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Get a Strix Point or Strix Halo with 128GB DDR5 RAM and you can run gpt-oss 120B at 10-20+ TPS.

Hmmm maybe I should re-read A Fire Upon the Deep.

Currently on the front page there are ~2/30 posts on the front page. AI hype is everywhere. On HN there is genuinely much higher quality conversation about AI than many other place…

LLMs use pseudo-random numbers. You can set the seed and get exactly the same output with the same model and input.

Great quote, commenting just to 'bookmark' it.

Ollama can pull directly from HF, you just provide the URL and add to the end :Q8_0 (or whatever) to specify your desired quant. Bonus: use the short form url of `hf` instead of `h…

Not all details are posted yet, but an interesting development.

I haven't tried this yet myself, but have you tried plugging it into GPT or Claude or Perplexity and asking Qs? I've made some progress on thongs this way, much faster than I would…

The economist Emily Oster wrote an excellent series of books about pregnancy anf early kid years, where she dives into details about various studies, whether they are causal, etc. …

I've directly experienced this in my own life. Moved during the pandemic to be near family, and coincidentally that is a much more religious and conservative community. Many people…

Many great recommendations in the comments here about on emergent order in complex systems -- does anyone have recommendations for reading about how such systems de-organize?

Is there a proof or demostration somehwere about maximizing the consent of the governed? Arrows theorem always has implied to me that the next step should be quantifuing some welfa…

> "Westworld was a warning, not an instruction manual!"

By happenstance I just ran across this by the same author somewhere: https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/death-of-a-client

Do you have a custom "intro prompt?" I have one that describes a lot of statistical work I want GPT to help me with. I got this result the first try: > Sally has 2 sisters. Since e…

I've often found EM's things on LLM usage to be quite helpful, and it seems he's gathered a lot of things on prompting in one place here.

I'm a little surprised no one has pointed out yet that this is incredibly close to cellular automata, which Wolfram has show can get you Turing completeness among other things.[1] …

I think the data are that we are working a bit less than we used to, it's rather that the norms and mental categories have shifted. For example 40hr work week is now a sort of norm…

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I worked through large chunks of the book a long time ago (perhaps an earlier version). I agree with the other responder-- if you've had zero stats it may be more difficult, but th…

I'm surprised to see no one has pointed out RMarkdown + RStudio[1] as one simple, low-effort way interface with Pandoc using an IDE you may already use. I used to write papers and …