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ucha

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About ucha

Quant trader. Former software engineer. Mathematician by training.

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    For a set parameter size, if you benchmark an LLM on a single language, you'd get better results by training it on multiple languages rather than just the one. Scaling quality trai…

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    Comment #49153077

    That's not how LLMs work. If you're talking about number of parameters, you wouldn't be able to reduce the size much by "removing" support for other languages.

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    Comment #48966348

    Why add a middleman when you can ask your own account with /usage?

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    Comment #46068853

    n=56 doesn't give you much information regarding the margin of error, unless you practice Tarot Reader's cat science. The standard deviation of outcomes and the difference between …

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    Comment #44250242

    Can we know for sure that the price drop is accompanied by a change in the model such as quantization? On twitter, some people say that some models perform better at night when the…

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    Comment #43961237

    It needs to not have economic value but it doesn't necessarily need to be useless and wasteful.

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    Comment #43580642

    You can have growing deficits without actually "selling the nation" when you account for growth and inflation. Say foreigners own 50% of US assets. When someone creates in the US a…

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    Comment #42554093

    Does this support the Selfish Gene theory of Richard Dawkins? They look like the smallest self-replicating molecules that he mentions in the beginning of the book.

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    Comment #42543800

    Maybe you're polling the people that wanted to join before 2022? Otherwise, how would the jump in support in 2022 be explained?

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    Comment #41605790

    Koyfin and yCharts do that. You're looking for "total return".

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    Comment #36686601

    Wow this sounds like they trained it on ChatGPT outputs. However I could not reproduce this output.

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    Comment #35661504

    Relevant Matt Levine: "Why Would Anyone Buy Credit Default Swaps on the U.S.?" https://archive.is/r0lI2

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    Comment #35548759

    Thanks for explaining this! It seemed to me that option #1 only applied if you were a fugitive and your whereabouts were unknown, not when you simply leave the state or country. As…

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    Comment #35548285

    The statute of limitation for wire fraud is 5 years. How did he get charged under that statute when he stole funds from Silk Road in 2012? Did they charge him for converting BCH in…

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    Comment #35161238

    I tried playing blind chess against ChatGPT and it pretended it had a model of the chess board but it was all wrong.