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by z3c0 1y ago
An LLM salesman assuring us that $1000/mo is a reasonable cost for LLMs feels a bit like a conflict of interests, especially when the article doesn't go into much detail about the code quality. If anything, their assertion that on
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by z3c0 1y ago
The intel came from the DIA, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon.
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by z3c0 1y ago
I have a background in NLP (pre-LLM) and like to study extremist rhetoric, and, while I don't think you're being reductionist, it's a little more removed than that. I'd replace with "hate" with "problems a
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by z3c0 1y ago
You say "force them" like that's actually going to happen. Historically, companies are terrible at auditing themselves.
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by z3c0 1y ago
To expand on the other comment, if you look under the data folder in nanoGPT, you can see examples of how to train the model using various data sources and encoders. "shakespeare_char" is probably the most rudimentary, only conver
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by z3c0 1y ago
A dupe with more conversation (for better or worse): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43760801
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by z3c0 1y ago
But an abnormal number of DNS requests AND recorded outbound data totaling 10GB, with no other obvious indication of a less-subversive means of data transfer? I'd be very surprised if youtube-dl could come close to even 10MB of DNS req
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by z3c0 1y ago
The use of DNS tunneling and skirting logs makes my head spin. Even if justification of exfiltrating 10GB of sensitive data could be made, there's widely available means of doing so that aren't the methods of state-sponsored hacke
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by z3c0 2y ago
This is exactly what I was hoping to find in this thread. Thanks for the additional content.
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by z3c0 2y ago
Bolshevism and Volkism indeed have roots in populism, though, to your point, their institutional counterparts arguably were the exact opposite. Bolshevism is only one prevailing school of thought from late 19th/early 20th century Russi
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by z3c0 2y ago
I'm intrigued. I'm currently working on some research into the same topic, but mostly through the lens of the concessions made by these "new" ways of thought (Communism/Bolshevism and Nazism/Volkism) to older s
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by z3c0 2y ago
Seems to be no end to Erdoğan's reign in sight*. I happened to be in Türkiye at the time he called an early election in 2023. The outrage was discernible via the news (what I could make out, at least, not being fluent in Turkish). Any
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by z3c0 2y ago
I'm in agreement, and being an active artist in an art-centric city, I find myself having to explain this to other artists more than I'd like. Physical art is of measurable value, digital art simply is not. Claiming rights over an
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by z3c0 2y ago
A couple days ago, I was thrown by one of my Windows devices pitching an ad for a video game to me in the notifications. I immediately disabled the related setting, which was of course enabled by default. Every device you buy is rigged by d
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by z3c0 2y ago
Actual title: "OpenAI will let other apps deploy its computer-operating AI"
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by z3c0 2y ago
I've heard often from those of anti-science persuasions that the basis for their beliefs is a deterioration of integrity in the research community at the hands of capital and/or liberal interests. Of course, there's a tinge o
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by z3c0 2y ago
The license, for anybody else wondering what on earth a "ResearchRAIL" is: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AMD-AIG-AIMA/Instella/refs... It comes off a bit... dubious. The prohibited uses boil down to
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by z3c0 2y ago
> In natural language processing (NLP) terms, this is known as report generation. I'm happy to see some acknowledgement of the world before LLMs. This is an old problem, and one I (or my team, really) was working on at the time of D
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by z3c0 2y ago
Yes, within some limits, but if one were to set up a business like that, it's a very good idea to seek out a consultation from a local copyright lawyer to know exactly what one can and can't get away with. Datasets are addressed a
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by z3c0 2y ago
I might be inclined to seek the raw data, should it be more cost effective than scraping Steam myself. Being a user, free, paid, or anonymous, can still be under the thumb of their ToS, especially so if they force a dialog in front of you t
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by z3c0 2y ago
IANAL but I am someone who deals heavily in 1) scraping and 2) data and the analysis, enrichment & brokerage thereof. As such, I like to consult this for anything regarding US Copyright law: https://www.copyright.gov/cir
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by z3c0 2y ago
I had to refresh before posting, because I wanted to see if someone else beat me to being that HN commenter but... From the Terms of Service (emphasis mine): 6. Restrictions on Use You agree not to: Use the Service for any unlawful
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by z3c0 2y ago
That's all true but matters significantly less "at scale". In the days of lean models, you needed to verify that your input parameters were functionally independent variables, meaning they couldn't correlate with other i
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by z3c0 2y ago
Honestly, when looking back at the accomplishments of any administration, you'll likely find more things you agree with than disagree with. Presidents get a lot of ideas passing across their desks, generally posed by their subordinates
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by z3c0 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow your idea that correctness emerges from belief, but that could get epistemological quickly. What I can address is that the role of a statistician is to interpret the statements made by data towards the objective
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by z3c0 2y ago
> There is no respectable statistician who would ever draw a conclusion from data. This is outright pedantry, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Scientific research is literally the process of drawing conclusions
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by z3c0 2y ago
If Occam's Razor is of any value here, there are likely many more Trump voters on Hacker News than one might expect.
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by z3c0 2y ago
I'm concerned by the turn of this thread. The claims of voter fraud in 2020 were tenuous claims based on mail-in ballots and other speculation. This is a claim based on statistical analysis -- something I'd think would click with
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by z3c0 2y ago
The main consideration is at the beginning: the stats largely resemble the patterns of verified instances of voter fraud, as in Russia and Georgia. It seems that you're suggesting some fairly obvious factors working against Harris were
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by z3c0 2y ago
There is plenty more complexity, but that emerges more from embedding, where the less superficial elements of information (such as syntactic dependencies) allow the model to hone in on the higher-order logic of language. e.g. when preparing

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