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It would be interesting to see a variant of this that used a small language model to measure entropy.

It lacks batching support (n>1), unfortunately, which is necessary for Loom-like applications

What are the tradeoffs between cpp2 and Carbon?

https://Kagi.com and https://metaphor.systems have been doing a great job for me

The GPT-3.0 "davinci-instruct-beta" models have been returning non-deterministic logprobs as early as early 2021. This is speculation. CUDA itself often has nondeterminism bugs. te…

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S3 is a highly reliable storage media. You should use a CDN that transparently caches S3 artifacts to save on reads, such as AWS CloudFront or Cloudflare R2 are good choices.

How did you come up with the long-term memory idea?

Setting norms of asking folks not to abuse it reduces the likelihood people will step out of line with those norms.

Definitely worth getting excited about, though it seems the current cost of fuel production as of Aug 8 including crude oil cost is $3.40/gal minus taxes and distribution.[0] Prome…

> More generally, a job that requires fast and unexpected changes, significant skill, and is not very repetitive will be one a hacker will excel at. Repetitive, simple jobs are a w…

BigScience (a coalition including Huggingface) is training and releasing a 175B language model and finishes in 2 month.

I don't receive them on my main account. I do receive them on a less active alt.

Or microfiche, tiny paper.

I agree with this post, though there's another factor to consider: SSD endurance. A system that swaps a lot will write more, decreasing endurance. You might need to buy a new SSD e…

under the free software philosophy (free SOFTWARE), art assets are allowed to be non-free, but stallman believes the game code itself should be free. considering games rely heavily…

I use a separate user account for games.

It means they worked on it and acknowledge it now. The fundamental problem is still very much there.

Reminds of C14, which stores data in a nuclear fallout shelter, and takes a few minutes to retrieve. https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/