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advaith08

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About advaith08

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    Show HN: LLMs Play Monopoly Deal

    I love playing Monopoly Deal, and wanted to test LLM ability to play it. Its pretty fascinating - open source models cant do it, and proprietary ones have a large difference in pla…

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    The custom instructions to the model say: "Please note that this is similar but not identical to the antArtifact syntax which is used for Artifacts; sorry for the ambiguity." They …

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    Comment #39909121

    Agree. I think a more core issue here is that only 1 person needed to be convinced in order to push malware into xz

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    Comment #39811949

    The dehydrate comment is a reference to the three body problem - a great book!

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    Comment #39078073

    fully agree with this. Plus, if you're worried about "promotion competitiveness" souring friendships with people in your team, you can always make friends with people in other depa…

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    Comment #38489038

    seen a lot of these, but none for Indian languages. Would love to try an Indian language one!

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    I think the point of the comparison with chess is to show what happens when AI becomes vastly better than humans at something. GPT4 is not vastly better than humans at coding, but …

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    Comment #38107631

    Location: Bay Area, SF Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Pytorch, Python, NLP, CV, LLMs Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ac_zraUpg4MAojQekE_XSNEfhs4... E…

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    Comment #37930504

    agree with this. in their new values, they literally use the same words that were in the old ones ("unpretentious", "collaboration"). I also dont think this is a change "at the dro…

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    Comment #37861801

    imo they dont have batching because they pack sequences before passing through the model. so a single sequence in a batch on OpenAI might have requests from multiple customers in i…

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    Ask HN: Are employers focussing more on system design since LLMs have come out?

    LLMs have become really good at code generation, and I suppose they'll continue to get better over the next few years. Has anyone noticed if hiring trends for developers has change…

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    Comment #37452531

    Oh my apologies, this is Llama 2! Im using Llama 2 7b chat here, not the original Llama

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    yeah I think there are a lot of use cases for an assistant trained on your chat history. Given how privacy sensitive this use case is, I think maybe Apple is the best suited to bui…

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    Comment #37450967

    Very cool. I like the introspection bit, I've realised quite a bit about my texting style from talking to Llama too. I think Im also very "type first and think later" on WhatsApp

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    here's how you can export your chat history: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?cms_platform=andr...

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    Comment #37450935

    wow thats cool! Do you have the code put out somewhere?

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    Comment #37450883

    Yeah, this is definitely a dicey ethical question. Would be interested to know what guardrails you're considering for these digital avatars, and how you'll ensure that people use t…

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    Comment #37450860

    Thank you, Ill check it out! Yeah, this can be extended to create a "simulation game" of us and our friends. This paper (Interactive Simulacra of Human Behaviour https://arxiv.org/…

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    Yeah I wondered if few shot prompting would yield better results than finetuning. For the amount of finetuning I've done (1 epoch, 7B model with 4 bit quantization), I think it mig…

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    Comment #37450752

    Hahaha a friend told me this but I havent watched SV. Will do so immediately

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    oh yeah definitely. Do you know how I can get access to one for cheap though? I burnt through $150 just on this exercise with a P100 on GCP