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gthompson512

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    Comment #44314734

    @dang I feel like this is getting close to the lowest level of discourse and occurs somewhat often these days where people overly reference the output of some AI and then are chall…

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    Comment #44069277

    Sorry I read about this way long ago, what is meant by "worked for me" "project", "behind my back" and such. I didn't get the connotations for most of that from reading articles ab…

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    Comment #44066409

    There is a bunch of new phrases people have been using around AI topics, so it can be hard to tell what exactly is being talked about, like "Roko's Basilisk", the "lottery card hyp…

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    Comment #44044321

    I have been thinking a bit lately about how much sense that makes compared to just using word vectors, since traditional queries are super short and often keyword based(like search…

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    Comment #44041752

    > "the start of the banana zone" What does this mean? Is it some slang for exponential growth, or is it a reference to something like the "paperclip maximizer"?

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    Comment #44041628

    I usually exercise ~5 days a week and on those days will shower or bathe twice. On days when I am doing yard work or grilling it might bathe 3 times depending on how poorly I plann…

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    Comment #44026068

    Sorry if I missed it, but what about keeping the suffixes and trying to do some finetuning on the source then clustering sentences or at least pages which given the media should be…

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    Comment #44026027

    Sorry, looking more, it doesn't seem like you are doing what you are saying. This is just poorly breaking text into bad chunks with no regard for semantics and is like ~200 lines o…

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    Comment #44025977

    How does it handle documents longer than the context length of the model? Sorry there are a ton of these regularly and they don't usually think about this. Edit: it seems like it j…

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    Comment #43901233

    This has been planned for a while, is this news?

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    Comment #43852954

    Sorry if this comment is outdated or ill-informed, but it is hard to follow the current news. Do the Phi models still have issues with training on the test set, or have they fixed …

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    Comment #43831587

    > So in D, is it now natural to mix borrow checking and garbage collection? I think "natural" is a bit loaded, there is native support in the frontend for doing both. You have to g…

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    Comment #43776188

    There is a simple corollary to Stone-Weierstrass that extends to infinite intervals, but requires the use of rational functions.

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    Comment #43753003

    Depending on what exactly you are trying to learn from this, I would recommend looking at the source for musl like https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string and trying to…

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    Comment #43681600

    Minor correction, macros CANT have newlines, you need to splice them during preprocessing using \ followed by a new line, the actual code has these: from https://github.com/codr7/h…

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    Comment #43658640

    > - "My name is Hardy, G.H. Hardy.": A unique function satisfies exp(x+y) = exp(x)exp(y). This has nothing to do with e and is satified by 2^x or any a^x, so this wouldn't work for…

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    Comment #43652959

    This led to the OpenD language fork ( https://opendlang.org/index.html ) which is led by some contributors who had other more general gripes with D. The fork is trying to merge in …

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    Comment #43497101

    This forces each field to be quoted, and it assumes that each row has the same fields in the same order. A library can handle the quoting issues and fields more reliably. Not sure …

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    Comment #43487152

    > It's just that people tend to use specialized tools for encoding and decoding it instead of like ",".join(row) and row.split(",") You really super can't just split on commas for …