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Comment · 10 months ago
It was a show that should have been two seasons, which they stretched into five.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm honestly confused as to why it is doing this and why it thinks I'm right when I tell it that it is incorrect.

I've tried asking it factual information, and it asserts that it's incorrect but it will definitely hallucinate questions like the above.

You'd think the reasoning would nail that and most of the chain-of-thought systems I've worked on would have fixed this by asking it if the resulting answer was correct.

Comment · 2 years ago
Time to break up Google.
Comment · 2 years ago
Autoregressive models can't just resume so they have to re-parse the entire prompt again for each execution.

By caching them they resume from where it left off from before thereby completely bypassing all that computation.

For large contexts this could save a ton of compute!

I think this feature and structured outputs are some of the biggest inventions in LLMs this year.

Comment · 2 years ago
> If you're ever in a situation similar to this, run as fast and as far as you can.

I really really want to underscore this point.

You're literally standing on top of ground and under that is boiling water.

If that breaks and you fall in you're going to be in boiling water with no way to get out and you will die screaming.

Also NEVER walk on ground that has no vegetation. If you look around a geyser you will see that the ground is white and has no vegetation. That's because the temperature is too high and it has water under it that's heating the ground.

Walk on that and there's a chance you will fall in.

In the back country there are no fences so you can fall right through the crust.

Comment · 2 years ago
Windows 7 wouldn't have saved them if they used Crowdstrike. This was the problem. :-/
Comment · 2 years ago
He got us out of Afghanistan too... this was a huge win and was very risky. Doesn't get enough credit for this one.

Agreed on NATO + Ukraine too but I wish they would allow us to strike Russia directly even with NATO equipment.

Comment · 2 years ago
All this old SGI and SUN equipment was super cool. It was all before my time but it was all super high end and really well built.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. I with more people were aware of this law.
Comment · 2 years ago
Feature that benefits who? the VCs? I think that's what you're trying to say (with sarcasm).

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Comment · 2 years ago
2024 ..year of Linux on the Desktop!
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah... rock hard!
Comment · 3 years ago
There must be a relationship here between Shannon's estimation that english is 1 bit of entropy per character and is highly redundant and 'easy' to predict.

A highly advanced AI could compress the text and predict the next sequences easily.

This seems like a direct connection like electricity and magnetism.

And maybe that's why English needs to be about 1 bit because we're not very intelligent.

Comment · 3 years ago
I want ONE breakthrough like this in my lifetime. Something completely game changing.

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