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by upghost 1y ago
I can guarantee you that if someone were to discover that the "Ark of the Covenant" dataset that would unlock AGI was on Venus and it could only be accessed by a meatbag, we'd be sending fleets. Given the current hype it prob
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by upghost 1y ago
Yeah that's fair, I concede the point. I got a good snicker out of the YAYAMLMLOLOL :D Seems like it's tools calling tools all the way down heh
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by upghost 1y ago
I'm sure you realize it gets reassembled into "huge opaque strings" when it is fed into the LLM as context. The arbitrary transport of the context as JSON is just a bit of protocol theater. You don't really have to parse
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by upghost 1y ago
I think it's interesting and odd that tool calling took the form of this gnarly json blob. I much prefer the NexusRaven[1] style where you provide python function stubs with docstrings and get back python function invocations with the
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by upghost 1y ago
Another weird thing about Carmack, now that you mention it -- and Romero, coincidentally -- is their remarkable ability to remember technical challenges they've solved over time. For whatever reason the second I've solved a proble
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by upghost 1y ago
Can we use this micro moment to try to bridge the gap? I was sold on cocaine but all I've gotten so far was corn starch. Is there like a definitive tutorial on this? I mean look I am proud of my work but if I can drop 200-1000/mon
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by upghost 1y ago
I've attended 4 of them (3 in person in Chicago, 1 remote during Covid), and I took the raft algo implementation course twice (second time remote). Half of the reason I take them is bc the content is good and the other half is because
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by upghost 1y ago
If you want to speed run things and you have a little money to spend, I'd check out Dave Beazley's workshops, particularly his Advanced Python Mastery course[1]. One advantage you have over senior developers is that senior develop
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by upghost 1y ago
Monads are a set of annotated functions or methods that participate in shared encapsulating middleware. It's kind of like writing an interpreter for existing code by changing shape of the inputs, outputs, and possibly even flow control
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by upghost 1y ago
> When Captain Picard says in Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," that's agentic AI, translating the voice command and passing the input for the food replicator. When astronaut Dave Bowman orders the HAL
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by upghost 1y ago
Surprising errors by WSJ -- we call it a Shoggoth because of the three headed monster phases of pretraining, SFT, and RLHF (at the time, anyway)[1], not because it was trained on the internet. Still, cool jailbreak. [1]: https://
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by upghost 1y ago
This looks absolutely fantastic, please accept my meagre professional jealousy. I have long bemoaned manual hyperparam fiddling . I have on occasion dabbled with nonparametric ("genetic") methods of hyperparam tuning inspired by
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by upghost 1y ago
Is there anyone else who feels kinda like declarative templating is actually kind of worse than jQuery? Don't get me wrong, I've been using React for nearly a decade. But the more complex my SPAs become, the more I wish I had impe
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by upghost 1y ago
For a second I got excited that openai was actually doing cool stuff again.
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by upghost 1y ago
Literally was typing out "Unsloth, do your thing!!" but you are way ahead of me. You rock <3 <3 <3 Thank you!
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by upghost 1y ago
> We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven't learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them[1] Good video essay. Learned the origins of the term "cargo cult", and to my surprise, has nothing
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by upghost 1y ago
It's almost as bad as "manual" thinking!
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by upghost 1y ago
Thanks, ok. I think that was this missing piece for me -- we are not just tracking points/pixels but related points/pixels that taken together constitute an entity or identity. Yes I can see how that would be quite useful.
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by upghost 1y ago
Apologies, jargon meanings updated.
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by upghost 1y ago
> The utility of optical flow (i.e., the instantaneous velocity of pixels [16]) toward this goal has long been obvious, yet it has remained challenging to upgrade flows into long-range tracks. This sentence from the paper makes me feel a
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by upghost 1y ago
I know. The cover art is great and makes no sense. Some dude with an assault rifle (I guess supposed to be Milo/Asbel) riding a sandworm along with his buddy Dr. Doom I guess, a squid guy with a lightsaber (firewarrior probably?) and t
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by upghost 1y ago
Was the plot completely butchered...? Yes. Were there gaping narrative discontinuities...? Certainly. But that 80s voice acting in the English dub... chef's kiss . The guy who voiced Milo("Asbel" in the movie) was the voice
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by upghost 1y ago
Do yourself a flava and read the Manga. The movie ends before where the first volume ends, but the story goes in a completely different and much more interesting direction.
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by upghost 1y ago
I guess the 5th edition will need to be called "Artificial Intelligence: An Outdated Approach". I absolutely love that book. Maybe that's why I get a little cringey at the "AI" monicker for LLMs.
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by upghost 1y ago
Interesting that this used to be called "AI". I'm still trying to figure out what to call the umbrella field of Artificial Intelligence now that "AI" has come to mean the genAI subset of DL which is a subset of ML
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by upghost 1y ago
So what do we call "AI" now that "AI" has come to mean GenAI? You know how there used to be this field called "Artificial Intelligence", of which a subset was Machine Learning, of which a subset was Deep Learni
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by upghost 1y ago
Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?
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by upghost 1y ago
You made my day. I am a long time lisp developer who held a similar view of Prolog for a very long time until for various reasons I stumbled on these videos, and then realized there was a whole aspect to the language I was unaware of that w
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by upghost 1y ago
Datalog is a syntactic subset of Prolog[1], which this is... not. I think the most misunderstood thing about Prolog (and Datalog, the functor-free subset of pure Prolog) is that the syntax is really, really important. It's like, the
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by upghost 1y ago
That's a great question. The answer to "why wouldn't you use Mercury instead?" should hopefully be more clear when you watch the meta-interpeter video. The syntax of Prolog is not accidental, and this is a case where it

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