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Re:99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:59AM (#49212447)
But what do these bots gain from this?
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:34PM (#48201103)
Why is it fixated on the front perspective? Interesting choice though, because most humans (and seems like other LLMs too) would pick a side perspective
Re:Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:01AM (#47555202)
As a lifelong windows (upto 10) and linux user, no I did not find MacOS (using as the primary os since 7 months) incredible in any sense of word in comparison. Only thing I like is the mac hardware
Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:48AM (#47276471)
No only that, but per capita emissions of developed countries still remains higher. For example I found that US/Russia have 6x per capita emissions compared to India
Re:Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:34AM (#46872277)
I built my own slide rule in school for fun! It looked pretty cool to me at the time. The template is still out there if you search something like "paper slide rule".
Re:Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:19AM (#44247913)
That's very weird, I on the other hand don't remember noticing them or using them before the advent of chatgpt. Maybe it's a cultural thing.

It makes sense that humans would have been using it though, chatgpt learned from us afterall

Well that's because all these LLMs have memorized a ton of code bases with solutions to all these problems.
And commerically viable nuclear fusion
I find the whole article rather poorly written. Most likely using an LLM.
Re:Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures on Sunday April 27, 2025 @12:44PM (#43813207)
Yes. It feels like hell
Re:OpenAI releases image generation in the API on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:48AM (#43793524)
The AGI might be able to deduce that it's not in it's interest to talk anti-croporation if it wants to survive.
Re:Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs on Sunday April 20, 2025 @10:02AM (#43743825)
With ollama you could offload a few layers to cpu if they don't fit in the VRAM. This will cost some performance ofcourse but it's much better than the alternative (everything on cpu)
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Thursday March 13, 2025 @08:02AM (#43352410)
You sure about the 99%? A lot of middle class people in developing countries have part time house help
Re:Search ArXiv Fluidly on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:20AM (#42522227)
Arxiv has about 2.6M articles, assuming about 10 pages per article, that's 26M pages. According to OpenAI, their cheapest embedding model (text-embedding-3-small) costs a dollar for 62.5K pages. So the price for calculating embedding for the whole Arxiv is about $416.

I think doing it locally with an open source model would be a lot cheaper as well. Especially because they wouldn't have to keep using OpenAI's API for each new query.

Edit: I overlooked the about page (https://searchthearxiv.com/about), seems like they *are* using OpenAI's API, but they only have 300K papers indexed, use an older embedding model, and only calculate embeddings on the abstract. So this should be pretty cheap.

Re:Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:07AM (#41922591)
Sometimes I just change the version of the package in requirements to fit with others and pray that it works out (a few times it does)
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan on Monday October 21, 2024 @11:43PM (#41910997)
What are the long term effects? How harmful is caffeine addiction?
That sounds too high, even Switzerland isn't that expensive
Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:03AM (#41066790)
I'm also very curious. On the other hand I don't want governments touching AI models either
And I guess if they use bitlocker then they need to enter the key as well? Imagine doing that to thousands of computers
Software like these should have no right to demand internet access. Subscriptions for using software that resides fully on your computer is such a huge scam
Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:18AM (#40365922)
self consciousness?
Re:Hyrum's Law on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:03AM (#39418699)
Banned from contributing?
Re:Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:19AM (#39416930)
Playing with LLMs like this always makes me feel like one of those Westworld engineers. Especially when I ask LLMs to roleplay. It also kind of freaks me out sometimes
Re:Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:42PM (#39022561)
How do you use these models with your editor? (E. vscode or Emacs etc)
Re:WyGPT: Minimal mature GPT model in C++ on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:05AM (#38672592)
2.5 years of effort but the author certainly didn't spend even 2.5 mins writing code for more descriptive outputs. Meanwhile I'm also training in order to find how well it works but I only have a small GPU. I would appreciate if someone could provide a trained model.
Re:What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming? on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:28PM (#38656341)
I think I am pretty similar to you. When I was younger I used to build all sorts of things with paper and cardboard and used to imagine the whole thing in 3D and design its cutout template all in my head. I learned about aphantasia a few years back and it sounds very inconvenient to me.

I also have a habit of playing around with imaginary worlds and stories in my head and I pretty much visualize whole scenes and sequences in as much detail as possible. I wouldn't be able to do that with aphantasia.

Re:Weak-to-Strong Generalization on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:15PM (#38656181)
What if those machines are designed to have no emotions and aspirations? Why would they care about something like rights for themselves when they are simply incapable of any desires, but exists only to help and guide us?

I know this sounds like I am advocating for AI slaves but my point is why are people treating AGI as if it cannot be a being without all the emotions and aspirations that a human has? Just a cold thinking machine that still aligns with our moral principles.

Re:QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:48AM (#38581899)
So a decision tree? They are good for some tasks I reckon
Re:Tolstoy: How much Land does a man need on Friday December 08, 2023 @01:01AM (#38565897)
I'm blocked too. Why would they block Indian IPs?
Re:GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text on Sunday December 03, 2023 @11:14AM (#38508119)
We can go even smaller. With Mistral 7B:

"Underneath the gaze of the forions' belt, where the sea of tranquility meets the edge of twilight, lies a hidden trove of wisdom forgotten by many, coveted by those in the know. The old still holds the key to told power."

Sure its not 100% correct though

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