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by yorwba 2mo ago
If it's clearly impossible, how come Uber managed to become compliant in 2022?
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If they needed a neutral buffer state, why did they keep making it smaller? Really, they just needed to avoid getting surprised by the other being too quick to colonize and presenting a fait accompli before they got the opportunity to gra
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by yorwba 2mo ago
Comparing this article's description of Siam definitely not getting colonized: > In the face of overwhelming military force, Chulalongkorn ceded the territory, making a necessary concession to preserve the kingdom as a whole. Siam w
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by yorwba 2mo ago
The study was done in China, where making the class easier to improve pass rates isn't really a thing, as the Gaokao operates more like a stack ranking where it doesn't matter much how well you did in an absolute sense, only that
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If it were just a problem of making too average choices, it could be fixed by sampling at a higher temperature. But I think there's a bigger problem in that the correct choices depend on the context in a complicated way, and LLMs can&#
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Diffusion language models work with a discrete output space, unlike image models that repeatedly refine a continuous output, so they don't do the noise-prediction thing anyway.
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You cannot infer this because they only show the tokens per second per user. One way to get a higher number is to have fewer users per chip. I'm pretty sure Cerebras has a confidentiality agreement with OpenAI, and this press release w
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They do claim that the per-token output distribution remains unchanged, but the proof is relegated to Appendix B.1. The perplexity comparison includes methods that do change the output distribution.
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They use the properties of Wilkie's counterexample to restrict the search space. So you can't just pick arbitrary identities that hold over the positive integers and repeat the process until you've found a smaller model.
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Some letters look different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_alphabet#/media/File...
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by yorwba 2mo ago
Well, Unicode didn't unify 門/门 either, but the appearance of the second glyph changes a lot depending on whether you use a Chinese font or a Japanese one. Meanwhile they did unify all the graphical variants of Latin characters wit
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You can also read Galileo's argument without Scientific American filtering: https://archive.org/details/dialoguesconcern00galiuoft/page/...
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The smooth infinitesimal analysis assumption that all functions are infinitely differentiable indeed removes a lot of edge cases, but only in the way that the C assumption that all memory accesses are within bounds removes a lot of edge cas
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That's softmax dot-product attention. It's quadratic even without fully-homomorphic encryption, but at least it's not inherently branchy, so won't necessarily slow down much more than other floating point operations unde
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Automation doesn't mean there are no more people working long hours for little pay. It just means that they spend those long hours operating and maintaining machines, and are producing truly tremendous amounts of stuff compared to what
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by yorwba 2mo ago
"hunk" is git terminology. When you use `git add --patch` (which you probably should, if you use `git add` at all) you get prompted "Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,e,?]?" which is self-explanatory (?) and the hunk refers to
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by yorwba 2mo ago
Before that, it might be a good idea to get the Tocharian script into Unicode. It's on the roadmap: https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ Unclear whether something specific is holding it up, or just nobody pu
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by yorwba 2mo ago
The article includes a visualization of the different positions that images were taken from: https://pxl-th.github.io/video/camera-frustum.mp4 It's just that they're all bunched around the statue and the star
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Those are the areas that are occluded in the input images. If you look at the bushes, you can see that the front is clean while the back is a mess. Probably the starting position could be chosen a bit better.
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China indeed makes very cheap solar panels, inverters and batteries, but that just means that they take up a smaller share of the cost of a complete installation, which also includes labor and additional hardware for the mounting system. So
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> We've had the ability to brute-force all of mathematics "eventually" In a way, yes. You can easily write a program that recursively enumerates all provable theorems in some order. But if you want a proof of a specific th
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And it was previously submitted under that title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251785
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"make it as dark as possible" { "function_calls": [ { "name": "set_thermostat", "arguments": { "temperature": 72, "mode"
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High-quality posts will usually be upvoted by lurkers, ensuring a favorable upvotes-to-comments ratio. But yes, it's a blunt instrument that sometimes has false positives where the mods intervene to turn off the penalty: https:/&
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Comments reduce a post's ranking.
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> A politician should not need to hunt for job creating policies, and yet they do because admittedly the alternative is poverty. This is assuming that the purpose of "job creating" policies is to create jobs, as opposed to more
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Those past articles were likely about the Hugging Face hack, not the incidents involving this company. From https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-invol... : "Editor’s Note: These are separate from
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Nordland in Norway produced 500 tons of grain in 2024, mostly barley. https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank/table/04609 Nordland's southernmost spot has a latitude north of 65°, further north than most of Canad
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That's a good point. So then what makes it a fever dream?
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The duration between the equinoxes is the same six months everywhere on earth. 22-hour days are balanced out by 2-hour days, not a smaller number of days with more than 12 hours of daylight. Of course plants that need, say, 10 hours of ligh

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