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savant_penguin··on LLMs can't do probability
1. Incorrect. The output of the decoder LLM is the probability distribution of the next token given the input text. Temperature=0 means that the output distribution is not pushed to be closer to a uniform distribution. The randomness comes from the sampling of the next token according to the output distribution to generate text. If you want determinism you always get the argmax of the distribution.
savant_penguin··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
+ optimization

It looks fantastic for the compute budget

savant_penguin··on Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
Could you provide one example of communism that did not end up an authoritarian regime?

Communism is just not compatible with freedom. When free to choose, societies do not become communist, they embrace production and trade. You cannot achieve what communists want without extensive use of force

savant_penguin··on Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
"Some jobs will go away, that's fine."

To whom is that fine? To the people going from $2/hour to zero it certainly isn't.

I honestly cannot grasp how some people can _forcibly_ remove other people's _options_ then pat themselves on the back as some sort of armchair savior.

Yes, for some people a bad option could still be their best option. What sort of moral superpower is that that enables you to forbid a contract between two consenting adults A and B such that A wants to work for X and B that's willing to pay X, but you as a C that just won't let it happen and is willing to use force to stop it from happening

savant_penguin··on Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens
It's usually people who _really_ want to decide what can be said
savant_penguin··on An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
Maybe I'm oversimplifying but the question is: "does an artist _own_ a style?"

To me the answer is no.

savant_penguin··on Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)
This is hilarious

Now feed it Doom haha

savant_penguin··on DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
"Competition is a bitch" - OpenAI, probably
savant_penguin··on Speedup from switch to +=
In this case I believe python is faster by a few months.

Jokes aside this is pytorch so this is compiled to C++ or cuda, the problem likely comes from the different functions that are called for += vs +

savant_penguin··on Speech by Chair Powell on monetary policy and price stability
If the disruption of supply chains is the actual culprit for inflation, shouldn't we observe gradual deflation as they recover?

If on the other hand it's printing money (as I'd expect from the trillions of free money in recent months) it should only get worse. What I observe is more consistent with money printing than disruption of supply chains

savant_penguin··on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
"In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication."

I'm sure our demigods will gladly enlighten us with their wisdom to distinguish between misthoughts and correct thoughts.

So that when journalists claim to be following the science there will be no dissenting voice in research to disagree.

Those who defend opposing ideas will have no leg to stand on and will rightfully be labeled science deniers

savant_penguin··on How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
Just to comment in the "little bit of free code" there are projects like python and numpy that would take ages to do properly and depending on the company would never ship (or function as reliably as it does right now)

Sometimes they're buying decades worth of debugging/testing

savant_penguin··on Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost the US Economy $14.5T by 2070
$300b/year doesn't sound so bad
savant_penguin··on Research shows circadian clock influences metabolism, cell and tumor growth
Maybe some blind hackers could share their view in that
savant_penguin··on Ask HN: Google Search down?
Hi guise this is my first push to prod, hope you guys like it
savant_penguin··on Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
That's an interesting take.

Would other companies that support pornhub/across in any way also be considered participants? Water supply/electricity/ internet providers/whoever sells them dildos/food

savant_penguin··on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
A important point is that it's an absolute pain in the ass to preprocess tabular data for neural networks.

Categorical > one hot encoding > deal with new categories in test time (sklearn does this, but it's really slow and clunky)

Numerical > either figure it out the data distribution for each column and normalize by that or normalize everything by z score. Found an outlier?? Oops, every feature collapsed to 0

Can you that for 10 features? Sure, now try it again with 500, it's not fun

Ok, now that you've done all that you can begin training and possibly get some reasonable result.

Compare that with tree models: data>model>results

savant_penguin··on Argentina’s black-market USD rate climbs 24% in two weeks
Money printer goes brrrrrr
savant_penguin··on Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical roles” only
https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-sre
savant_penguin··on The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
An Uber driver in his way to being exploited:

Wake up, decide it's a good day to be exploited.

Kiss your wife goodbye as you enter your car "bye honey! On my way to being exploited by Uber!"

Drive away and open your exploitation app. Accept a ride, go to the person: "who's the person that's going to participate in my exploitation together with Uber today? Oh, there he is!". Drive him to the place he needs to be, drive away.

"Ok, do I want to be exploited some more today?"

Decide to be exploited on a few more rides and return home.

Now being serious, if you're an Uber driver and let's say that in the short term that's your best option, why would it be better for him to have this option striped from him? Why do you think anyone else should make that call except him?

savant_penguin··on James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing
I felt it missed a "before/after" comparison
savant_penguin··on Atomicwrites' old versions have been purged from PyPI
Maybe some people use their side projects to develop software without the bureaucratic crap full time jobs have. And any amount of bureaucracy is too much for his free side project
savant_penguin··on TensorFlow Lite for Commodore 64
Now fit it a gpt3 in there and BAM: local aidungeon
savant_penguin··on New MacBook Air with M2
He could be talking about boobie trapped chips
savant_penguin··on Python for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition
Although this is true I find these online notebooks awfully slow
savant_penguin··on Severe thermal throttling discovered in Apple's M2 MacBook Pro
Idk I expect my computer to be able to run at 100% without some sort of death clock

Blaming bad thermal design on "use case" does not make sense to me.

If you'd like to run some intensive numerical programming on your laptop just because, I would find it outrageous for it to shutdown due to thermals. Can other hardware designers use that excuse too? "Oh your software use case is not covered by the cpu voltage regulators", "the power supply was not meant to be on all the time", "the power cable should not be connected for that long", "you should not use 90% of your ram for 4 hours straight, it was not designed for that use case"

"Oh the average end user only uses the car 1h/day. This 5h long trip was not the expected use case, that's why it overheated"

savant_penguin··on The SEC's response to the 'meme stock' rally
Sir this is a casino
savant_penguin··on Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge
This is the kind of news that gets you jumpy
savant_penguin··on GPT-3 may be a squirrel
That's just what a squirrel would say
savant_penguin··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
Those pesky people living their own lives and spending their own money moving to where they want to, driving up costs by existing

If only they did with their lives exactly as I told them to

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