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I'm a bipedal next token predictor, in English and in C++. I loop therefore I am.

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greesil··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
How do you know this? I'm not trying to attack your statement, I am genuinely curious how anyone knows anything about model performance outside of benchmarks that are already in the training set.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Yes, I understand one function of jargon, which can be useful to insiders in that it conveys a precise meaning. But, it can be confusing to outsiders, and that is also a useful thing for insiders. In the context of LLMs, what other function can produce p(next token) if not the LLM? And, you just about make my point for me with regards to jargon being confusing by misidentifying what the policy actually is (something i never would have noticed :) In any case, it's an interesting paper. Thanks for all your down votes everyone.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
But the probability vector is the output of the LLM, no?
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
It's a comment. On Hacker News. Not the RL subreddit, or whatever. I'm just amazed at the jargon. I'm sure it's useful, but one could just call it model output.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Wtf is a policy? Is this some sort of RL thing that I'm too ML to understand?

Gemini tells me it's the probability of the next token for an LLM. Okay then.

greesil··on A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
"This is notably fast given that this is the first time that an Android driver bug I reported was patched within 90 days of the vendor first learning about the vulnerability."

This makes me feel better about Google, but also makes me kind of frightened of the rest of Android. I wonder what Apple's response time is?

greesil··on More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
Which comments?
greesil··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
The whole country? Really?
greesil··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Some people respond to incentives. The rest of us are just trying to do our jobs and will probably be fired and then later consumed by the basilisk. We are living in an age of extremophiles.
greesil··on Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
Too bad they can't just easily vibe code new features.
greesil··on OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
Isn't this what RAG is really for?
greesil··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
Well this explains tripping on acid a little bit
greesil··on Where did my taxes go?
Insurance company with an army primarily. But now with an expensive credit card bill.
greesil··on Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
You did not increase comprehension by not using a single negative.
greesil··on Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
How do you keep it from getting prompt injected?

Oh I get it the runtimes are nice and small, you're using Claude for the intelligence. Obv

I think I'm just impressed with anthropic more than anything. Defcon would have me believe that prompt injections are trivial

greesil··on Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range
Which company?
greesil··on Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Suicide booths a la Futurama
greesil··on Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Collective action is not our strong suit.
greesil··on Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices
That's why I'm still using Tomcat and web cgi
greesil··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
Lol. That's cool, I've never heard of that!
greesil··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
I was thinking something like an esp32 + mesthastic / LoRa + REST API on the LAN, discoverable via multi cast. The "landline" is a tablet or phone with an app that talks to the esp32. Separately, a parent with the app does the Diffie-Hellman key exchange over SMS, NFC, or some other channel with the friends who also have the app, and you know their identity. The phone app updates the device with the friend's keys, they do the same thing on their end, and voila you're in business. The kids can talk securely, you can read that the kids say via the LAN, no goddamned third parties.
greesil··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
It must have changed in the last 8 months
greesil··on Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
I was thinking of doing something like this for text with LoRa. But, having kids I don't have time to do that. This seems really great!

I read the previous discussion, oof:

S04dKHzrKT wrote

Make note of the privacy policy[1]. Some users may not like the data they collect. > Information Collected from Children: As detailed in Section 3.C, we collect voice audio during calls, call log information, and utilize the Parent-provided contact list in relation to the Child's use of the Tin Can Device. We may also collect device identifiers and technical usage data related to the Service.

[1]: https://tincan.kids/policies/privacy-policy

greesil··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Har har
greesil··on Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia
Excellent point. Maybe it's the goal of this attack to demonstrate this capability.
greesil··on Pulsed High-Power Radio Energy Can Cause Harmful Effects on the Brain (2024)
I'm not saying 60 minutes is a bastion of journalistic integrity before or after Bari, but this episode was relevant and interesting https://youtu.be/C1jmAj9OUOs?si=EyFHpPRJ9OF36Xcn
greesil··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
I can appreciate boring nowadays.
greesil··on BlackRock $26B Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals
Do you like things that look like bank runs? If so, then yes.
greesil··on BlackRock $26B Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals
https://archive.is/HsNyk
greesil··on HN is drowning in AI comments
How would you know?
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