vrighter

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by vrighter 11mo ago
gestures around vaguely Have you been following the homepage of this site lately?
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by vrighter 11mo ago
If it's only the inside diameter that shrunk by 100% then it's only the hole that's gone, not the whole thing. The wall can still be as thick as it wants. If it were the outer diameter that shrunk by 100% then the entire thin
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Tfa ddn't imply lack of evidence is evidence of impossibility. What he is referring to is that this whole bubble is predicated on promises that it actually is possible. And very soon, at that. When they said there is no evidence they
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Maybe it's just the inside diameter that got 100% smaller. So there actually is a physical object that can exist. Which is about a cat hair.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
yes, over time there are a lot of cases. Doesn't change the fact that llms make them more often. You want to look at the rate, not the absolute number.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
So? The point is that humans do it much less often. Let's say there are 10 subtasks that need to be done. Let's say a human has 99% chance of getting each one of them right, by doing the proper testing etc. And let's say th
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by vrighter 11mo ago
"Guessing what a pixel's color might be were one to actually do the work and render it" is not the same as actually rendering it. No, upscaling doesn't count. Doing it for a whole screenful of pixels, for the majority
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by vrighter 11mo ago
"But building the same functionality has undoubtedly become simpler." I disagree with this statement. It has become simpler, provided you don't care about it actually being correct, and you don't care about whether you r
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by vrighter 11mo ago
the more people use this, the less useful it becomes for everyone. If everyone uses this, then everyone would still be using a particular package for the first time at the same time. What then? Release another package that extends the delay
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by vrighter 11mo ago
"To be Turing complete a system including an LLM need to be able to simulate a 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine (or the inverse)." And infinite memory. You forgot the infinite memory. And LLMs are extremely inefficient with memor
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Yes it is, there's no rule saying you can't manually mess with the state transition function while designing and building the chain. It's still a fixed function at runtime. It's just that you don't need to do so in
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by vrighter 11mo ago
You're describing "temperature". That is usually done using the softmax function which cannot output zero for any element. In fact zero temperature is special cased, or they do exactly what you just said (add a teeny tiny
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by vrighter 11mo ago
But humans have vastly lower error rates than llms. And in a multi-step process that means that those error rates compound. And when that happens, you end up with a 50/50 or worse
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by vrighter 11mo ago
only really faster and better if you don't use them for gaming, unfortunately. Upscaling and frame generation is not a better GPU, it's one with a band-aid applied to hide the fact that it actually did not get much faster. RTX
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Yep, this is like taking a file, saving a different empty file named as base-64 encoded contents of the first and claim you compressed it down by 100%.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
better integrations won't do anything to fix the fact that these tools are, by their mathematical nature, unreliable and always will be
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by vrighter 11mo ago
provided the senior dev takes time off to review that slop.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
what is (and I'm being generous with the base here) 0.95^10? A 10-step process with a 95% success rate on each.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
And all that stuff you mentioned is stuff you can't buy. You can't buy a preconfigured router that fits your setup. You need to configure it yourself. And if it's the CEO who's provisioning servers and installing and con
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Yes most do. But that is not part of lua. That is just a library one can load. It's written in C. The lua interpreter does not allow any access to the outside world. That rudimentary "built-in" io that's included with
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by vrighter 11mo ago
I tried to get into machine learning and started out simple. A network of two inputs, and one output. The function to learn was a heart-shaped SDF. I generated training samples from the +/-1 range of coordinates. For such a relatively
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by vrighter 11mo ago
I was being generous and assuming the chat app "only" used 1GB of ram.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
Bring back the 2000s transparency in the hardware. Transparent phone (nokia 3310, of course), transparent PC, transparent everything!
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by vrighter 11mo ago
test-time-compute(reasoning): Running the thing in a loop so it can hallucinate on its own words. Let's not kid ourselves as to what it actually is.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
and they're gonna learn them the hard way too.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
the lua interpreter by itself is similar in scope to freestanding c. You can do anything, but you have to do everything . Lua doesn't come with much. Just some very basic file io (not even including listing files). Stuff that embeds l
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by vrighter 11mo ago
But only if most of everyone else doesn't do so.
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by vrighter 11mo ago
You're thinking of the interpreter, not the runtime. The runtime is libraries, not the interpreter. The async-io frameworks and stuff like that. Just like how node.js is a javascript runtime, it uses the V8 engine, and bun is also a ja
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by vrighter 11mo ago
It's a runtime, not a lua interpreter/jit. The first sentence in its readme is the following: "Astra is a web server runtime for Lua (5.1-5.4), Luau and LuaJIT written in Rust with native support for Teal."
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by vrighter 11mo ago
" Just constructing what seems to be a reasonably private and robust linux computer took at least a year of full-time effort." How? I mean seriously, if it took one whole year to set up one linux system, then you must have close t

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