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by waldrews 2y ago
This point got mocked when I raised it some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561419 Deepseek promptly fixed it so that their UI responds with 'Hi! I'm DeepSeek-V3, an AI assistant independently dev
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by waldrews 2y ago
The pricing model is very well thought out and worth studying. Cheap but not free generous base layer, that falls back to prepaid credit resource based billing for high users. Even details like punitively increased pricing to discourage h
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by waldrews 2y ago
They don't even need the AI navigation problems of delivery or military drones to be solved, just to be remote piloted along a given route. But all that solves is removing the risk to the human pilot and their weight - possibly being
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by waldrews 2y ago
Update: as of today, the response is consistently: "Hi! I'm DeepSeek-V3, an AI assistant independently developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek Inc. For detailed information about models and products, please refer to the official
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by waldrews 2y ago
Space isn't a limited resource, but prestige points are deliberatly limited, as a proxy for the publications' competition for attention. We can appreciate the irony, while considering the outcome reasonable - after all, the resul
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by waldrews 2y ago
Happy new year to readers who are fellow humans, to any bots who, unbeknownst to us, can already experience happiness, and I guess if any gorilla, parrot, elephant, or dolphin is having this message communicated to them, happy new year to y
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by waldrews 2y ago
When Gemini had its 'identity crisis,' mostly in 2023 (whatever they called it back then), it looked like a pre-training phenomenon, explainable by mentions in the available corpus. The consistency here, and exact and persistent
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by waldrews 2y ago
It also tells us the genie is out of the bottle not just in the form of open weights being widely available, but in the form of the text corpuses coming from the existing model. The claimed low cost of Deepseek's training is partly en
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by waldrews 2y ago
And you can ask it if it's sure, and it'll consistently double down on insisting it's ChatGPT. Ask it what country it's developed in, and it'll say US; ask it if it's sure it's not China, and it'll b
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by waldrews 2y ago
To this day, asking Deepseek "what model are you" typically gives the answer "I'm an AI language model called ChatGPT, created by OpenAI. Specifically, I'm based on the GPT-4 architecture, which is designed to under
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by waldrews 2y ago
Seems like a fine number, but I bet there's quite a few more irrational computable numbers out there.
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by waldrews 2y ago
should've said "6 orders of magnitude if we use 120 m/s vs 300_000 km/s" - I was also off by 3 orders of magnitude!
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by waldrews 2y ago
6 orders of magnitude if we use 120 m/s vs 300 km/s
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by waldrews 2y ago
Doesn't look like they got to DoorDash hidden fees in this decision?
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by waldrews 2y ago
The Conformal Prediction advocates (especially a certain prominent Twitter account) tend to rehash old frequentist-vs-bayesian arguments with more heated rhetoric than strictly necessary. That fight has been going on for almost a century n
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by waldrews 2y ago
The Property Grid control was the greatest general purpose UI ever created. Using it (in the .Net, Windows Forms incarnation) for custom types in non-VS application was a tremendous productivity shortcut for LOB apps. Put attributes on yo
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by waldrews 2y ago
s/Broken ankles are 100% manageable by not walking where you could slip and fall. If only today's society made informed decisions about their walking habits, we wouldn't need all these artificial casts and surgeries. How lo
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by waldrews 2y ago
Wyoming being a near-square state, a Root Wyoming would be the unit of length, and a California a unit of temperature, calibrated to the Death Valley record.
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by waldrews 2y ago
Off topic, if 'Three New York Cities' has the dimensions of power, and 'Three Mississippi' has the dimensions of time, we've got a starting point for a new system of units...
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by waldrews 2y ago
What's the GIL/threading story there?
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by waldrews 2y ago
Looks like all of that would run in a native sandbox environment which in turn is called from the Python running on the JVM. So, maybe it simplifies interop, but whether it's straightforward to get full performance from the native lay
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by waldrews 2y ago
Well, maybe it's still better than the alternative of trying to get there by chemically propelled rocket, and having a 100% chance of dying of old age on the way.
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by waldrews 2y ago
Just use 3.
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by waldrews 2y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/ - there hasn't been a 'unicorn scale' non-profit to come out of the program yet, but they're trying...
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by waldrews 2y ago
I'm very happy this is now available. With a model as smart as Claude 3.5, this opens up the possibility of writing prompts the size of relatively complex programs, prompts with many examples and targeting multiple outputs, and runnin
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by waldrews 2y ago
There's no reward function in the sense that optimizing the reward function means the solution is ideal. There are objective criteria like 'compiles correctly' and 'passes self-designed tests' and 'is interpret
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by waldrews 2y ago
How are people still publishing books without audiobook versions? What, are we supposed to read with our eyes, like animals?
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by waldrews 2y ago
Great speed scores, reasonable SEO and best-practices scores, a few accessibility-related nitpicks but none critical. So, better than most professionals. https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-naya-lol/tkn3le4d5
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by waldrews 2y ago
There are a few magical algorithms/systems which give you superpowers if you can find the right application for them. At least in the pre-LLM era, they were some of the magical tools we had, for just solving declaratively specified di
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by waldrews 2y ago
Yes please. When we torture students with seemingly archaic math, like geometry largely in the form it was in the time of Euclid, we do it for a reason, setting up subsequent ideas, and we have modern textbooks that clean up the presentati

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