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yellowflash
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About yellowflash
Currently co-founder/CTO at Quantman (algorithmic trading).
Interests: type systems, algorithmic information theory, category theory, the mathematical foundations of ML.
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But the training data is "predominantly" human written sentences or even interaction. It's like asking you to use non dominant hand to do something. Won't they do better with human…
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Comment #47655763
Kernel is a bad analogy, if you understand how it behaves you can understand how its built. LLMs don't have that, their behaviour is not completely defined by how they are built. E…
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Comment #47611962
Today I learned, Stockfish moved to neural network on 2023. I knew that it was just a minmax with alpha beta pruning and a really good eval function. Now its not.
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Comment #47276283
Very good question. This is totally dependent on the starting point of the search. The entire domain is not a contraction in such cases, there are sub sets of domains where it is a…
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Comment #47273498
Sorry, can you check now?
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Comment #45350080
I was wondering if I could get a different way of thinking about reasoning machines as such. Reasoning models are trying to just externalize the reasoning through chain of thought …
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Comment #45349868
I am trying to get a better understanding of what reasoning could possibly mean. So far, I am thinking that more we are able to compress knowledge more it's an indicator for reason…
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Comment #34486021
I think observable notebooks like Pluto.jl is something like his vision though not exactly. It's just more general and useful ?
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Comment #32566969
"Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Sudden…
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Comment #32561888
My understanding is rudimentary, but it doesn't alter the system. But it fixes what state the system should have to produce the given observation, retroactively. Which is counterin…
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Comment #32303331
One of them is per family and other per person (family of size 1). Is it even comparable? I am not saying it is lesser, it's pretty high, probably 200% not 560% if I am right.
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Comment #32188137
That's how mongodb geospatial indexes work IIRC
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Comment #32188091
Very interested in your idea. How does concurrent updates work with the augumented trees? I have been thinking about the same for a while something like CouchDB but segment aggrega…
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Comment #31975354
The probability of the `b` being chosen for A is 1 (No other choice) and for B it is 1/2. The probability of `b` being chosen for both (The only common token), is |{(b,b)}| / |{(a,…
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Comment #30486859
It would be Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. That one little chapter on parser combinators was totally worth it. If I can include this functional pearl "A play on regular ex…