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encrux

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    I don’t see any other way past this other than regulation: We need authenticated online spaces where your account is linked to a real, government issued ID. This way, moderating co…

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    Comment #48422439

    Back when GPT-2 was released, I tried figuring out how to fine tune it. I found a google notebooks template, scraped a bunch of data from r/ChangeMyMind and asked it to change my m…

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    Comment #48166626

    For everyone in the EU: Copying and pasting sensitive data (like customer data) into AI tools is a violation of the GDPR, and potentially the AI act, which will be enforced soon. T…

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    Comment #48000523

    A friend of mine forked the repo and tried it with BPE (Byte-Pair Encodings), and it did noticeably improve performance.

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    Comment #47963506

    Late reply I guess, but "Claude builds a C compiler" was the first thing I thought about when I saw that sensationalized write-up of Mythos. It sounds awesome, but once you look de…

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    Comment #47962869

    Anything that beats alexa-level intelligence on an edge-device is what I'd call useful as well, which shouldn't be too hard. It's mind-boggling how bad current voice assistants som…

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    Comment #47927337

    Not really on topic anymore, but… I keep wondering when this discussion comes up… If I take an apple and paint it like an orange, it’s clearly not an orange. But how much would I h…

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    Comment #47918419

    For YouTube, this already exists and I‘m using it. The extension is caller DeArrow and aims to reduce sensationalism via crowdsourcing, though I wouldn’t be surprised if top contri…

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    Comment #47822700

    AI in it‘s current phase, definitely. However, we‘ve been seeing the transformer architecture plateauing in the last couple of years. There are still improvements, but open source …

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    Comment #47818364

    In a Sense, cats did actually. Not through direct contact, but by getting rid of mice and rats that infiltrate food storage.

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    Comment #47811171

    I don’t miss multi week debugging sessions. Having a tool that instantly searches through the first 50 pages of google and comes up with a reasonable solution is just speeding up w…

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    Show HN: Letting an LLM write robot programs

    Try the demo here: https://llm-trajectory.boesch.dev/ This is a write-up of a system I designed at a previous job. It's a natural language interface for industrial robots. The demo…

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    Comment #47126258

    I think this is actually the correct way to move forward. We should be able to verify facts about people on the internet without compromising personal data. Giving platforms the ab…

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    Which, ironically, is written in rust

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    Comment #46767680

    Very much depends on what you want to do. The fact that a language model can „reason“ (in the LLM-slang meaning of the term) about 3D space is an interesting property. If you give …

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    Comment #45279413

    > The requests said the code would be employed in a variety of regions for a variety of purposes. This is irrelevant if the only changing variable is the country. From a ML-perspec…

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    Comment #45261866

    Nothing about this was quick. 2015 was the first time we had an increase in authoritarianism in the public debate. Project 2025 was announced in 2023.

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    Comment #40717312

    > We should eliminate anonymity online. for certain platforms. IMO platforms should be able to decide for themselves whether they want the option to have people verify themselves v…

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    Comment #31925744

    Officials are usually elected because the people trust them (yes von der Leyen indirectly elected, but that's besides the point here). In geopolitical decisions for example, the pe…

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    Possible, sure. In reality it's unlikely though. Unless you still believe in the american dream, I'm pretty sure we can agree that the increase in housing prices makes it exceeding…

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    Surely at some point the market will just regulate itself and amazon will have to improve working conditions to keep operations running... Right? Isn't that how capitalism is suppo…