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Before getting further into the article I thought maybe he was going to show how to use the plotter to control the oil smearing technique, which honestly would have been kind of co…

> Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Pretty bang on description actually. As a 46 yo, sometimes I can't believe I have actual m…

One of the unexpected pleasures of having a 3 year old has been learning far more than I ever planned to about steam locomotives. It turns out steam engineering is fascinating, thi…

Agreed. I've noticed this happens without fail in any project driven primarily by "tickets" and "sprints". Finishing the immediate task ends up taking precedence over future concer…

"boost research careers".. seems like a pretty drastic conclusion to draw based on a technology that has existed for like 3 years and only lately is any good..

I can sympathize, the Spanish naming system makes things legitimately complicated sometimes. My wife has a Spanish style name Firstname(s) Fathername Mothername. But very very ofte…

You're of course right but I can't help but point out one thing.. > but c'mon: tomatoes originated in the Americas! Yes . But they were brought to Europe like right after Columbus …

> The primary goal of this is support for old/obscure hardware with no LLVM/GCC support. If you're going to go to all this effort for an old target though, wouldn't the effort be b…

is it strictly necessary to use different models or can you get similar results by doing the same thing but just using eg Codex in different agents & persona? curious if you've com…

if you don't like the article that's fine, but it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post. people use LLMs for writing. we know! ge…

You can talk all you want about generalization and reasoning ability and AGI, but the fact is that it's also useful simply as a really user friendly database. Even if it's only abl…

Not everything is about making money. Also I don't get the impression the idea is intended for "most musicians".

> It's wildly better at tight and limited scope than large scale changes but even then I would rather code it myself. One thing I would like to see is the use of LLMs for smarter s…

Recently I got interested in how to "compile" a program definition into the weights of a Transformer. I settled for distilling the MLPs individually, but the attention weights are …

you gave me the idea of using it to explore weird random scifi ideas, ended up spending way too much time clicking through details about the role of astrophage in the development o…

Wow, love this idea.

That was a fascinating read! Thanks for the link.

This reminds me a lot of the tricks to turn BERT into a generative model. I guess the causal masking that keeps it to essentially be autoregressive is an important difference thoug…

Because the nature of transformers is that running a bunch of pregenerated tokens through them is a parallel operation, not autoregressive. That's how it works at training time, bu…

Consider also that even reattaching nerves that are supposed to be there is not exactly a walk in the park. Look into finger reattachment surgery and post operation care. Think pai…

> "Redefine" is a favorite word of AI. Honestly no need to read further. You're not wrong, but it certainly is an annoying outcome of AI that we're not allowed to use.. words.. any…

> Should you be counting on confusion of an underpowered text-merge to catch such problems? This does not really follow from my statement. I said that underpowered text merge shoul…

Is it a good thing to have merges that never fail? Often a merge failure indicates a semantic conflict, not just "two changes in the same place". You want to be aware of and forced…

Something I want to add to the discussion is that the only time I've encountered this was not with a specific company but with an "AI recruitment agency", which I'm seeing getting …