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Comment · 1 year ago
Personally, I use LLMs to write code that I would have never bothered writing in the first place. For example, I hate web front-end development. I'm not a web dev, but sometimes it's cool to show visual demos or websites. Without LLMs, I wouldn't have bothered creating those, because I wouldn't have had the time anyway, so in that case, it's a net positive.

I don't use LLMs for my main pieces of work exactly due to the issues described by the author of the blogpost.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not true. VAT does way less economic damage. Tariffs introduce massive distortions in the market.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
As an anecdotal data point, I’m happier than in my early and mid 20s, and I have hope for my 30s.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is not what hallucination means in the pre-LLM machine learning literature.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s used incorrectly. Hallucination has (or used to have) a very specific meaning in machine learning. All hallucinations are errors but not all errors are hallucinations.
Comment · 2 years ago
What do you mean by “true” RL?
Comment · 2 years ago
The way I see it hallucination and factual error are particular cases of incorrect answer.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Cool! Thanks!
Comment · 3 years ago
Rust is great, but one thing I’d like to see is an interpreted, dynamic, less strict version of it that could be used for prototyping and gradually typed into compiling Rust code. In other words, a new programming language doing to Rust the reverse of what Mojo is trying to do to Python.
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe the main Mojo use cases are scenarios in which you'd need dependencies anyway. Code that you can't write in Python due to performance concerns, so you'd need to call C/C++/Rust/CUDA/Triton/etc anyway.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm sure Chapel has its merits, but one of the main selling points of Mojo is the aspiration to be part of the Python ecosystem, and so far I haven't seen any other programming language offering a similar promise, other than Python itself coupled with DSLs or other extensions for high performance.
Comment · 3 years ago
The term of “hallucination” referred to generative ML models have been used in the literature for years, at least since GANs.L
Comment · 3 years ago
I graduated in 2019 and studied Prolog in my third year.

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