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by z3c0 7mo ago
Digital information may be our first post-scarce resource. It's interesting, and sad, to see so many attempt to fit it within scarcity-based economic models.
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by z3c0 7mo ago
Plus, there's the disproportionate ratio of posters:commenters:lurkers. The tendency to comment over keeping ones thoughts to themself is a selection bias inofitself.
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by z3c0 7mo ago
The habitual espousal of protocol in place of humanistic discretion is the problem the author was trying to call out, and that you're actively partaking in. Fun fact, traditionally, police officers are called upon to use their discreti
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by z3c0 7mo ago
It seems Arendt's notion of "the banality of evil" has culturally diminished over time. The sentiment you're pushing is the very basis for Sergeant Shultz's character in Hogan's Heroes[1]. It also doesn't
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by z3c0 7mo ago
The topic at hand seems to shift the quality of the discussion greatly these days. Many people have thoughts on coding agents because they are aimed at the lower quartiles of coders. Far less have detailed opinions on other ways they coul
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by z3c0 7mo ago
I believe the person you're replying to meant local inferencing. The tool you shared, like most (all?) LLM utilities, is wrapping API calls. https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools/blob/main/Window
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by z3c0 8mo ago
You took a presumption and ran with it into baseless vitriol
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by z3c0 9mo ago
The deposing of the Shah only took three days. Three days to create half-a-century of turmoil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
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by z3c0 9mo ago
The Shah and the current state of Iran comes to mind.
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by z3c0 1y ago
..."first with Bitcoin"? Is that the narrative we're buying now? That this problem starts at Bitcoin? Not the coal-fired electrical grid fueling it?
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by z3c0 1y ago
Don't cut yourself on that edge. It's not terribly insightful to recognize that the publishers are trying to make the best of a bad situation.
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by z3c0 1y ago
Just purchased it. I never would have read it otherwise.
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by z3c0 1y ago
I don't even frame my requests conversationally. They usually read like brief demands, sometimes just comma delimited technologies followed by a goal. Works fine for me, but I also never prompt anything that I don't already unders
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by z3c0 1y ago
Wherein the assertion was made (by exclusion) that wind and solar are not energy sources. It seems the real intention really was to cull renewables after all, though I doubt anyone is surprised.
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by z3c0 1y ago
Indeed. I can't fault people for wanting to give their careers a boost in these increasingly trying times. As someone who stepped into analytics just in time to catch the wave (10 years ago), I can understand why someone would want to
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by z3c0 1y ago
I think we're talking about the same thing. I should be clear that I don't think the selected token probabilities being reported are enough, but if you're reporting each returned tokens probability (both selected and discarde
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by z3c0 1y ago
Prompt engineers who realized that nobody is buying their bullshit. Cleaned up of hype, it's just a JavaScript developer who spends their time arguing with APIs in a more literal fashion than those before.
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by z3c0 1y ago
The statistical certainty is indeed present in the model. Each token comes with a probablility; if your softmax results approach a uniform distribution (i.e. all selected tokens at the given temp have near equal probabilities), then the nex
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by z3c0 1y ago
Agreed. All these attempts to benchmark LLM performance based on the interpreted validity of the outputs are completely misguided. It may be the semantics of "context" causing people to anthropomorphize the models (besides the lif
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by z3c0 1y ago
1700 directories at the project root ...
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by z3c0 1y ago
Amodei's work history indicates that his background as a software developer is a single part-time job that he held for a year-and-a-half after college. As far as I'm concerned, he wouldn't even make it as a junior on my team.
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by z3c0 1y ago
It will do exactly what you tell it to do, unless you're the first person doing "it".
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by z3c0 1y ago
How many more times is someone going to write this same comment?
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by z3c0 1y ago
I think Graphene gets posted here yearly. Having tested a variety of ROMs dedicated to different elements of security, I can attest that Graphene allows the most "normal" phone usage compared to many others. The biggest factor is
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by z3c0 1y ago
I'm a native English speaker who asks myself the same questions on most emails. You can use LLM outputs all you want, but if you're worried about the tone, LLM edits drive the tone to a level of generic that ranges from milquetoas
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by z3c0 1y ago
Is it too much to ask them to learn? People can have poor communication habits and still write* a thoughtful email.
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by z3c0 1y ago
An LLM's output being a reflection of its output would imply determinism, which is the opposite of their value prop. "Garbage in, garbage out" is an addage born from traditional data pipelines. "Anything in, generic slop
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by z3c0 1y ago
No, but at that point, why even leverage a stochastic text generator? Placing hard constraints on a generative algorithm is just regular programming with more steps and greater instability. Edit: Also, one could just look to the world of de
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by z3c0 1y ago
I don't know, I think some improved hardware would greatly improve the aesthetics of the Lost Woods, which severely drops in frame rate when docked. Handheld, the diminished fidelity at 720p buys back some frames. I'd be inclined
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by z3c0 1y ago
When there's millions of doctors, not only are there going to be more mediocre doctors than anything, but there has to be a bottom of the barrel as well. It took me years to be diagnosed with PTSD, a problem I knew I had. Because I am

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