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Perhaps only if you can also be very certain that the output is correct whenever the logprobs don't trigger the filter. If that's not the case then it might just trigger bad risk c…

I'm not an expert, either, but I've poked at this a little. From what I've seen, token logprobs are correlated enough with correctness of the answer to serve as a useful signal at …

I'm not sure it's easy to understand what a big change there has been in the perceived pace of computer technology development if you weren't there. I'm typing this on a laptop tha…

Dark matter is not a theory, per se. There are many, many theories that attempt to explain dark matter. Some of them have yet to produce testable hypotheses, others have already be…

Testable hypotheses are at the core of the scientific method, yes. But that's not just limited to the actual testing of hypotheses. All the work that goes into formulating hypothes…

I think that similar arguments were made about Ma Bell and Bell Labs back in the day. And it's true, a lot of great things did come out of Bell Labs. In fact, it almost seems like …

The central premise of the article seems to me to be a likely misunderstanding of the problem. I would bet that a Scrum Product Owner who uses a "command and control" leadership st…

The old chestnut about AI just being a term for things we haven't quite figured out yet might apply here. "Products that are well-known... and are used on a daily basis by a signif…

But do I even want an actually smart Siri? Microsoft's been trying to ram essentially that down my throat for the better part of a year now, and it's mostly convinced me that the a…

Clarke's Third Law is, has always been, and always will be the best explanation for how futurists think about these kinds of things.

Moreover, this is exactly the frustration I've experienced when working with outsourced developers. Which tells me the problem may be fundamental, not a technical one. It's not jus…

It's important to accept that you will screw it up. Repeatedly. Interfaces have to be designed before you can start using them, which means that you will never have less informatio…

Similar experience here. I went to four high schools. The best ones, academically, were the bog-standard schools that people love to use as an easy punching bag. The ones where cla…

My favorite thing I've ever heard said by the principal of our kids' elementary school: "Our test scores are down, which is great, maybe that will keep some of the school shoppers …

It is. But I think that, for that purpose, I like F# even better. Even beyond getting access to the .NET ecosystem, you also get some language design decisions that were specifical…

The ruling's section on transformativeness explains the distinction. Note that "derivative works" under US copyright law works differently from how it gets defined in typical open …

We've also got to think about the actual value of preserving all of these works in a completely indiscriminate manner. Curation is important. Even assuming, for the sake of argumen…

Or at least that's what it amounts to in the information age. When you get down to it, this is just not a good sphere for deontological ethics.

The ruling discusses this starting on page 33. The gist is that they set up a non-transformative service that is substantially equivalent to competing ebook services and CDLs, but …

Something like that, yeah.

That would be an easy mental jump for skilled python users, but I think that it would be surprising for many less experienced users. Just giving it a function call syntax would be …

I'm in both groups and I'm getting tired of how Python's syntax additions increasingly turn it into a mechanism for mid-level engineers to assert their dominance over colleagues by…