thethimble

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by thethimble 3y ago
But if the universe is infinitely large then any finite thing should fit in it, right? Or are we saying that BB(748) can be infinite?
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by thethimble 3y ago
It’s like a self compiling compiler that can’t be bootstrapped!
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by thethimble 3y ago
Who’s to say this isn’t true of our current reality!
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by thethimble 3y ago
I’d strongly recommend Beej’s guide to network programming. It’s very approachable and will clear these concepts up for you. https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/split/
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by thethimble 3y ago
Best way to secure your devices is to not be a target! /s
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by thethimble 3y ago
Does anyone understand the business angle for meta here with these models? I still don’t understand why their research division exists and how it relates to their core business. I’m a huge admirer of their work but don’t understand the why.
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by thethimble 3y ago
I’ve found the consumer GPT4 latency to be fantastic. It seems they’re offering an improvement above this.
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by thethimble 3y ago
This way they can ensure their safety/alignment mechanisms don’t get undermined with third party training data.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Without women?? Genuinely curious how this is sustainable.
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by thethimble 3y ago
This is what we should be discussing - the blatant taking-for-granted of how good things objectively are in favor of a cultural delusion that we are oppressed. We are living in the best of times as measured by infant mortality, lifespans, l
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by thethimble 3y ago
The idea that everyone involved in the economic system of app development simply lacks moral character is a pretty weak take. Most apps/companies exist within a capitalistic framework. They likely wouldn’t exist without early external
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by thethimble 3y ago
> The hashtable is capable of looking up a key every clock cycle Does the SRAM latency still allow for single-cycle reads at 10G?
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by thethimble 3y ago
Thanks for the continued insistence!
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by thethimble 3y ago
It seems like there’s a practical approach and a literalist approach here. I never understood the insistence of “don’t talk to the police” in relation to the questions above. If you can give the “right” answers, why wouldn’t you? I understa
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by thethimble 3y ago
This is the most hilarious meme on HN
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by thethimble 3y ago
How do you juxtapose this with the fact that Reddit is still unprofitable? Engineers cost money. Venture capital isn’t an infinite well. The profitability of a business is a testament to its sustainability (or lack thereof). Persisting unpr
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by thethimble 3y ago
Google has recently announced infrastructure for fine tuning and RLHF on their pre trained foundation models. I imagine all cloud providers will follow suit. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai&#x
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by thethimble 3y ago
Purely functional data structures are very common in purely functional languages like Haskell but are also used in non functional languages via libraries like immutable.js. At a high level, immutability forces you to be extremely deliberate
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by thethimble 3y ago
A related point would be Meta is exposed to revenue risk as customers pull back from advertising in a recessionary environment. This appears clearly in Meta’s financials. An unrelated point would be that layoffs usually target the lowest-pe
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by thethimble 3y ago
And yet more recently everything began shifting to the cloud (storage, compute). Centralization leads to better economies of scale and therefore more efficiency. It’s not clear to me this will ever change. While local compute will always im
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by thethimble 3y ago
China https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-bytedance-shou-zi-chew-8d8...
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by thethimble 3y ago
> safety reasons for providing a phone Isn’t this a red herring? Do you need to provide a smart phone or just a phone? If it’s a smart phone do you need to enable unfettered access or just the safety related apps you need?
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by thethimble 3y ago
We need a similar app that removes existentially cynical themes from HN comments
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by thethimble 3y ago
Agreed - it seems that calling out LLM accuracy is a meme here - hyperbolically: “because LLMs can be inaccurate they are useless”. There seems to be less next-level analysis: which topics are more prone to inaccuracy, does the critique loo
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by thethimble 3y ago
We’re literally on hacker news right now
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by thethimble 3y ago
GPT’s vocab size is north of tens of thousands. Included in this vocab are the 256 unique byte values (2^8). This means GPT can already generate/interpret all byte sequences. The vocab size is larger than 256 (or in your example 2) bec
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by thethimble 4y ago
The entrenchment of smartphones in society dramatically increased between iPhone 4 and 14. Technical capability is just one axis. Still, I think LLMs are different than phones in terms of scaling. Faster processor speeds don’t necessarily r
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by thethimble 4y ago
I have a feeling that a government run payment system would also forbid illegal activity (eg laundering, etc). I agree that a private payments network is not ideal but the question at hand is how should transactions facilitating illegal act
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by thethimble 4y ago
Even if your argument were true there would have to be a theoretical interest rate that minimizes inflation (how can a function increase in both directions but not have a minimum?). That said I think there’s reason to be skeptical about the
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by thethimble 4y ago
> if remote work was legally mandated This is hilarious

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