seurimas
Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:59PM (#50198075)
You converse through electrical signals and muscle contractions, but that will not make you an expert in either.
Similarly, a language model trained to emulate speech, follow instructions, and solve problems will not implicitly have an understanding of its own statistics. The research doesn't back that up and it just doesn't make any sense if you think about it.
The only thing LLM produce that could be considered its "confidence" would be its token logit values, but even that is a sketchy connection.
Re:Σ-GPTs: A New Approach to Autoregressive Models
on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:56AM (#40609328)
Positional encoding is standard for transformers of all stripes. They introduce a seemingly novel, redundant positional encoding scheme. It's more difficult to train, but seems to enable producing multiple tokens at once (i.e. you could get an answer that is N tokens long in N/x steps instead N steps).
Re:A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:20AM (#40275009)
Interesting! 25 business days for a business is close to 41 calendar days, too. I wonder if there's some sort of common, human constant involved. 25 days of engaging with something to decide whether that something is worth keeping around. Maybe the median relationship length is 25 days, too...
Re:Reddit is quietly changing the way its homepage works
on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:11PM (#40120828)
Is that a joke, or are you just misreading the stats on that page? Reddit definitely isn't down 30% of the time.
Re:OpenAI: Copy, Steal, Paste
on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:55PM (#39183253)
Usually, you pay what they ask and, if you don't like the price, you don't use their work. It's very simple, but OpenAI skipping that step opens them up to courts deciding that price, if a price is actually owed. That price would probably be more than 0, which is what the authors have gotten so far.
Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:54PM (#39017215)
Doesn't that kind of demonstrate the value being actively stolen from the creators, more than anything? Copyright law killed Napster, too. That doesn't mean applying copyright law was wrong.
Re:Ship of Fools
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:14AM (#37598862)
Well, we didn't mind the mold and mildew as much, for starters.
Re:Should I Rust or should I Go
on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:15PM (#37527082)
The features vs versions graph is more than a little nonsensical, and its conclusions even more so.
> They should be stable and move slowly so that most of the time of your develoeprs is not spent fighting with their tools.
I can't speak to Go's tooling base, but Rust's is head and shoulders above any other ecosystem that I've had to work with. This is definitely more a point in Rust's favor than against.
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:27PM (#35730545)
I had the wrong path for the demo file. It ought to work now.
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:17PM (#35730362)
MUDs are a great breeding ground for bespoke programs. I've made my own system of triggers and aliases in Rust, which interfaces with Mudlet (very popular MUD client) through JSON over stdio. Being written in Rust, it has enabled a publicly usable web tool (http://seurimas.github.io/topper/explainer/?/topper/explaine...), but the majority of the code is just for me.
Re:FDIC: First–Citizens Bank to Assume All Deposits and Loans of SV Br...
on Monday March 27, 2023 @10:43AM (#35327307)
Point in fact, those were the rules. The DIF protected them past 250k. This was not an exceptional measure. Everything worked as intended.
Re:RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in ...
on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:00PM (#35057736)
I think the greatest idea for Rust scripting is just supporting WASM scripts. I've had some success toying with wasmer in bevy.