What did you use to make the illustrations? It looks nice.
Readit Newsairza commented on Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem tinytpu.com... · Posted by u/evxxan
Before the Nazi's invaded the main guy who advocated for the civil registry which allowed the Nazi's to easily find jewish people went to his grave believing he did nothing wrong in advocating for such a database.
Clearly we all need to be thinking much more deeply on these issues.
I think the hard counterpoint is
- some ways that American government function are patently insane compared to other industrialized countries. Having moved from US to Nl just having one single source of truth about where I live and who I am for all sources of government is much less of a headache in day-to-day life. Mail forwarding, authentication for municipal governments, health insurance, etc, just takes 0% of my life (compared to the pain of authenticating myself separately to every part of the government, sometimes by answering questions about my life trawled from _private_ data aggregation companies
- the lack of a central civil register does not seem to be particularly effective right now in stopping the Us government from terrorizing its citizens. Gathering this data for everyone is certainly more tedious but i think avoiding the dragnet completely for the average member of society is functionally impossible.
It seems fairly obvious that few South Korean students harbor deep anti American sentiment, but many are not clear what shitposts would block entrance to the US.
I'm a staff ML engineer trying to internalize modern GenAI concepts, and wrote this to explain LLM buzzwords (RAG, RLHF, MoE, etc.) through a fantasy metaphor.
It’s a follow-up to two other stories on how LLMs and RAG systems work. Would love feedback from the HN crowd.
Is this article llm generated?
airza commented on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription? · Posted by u/indigodaddy
I use whisper.cpp and it works pretty okay on a mac. Runs locally. Wish i could finetune its vocab.
airza commented on Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy · Posted by u/lakshikag
The difficulty in reporting a bug comes from the friction required to filter the "page doesn't work" with no further explanation reports, or the "my neighbour is a spy for the government and I have proof" reports (real types of reports for a browser company, for example, which surely exist for other places users think that "is" the internet like Facebook).
I agree that reporting bugs can be hard, but the amount of spam that follows an effective open form, of craziness to uselessness, outweighs the useful bug reports.
Having two types of reports: one which is a simple screenshot taker with the ability to draw a circle over what is wrong, and one which is a more detailed report, would be useful.
Some LLM that filters out what is a useless report be a useful report would be good, too.
With all due respect, That is the price you pay for your users doing _free_ software testing for you! We are on the “listen to your users” mecca and you’re complaining that listening to your users is hard and you wish a machine could help you with it.
Engineering blogger's love of parroting the titles of famous papers/articles (unreasonable effectiveness..., all you need is..., ... Considered harmful, etc) has always been lightly annoying to me
It’s just not that common for the same person to have serious engineering chops and writing abilities.
airza commented on Nick Cave's thoughts on a ChatGPT poem (2023) theredhandfiles.com/chat-... · Posted by u/hansmayer
Put more simply, he's saying art is the product of, and the expression of, human emotion and experience.
Suffering just happens to be a common element of that, but it's not essential. Maybe because it most commonly produces good or great art. People generally don't make art about how their love life is perfectly fine, instead they express their experience of devastating heartbreak.
Nike Cave is just one strand of the artistic experience. Contrast say Kraftwerk, whose expression is about feelings of affinity with machines, technology and even interaction with transport infrastructure.
He is absolutely not saying that his songs are borne out of suffering in everyday life. I am losing my mind reading these comments.
The suffering he is talking about here is the frustrations and compromises of the artistic _process_, which llms short circuit entirely
No matter what the work is _about_, any art made by a human is going to encounter this feeling.
I hope that one day we have a tool that can convert any proprietary binary to source code with a single click. It would be so much fun to have an "open source" version of all games. Currently, there are projects like https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic and https://github.com/SFTtech/openage, but these require years of community effort.
Current SOTA models are really bad at RE and i don't really expect this to improve through training on open data.
There are just not a lot of high quality examples on the internet, and more importantly the people writing this code are doing their best to make it actively more difficult.
airza commented on The Atlantic Did Me Dirty cmsthomas.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/makeitdouble
A more accurate title might be "Issues with The Atlantic's framing of student difficulty with lengthy assigned reading"
Relevant gripes:
>> These are all points I made in speaking to and emailing with Horowitch and her fact checkers throughout the summer. [...] Perhaps the most disappointing defeat I observed in the final article was that although I shared my observations of the tireless work of colleagues at the state and national level advocating for intellectual freedom, Horowitch does not acknowledge that culturally, we do not value reading. We ban books, scrutinize classroom libraries, demonize librarians, and demoralize teachers. We pay lip service to the importance of literacy, requiring four years of English and regularly testing literacy skills, but when push comes to shove, we don’t make space for the curiosity and joy that are the foundations of lifelong literacy habits. In truth, we seem to be doggedly fighting against the best interest of a literate populace.
It sure would be a more accurate title, but it wouldn’t be a better one.