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Re:"They're made out of weights" on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:01AM (#48396400)
Good thing that is not poetry
I saw an article that went really into depth - basically oil has huge diversity, and they really wanted Venezuelan oil:

https://open.substack.com/pub/endtropy/p/trumps-enormous-c-l...

I'm 90% certain that OpenAI has some much beefier model they are not releasing - remember the Q* rumour?
Re:Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:52PM (#39256134)
I feel you should be able to keep the high level idea in your head at once; of course not the details. I don't think I've ever completed a piece of code without having a scheme in my head, and where it should fit in it.
Re:Transformers Are Multi-State RNNs on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:51PM (#39018963)
I've seen at least 6 such papers, all being like "<popular architecture> are actually <a bit older concept>". Neural networks are generic enough that you can make them equivalent to almost everything.
Re:Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:38AM (#38839474)
I can't get a read on this guy. I have strong bullshit feelings, but I'm not 100% sure.

1. He seems to have an awful lot of referral links - $60 for a bottle of olive oil? 2. He has not posted why is his regime like that - e.g. "Here is a paper about iron deficiencies, so I'm taking an iron supplement". 3. 90% of his website is "look at how dense my bones are", "look at how healthy my liver is" - bro I just wanted to see the actual regime, and you can't even post that.

No, it would still be a crime. He wouldn't know to pursue it, but it is very much a crime.
None of those are victimless crimes. If you attempt to shoot someone and your rifle jams, you still exposed him to the risk of dying. This is a ridiculous strawman.
Re:A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:33PM (#37473288)
> Primarily, they are pure functions that accept a sequence of tokens and return the next token. The model itself is stateless, and it doesn't seem right to me to ascribe "intent" to a stateless function. Even if the function is capable of modeling certain aspects of chess.

I have two arguments against. One, you could argue that state is transferred between the layers. It may be inelegant for each chain of state transitions to be the same length, but it seems to work. Two, it may not have "states", but if the end result is the same, does it matter?

Re:The Arab Dagger on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:16PM (#37278134)
How are the scabbards so curvy? Is the blade simply very short?
Re:Llama: Add Grammar-Based Sampling on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:27PM (#36821404)
How is this different from Guidance and LMQL?
That's a pretty good idea, actually. It'll be a bitch and a half to tune the threshold so it's reliable, and doesn't mark normally generated text though.
Re:Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:54AM (#33789093)
As far as I know, all adversarial attacks need to know the model... But that is a very interesting line of thought.
Re:Frog: OCR Tool for Linux on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:03AM (#33732843)
There was "EAST OCR" detector, which is basically someone put a deep learning model in openCV somehow. https://www.folio3.ai/blog/text-detection-by-using-opencv-an...
Re:Frog: OCR Tool for Linux on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:17AM (#33704953)
Last I compared them, (1-2 years ago), Google OCR was much much better and supported more languages than tesseract. There was also an OCR in openCV, which was slightly better than tesseract, but not good enough to be useful.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books/courses of 2022? Why? on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:06AM (#33690452)
I went through Delta academy's Reinforcement Learning courses. I really like having someone to ask questions when I got stuck. Not free, but 100% worth the money.

https://joindeltaacademy.com/

Re:Ask HN: Tips for Reducing the Number of Inboxes on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:27AM (#31477643)
We work with lots of russian/ukrainian devs, and we're using Telegram.
Haha, time definitely proved you right!
Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:52AM (#31069211)
perhaps reading speed?
run for office, you seem to know what to do
you can win literally dozens of pounds!
Re:Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:18AM (#30414001)
Not to understate what Disney did, but I feel like most of their characters don't have much depth.

I recently rewatched 12 angry men, and was surprised at how quickly and efficiently they introduced 12 characters. Off-hand remark by one character, an expression by another, the way they stood and moved around; in around 5 seconds you knew the characters without even knowing their names.

Contrast to Marvel's characters, which have hours of development each, yet don't really feel alive. All of them have tragic backstory, all of them are heroic in the same way, most of the male characters are snarky/sarcastic/have big egos.

Re:Universal Basic Cop-Out on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:46AM (#30206687)
... destroyers of industries ...

if you don't want your industry to be destroyed, innovate it yourself. Otherwise, you lose the right to moan when someone else does.

Re:Top Chess Engine Championship on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:11AM (#30192589)
Perhaps someone submitted LeelaZero at some point?
Re:Moral Machine on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:26AM (#30100925)
That's a very solid argument. My reasoning was that the car must protect it's owners; but you changed my mind.
Re:Researchers Build AI That Builds AI on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:41AM (#30082867)
Can you provide formal verification proof of your own safety?
Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code? on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:16AM (#29934627)
Not sure if posting the paper only is even the best move. I personally never work with papers with no code published. Just not worth the effort to reproduce them, when I can use the second SOTA for nearly no performance penalty and much less effort.

All the groundbreaking papers in deep learning in the last decade had code published. So if you're aiming for thousands of citations, you need code.

Re:Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:24AM (#29888960)
college is voluntary
Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:22AM (#29592517)
Richer country, better quality of life, more personal freedoms. Not bizarre assumption at all.

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