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kovek

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About kovek

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    Comment #49264742

    I think to learn a language you need to do as many modalities as you can: Speaking, listening, reading, singing, asking questions to native speakers, asking questions to LLMs, writ…

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    Comment #49099915

    Try being an English speaker learning Mandarin from Claude

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    Comment #49093532

    I think learning from another human being live who can understand your confusingly articulated questions and who can adjust their answers for you, another human being, that's great…

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    Comment #49025592

    Please support /voice for claude!

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    Comment #49000777

    I think it's easy to lie to consumers. Then, how much agency do they have?

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    Comment #48508355

    I have only one thing to say.... what

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    Comment #48497474

    I heard people say this before. I'm wondering, how do you instruct the LLM to generate the tests? Do you tell it the scenarios that would be covered, or do you just tell it to writ…

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    Comment #48485676

    I thought it was known since a few years now that if you train models to NOT do certain things, then they start behaving in weird ways…

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    Comment #48326948

    What if the organization who tries to verify sends a request on an app on the user’s iPhone (or whatever device can do the same), and the user scans their face with FaceID to produ…

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    Comment #48282778

    I’d say it’s possible to have creativity when you’re sitting as well. I like to think that’s it’s all about staying active. Reading, diarying, calling a friendind. All of that.

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    Comment #48165513

    LLMs are like a search engine that autocompletes. It's a tool.

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    Comment #48154278

    What negative consequences does being unelected have?

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    Comment #48058513

    Maybe you can't 100% know what every layer "thinks", if you go through all the layers, you might see a cohesive "thinking" story. So, if there is any information you lose at layer …

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    Comment #48054672

    I’ve read recently about natural systems in the book Antifragile. It’s interesting how those systems can become better.

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    Comment #48032368

    > The core idea is content-dependent selection. For each query, the model selects which parts of the sequence are worth attending to, and computes attention exactly over those posi…

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    Comment #47951756

    I don’t think triaging is necessarily an easy task

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    Comment #47944898

    Does thinking about how to offload matter?

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    Comment #47893979

    10s of GBs? ( 1,000,000 context * 1,000 vector size ) ^ 2 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000… oh wow.. I must be miscalculating What about only storing the conversation and then recomputi…

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    Comment #47881977

    What if the cache was backed up to cold storage? Instead of having to recompute everything.

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    Comment #47325794

    Is this similar to send 48656c6c6f2c20686f772061726520796f753f in the prompt? As done here: https://youtu.be/GiaNp0u_swU?si=m7-LZ7EYxJCw0k1-

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    Comment #47301677

    > You seem to be hinting at the "chemical imbalance" theory of antidepressants, which has been largely debunked Can you say more?

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    Comment #47300600

    Models need pre-training and fine tuning. Humans can do online learning.

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    Comment #47141468

    What if we asked users if they want extra protection? I think that would be nice..

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    Comment #47127573

    For the tech docs writing, just give me the bullet points and I'll send them to the AI and discuss the bullet points with it.

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    Comment #47114360

    I was thinking about the ability of representing different kinds of numbers. Imagine that we had a certain CPU that could process algorithms, and the final output of the algorithm …