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On the latency of the first request - How is the CFG cached? Is it done at the API Key + schema level? Meaning that for a given API key, the latency penalty for a new schema is onl…

I've read that SFT is good for "leveraging existing knowledge" gained during initial pretraining, and helpful in changing the way that the model responds, but not useful for teachi…

fine tune the chat or base model?

Tough to answer since I've only read the two intro chapters currently available. I'm still in the early stages myself with with Deep Learning but have years of experience with prog…

Books in the little series are all about "learning by doing", and teach using the Socratic method (question/answer). Each concept is introduced with small problems that build upon …

Not sure on relative popularity. If you haven't already, you should try it! Here's why I like it: - Very consistent, easy to keep the whole language in your head - Stable, core rar…

Nothing little about a 450 page book, but still... I have to buy it.

I think the point is that given typical demand, the amount of supply would have been sufficient to not cause meteoric price increases. Demand exploded due to incompetent monetary p…

I'm not sure I understand the point being made here. Are you simply saying that higher rates means a higher monthly payment, and that the amount that prices have fallen is still no…

15 years ago was a different animal because the money largely stayed in the banking sector, as excess reserves. This time, a substantial portion of it was deposited directly into c…

Out of curiosity (not much experience with Actor systems), do these systems solve a different problem than having disparate processes communicate by sticking a distributed message …

I always found it strange that I really like salmon sushi/sashimi, but don't really care for cooked salmon. For some reason cooked salmon tastes too... heavy. I realize that's prob…

The one they built, apparently.

So I guess that means handling SWIFT MT / ISO 20022 messages is a big part of the custom stack?

That's an interesting question... for a lot of fintechs that "wrap" banks in a unified API, if something goes wrong on the app side the bank is not going to be liable. This is a bi…

I understand your concerns, but the alternative (at least in the U.S.) of credit agencies are absolutely abysmal. Despite the privacy concerns it's difficult for me to imagine more…

I think the idea is that once you've been counting long enough, you know the reduction that you need to make intuitively. Of course weight will come back if you revert to old habit…

This is the only correct answer. I've put on, and lost, 25 lbs probably 8+ times in my life (intentionally). I weigh 180 at my heavier end so that's a meaningful percentage for me.…

This is my main qualm with testing as a means of validating understanding. If you truly understand a topic, you will probably pass a test on it. However passing a test most definit…

Jobs.

> You must keep the basic properties of strings in your head. Actually I just call whatever the languages version of len, rest, first, strip, split etc. is and move on. Snark aside…

I'm not sure how the size of a standard library has any bearing on the size and perceived complexity of the language. To me, it's about how many language features/keywords/construc…

I think the idea with Loom is that you won't have to deal with the red/blue pill bifurcation of sync/async code anymore. It's a return to basics where everything is once again a th…

A few years back I was walking along the SF bay down in the marina with a friend when suddenly I heard a "clunk" and felt a splash of water on my legs. Initially I thought some dru…

You get a vote as a shareholder too. I tend to agree that governments on the overall are held far less accountable for their actions than private companies, which will go bankrupt …