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hislaziness··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Am I missing something here. Not finding a major bug/vulnerability just means that maybe the code is really good, not that the model is not what is claimed?
hislaziness··on The current state of LLM-driven development
Would it be more appropriate to compare LLMs to Autotunes rather than pianos?
hislaziness··on How to break the 'AI hype cycle'
Akamai CTO Robert Blumofe offers four tips for business leaders striving to foster AI fluency by empowering employees with the right tools and best use cases.

useful insights but definitely a PR article.

hislaziness··on What the Fuck Python
Great. I enjoy these kind of articles. My all time favorite book for 'C' is Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets.
hislaziness··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Terence Tao on the matter - https://imgur.com/a/terence-tao-on-supposed-gold-imo-sMKP0bm
hislaziness··on Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces
As I understand, the LLM uses the techniques of searchformer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14083. To do "slow thinking" doing a A* search using a transofrmer.
hislaziness··on $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
It is not just MSRP, management and operations cost too. The article goes into the details of this.
hislaziness··on $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
The details are in the article. They have done the math.
hislaziness··on $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
TLDR: Don’t buy H100s. The market has flipped from shortage ($8/hr) to oversupplied ($2/hr), because of reserved compute resales, open model finetuning, and decline in new foundation model co’s. Rent instead.

Is the AI infra bubble already bursting?

hislaziness··on Task-Switching Experiment (2015)
The screen seems to be stuck at Wait a second... for me.
hislaziness··on Reflection 70B, the top open-source model
I tried a few local LLMs. None of them could give me the right answer for "How many 'r's in straberry. All LLMs were 8-27B.
hislaziness··on Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
I know you mean this in jest, but we are much closer to this than we would imagine, the use of LLMs to process communication / translation is becoming ubiquitous. We are 1 bad translation away from a disaster.
hislaziness··on Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
I also use some email providers ability to have +xyz at the end of the username. So for a registration I would for user.name+sitea@domain.com. has helped me track spam and leaks in the past.
hislaziness··on Llama 3.1 in C
Cool. I will try it out. I tried the same with ollama, the non english part needs a lot more polish. Do you see the outcome being any different?
hislaziness··on CLISP Port to WASM
This is pretty awesome. How did you do it? Any blog on the detials?
hislaziness··on Mistral NeMo
The model description on huggingface says - Model size - 12.2B params, Tensor type - BF16. Is the Tensor type different from the training param size?
hislaziness··on Mistral NeMo
I just checked huggingface and the model files download is about 25GB but in a comment below someone mentioned it is 8fp quantized model. Trying to understand how the quantization affects the model (and RAM) size. Can someone please enlighten.
hislaziness··on Mistral NeMo
isn't it 2 bytes (fp16) per param. so 7b = 14 GB+some for inference?
hislaziness··on [dead]
The title does not do justice to the article. It talks about a new classification system that OpenAI has introduced for LLMs
hislaziness··on ThankYouHN: 14 Years
Same here. Coincidentally I joined in June 2009 and this is the only social media I indulge in.
hislaziness··on Apple's iPhone is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly
The articles states the case is for apple's monopoly in the premium phone market. Yet it compares the market share with low cost android phones.
hislaziness··on Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard
I have experience using the Motofone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone . It was not the best of experience especially due to the lag which many have mentioned here. E-Ink displays have come a long way, hoping this time it is a better experience.
hislaziness··on KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp
Inspired by MalbolgeLISP which was a lisp written in Malbolge.
hislaziness··on Dive into Deep Learning
Came across this book today. Good introduction and deep dive into ML.
hislaziness··on Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service (2022)
As a customer you could propose additional packages, send the request via the support channel...
hislaziness··on Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service (2022)
This is about managing security risks of using OSS libraries. Many organizations end up using OSS code/libs/products without having the capability or the motivation to validate them. Google addresses some of those issues with this.
hislaziness··on Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
From the fraudsters/spammers perspective large platforms provide the economies of scale.
hislaziness··on Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
As the responses are non-deterministic I wonder how useful these tests are? Even if I did the tests with my own prompts, wouldn't I get different answers for the same questions at different points in time?
hislaziness··on Google / DeepMind Launches SynthID
Watermarking of generated art. I think this technology should also help original artist in watermarking their works.
hislaziness··on Epicycle Clock
Curious is this just for fun or there is some advantage in representing the clock this way?
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