ttul

52 ms·

721.
by ttul 3y ago
That’s just one perspective… Another perspective is that LLMs enable programmers to skip a lot of the routine and boring aspects of coding - looking up stuff, essentially - so they can focus on the fun parts that engage creativity.
722.
by ttul 3y ago
Undoubtedly, they have tried ALiBi…
723.
by ttul 3y ago
Your developer tool already maps out the entire code base in useful ways, such as knowing all the symbols available in the current context and the structure of classes. This information can be distilled for presentation to the LLM. For inst
724.
by ttul 3y ago
Solar “sailing” is increasingly practical; there are companies selling luxurious solar ocean cruisers [1] already. As a sailor, the idea has a definite appeal for long ocean crossings. Sunshine is very reliable in the open ocean whereas win
725.
by ttul 3y ago
The solution to homelessness too! No need to find a parking spot. Just drive all night. Could it drive very slowly and charge the batteries using solar? Hmmm
726.
by ttul 3y ago
Interesting analysis. Indeed without the need for oil and gas, Russia would not have the cash to invade Ukraine.
727.
by ttul 3y ago
Rephrased in a kinder tone: I appreciated you sharing that relevant link about neutron stars and magnetic fields. Since the article is discussing a star with an unusually strong magnetic field that may help explain magnetars, readers might
728.
by ttul 3y ago
That's just the usual shit show that is thepiratebay.org.
729.
by ttul 3y ago
Anecdote: My friend in high school found that he could drill a hole in a 720KB floppy and transform it into a 1.44MB floppy, saving a few bucks. In 1993, this was practically magic.
730.
by ttul 3y ago
On another note, a friend of mine tried eating massive amounts of ginger to help his body heal from two years of heavy chemotherapy. The science behind his experimentation was sound and the cancer doctor confirmed that it might well work -
731.
by ttul 3y ago
In my experience, Claude 2 is marvellously good at sucking in massive documents and accurately generating responses to questions. I gave it the entire Georgia indictment (minus a few pages of crap at the start that was irrelevant to reduce
732.
by ttul 3y ago
Hey everyone, CEO of MailChannels here. I've been following this thread with interest, as we've also observed similar challenges in the email delivery space. Well, to be honest, the ground game is constantly changing in this space
733.
by ttul 3y ago
Suppose aspartame is actually toxic. Wouldn’t that have population-level effects by now? It’s been in beverages for decades.
734.
by ttul 3y ago
There’s nothing stopping Meta from selling their models to the DOD, but if they do, we will never hear about it.
735.
by ttul 3y ago
I’m wildly speculating, but it seems that projects like llama.cpp are bringing SOTA models closer to the desktop. It’s only a matter of time before browsers embed a small LLM for various purposes, providing access to this local model via a
736.
by ttul 3y ago
Pretty sure you can do this. Diffusion models by default start with noise, but you can start with any data, including an existing image. For instance, you could import a photo of yourself, mask the eyes and then ask the model to make them g
737.
by ttul 3y ago
Llama 2 might by some measures be close to GPT 3.5, but it’s nowhere near GPT 4, nor Anthropic Claude 2 or Cohere’s model. The closed source players have the best researchers - they are being paid millions a year with tons of upside - and i
738.
by ttul 3y ago
He was permitted to travel to New York under the terms of his bail to meet with lawyers.
739.
by ttul 3y ago
Thinking back, Zoom had optimized its codec to provide lower latency than WebEx. The lower latency caused a noticeable improvement in user experience. Combine that with the SMB-oriented pricing model that had a free tier and I think that’s
740.
by ttul 3y ago
For me, the best post-zoom thing is calls WITHOUT video. Video calling is extremely tiring. A couple of Zooms whacks me out for the rest of the day. Note that I am considered a “geriatric millenial” so your mileage may vary.
741.
by ttul 3y ago
That sounds anticompetitive to me. But I understand that proving criminal anticompetitive behavior is extremely difficult under US law, which is why it almost never happens. And companies as large as Google can outpunch regulators on legal
742.
by ttul 3y ago
But do these things pass through the blood brain barrier?
743.
by ttul 3y ago
Not surprised that downscaling still works. Brands work very hard to make their messages visually distinctive, such that you’d recognize the brand even if you squint…
744.
by ttul 3y ago
The proper solution to this problem is to render the message as the user will see it and then analyze it using computer vision, running OCR to extract the text and identifying deceptive elements like brands. We built a prototype to detect b
745.
by ttul 3y ago
Oregon decriminalizes drugs for a couple of years and we expect that the toxic drug crisis, homelessness, violence, poverty, petty crime, and child abuse will all magically disappear overnight. Yet the prohibition on drugs has been in force
746.
by ttul 3y ago
Yes, we should also make alcohol illegal again because those 1930s gangs were so cool.
747.
by ttul 3y ago
David Nutt is an esteemed scientist. He previously chaired the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He is “ David Nutt is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Scienc
748.
by ttul 3y ago
The biggest impact on my life has been Code Interpreter. Much of my job as a CEO involves analyzing data to make strategic decisions - “which of several options is best based on the evidence?” Code Interpreter lets me upload data in a multi
749.
by ttul 3y ago
The ideal way to accomplish this would be to get your customers to install a tiny proxy Worker in their own account and then just connect your service to it. https://support.mailchannels.com/hc/en-us/articles/
750.
by ttul 3y ago
Hypothetically, fine tuned transformer networks would learn to attend more to the beginning and end of the sequence since that is where the instructions typically are. And lo and behold a recent paper demonstrated this to be true.

More ›