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Comment · 10 months ago
If you've got a prompt, along the lines of: given some references, check their validity. It searches against the articles and URLs provided. You return "yes", "no", and let's also add "inconclusive", for each reference. Basic LLMs can do this much instruction following, just like in 99.99% of times they don't get 829 multiplied by 291 wrong when you ask them (nowadays). You'd prompt it to back all claims solely by search/external links showing exact matches and not use its own internal knowledge.

The fake references generated in the ICLR papers were I assume due to people asking a LLM to write parts of the related work section, not verify references. In that prompt it relies a lot on internal knowledge and spends a majority of time thinking about what the relevant subareas are and cutting edge is, probably. I suppose it omits a second-pass check. In the other case, you have the task of verifying references, which is mostly basic instruction following for advanced models that have web access. I think you'd run the risks of data poisoning and model timeout more than hallucinations.

Comment · 10 months ago
For references, as the OP said, I don't see why it isn't possible. It's something that exists and is accessible (even if paywalled) or doesn't exist. For reasoning hallucinations are different.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah especially as in places like London there have been many explosions and house fires originaying from cheap foreign e-bike batteries.

Some Chinese companies care about a long-term brand and place high standards on themselves but it's not true that anything online has passed safety standards. It's hard to differentiate the two due to the amount of fake reviews also.

Comment · 1 year ago
Rust is slow to develop and prototype in. It's good if you're a big company not the average Joe.

We need a better C++ ("systems") base language that could have an optional borrow checker or bounded model checker enabled.

Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe if Opera, Arc, and Brave people joined forces... Without a combined effort they lack the power of Chrome store and developer docs.

Worst comes to worst they can use the Firefox engine. The MV2 extensions don't need much work to leap over for Firefox

Comment · 2 years ago
If most companies become 4 day work week, that would be the new floor and not a perk no more?

You might still have 5 day work week employees who get paid more but to them the perk is money/earlier retirement.

Comment · 2 years ago
People who cite interest rates and economy are coping hard. It's all of a sudden a factor now but never was before. Apart from dotcom specific crash, tech has seen relentless growth, until recent years where it was shown firing people had no negative effect.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's nothing to do with number of engineers you have.
Comment · 2 years ago
That service does a lot of the matching that you need and provides all roles from PM to designers to programmers. It's unquestionably better as you're dealing with volunteers. Unless you're picky with who you select and then lucky for them to have enough continued time for you.

Companies just want a resume and straight to interviews.

Comment · 2 years ago
First registration is $2 but any renewal is $20 after. A lot of first year domains use different pricing and they are charged differently I think by the TLD holders, so it's not just stupid marketing by like GoDaddy who hopes you don't transfer to another registrar after them taking a loss the first year and huge hike after

A lot of super cheap ones have expensive renewals.

Comment · 2 years ago
There is already socialcoder for non profits, which also provides project management and liaison. This thread would not do better than that service for non-profits, simply because it's more organized.
Comment · 2 years ago
.io is simply the new .net, what you get when you can't get .com but don't want to rename. Although .io and .ai are really expensive so I wouldn't be surprised if something new comes up.

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