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Have a look around for token biasing, or green lists. It's based on a nudge to the choice of the next token (which can always be drawn from a set of possibilities which are all pro…

I've heard that this kind of watermarking process works by biassing the statistical sampling towards a partition of the set of possible next tokens (red set and green set), at each…

You had keyboards? Luxury, back in my day we had to stamp punch cards with the tips of our fingers. If we made a mistake, the head operator would cut one of our fingers off with a …

I didn't get very far into AoC this year as I ran out of time. Maybe I'll pick it up again later. But my point is, I was surprised at how hard day 5, part 2 was. I didn't give up a…

My first thought was that the pilots and crew would lose their jobs if they refused to fly. But perhaps pilots would be less likely to get rated for Max aircraft if (hypothetically…

I still prefer 200 with an empty list for the 'no results' case. The same client code works, rather than having to code for 204. - If I query for an identifier which doesn't exist …

I like the convention: - 404 if resource requested by id - 200 with empty list of results if it was a 'search' type request with params (not referring directly to an id)

I was looking for this comment. I'm very happy with the combo of IntelliJ features and vim movement commands. The only inertia vim adds to my workflow is escaping into command mode…

We ran into a problem where we blew the direct memory limit recently. To trace the problem, I added a breakpoint on ByteBuffer.allocateDirect() - this is how DM is normally allocat…

Google have their "Machine Unlearning" challenge to address this specific issue - removing the influence of given training data without retraining from scratch. Seems like a hard p…

Regression is a good analogy of the problem here. If you found a line of best fit for some datapoints, how would you get back the original datapoints, from the line? Now imagine te…

Merry Christmas - Have you tried https://www.kaggle.com/datasets ?

Could still happen though unfortunately, as many bought at ultra low interest rates. Those fixes will be coming to an end in a year or two. At least in this country we tend to have…

Also curious. I'm a sample of 1 and also relatively inexperienced. But I felt I quickly reached the limits of what was possible when I tried doing sentence classification with OSS …

I wrote a subtractive synth in java for my masters project. It was a fascinating domain to learn. For example, how to manage the independent voices, wavetable interpolation, envelo…

Here's a fairly in-depth exploration of spaced repetition, if that's the style you prefer - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

Furthermore "If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-larges…

I've also noticed over a few recent trips to Amsterdam that there's something special about the sound Ij. The river IJ, and the beer Ijwit. The language is unfamiliar to me, and qu…

I wouldn't say I'm someone with knowledge (non-US, non-economist etc). But I understand the interest payments on a large national debt can be a problem. Not sure if that's a signif…

A few years back I got a decent second hand student oboe for £300 on eBay. Prices are probably higher now though. You'd definitely want to check out the second hand market if getti…

There should be a name for the logical fallacy where direction of travel of a statistic is taken out of context. Local fluctuation being taken as the beginning of a trend. Perhaps …

Good write up. Sometimes novelty comes from outside the team. For example, cross-department re-platforming efforts, vendor changes, and long running migration projects. This can al…

You might be interested in some podcasts by Oxide Computer Co - they talk in depth about their challenges designing and building a high speed top of rack ethernet switch. They go i…

At first glance, one might think Java already has collection types with defined encounter order - List (defined iteration order based on insertion order) and SortedSet/SortedMap (d…

Oh, to be fair, NLP proposed the meta model, which was based on how Virginia Satir would solve people's problems by just getting them to be more specific, in a skilful way. This wo…