I would add to make it streamable or at least allow to be read remotely efficiently.
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adelpozo commented on Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit lesswrong.com/posts/4mvph... · Posted by u/paulpauper
My mom told me yesterday that Paul Newman had massive problems with alcohol. I was somewhat skeptical, so this morning I asked ChatGPT a very simple question:
"Is Paul Newman known for having had problems with alcohol?"
All of the models up to o3-mini-high told me he had no known problems. Here's o3-mini-high's response:
"Paul Newman is not widely known for having had problems with alcohol. While he portrayed characters who sometimes dealt with personal struggles on screen, his personal life and public image were more focused on his celebrated acting career, philanthropic work, and passion for auto racing rather than any issues with alcohol. There is no substantial or widely reported evidence in reputable biographies or interviews that indicates he struggled with alcohol abuse."
There is plenty of evidence online that he struggled a lot with alcohol, including testimony from his long-time wife Joanne Woodward.
I sent my mom the ChatGPT reply and in five minutes she found an authoritative source to back her argument [1].
I use ChatGPT for many tasks every day, but I couldn't fathom that it would get so wrong something so simple.
Lesson(s) learned... Including not doubting my mother's movie trivia knowledge.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/who-paul-newma...
I can’t reproduce. Maybe others reported the error and someone adjusted the expected answer, I do not know enough about OpenAI operations to say for sure.
The reason this bothers me is that comments like this reinforce the believes of people that could otherwise find value in these tools.
But I think points like this would be better made in shared chats or screenshots, since we do not have something like a core dump or stacktrace to attach.
And while I am not saying OP did this, I have seen technically skilled engineers asserting/implying that llm/chatbots aren’t good or not useful to them look at their chat log that a multitude of topics that I am sure would impact the result of the query.
Yes. It can be an UX problem. Yes. It can be an algorithmc problem. But they are just tools that can be used wrong and not a perfect mechanical brain.
adelpozo commented on Some terminal frustrations jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/s... · Posted by u/aragilar
I think I remember swyx had compiled some thoughts on CLIs: https://github.com/swyxio/cli-cheatsheet. I particularly liked this part, where it starts by collecting examples of CLI apps like by the the authors: https://clig.dev/#the-basics.
Beyond that, I am enjoying a little bit too much customizing Fish, bobthefish, FZF, and replacements for established CLI apps (e.g., find/fd). I spend too much time asking Claude how to do various things. And I am the happiest with my current setup—until I have to SSH into the barren lands of a production host.
adelpozo commented on Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure github.com/desgeeko/pdfsy... · Posted by u/desgeeko
it does not have any dependency to a pdf parsing library, correct? That's a cool way to learn to file format and be able to work around weird pdf file.
But what was the motivation to not use a library to do the pdf parsing work? is it the case that there is none available? Nice work!
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adelpozo commented on New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs venturebeat.com/ai/new-ll... · Posted by u/hochmartinez
Space-based solar power contains little intrinsic advantage that we can get “only from space.” It looks like a wash at best, and the astronomers would say “don’t bother.”
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/03/space-based-solar-power/
Yeah, but what I found thought provoking is what if you send the solar panels and the datacenter as well for training. No need to transmission of power down to earth. I guess then it becomes a heat dissipation and hardware upgrade and maintenance. But again, thought provoking.
TeX/LaTex has revolutionized technical publishing, enabling the easy (and free) typesetting of very complex documents. Its strange to cast it as "jargon and style canon" and does not help the rest of your argument.
And you are 100% right but I do not think the point is against LaTex. But I am willing to bet money that after seeing thousands of pdfs formatted for icml/cvpr/nips, a reviewer would have an unconscious bias towards a pdf printed from msword or markdown. That's just a group thing and not that unexpected.
adelpozo commented on New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs venturebeat.com/ai/new-ll... · Posted by u/hochmartinez
Nobody is building nuclear power plants for data centres. A few people have signed some paperwork saying that they would buy electricity from new nuclear plants if they could deliver it at a certain price, a price mind you that has not been done before. Others are trying to restart an existing reactor at three mile island (a thing that has never been done before, and likely won't be done now since the reactor was shut down due to being too expensive to run).
And certainly nobody is building one in the next 3-4 years; they'd be lucky to finish the paperwork in that time.
What is actually going to power them is solar, wind, and batteries: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24317888/googles-data-ce...
Or solar in space, which some have already heard of Lumen Orbit https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumen-orbit