joseda-hg (u/joseda-hg)

joseda-hg commented on Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case darkcoding.net/software/p... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

torginus · 10 days ago

I have noticed this too - often when one model volunteered the wrong answer - such as making up a nonexistent API, I asked another, and it gave me the exact same thing! It's highly unlikely that two totally independent models would make up the same fictional thing.

There must be something strange going on (most likely training on each others' wrong outputs, but I dunno)

joseda-hg · 9 days ago

I've been burned by getting a deprecated version of an API Or hallucinated that a method of X library should exist in Y because they're similar

joseda-hg commented on LibreOffice says Microsoft Office exploits you, offers free ODF migration guide neowin.net/news/libreoffi... · Posted by u/bundie

kristopolous · 18 days ago

Interesting. I just searched for "banned from google docs" and some people seem to either be questioning whether it happened to them or if it is possible.

I never considered that possibility.

I guess my other question is word processing programs usually have a target format of paper ... is that how you're still using it?

joseda-hg · 18 days ago

As far as I'm aware it's not banning you from Docs itself, but getting an account nuked for any external reasons (For a random example, Copyright problems on Google Drive or YouTube)

joseda-hg commented on The equality delete problem in Apache Iceberg blog.dataengineerthings.o... · Posted by u/dkgs

icedchai · 21 days ago

Sad but true. Or they learn "something" about SQL but not about indexes, data types, joins, or even aggregate functions. I've seen some python horror shows that would select * entire tables into lists of dicts, only to do the equivalent of a where clause and a couple of sums.

joseda-hg · 20 days ago

Classic, I remember seeing something like this

SELECT * FROM X, into a C# list, Filter it with LINQ, and then use C# to do calculations

"Why not EF?" "Someone told me it was slower"

joseda-hg commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

mrangle · 21 days ago

Are your ideas not good enough to persuade?

joseda-hg · 20 days ago

Good ideas don't have to be persuassive to be good

joseda-hg commented on AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder afterburnout.co/p/ai-prom... · Posted by u/mooreds

ryandrake · a month ago

It's insane that any company would just be OK with "IDK Claude did that" any more than a 2010 version of that company would be OK with "IDK I copy pasted from StackOverflow." Have engineering managers actually drank this Kool-aid to the point where they're actually OK with their direct reports just chucking PRs over the wall that they don't even understand?

joseda-hg · a month ago

I don't think it's common, but I've definitely seen it

I've also seen "Ask ChatGPT if you're doing X right?", and basically signing off whatever it recommends without checking

At this point I'm pretty confident I could trojan horse whatever decision I want from certain people by sending enough screenshots of ChatGPT agreeing with me

joseda-hg commented on HTMX is hard, so let's get it right github.com/BookOfCooks/bl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

withinboredom · a month ago

Are people really reimplementing browser history in JavaScript? Why are people implementing “navigation history”??!!

All of this stuff needs to be stored on the server anyway… otherwise how will you get it back on the page when I switch computers or pull it up on my phone.

joseda-hg · a month ago

Depending of your flavor of SPA framework, Browser History might not work because there's no actual page change

Some will manually push a History entry, but not all

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AngryData · a month ago

Wow it is horrible. I clicked on the link to load it, tabbed back to this comment page and read this comment, went back to the page to see how it was doing and got 99% blank page, scrolled for a solid 10 seconds and just as I was about to come back and say the page is broken for me it popped up a proper scroll bar for a window about 1/3 of my browser size. Scrolled through about 5-6 pages worth of that which still looked broken, then the window finally resized and images started popping in, but it still took another 7 seconds or so for those to load an actual image instead of just a placeholder icon while everything shifted around like mad.

joseda-hg · a month ago

It would appear it waits until it's in focus to load/do certain things

joseda-hg commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp

Waterluvian · a month ago

On the topic of cost per token, is it accurate to represent a token as, ideally, a composable atomic unit of information. But because we’re (often) using English as the encoding format, it can only be as efficient as English can encode the data.

Does this mean that other languages might offer better information density per token? And does this mean that we could invent a language that’s more efficient for these purposes, and something humans (perhaps only those who want a job as a prompt engineer) could be taught?

Kevin speak good? https://youtu.be/_K-L9uhsBLM?si=t3zuEAmspuvmefwz

joseda-hg · a month ago

IIRC, in linguistics there's a hypothesis for "Uniform Information density" languages seem to follow on a human level (Denser languages slow down, sparse languages speed up) so you might have to go for an Artificial encoding, that maps effectively to english

English (And any of the dominant languages that you could use in it's place) work significantly better than other languages purely by having significantly larger bodies of work for the LLM to work from

joseda-hg commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp

ikari_pl · a month ago

I often find Amazon pricing to be vague and cryptic, sometimes there's literally no way to tell ehy, for example, your database cost is fluctuating all the time

joseda-hg · a month ago

Amazon pricing is nice if you compare it to Azure...