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Re:ChatGPT-4o vs. Math on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:08PM (#40383906)
temp 0 means that there will be no randomness injected into the response, and that for any given input you will get the exact same output, assuming the context window is also the same. Part of what makes an LLM more of a "thinking machine" than purely a "calculation machine" is that it will occasionally choose a less-probable next token than the statistically most likely token as a way of making the response more "flavorful" (or at least that's my understanding of why), and the likelihood of the response diverging from its most probable outcome is influenced by the temperature.
Re:Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac on Monday April 29, 2024 @03:17PM (#40202735)
There's luck involved, but if you listen or read some of Marc Andreesen's ideas there's no doubt he's highly intelligent and thoughtful. Ben Horowitz even said he was the smartest person he'd ever met in his book. While he was obviously working on the right thing at the right time, his fortune is not what I would consider blind luck.
Re:Pharmaceutical giant Bayer is getting rid of bosses on Sunday April 21, 2024 @12:51AM (#40103270)
Just another run-of-the-mill post-ZIRP bloated org chart cleanup with a nice PR spin. Spend more time innovating on your products, it's a mistake to innovate on company hierarchy, despite what PR departments like to suggest.
it's recursive leveraging using multiple different market makers that are giving you further leveraged bets on already leveraged assets
This is already possible with search engines, there is enough information on the internet that you can substantiate just about any claim regardless of how much evidence there is to the contrary. (see flat-earth, plenty of plausible sounding claims with real, albeit, cherry picked evidence).
Re:What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:50PM (#37907158)
"chronic stress aside, that decline in BMR mirrors almost perfectly the curves of PUFA consumption rates in the general population. Namely, as the BMR curve has steadily declined over the last 100 years the PUFA consumption rate curve has steadily moved upwards over time. Unless this trend of ever-increasing PUFA consumption is interrupted, I don’t see the decline of BMR flattening (let alone reversing) any time soon." eating massive quantities of highly processed seed oils that are ubiquitous in our food supply because they are much cheaper than "real" food is surely a contributor.

http://haidut.me/?p=2195

Re:Show HN: 3D Binpacking Algorithm Visualized on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:14AM (#37886827)
yeah the issue is on desktop too, I battled with it for awhile but ultimately gave up, it seems to be a notoriously difficult problem to solve with ThreeJS

https://discourse.threejs.org/t/threejs-and-the-transparent-...