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philovivero

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About philovivero

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48742047

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    Comment #48419142

    SRE. "You ship it, you take the pager. Once it's stable, then SRE org will take the feature. If it gets unstable again, SRE will hand it back." If someone vibe codes something, and…

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    Comment #48419073

    Weird. I had LLM (Claude) work with OTF to generate an entire infrastructure HCL (from existing). It built a very nice project that seemed idiomatic from my experience. Then used i…

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    Comment #48022214

    Yeah. HN is a bubble. Hollywood has an axe to grind, and it's not a good one, but HN ideology is in-line with Hollywood ideology.

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    Comment #48022175

    I don't know about theatres, but I do know about hotel rooms. If you lower the price too much, you get a different sort of clientele. The sort of person who wrecks the place and an…

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    Comment #38317532

    Who grey-texted this comment? So confused who could disagree with it. Is that the problem, this comment is so obviously true, it's just redundant?

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    Comment #38317511

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    Comment #37069664

    I'm assuming this is a joke of some sort?

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    Comment #36867652

    But correlation is correlation. At least, for most people's definitions of the word.

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    Comment #36788319

    Running a model isn't binary, it's per amount of time spent generating tokens.

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    Comment #36788172

    First, I am also frustrated by companies trying to prevent unauthorised used. But second, the reasons are: (1) For AI company, someone publishing: "I asked the model a question abo…

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    Comment #36775133

    Start searching SuperHOT and RoPE together. 8k-32k context length on regular old Llama models that were originally intended to only have 2k context lengths.

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    Comment #36680837

    > While many software problems can cause you to lose money, engineering problems can cause you to lose time. I'm guessing you were trying to say something else here. I literally ca…

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    Comment #36675218

    Someone else posted this down in the bottom of a comment thread somewhere, but I think it deserves to be at the top level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw3aKbw5Wo This is a sma…

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    Comment #36397136

    > Both of those are systems which had to work right. Large language models are not even close to being safe to use in such applications. Until LLMs report "don't know" instead of h…

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    Comment #36316494

    Replying to self to answer thread questioners. No. Owen was the engineering powerhouse. Kevin was the PR front-man (the pretty face). Ron (Gorodetzsky) was the DevOps mastermind. W…

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    Comment #36217432

    Some of the most hilarity I've ever seen was asking various 7B models: "How old is a child who was born 9 years ago?" Paragraphs and paragraphs of complex calculations, ending up w…

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    Comment #36217321

    I wasn't a Digg founder, but I worked with them from the earliest days on Digg until its downfall. The real story is probably way more interesting than anyone really would guess. I…

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    Comment #35326926

    I really wish I could figure out the formula. I have had so many shirts that I wear for a year or two, then they're dead. But there's this one shirt I bought back in 1999 that stil…

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    Comment #33909180

    "Scott free" is way too strong. Like, a whole extra T strong. It should be scot free. All that said, I'm not sure how this will play out. He cozied up to the right people, but so d…

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    Comment #33800633

    No-one believes in the right of the individual overruling all else. I'm not sure how you are coming to that conclusion. If you offend all of society (or more realistically, most of…

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    Comment #33800412

    No-one believes either of those things. You should familiarise yourself with the arguments and beliefs of people outside your ideological bubble. To be charitable, I suppose what y…

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    Comment #33098779

    We are in a recession. Unless the redefinition of the word is successful, and there's a strong push to redefine the word. So you're going to see some confusion on this topic until …

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    Comment #32870997

    Nothing. Dealers know to check the owner button. Whenever I'm buying something on CL, like say a car, I always ask the person who answers the phone: "I'm calling about the car. Tel…

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    Comment #32178032

    > Nothing discovered since the 70s compares to the advances in science and technology made in the first half of the twentieth century. Not buying that in the slightest. Reusable ro…