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by yorwba 4mo ago
So you're buying expensive hardware as insurance for the case that your cloud provider turns against you and you have to switch to another of the twenty offering the same model https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2 o
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Yes, if you have something like a classroom setting with a teacher who can just tell students to do things, that can serve as an external motivator for students who lack intrinsic motivation otherwise. But when you just grab a pile of learn
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Like half of what Schmidhuber is always complaining about is that (except for LSTMs) people aren't standing on the shoulders of his research very much. They try to solve some of the same problems people have always wanted to solve, try
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by yorwba 4mo ago
If you think that Jesper isn't attacking the right issues, but Lars does, then you should definitely hope that Lars switches to Jesper's more popular approach. Unless you think there can never be a democratic consensus in favor of
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by yorwba 4mo ago
Of course DeepSeek is used by the PLA, why would you think otherwise? https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3303512/chi... There can be multiple devils, after all.
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You ought to realize that shilling your product in the comments doesn't exactly come across as trustworthy.
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SIL's Nastaliq font uses their own Graphite engine, which is included in Firefox but not other browsers (Demo page: https://graphite.sil.org/graphite_fontdemo ), but e.g. Noto Nastaliq Urdu also exists https:/&#x
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Many Arabic-speaking countries already have very high literacy rates. Meanwhile Somali is a related language officially written in the Latin alphabet, but Somalia has a literacy rate around 50%: https://ourworldindata.org/gr
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Indeed displaying CJK texts in wrong fonts won't do anything to change the meaning and people who can read it in one font can read it in any font. They might complain that it looks ugly because that one stroke should be slightly longer
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Humans capable of the first part regularly make the mistake of assuming that their decipherment is correct even if it's not internally consistent and fails to adequately explain most of the data.
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There's actually at least one Greek word of Semitic derivation attested in Linear B https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kupirijo_in_museum.j... namely the island of Cyprus https://en.wiktionary.org&
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by yorwba 4mo ago
Well, the reasoning in the article is that if you take A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, keep only W-J and assume *301 starts with N, then you get a claimed Semitic root N-W-Y related to dwelling, except I wonder whether that shouldn't be N-W-H inste
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Then why is there no link to the actual write-up?
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How did you manage to remember the exact month? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=testyourvocab.com
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by yorwba 4mo ago
A different interaction design is used by https://testyourvocab.com : just a list of words with a checkbox for each. But it might encourage overconfidence. Before their acquisition by Preply, they also had an interesting blog wi
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by yorwba 4mo ago
There is a typo in "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia," it should be "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" instead. (Also, it breaks the layout.)
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Training free models also costs money. As long as a dozen small companies can raise money to train models they give away for free, OpenAI can also do so, except they charge a pretty penny, so they can even throw in some of their own cash. T
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The singularity usually refers to the idea that although the rate of relative improvement of a technology is approximately constant at a constant (human) intelligence level ([dy/dt]/y ≈ c), producing exponential growth, if said co
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by yorwba 4mo ago
The spam filter influences the number of times a comment needs to be flagged before it becomes [flagged] and gets killed, but if it says [flagged], someone used the "flag" button at least once. Sometimes just downvoting a spam com
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by yorwba 4mo ago
This is a green account that got auto-killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304852 This is a green account where someone used the "flag" button to kill it: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by yorwba 4mo ago
Comments that get autokilled are just [dead], not [flagged] [dead]. If you cannot vouch comments back to life, it's also possible that your vouching privileges were taken away because the mods disagreed with your vouching decisions. Wh
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That's why it's a puzzle and not a textbook word problem. Though maybe word problems should be puzzles more often so that students don't just plug the numbers into a formula and report the result without thinking whether it w
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If it says [flagged], a human pressed the "flag" button. Most likely because OP is commenting too much.
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There hasn't been a preciptious drop in outcomes either. There have been statistically significant drops in average test scores, but the large number of students who take those tests means that even small differences can be statistic
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Demonstrate results. If you can produce results that are somehow better than what already exists, it doesn't matter much what the actual trick is. If the way your results are better is difficult to explain without significant technical
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If their model really is so much more efficient, they should be able to run it cheaply even on rented infrastructure. If somehow they got so many users that they can't even rent the infrastructure quickly enough and they have to make p
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They don't need to provide any details at all. They just need to give people access to their model and charge them for it. That they don't do that and instead pay for external evaluations indicates that they believe people would b
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> We measured three Claude models (Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) You can use those and they probably won't intentionally sabotage you.
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A more academic treatment of justifying Arabic-script text can be found in https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0023.104?view=text;...
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This is apparently supposed to indicate the location of the hosting infrastructure: https://docs.infercom.ai/en/models/infercomcloud-models#iden...

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