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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
Again - I'd argue that the extraordinary success of LLMs, in a relatively short amount of time, using a fairly unsophisticated training approach, is strong evidence that coding models are going to get a lot better than they are right n
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
I would argue that what LLMs are capable of doing right now is already pretty extraordinary, and would fulfil your extraordinary evidence request. To turn it on its head - given the rather astonishing success of the recent LLM training appr
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
o4-mini got this right 4 times out of 4.
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
There are two iid Uniform noise variables, the Us in A~x + U and B~x or U are independent.
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
Let U~Uniform(0,1) Let sensor target measurement be x, so A ~ (x + U), B ~ x or U with probability 0.5. We draw a from A and b from B, we want the estimator to minimise mean absolute error - the bayes optimal rule is the posterior median of
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
haha, sage advice
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
"for"? You realise this is a homeland security matter for the US as well as the EU?
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
Your comments feel a bit incoherent - just extend your reasoning for why you think Europe should want to fund this back to the US again.
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by sweezyjeezy 1y ago
I agree that it's a little hard to care about this author's situation as much as other stories I've heard in the past couple of years. But that said, losing a job like this is never a nice place to be, and I don't hate t
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
I agree, but also agree with the author's statement "It's very difficult to decide which module to put an individual function in". Quite often coders optimise for searchability, so like there will be a constants file, a
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Base‑10 is just our chosen way of writing numbers, it doesn’t need to have any deep relationship with the arithmetic properties of sequences like the powers of 2. For most series (Fibonacci numbers, factorials etc), the digits for large mem
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
> but it also possible to train AIs to approach them without going through the same process as the human scientists With chess the answer was more or less completely brute force the problem space, but will that work with math / scie
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Now we're arguing semantics. "Naturally occuring" in English means not synthetically produced / found naturally in the environment outside of human influences.
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
They did specify "molecule". Certainly not every pharmaceutical occurs naturally, and other materials such as Teflon don't either.
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
> Every explanation of git I have seen starts by explaining that git is cool because branches are just pointers and then talks about the index/staging area. Which is precisely _not_ a "just memorise these commands" approac
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
> Statistical significance is bullshit. Learning about it is as useful as learning about phlogiston. Ok, that's where I draw the line - statistical significance is not "bullshit" - however as you say, leaning on it too har
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
I actually think git is a bad example of "just memorise these commands" - unless you are working with projects with a small number of users / branches - or you're fine to just delete and reclone if things get really hair
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
I was posting questions from the last week, so not in o3 training data.
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
As an ex-mathematician I was really interested to see how well o3 etc handles difficult, unseen math questions, so I tried giving it some hard-ish questions from mathoverflow [1] (mainly non-trivial questions on graduate+ level topics). It
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Definitely on the high side, but I'm guessing they mean "chronic abusers" rather than just "user". The serious ketamine addicts I knew when I was younger took the drug every single day, and multiple times during the
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Yeah agreed - there are actually many, smaller flashes of insight, but most of them don't lead to anything. I once joked that you could probably compress all the time I was actually going in the right direction in my PhD down to about
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Marked resolved, still not working in London
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Agreed, and articles like this don't help. That's the only point I was trying to make really.
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Yes but here's a exaggerated version - say were to sample for a week at 50/50 when the base conversion rate was at 4%, then we sample at 25/75 for a week with the base conversion rate bumped up to 8% due to a sale. The averag
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Sampling 50/50 will always give you the best chance of picking the best ultimate 'winner' in a fixed time horizon, at the cost of only sampling the winning variant 50% of the time. That's true if the reward rates are fix
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
One of the assumptions of vanilla multi-armed bandits is that the underlying reward rates are fixed. It's not valid to assume that in a lot of cases, including e-commerce. The author is dismissive and hard wavy about this and having wo
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Nice - the n1 + n3 = n2 + n4 equality is only necessary (mod 11) e.g. 9020 works - this is because 99...99 with even # of 9s is divisible by 11 and with odd # 9s is divisible by 11 if we subtract 9 (or add 2) so then is = -2 mod 11. So the
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
for 10^5, to get the same collision probability (~2 * exp(-10)), you would just need to compute the 10 maximum/minimum candidates and check against those.
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
Yes I use them together, iterm has a great tmux integration. Tmux vanilla does not have great UX (in my opinion).
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by sweezyjeezy 2y ago
I use it primarily for its split pane functionality. Invaluable if you need to see multiple things happening on the same machine at once. I work in data science and often have several long running jobs on a single server, a notebook server,

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