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If you'll excuse the self-post, here's a blog post on goto with delimited continuations. https://rd.nz/2009/03/goto-in-scala.html It uses an experimental compiler plugin for the Sc…

Seems likely because the article says "Meta’s deal with Google is mainly around artificial intelligence infrastructure, said one of the people".

"The cost-effective nature of AI makes it highly plausible we're moving towards an agent vs agent future." Sounds right. I assume we will all have AI agents triaging our emails try…

Kudos to the dev for coming up with the eye position fixing solution. Building further on this idea, I wonder if instead of changing the image to look at the camera, we could chang…

So it's also vulnerable to a Helicopter Injection Attack?

If you have control of the tokenizer you could make sure it doesn't produce these tokens on user input. I.e. instead of the special " " token, produce something like " " - whatever…

Source with more information: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-on-ARM-is-coming.t...

A few details here: "Recall leverages your personal semantic index, built and stored entirely on your device. Your snapshots are yours; they stay locally on your PC. You can delete…

I can't track down the citation (either Google or DeepMind I think), but I remember reading research from a year or two ago how adding extra languages (French, German) improved Eng…

Related? "Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models" https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758 > Chain-of-thought responses from language models improve perf…

Anyone who enjoyed this, might also like "All the Horses of Iceland". It's a fictional work, but written by a medieval scholar. It's set in the 9th century where a Norse trader tra…

http://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/eleven-magic-words-unlocked

Agree, nesting files with cat >Dockerfile and having a basic bash script seems way nicer than putting all the shell logic on the #! line.

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481 "Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q . One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace A…

Site not loading for me, but probably this: https://nothing.tech/pages/nothing-chats

Just speculating, but perhaps share prices would drop until the returns per dollar invested recovers to the desired level. So it might be like a one off shock to investors who hold…

Supported in Java 10 (and backported to Java 8) since 2018. Not sure about .NET. - "The JVM has been modified to be aware that it is running in a Docker container and will extract …

https://math.stackexchange.com/users/97378/cleo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_auc...

Agreed, it needs to be Android based - the other option would be to implement iOS APIs, but Android would be a lot easier. An analogy would be if you make a browser, to use standar…

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207

A really interesting article! https://thegradient.pub/othello/ "How do these models achieve this kind of performance? Do they merely memorize training data and reread it out loud, …

I'd love them to fund an Android variant or replacement for Android services. Mobile is the other main platform apart from web.

You can run them either for general purpose inference. You can also fine-tune them and get improved performance for specific use cases. It's safe to assume they're worse at every t…

I haven't read the article, but "The Winner's Curse" is an economics concept I'm familiar with. Basically, The Big Insight is that every bidder has an estimate of the value of some…