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vinni2··on Waymo the Leapfrog
I am from Europe and managed to try Waymo in SF recently. Not sure why you couldn’t.
vinni2··on Waymo the Leapfrog
I guess fundamental difference is that Waymo uses a lot of sensors while Tesla FSD is relying on AI and computer vision.
vinni2··on Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Ggml Q8 models on ollama can run on much cheaper hardware without losing much performance.
vinni2··on Canadians have been exposed to potentially toxic chemicals
When you remove the quantifier millions of Canadians it is misleading and implies all Canadians!
vinni2··on Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct
astrophage
vinni2··on The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper
Which is why you should ask people to exclude self citations when reporting h-index. First of all Google scholar should fix this.
vinni2··on Google lays off its Python team
Just curious what does a Python team do? It doesn’t make sense to dedicate a team to a programming language.
vinni2··on A shrub in Nepal supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Japan
Money doesn’t grow on trees but grows as shrubs
vinni2··on Scaling will never get us to AGI
There are people who strongly believe data is a non-blocker possibility due to synthetic data that is of high quality.

Dario Amodei from Anthropic. https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work

vinni2··on Long-form factuality in large language models
So using LLMs to fact-check LLMs with Google results? There are non-LLM fact-checkers out there [1] which aggregate search results from more diverse sources and which are shown to outperform LLMs [2].

[1] https://editor.factiverse.ai [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12147

vinni2··on Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
Well but they don’t mention that it is clickbait to call it open source fact checking tool which needs LLMs to do everything. Also code is not designed to easily swap with a free locally running LLM.
vinni2··on Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
Ok but bigger issue is there is evidence that the LLMs are not better than specialized models for fact-checking. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12147
vinni2··on Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
So only thing they open sourced is the prompts [1] and code to call LLM APIs? There are plenty of such libraries out there. And the prompts seem to be copied from here [2]?

[1] https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification/blob/main/fa...

[2] https://github.com/yuxiaw/Factcheck-GPT/blob/main/src/utils/...

vinni2··on Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
It’s a bit misleading to call it open source tool when it relies on proprietary LLMs for everything.
vinni2··on The Rise of the Remote Husband
Sounds like you are an outlier.
vinni2··on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
I also wonder if in future search engines would rank pages containing AI generated images or content lower.
vinni2··on Adaptive RAG – dynamic retrieval methods adjustment
Academic papers are peer reviewed white papers aren’t.
vinni2··on Adaptive RAG – dynamic retrieval methods adjustment
This paper is just accepted in NAACL which is a top NLP conference.
vinni2··on Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem
I realized this the hard way after about 5 of my se cards were fried.
vinni2··on China censored sci-fi, then it swept the world
Something tells it is going to disappoint the fans of the books.
vinni2··on [dead]
Dupe and flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749647
vinni2··on Bengaluru: Water crisis shakes India's Silicon Valley
This is a bit of a narrow view imho and also comparing to Bangalore is not the optimal thing to do.

There are more efficient denser urban areas which utilize resources more efficiently than sparse suburbia.

Also there is a middle ground between the stringent zoning laws of the Bay Area and Bangalore.

vinni2··on Death by Neti Pot
Reminds me of a House episode.
vinni2··on Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research
I would say this has a cascade affect and big well funded universities are displacing smaller institutions.
vinni2··on HuggingFace Is Down
Thanks. I am struggling a bit to login and download the model during GH CI pipeline. I keep getting invalid token error but it works when run locally. Any ideas? Sorry to post this question here.
vinni2··on AI chatbots can apparently get better at math for the strangest reason
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39558015
vinni2··on HuggingFace Is Down
I get that, but the model needs to be downloaded at least once? Do you download the models as part of the Dockerfile, then?
vinni2··on HuggingFace Is Down
Thanks for this. Can you explain a bit more? is it like it like it downloads a once and caches or do you need to provide the pre download model s in a volume?
vinni2··on Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries
> I don't think recovering 97% vs 95% of 8% of the material is going to change the economics of battery recyling.

Not yet but as more and more EVs reach end of life and these rare earth metals become rarer then it starts make a difference.

vinni2··on Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
That's on hearing aids not sure if this finding is transferrable to smartphones. Here is the recommendation from experts in fixing electronics https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice
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