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Comment · 3 months ago
fine-tuning a model is very different from training the whole model in terms of resource requirements.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Sleeping pills can cause dependence, and they often treat the symptom rather than the underlying cause.
I found gwern's take on Melatonin interesting: https://gwern.net/melatonin
A small excerpt:
> One might object that they do not wish to tamper with their natural sleep, even if melatonin is a normally-secreted hormone.
> Sad to say, I would point out to such readers that they are already profoundly tampering with their natural sleep cycle, and indeed, all of Western civilization is tampering with it; most of my readers do not even sleep multiple times during the day, as ‘Nature intends’ and as humans have usually slept through history, but rather in a single 7–9 hour long block.
> [...]
> Finally, there are multiple lines of research suggesting chronic sleep deprivation is prevalent among young adults (including historical comparisons). It is striking that unemployed adults sleep a full hour longer than the employed , and that when normal adults are placed in settings without artificial light like camping or without any time indicators, they sleep longer than before - exactly as if they were sleep deprived.
Comment · 6 months ago
Is it really the full pipeline running on Huawei hardware? That is training and inference?
The report only talks about validating the "fine-grained EP scheme" on Huawei hardware.
Comment · 6 months ago
I don't think memory mirring features available today allow you to race two DRAM accesses and use the result that returns earlier?
Comment · 8 months ago
If there's anywhere I don't want LLM slop it's probably my database system.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah I can't read, thanks :-)
Comment · 1 year ago
Shouldn't your snippet be using lzcnt? I can't see how this would result in the desired lookup.
for Zen5 rustc creates the following:
utf8_sequence_length_lookup:
shl edi, 24
mov ecx, 274945
not edi
lzcnt eax, edi
shl al, 2
shrx rax, rcx, rax
and al, 7
ret
Comment · 1 year ago
What's the API here for Google Ads? How does their site report to Google Ads whether that was a good/bad user?
Is this done through conversion tracking? If so, why would you track anything but a completed purchase in the first place?
Comment · 1 year ago
As I understand it they are placing ads on other sites and are paying for visits to their site.
Comment · 1 year ago
After we implemented advanced bot traffic detection and filtering, their reported traffic plummeted by 71%. [...]
But then the sales report came in. Their actual sales went up by 34%.
Their real conversion rate optimization (CRO) efforts had been working all along, but the results were buried under an avalanche of fake clicks. They were not bad at marketing; they were just spending thousands of dollars advertising to robots programmed never to buy anything. Their marketing ROI went from "terrible" to "excellent" overnight.
Can you just tell e.g. Google Ads that you don't want to pay for certain clicks?
Did they modify their targeting to try to avoid bots?
Comment · 1 year ago
The author admits to it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1mh7q73/comment/n6uan...
The reply to that comment is also a good explainer of why the post has such a strong LLM smell for many.
Comment · 1 year ago
The easiest way to parallelize this RNG is to just run it in parallel on multiple states.
Comment · 1 year ago
Do they help deter people from becoming smokers in the first place?