tipsytoad

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Comment · 22 days ago
This all seems precedented on model capabilities that came into play over the last 3-6 months. How do you establish this new paradigm when we don’t know what the models will be like in 1,2, 10(?!) years from now.
Comment · 23 days ago
> Unpacking in comprehensions

I’m glad this has finally been added, but I’ve been wondering since 3.6 why this wasn’t supported

Comment · 26 days ago
You mask out user prompts / tool call responses in training
Comment · 1 month ago
I’m not sure I understand the hype around this model. Isn’t this just an llm with a chat template, with the options prefix cached?

  <option>option A</option> <option>option B</option><endofoptions>userprompt<eos>
Then the llm is constrained to a few special tokens indicating the possibilities? e.g. <option1> <option2>
Comment · 1 month ago
Plus it takes 3x the wafer capacity for hbm than the same byte capacity in dram, so we’ll likely see the consumer market be decimated here
Comment · 1 month ago
seems unusably slow, and is this for short context?
Comment · 1 month ago
idk I thought the same until I got personal amex support at work, now it’s my roofline on how useful/trusted an agent could be. Now I book all my travel through them, and it’s an absolute blessing
Comment · 1 month ago
Is LinkedIn a normal social network? It seems like an absolute dumpster fire to me (it even has shorts now!)
Comment · 2 months ago
I’m quite happy that my friends have labelled me as “an absolute idiot with anything but computers.” It’s much easier to relate to people at that level, adopt a happy-go-lucky attitude, and being wrong about 99% of things. being the smart one isn’t such a great label, and is (mostly) all in your head
Comment · 2 months ago
It’s 27b active params vs 13b active params, so you’d expect it to be 2x more expensive when serving multiple users
Comment · 2 months ago
And the goalposts must move once again..
Comment · 2 months ago
I think this comes in with the wrong assumptions from the start. The thing that US vs Apple taught us is to not demand access publicly, this puts companies in an awkward spot. If approached more tacitly, gag order etc the company has nothing to gain but everything to lose.. and more likely to comply. I hugely doubt that intentional backdoors don’t exist for the most powerful countries / people
Comment · 2 months ago
Bit of a counter point, but I ran a very nice wfh setup at a previous job, 4k monitor and ergo keyboards. I was a bit dismayed when I joined a new co and found that we had 1080p monitors and a generic Logitech keyboard. After a week of the text looking pixelated I entirely got used to it and think maybe complaints about monitors being a health hazard and rsi are a tad overblown by a vocal minority.
Comment · 3 months ago
Stylistically ugly code that is globally consistent (ideally across the entire ecosystem) >> locally beautiful code that is inconsistent with the rest of the codebase / up to authors taste. No one likes black formatting, but it’s at least consistent. “Your car can be any color you like as long as it’s black”

With regards to your example, adding a comma to the final element should preserve multi-line. You just don’t know the formatting rules yet apparently

Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah came here to comment exactly this. And this is generally why I dislike/avoid this type of first principle analysis: it can make very convincing arguments that are just totally wrong due to some misleading assumption

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