own score should be linked to the people you "vouch for" or "denounce". This is similar to real life: if you vouch for someone (in business for example), and th
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Show HN: Skeletoken, a Python package for editing model tokenizers(github.com)
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by stephantul 8mo ago
What a good post! I loved the takeaways at the end of each section. I think it would maybe get more traction if the code was in pytorch or JAX. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen people use Keras.
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Yes! I distinctly remember the time magazine issue and article about this. This is exactly what I mean: we normalize and celebrate technologies without realizing what the repercussions are when we give the same tools and power to others.
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by stephantul 8mo ago
You are right, I do acknowledge their efforts but did not do so here, which I should have. I don't necessarily mean to berate the public, but rather the politicians, who saw that they could use social media/big tech for their own
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by stephantul 8mo ago
Well I guess I mean the pubic in general. I also don’t necessarily mean willfully creating technology that can be abused. For example, we all stood by when we let Twitter and other US-based social media become the main way politicians commu
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by stephantul 8mo ago
This has bean a long time coming. This is a stark reminder that you should consider who the future stewards of whatever you are building might be. We built a vast surveillance network under the guise of servings ads and making money, and lo
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by stephantul 8mo ago
The compression algorithm is very similar to a greedy subword tokenizer, which is used in BERT and other older language models, but has become less popular in favor of BPE.
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by stephantul 9mo ago
The header line of the website (“this is our response”) makes it appear as if the experiment was already successful.
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by stephantul 9mo ago
Your point about rereading without ai makes so much sense. The economics of it have changed, human nature hasn’t. Before 2023 (?) people also submitted garbage PRs just to be able to add “contributed to X” to their CV. It’s just become a lo
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by stephantul 9mo ago
yes, you are right. I realized my mistake afterwards but it was after the edit window.

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