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Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Stable Diffusion 3
The bad actor might be the model itself, e.g., returning unwanted pornography or violence. Do you have a problem with Google’s SafeSearch?
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications
What are your ideas?
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
The parent is asking about weights and from that perspective, _stochastic approximation_ is essential.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Riot Games laying off 11%
Riot Games is a subsidiary of Tencent.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on On Leibniz Notation
Ultimately, algebra _is_ important and calculus is a useful setting to practice algebraic manipulation. Nevertheless, the trend in modern mathematics education in the United States is increasingly towards a more balanced understanding (e.g., greater emphasis on geometric interpretations).
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
The obvious “next step” is experiential, i.e., write complicated programs. Books about writing compilers, databases, operating systems, emulators, file systems, etc. are all useful.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem
I’m personally excited by this paradigm. A few years back I had success using a similar architecture for polynomial root finding. I think it’s entirely possible to be really ambitious and reverse engineer new and useful generalized functions.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem
I don’t care about their sandbox or distributed system. They are irrelevant to the method. The missing language model for program generation is disappointing but I imagine anyone interested in replication, myself included, would prefer to roll their own.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
I regularly reference Seminumerical Algorithms and Combinatorial Algorithms.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on I think I need to go lie down
It isn’t. It’s “mostly deterministic,” whatever that means.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/repr...

Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on A decade of developing a programming language
As someone who has written many compilers and type checkers, I agree. There’s very little information online about the subject. I think part of the issue, for me, was psychological: I felt like I was missing some implementation theory that was presented alongside other compiler subjects (e.g., LALR) when the reality is that you’re mostly implementing very simple Boolean operations.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on A decade of developing a programming language
Any? I regularly find bugs. I don’t find every bug, but finding some bugs is better than none. Especially for the minimal cost of writing annotations.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on The Cloud Computer
Awesome. This would be especially useful in science but the lack of GPUs is a non-starter. :(
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
I’d think you’d want to know dot and norm before embeddings. Especially since most people learn mathematical objects from the perspective of the operators that construct and manipulate them.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
Neat idea! Are the batches encoded as tokens into the input sequence? This is something I really like about the multi-modal PALM papers since it enables the multi-modal tokens to be referenced.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on The Diorama Engine
I like the PlayDate but the display is horrible.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU
This type of code isn’t executed by the Python interpreter.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU
Yep. I’ve been writing a molecular dynamics simulator in PyTorch and the reduction in scope is wild because of heterogenous operators and automatic differentiation.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Unity's actions are unacceptable, I cannot keep endorsing this
Maker of popular game assets.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Towards a new SymPy
Toy? SymPy has room for improvement but it has made a tremendous impact in research and industry.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Transformers as Support Vector Machines
It’s entirely reasonable to desire boundaries between nothing and … the universal approximation theorem!
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Transformers as Support Vector Machines
That’s science. You can’t expect everyone to know everything. It’s a preprint so this is the first opportunity to provide feedback.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Transformers as Support Vector Machines
You’re comparing a subjective claim to an objective claim. Let’s be clear, transformers do not “understand.”
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Transformers as Support Vector Machines
It’s a preprint on arXiv, not the Magna Carta.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Fortran
There’s been numerous articles in nearly every field of science about this!
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Fortran
It’s true that Fortran played a fundamental role in the area of numerical linear algebra but most of the linear algebra packages you’re likely using today were written in C or C++.

Why is Fortran relevant? Because of that aforementioned history. However, Fortran’s use in numerical software has steadily been declining (e.g., look at the past two decades of TOMS articles).

Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Bram Moolenaar's programming language, Zimbu
You identified its purpose: symmetry.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
Episodes of This Old House.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Kullback–Leibler divergence
Yeah. I feel the same. But I also feel the same about mode collapse! It’s often useful for debugging issues that might otherwise go undetected.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m··on Don't fire your illustrator
I didn’t look at the code but it looks like they are using the Knuth-Plass algorithm.
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