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by tdullien 1y ago
The usual story they tell themselves is that the software is used against criminals and child pornography and terrorism. Which is not wrong, the majority of the use cases are probably that, in the majority of jurisdictions.
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by tdullien 1y ago
It's just off by a factor of 35?
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by tdullien 1y ago
The obvious solution is for the state to accept illiquid securities as payment for tax.
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by tdullien 1y ago
German here. I fully agree that German companies tend to be crazy hierarchical.
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by tdullien 1y ago
Every predictor is a compressor, every compressor is a predictor. If you're interested in this, it's a good idea reading about the Hutter prize ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize ) and going from ther
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by tdullien 1y ago
Thank you for pointing out that it was Nixon that created the EPA.
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Comparing PyTorch code optimization Gemini vs. Claude(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
3 points by tdullien 1y ago|0 comments
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by tdullien 1y ago
I think the Anthropic "omg blackmail" article clearly talks about both LLMs and their "goals".
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by tdullien 1y ago
I am not aware that an LLM contains any.
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by tdullien 1y ago
Fair, there is a lot that is incomprehensible to all of us. I wouldn't call it "state" as it's fixed, but that is a rather subtle point. That said, would you anthropomorphize a meteorological simulation just because it c
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by tdullien 1y ago
Author here. What's the difference, in your perception, between an LLM and a large-scale meteorological simulation, if there is any? If you're willing to ascribe the possibility of consciousness to any complex-enough computation o
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by tdullien 1y ago
Author here. I am entirely ok with using "goal" in the context of an RL algorithm. If you read my article carefully, you'll find that I object to the use of "goal" in the context of LLMs.
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by tdullien 1y ago
Author of the original article here. What hidden state are you referring to? For most LLMs the context is the state, and there is no "hidden" state. Could you explain what you mean? (Apologies if I can't see it directly)
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by tdullien 1y ago
As a trained mathematician with 20+ years shipping software products, I object to this. A lot of AI work is done by people that "dash-shaped" -- broad, but with no depth anywhere. Then there's a few I-shaped people that drive
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Distributed Continuous GPU Profiling(zymtrace.com)
12 points by tdullien 1y ago|2 comments
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by tdullien 1y ago
Tasmanian devils.
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Polytopes and MLP Training Visualisation(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
2 points by tdullien 2y ago|0 comments
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by tdullien 2y ago
This. There is a joke that Germany delivered Porsches in the 1990s and hot .com stocks in return, and then until 2008 they got CDOs in return. And t-bills -- the US has been a major exporter of TBills. Fwiw, the US has a big surplus in serv
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by tdullien 2y ago
And Konrad Zuse invented the computer.
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by tdullien 2y ago
They'd like to have CUDA, period, but are legally barred from it.
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by tdullien 2y ago
Short note: Also available as the standard Otel profiling agent ;)
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by tdullien 2y ago
The Otel profiling agent (formerly prodfiler, then Elastic profiler) is the underlying OSS.
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by tdullien 2y ago
This is an important point, and thanks for pointing that out in this discussion. The reason why raising interest rates breaks inflation is usually because it chokes off economic activity to a point where labor ceases to have bargaining abil
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by tdullien 2y ago
Russians are scared a nuke might turn out a dud.
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Is this memory safety in the room with us?(docs.google.com)
8 points by tdullien 2y ago|1 comments
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by tdullien 2y ago
This resonates with me very deeply. In the last few months of my 40th year, I exited my 2nd company - somewhat against my wishes (although I could've chosen differently). The day that deal closed my mother went into coma after complica
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by tdullien 2y ago
One of the issues with anyone discussing Moore's Law is that people don't specify which Moore's they are talking about. The economic version of Moore's Law, e.g. cost per transistor halves every 18-24 months, died at 28n
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by tdullien 2y ago
For the prodfiler.com flamegraph viewer we ended up building it in Pixi.JS, which allowed us to have nice GPU acceleration and render massive flamegraphs quickly. Omitting to draw blocks of less than half a pixel width is also a good idea,
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by tdullien 2y ago
I have seen way more projects with very broken CMake integration than rust packages with broken cargo setup. CMake is a pain.
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by tdullien 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this, and I am not sure if sending a hug is appropriate. Reading your post makes me angry and sad.

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