AndrewDucker

It's a reference to The Big Short, where Selena Gomez guested to explain Credit Default Swaps.

(If you haven't seen it, you might think I'm joking. I'm not, and it's an amazing film.)

1x10^77 is a lot of pigeon holes.

Unless you link using tags.

Part of the effect of spending time around other people is that you get to know them, discover which ones aren't creepy, and develop connections with them. And, over the age of 25, the personal connection starts to matter more and more for people than "Are they hot or not?"

See my response to the similar reply at the top of the thread

The job-getting paper ceases to be meaningful if it no longer verifies competence. If it merely verifies the ability to prompt an LLM then nobody will pay a premium for people have it, and then nobody will pay to obtain one.

It will. But having watched the video, I can tie one faster and cheaper. This week. Next week, who knows?

How are your plumbing skills?

Kids these days don't even know what a channel is ;-)

(Well, except for YouTube channels)

No reason why you couldn't do that research in the same buildings as the models.

Or, more likely, control things at the network level so that packets from the LLMs you're investigating cannot leave the virtual network they're assigned to.

Once you have a solar panel you can't be cut off from using it. It's not like oil where you need regular deliveries forever.

I can build a local MCP that gives restricted access to an API which I have no control over.

It's not just the agent understanding the API, it's locking down the access they have. If I want to give access to an internal service in specific ways that the API doesn't lock down then an MCP that offers very specific queries, with protective controls and transformations in place is very useful.

If there's more than one, and you don't care which one, then it's "a". If you care which one then it's "the".

"Pass me a plate" - any plate will do. "Pass me the plate" - I want the specific plate which we were talking about.

People should reply on Hacker News. If you disagree with someone's opinion and you have reasons for doing so then the right thing to do is share them.

Most people here aren't experts in the underlying technology. But they do work with it regularly and are interested in the latest developments in the tooling.

Use a different search engine? Kagi works well for me nowadays.

It's informing people that there is something a business is doing that they might not approve of and they might want to change their behaviour accordingly.

If we're very very very lucky, The Culture.

An LLM, as the name implies, only has access to words. It can only model things about those words and the relationships between them. It never has access to the actual things the words represent.

So it absolutely has experiential knowledge of words but not of the actual things.

(You can absolutely train models on other inputs. I have no objections to those not being stochastic parrots)

Does it have an internal model of what a prime is? If so then it's not parroting. If it doesn't then it is. The whole point is that either they have internal models of the concepts, from experience of those things, or they don't, and are purely working from ungrounded symbols which have no connection to the actual things they're referencing.

So, examples of "Look, it did this!" mean nothing to me. What matters is their internal systems.

Happy to go with the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot

The answer to both is "No".

The idea that non-pregnant people shouldn't also get to use the toilet seems baffling to me.

Maybe just let people use it when they need it.

You are not just a stochastic parrot. Your speech is not just "next likely word", but a product of your internal model of the world.

Having had two kids go through nursery from an early age, they absolutely had a better time there, with more friends and a higher quality of entertainment, than they would have had at home with either of us.

To me "art" is the communication of something from the artist, through arrangement of reality, to the person experiencing the art.

I'd be delighted to replace the current Iranian regime with a less awful collection of people.

I have seen no plans which looked like they might make this happen.

Actually, I do.

I want dozens of them. And then I can play the one with the best reviews.

Of course, without copyright meaning that people have to pay for the games, the chances of those games being made is pretty slim.

How is the USA making any of that any better?