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tqian

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    Comment #47117476

    I teach computer science at a public university. Every semester I have kids who come to classes but never turn in any homework. They also don't withdraw either. I'm literally force…

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    Comment #47025470

    Humans make such mistakes slowly . It's much harder to catch the "drift" introduced by LLM because it happens so quickly and silently. By the time you notice something is wrong, it…

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    Comment #46908864

    To borrow a concept of cloud server renting, there's also the factor of overselling. Most open source LLM operators probably oversell quite a bit - they don't scale up resources as…

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    Comment #46565971

    Zed on Linux is buggy as hell. On macos it's somehow more stable. Maybe Zed is indeed a "good" example of Ai-coded products.

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    Comment #46533037

    Bigger than Windows 98

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    Comment #46322163

    Oh junior devs submit PRs that don't fully work all the time.

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    Comment #46270391

    I have this DVD set in my basement. Technically, there are still methods for estimating the probability of unseen ngrams. Backoff (interpolating with lower grams) is an option. You…

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    Comment #46260603

    Thank you for this wonderful answer.

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    Comment #45777876

    If models are profitable once trained, isn't it weird that chatgpt and Claude have $200 tiers that still have usage limits?