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A chat window that takes multiple seconds to respond, versus your buddy Guy who just went out on lunch.

Non-deterministic behavior from your chatbot, like how the visual design artist's client keeps sending back and forth emails asking for it to "pop" more

the difference is, that a model is literally just numbers.

proprietary software is data and code, and while it's true that code is data, the difference is that some data is intended to be for control flow, while in a model it is all the same stuff.

You can point to any single part of an LLM's model and say "this here is a weight" but if you point to any single part of a binary file you will have no idea what you're looking at.

And yes, you could decompile the binary, but that still doesn't give you the entire picture, and all proprietary software does the shady shit on servers these days anyway so you're not even going to find anything interesting.

however, you can test the model, by asking it things. What are you concerned is hiding inside of that big block of numbers? Order 66?

a low stress tolerance and a highly sensitized stress reaction can often look the same. If someone is hurt repeatedly in the same way, they will react when a stimuli that reminds them of it comes near. Similarly, people who are constantly stressed out often develop things like "learned helplessness", where they are incapable of solving their problems because they've failed, been rejected, or told no so many times that they stop trying.

Wow! The future is parallel.

Increasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.

make it multiplayer, I dare ya >:)

(if you need this kind of motivation)

I have like 40 projects that are 80% complete. I've been doing this in my spare time instead of a job.

I wasn't trying to make a product. I was practicing. Please hire me?

This is the most brilliant thing I've read all year. That note at the bottom... Amazing.

if it's the lowest level available, then it's as close to "native" as we can get, so therefore it has to qualify, if we want to consider anything at all to be running "natively"

Um... Are you referring to WSL? Wouldn't that be the linux kernel running under windows?

> There is the Von Neumann method of generating an unbiased coin from a biased coin. Of throwing it twice, and checking if you got HT or TH. And completely discarding all HH or TT results. It doesn't matter if the coin you are using is 20% or 80%, the result will be a true 50/50.

This blew my mind. Thank you!

I had to think about it a bit, so for anyone scratching their head right now trying to figure it out, consider it this way:

what matters is the ordering, of heads-then-tails, or tails-then-heads.

It doesn't matter that it's biased one way or the other, if you keep flipping pairs until you get a result with two different values, it's a 50/50 chance whether the less-likely result comes first, or second.

You might only have a 20% chance of any particular pair having a tails (for example), but in the cases where you do have a tails, it's a 50/50 chance that it comes first or second.