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whimsicalism

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About whimsicalism

i [care about improving people's lives | research inference on sequences for work] | opinions absolutely my own

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    Comment #49162186

    don't disagree, but there is a big difference between 'quantized model/weights' and quantized activations

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    Comment #49161612

    deflation will just be inflated away, always

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    Comment #49161603

    gpt4o & associated parasociality is considered an alignment failure and is actively trained out of the model, so that is a terrible example of regression

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    Comment #49161595

    is this not essentially what ARC-AGI-3 is? i agree that in-context/continual learning is somewhere the models are still mostly weak at

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    Comment #49161318

    yes, in fact I recall many people on this exact forum saying that AI will not be able to novel work at all. i can link you likely dozens of comments from people wrong about this re…

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    Comment #49160443

    it is very hard for people to eat crow, as the replies will show

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    Comment #49160425

    completely false

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    Comment #49149801

    I actively think the AI poster looks bad and RLHF reveals the poor taste of the general public.

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    Comment #49137393

    what's the zellij plugin?

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    Comment #49090195

    extremely HN comment

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    Comment #49090075

    I don't fully understand what this is supposed to visualize, but at least for my location it tells me I'd have to run considerably far into golden gate park, which I imagine is neg…

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    Comment #49085691

    My understanding is PrEP is also free, but I'm less certain about that post-cuts.

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    Comment #49085442

    I was explicitly referring to PEP. I'm not sure why you would make assumptions about where I have or haven't been when you have absolutely no information. PEP remains largely free …

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    Comment #49085248

    Are you serious? I would bank money on PEP being practically free in sub-saharan Africa.

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    Comment #49072881

    Still more of a tanh than I've seen in years

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    Comment #49072816

    how is 2025 two years ago? GPT-120b is not even close to the biggest recent American release, etc. etc.

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    Comment #49072445

    the longer i read this comment the wronger it gets

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    Comment #49071435

    It's funny that we've finally returned to tanh activation functions, time is a circle.

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    Comment #49071311

    Meta had much higher limits and not restricted merely to token resellers

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    Comment #49071193

    LoRA + SFT, but it'll be big - better to wait for a finetuning API from one of the providers, I wouldn't jump straight to RL or off-policy pseudo-RL like DPO.

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    Comment #49031795

    > Most governments divisions can't even be bothered to update their websites. Testing and forcing a change in their internal procedures for the sake of security seems unlikely. The…

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    Comment #49007961

    I think that is the exact reasoning used wrt to nuclear bombs and it was probably correct

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    Comment #49007957

    Dario has assented to a maybe pause if we can somehow get China to stop developing. I do not think he believes there is an actual way to do so though

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    Comment #48998791

    i think you need to engage seriously with the arguments they (or at least Anthropic) make for why they are building it — they feel that since it now possible, it will be built and …