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1,976karma·1,374submissions·March 26, 2023
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The fact that by hand is emphasized so often and so often (see src/handgpt.h comments as well above backward()) makes me think it's AI. Anyways, it looks like gradients derived by hand means…
11d ago·view thread
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Pretty funny that this is the thing Europe model is sota in.
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The ground floor of apartment buildings in my country (not europe, india) is almost always reserved for parking. It is mandated though not uniformly followed in my city that there be 18 parking spots …
12d ago·view thread
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Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161078
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That is because there is human annotated data there. Every session you or I used, then of course paid human feedback on repos (such as the recently famous example of meta forcing their employees to). …
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Today's models depend on inference time compute to get these results. The inference time compute available on any claude subscription is not comparable to the ones used to get some of these resul…
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stty is a very important existing command, but yeah sterm works.
13d ago·view thread
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Yep, I want really fast startup too. Of the two I use: xfce4-terminal starts utterly instantly without single instance feature. Kitty has the single instance feature and starts instantly with it.
13d ago·view thread
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No reason, I always thought launching pinentry directly chose the right one out of pinentry, pinentry-curses, pinentry-emacs, pinentry-gnome3, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-qt, pinentry-tty since it always w…
15d ago·view thread
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What? it is mostly literal nonsense. Moreover the last paragraph where they say it only reproduced on one machine just does not justify the pseudo-deep analysis in the whole document.
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I wrap `pinentry` (which is in the dependency trees of gnupg, pacman, gvfs, udisks2 and other software that you can de-facto depend on on desktops) inside my own simple askpass. $ cat ~/scrip…
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Blackwell. You could do it with wgmma on hooper but then you'll only be able to run 1 CTA per SM. There are cases where this is OK, but most commonly 128x128 mmas are primitive in tcgen05.mma i.e…
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Most things weren't really reviewed that well as it was. It was always a small fixed set of people that actually played their part in the process in good faith. Those people continue to do to tod…
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Nutri oxide production is triggered by UVA, vit d which happens due to UVB.
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To be fair > Importantly, this is just one of many (autonomous) sessions where Claude worked on discovering new ideas. Many sessions resulted in no new discoveries; other follow-up sessions improve…
19d ago·view thread
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It was posted to HN a few days back 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019012 (original chinese) 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052912 (translated e…
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The number of active parameters is vastly different. Deepseek CEO hinted that he estimates it as an order of magnitude difference in one of his recent interviews. > Seems to benchmark yes, but in h…
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Distillation originally meant matching the distribution of the student model to the teacher model using something like a KL divergence. When you instead fine-tune the student on the samples from the…
19d ago·view thread
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They're other models yes.
20d ago·view thread
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> removing all the fiber Yes this. Also reduced vegetable intake. In many cases the fiber from vegetables can offset some refined carbs intake.
21d ago·view thread
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Ok, but it is clear the parent meant language as in words like english or tamil. If you expand language to include anything that can convey idea then the argument is meaningless and its a null agreeme…
21d ago·view thread
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Depends on the structure of your Msc, the funding, the compute available, etc, you need to give those details if you want a detailed answer. If you choose something at the limits of the compute availa…
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See this comment and it's containing thread (especially the parent) to know why the cities look like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904776 The last bullet point in …
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Oh yeah I've been seeing the nadella posts on twitter, which I presume are aimed at those reporting to him primarily. Agreed on them and palantir. But even if that is the case I believe the risk …
23d ago·view thread
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Nothing will be truly banned. As in, you can always run and use all the chinese models. Startups will use them. Like I said, they will simply use soft regulations to ensure that all the major players …
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They will not actually shut it down. Rather, they will simply continually posture in that direction and release a statement that the wrong lawyer can interpret the wrong way. This will make it a soft …
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