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by xdavidliu 8d ago
I made it about two paragraphs in the paraphase before I hit this sentence and realized > The detail that turned a suspicious directory into a story: the encryption key.
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by xdavidliu 8d ago
a flagged-dead comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749113 I genuinely wonder how this style minimized the loss function or got the most upvotes in RLHF and yet is so universally hated that it gets
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by xdavidliu 9d ago
> offer leverage in form of agents i would expect that when you cite someone by name, the sentence being cited should at least be significant and meaningful to the slightest degree
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by xdavidliu 10d ago
reduce has complexity to handle the edge case of an empty iterable, and also for the case of a binary function with different types for inputs and outputs. That makes it harder to reason about and "uglier" than map and filter. Peo
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by xdavidliu 10d ago
that is if it even a human commenter at all
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by xdavidliu 11d ago
> But that doesnt mean it is not useful where are you quoting that from? I cannot ctrl-F that in either the article or your parent
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by xdavidliu 11d ago
surely 'throw a npe' means something very similar to something that Go does
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by xdavidliu 12d ago
ah yes, like the Nigerian prince scam
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by xdavidliu 13d ago
https://www.imo-official.org/results/contestant/26962/
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by xdavidliu 16d ago
i think this line of argument is outdated
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by xdavidliu 16d ago
you might want to read that chapter of CLRS again
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by xdavidliu 16d ago
i mean that even when folded up, it looks really wide, and perhaps wouldn't fit well into my pocket
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by xdavidliu 16d ago
i used to play poker casually, and the part that I found most interesting and most useful was not the reading other peoples' body language / tells or the probability calculations, but rather the practicing of regulating my own emo
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by xdavidliu 17d ago
same thought. I'm wondering how I'm gonna fit that in my pocket.
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
would edit my comment but it's been a few hours > but it’s pretty standard to have co-authors from different companies that's only true for papers that are not millenium problem solutions
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
because it severely dilutes the PR value.
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
clickbait gonna clickbait. But you cannot blame it because in today's attention economy it really HAS to since everything else is too
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
seems to me the Noam tweet was before the Sholto tweet? 2:47 am (eastern time for me) https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2097215233119211902 2:59 am https://x.com/_sholtodouglas/status/2097
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
not if the dedication ends up making the company look bad
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by xdavidliu 18d ago
pretraining is months but they can totally fine tune in a few days
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by xdavidliu 19d ago
the "snappy quick-witted style" of this along with "think X but with Y" makes me think this is the type of prose that gets rated higher in post-training RL or something and yet annoys the heck out of actual readers
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by xdavidliu 20d ago
i was surprised that it's so transparent when you read it. Is this some kind of flanderization or did the OP just use a really really cheap model
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by xdavidliu 25d ago
the caveat is that we are not learning those small number of samples from scratch, since we're coming in with a large amount of training already, much of it from before we were even born
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
> Model inference is just that same logic but faster. This statement is nonsensical.
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
they probably mean deterministic in the sense of traditional computer programs consisting of if-else decision points and ordinary cpu logic, as opposed to numerical models (which can of course be deterministic too, as you pointed out)
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
> JetBrains, a major player in developer tools, recently completed a study of junior and novice developers The article links to this as the study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3632620.3671116 . It do
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
> backing up the brinks truck now that's a phrase I have only heard in one other context: as an alleged quote from former Boston Celtics player Isaiah Thomas (who was really about 5'7 despite his official listed 5'9; yes,
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
https://shnatsel.medium.com/do-not-run-any-cargo-commands-on... > any command starting with cargo can run arbitrary code when operating on an untrusted repository, and should be treated the same as cargo run.
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
in that case, I would assume tiny libraries can be created in any language.
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by xdavidliu 1mo ago
just to clarify, by "horrible practice" you mean macros?

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