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ptd commented on Large Language Model Course   github.com/mlabonne/llm-c... · Posted by u/T-A
ptd · 2 years ago
Thank you for sharing! I'm getting started on a Learn in Public journey about LLMs using LLMs on lower end hardware and this will be a great resource.
ptd commented on Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning   github.com/unslothai/unsl... · Posted by u/danielhanchen
danielhanchen · 2 years ago
Interesting!! I'll talk with my brother about this - sounds very cool!
ptd · 2 years ago
Hey Daniel, I would love to help out on this. I'm learning about LLMs and this benchmarking project sounds like a fun way to further my knowledge and skills. I sent you a message on LinkedIn.

Cheers!

ptd commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus   apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece
quitit · 2 years ago
I feel that's not a reasonable comparison, filming something with a camera versus wearing a headset.

While I agree that holding up a phone in front of your face presents some degree of being disconnected from the action, I feel wearing a headset where one's entire view of the scene is a computed feed via cameras is totally disconnected.

So I do still agree that it wasn't a reasonable suggestion that people would be filming important life events while wearing their APV headset.

ptd · 2 years ago
Just out of curiosity-how old are you? This pushback reminds me of teachers trying to fight phones in the classroom.
ptd commented on Someone asked an autonomous AI to 'destroy humanity'   vice.com/en/article/93kw7... · Posted by u/dp-hackernews
morkalork · 3 years ago
I'm curious about what happens after. Humanity has been wiped out and the AI is left alone along with the remains of the natural ecosystem, what does it want to do next?
ptd · 3 years ago
Reverse entropy?
ptd commented on What it feels like to work in AI right now   robotic.substack.com/p/be... · Posted by u/pps
onion2k · 3 years ago
That's very cool, and right now it's a good idea, but I strongly suspect GPT only looks clever and does a good job in isolation. If everyone starts using it product announcements will start looking very similar, and they'll lose a lot of their impact.

This is definitely the case with cover letters for jib applications. The ones written by GPT appear to be pretty obvious - my guesses could be wrong, but after seeing most applications not having a cover letter for years to most applications having one over the past few months, I suspect GPT is involved, and there's a distinct 'style' that seems to be showing up.

Using GPT could be the 'bootstrap ui' of product announcements. It looks great on its own, but put it next to a bunch of other companies and they all fail to stand out.

ptd · 3 years ago
Question for you-given two identical candidates: One who does not submit a cover letter and one who submits a cover letter that was clearly written by chatgpt—which candidate would you rather interview?

On one hand the duplicities involved with writing a chatgpt cover letter seem to be concerning in a new hire. On the other hand, it shows resourcefulness and going above the line.

I’m tempted to say I’d prefer the gpt cover letter candidate, simply to talk to them about how they got the idea and how they executed, but I’m curious if you feel the same way.

ptd commented on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children   scratch.mit.edu/about... · Posted by u/khochesh_kushat
insane_dreamer · 3 years ago
Good question. She actually got a degree in chemical engineering not CS, but then switched over to fulltime software dev at her company a couple of years out of school as she liked that more -- so yeah, I would say so.
ptd · 3 years ago
Awesome! Glad to hear things worked out.
ptd commented on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children   scratch.mit.edu/about... · Posted by u/khochesh_kushat
insane_dreamer · 3 years ago
My favorite language for teaching kids to code and which I taught my daughter starting around 9 or 10, is Ruby. Expressive syntax, easy to read, good introduction to objects. Her first real program was a treasure hunt game in the terminal, using classes, inheritance, methods, and conditionals, etc.

It didn't have the cute graphics side of things, but she learned all the concepts well (she now has a degree in engineering and being paid to write code)

ptd · 3 years ago
Does she like her job? I only ask because you specified comp in a way that suggested that is what is most important to you(and her).
ptd commented on Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021)   lwn.net/Articles/867158/... · Posted by u/marcodiego
nyolfen · 4 years ago
> You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.
ptd · 4 years ago
I think this falls squarely into daydreaming about how to stop a home invasion territory.
ptd commented on Update about the October 4th outage   engineering.fb.com/2021/1... · Posted by u/ve55
0xy · 4 years ago
Knowing almost nothing about networking, isn't the way Facebook handles networking somewhat of a monolithic anti-pattern? Why is a single update responsible for taking out multiple services and why wouldn't each product or even each region within each product have their own routes, for resiliency which can then be used to rollout changes slower?

By having a large centralized and monolithic system, aren't they guaranteeing that mistakes cause huge splash damage and don't separate concerns?

ptd · 4 years ago
One might argue that the fact that you care about things like this is why you don’t run Facebook.
ptd commented on The Anxiety of Influencers   harpers.org/archive/2021/... · Posted by u/acabal
seibelj · 5 years ago
I would argue you should make a new family. People who eschew the concept of family live a less fulfilling life IMO.
ptd · 5 years ago
You’re being asked to consider the possibility that your family experiences have influenced this view. Not that you are incorrect, or even correct, the parent statement is simply saying you hold this belief because if you’re experiences.

u/ptd

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