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siboehm

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About siboehm

https://siboehm.com

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    Comment #37338347

    You can achieve close to the same thing using uBlock element zapper, without installing extra plugins. I use the same trick for SO ('Hot Network Questions' darkpattern) and other s…

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    Comment #36038042

    Ha, you're right. I should've used 30,000,000. The answer it gave regarding how to do "ties to even" was still correct though: "Evenness" is decided by the least significant bit of…

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    Comment #36037955

    Nice, that's simple enough! You may want to try talking to it via the API, last time I checked the web UI doesn't accept prompts >4K tokens while GPT-4 via the API has a 8K Token l…

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    Comment #36037792

    Reading your blogpost it wasn't clear to me how you ran your code through GPT-4. Which prompts did you use?

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    Comment #36037690

    1. It can do some reformatting tasks faster than I can do them by hand. Example: Inline FuncA into FuncB . 2. For more complicated tasks it requires good prompting. Example: Tell m…

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    Comment #34259800

    Author here: Seems like a good trick! Though won't this affect shared memory alignment and make me loose those LDS.128 instructions? Or do these not require alignment? There's so l…

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    Comment #31806934

    I had a brief look at your package, and my impression was that it's only changing model training. If this is correct then the format of the model.txt (calling `lgbm.save(model, "mo…

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    Comment #31797056

    I built this decision tree (LightGBM) compiler last summer: https://github.com/siboehm/lleaves It get's you ~10x speedups for batch predictions, more if your model is big. It's not…

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    Comment #31788434

    You can be very worried about the medium-term dangers of AGI even if you believed (which I don't) that consciousness could never arise in a computer system. I think it can be a use…

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    Comment #29381779

    This has always confused me as well. What would be the reason why some adversary would choose to craft an adversarial example and deploy it in the real world versus the much easier…

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    Comment #29315346

    Here's a good review of the research around this problem: https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/ The author concludes (IMO, but you should read it yourself) that while tutoring does have …

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    Comment #28954439

    I've been running a setup with Recoll and https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox for a few months now [1]. Each morning archivebox scrapes all new links that I've put into my (te…

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    Comment #25372629

    In stories like this it's important to consider that returns on R&D for these large pharma companies have recently been getting quite low, 1.8% in 2019 according to [0]. [0] https:…

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    Comment #24860325

    What helped me the most with sticking to SR and Anki over 6 months now was the tip by Michael Nielsen [0] to not use any plugins and to not personalize anything: > I know many peop…

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    Comment #14585900

    Emoji might actually be usefull for quick oversight, but how can you include a reference to an issue for every commit? What if you are just adding more tests?