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Comment · 2 days ago
How do you recognize sysco wrappers? Any particular signs to look out for? I guess the big one is a mismatch between the size of the menu and the size of the kitchen.
Comment · 1 month ago
But BERT's name led to some wonderfully named spinoffs like CamemBERT and FlauBERT for French, as well as ALBERT, RoBERTa, etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
Right, the goal here is a more realistic Dyson swarm, not a Dyson sphere (yet)
Comment · 1 month ago
Predicting reality, under the "controlled hallucination" framing, corrected by sensory error signals. The brain has no access to ground truth, only input data that helps correct the hallucination.
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It's an additional layer on top of the eink that has to diffuse light from the side. It's bound to reduce contrast at least a little
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This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.
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Comment · 2 months ago
They sound exactly the same to me.

Wiktionary gives <should've> as /ˈʃʊdəv/, unstressed <have> as /(h)əv/ and unstressed <of> as /əv/.

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Comment · 2 months ago
And these are the guys who invented transformers! How?
Comment · 2 months ago
Well, estimating string length of tokens is much like counting R's in strawberry.
Comment · 2 months ago
There's a reason it stands for Bring Over Another Thousand
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah referencing is the way to go, as even finetuning probably captures style more than concrete facts. I know with large context windows we don't really RAG anymore, but for owner's manual lookup with a smaller model it seems ideal.

Something every LLM user ends up learning is that they're far better used as search and summarization tools than as knowledge databases in themselves.

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