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Sridatta Thatipamala

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sthatipamala··on Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
I skimmed this whole article and didn't see any classic LLM tells about it. Why do you think it is LLM generated?
sthatipamala··on I'm absolutely right
In the context of the web, it is not feasible to make distributed systems 'tick' their progress just to have realistic progress spinners.
sthatipamala··on How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
The judges in these technical cases can be quite sophisticated and absolutely do learn terms of art. See Oracle v. Google (Java API case)
sthatipamala··on Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study
The holds are not "extremely" taxing, I would say. The tremors can be induced through a simple 7 step sequence of holds like wall sits or calf raises. There are walkthroughs on YouTube.

On the TRE subreddit [0], people report being able to tremor at will once they have enough experience with the technique.

Not trying to be pedantic, just clarifying that it is very accessible! I've personally been experimenting with it and find it to be helpful.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/longtermTRE/

sthatipamala··on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
Is being well-rated on TripAdvisor a positive or negative signal? I could see it either way.
sthatipamala··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
As other manufacturers come out with electric drivetrains, Tesla is really falling behind.

I own a Model Y and it’s really barebones and plasticky. For the similar price, the Ioniq 5 is much nicer.

Similarly, the Rivians blow Model X out of the water in terms of features.

sthatipamala··on Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
Your info might be outdated. Apple Maps is actually better than Google Maps in many ways (e.g. it says "pass this light and at the next one, turn left" instead of "in 300 feet, turn left")
sthatipamala··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
If it’s a big corp, they probably have strict data exfiltration policies for corp email.

Maybe this one email would have been fine, but if it gets tripped, it’s not worth the headache.

sthatipamala··on Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator
Corporations (which are legal persons) also cannot autonomously do any of those things.

They only act through the stewardship of natural persons who serve in their interest.

You could do the same for a forest by electing some trustees or whatever.

sthatipamala··on The history of Monokai
There’s a cool CSS vignette effect on this webpage that I hadn’t seen before.
sthatipamala··on Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
I used to work in a monorepo of that size.

All of the PRs I ever submitted touched a handful of files in my project’s subdirectory.

sthatipamala··on Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
You need to pay meta if you have 700 million users as of the Llama 3 release date. Not at any time going forward.
sthatipamala··on macOS Sequoia is available today
They were previously in "Keychain Access," which was primarily an app for administrators so it was also a pretty bad UX.
sthatipamala··on There is only one amphibian emoji
“Nearly”. I think it is in fact universal.
sthatipamala··on Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
Which book was that?
sthatipamala··on eBook on building LLM system evals
One of the coauthors here. I’ll be hanging out in the thread to talk about evals.

I spent >50% of my time designing and advising on them at one point.

sthatipamala··on Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
Sounds interesting; what else is part of those onboarding docs?
sthatipamala··on Touch Pianist
I think that’s the term used for synth music
sthatipamala··on Persimmon-8B
Yes, it wouldn't know what to do with the picture unless you fine-tune the model (which is why they are permissively releasing it).

The embeddings form the vocabulary of the model. The vocabulary "namespace" has 70k empty slots so you could introduce your own tokens and train on top of that, where token = some patch of multimodal data.

sthatipamala··on Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
> precise logit control coupled with guidance from forward or backwards chaining on knowledge graphs

What do you mean by this?

sthatipamala··on Arc Browser 1.0
I just started using Arc yesterday and they have such a video. Maybe added since you last tried it.
sthatipamala··on High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students
Are you THE beej of the network programming guide?
sthatipamala··on LangChain: The Missing Manual
I don't get why Langchain is so popular. It's classic inner-platform effect: "a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using."

Once we get better at getting structured output from LLMs, we can use the standard control flow mechanisms in built in to our programming languages.

sthatipamala··on Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose
Would be cool to hook this up into a Bluesky network graph like [0] and pulse the node every time someone posts. Some interesting patterns might emerge.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/

sthatipamala··on The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
Look into k2pdfopt. The term you’re looking for is you want to “reflow” your PDFs
sthatipamala··on BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent
Why is this linked to a fork of Yohei’s original repo?
sthatipamala··on The roots of Japan's Indian curry
Immigration. India is a bigger economy than Nepal and Nepalese come there to do work like this.
sthatipamala··on A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database (2021)
They know what the bandwidth graph looks like when a full DB replication/dump is in progress.

Since that level of data transfer only occurred once (when they did it), they know the attacker did not actually transfer any data.

sthatipamala··on Ask HN: Share Your YouTube Channel
The Technium: a podcast about big ideas in the future of computing and their effect on the world.

https://youtube.com/@techniumpod

sthatipamala··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Can you do some deduping? A lot of the matches are just the same song appearing on multiple albums or single vs. album version.
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