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sgrove commented on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424... · Posted by u/martythemaniak

sgrove · 8 months ago

There's a followup study to identify the actual cause of such a surprising outcome https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.19823

The combined use of faithful-chain-of-thought + mechanistic interpretation of LLM output to 1.) diagnose 2.) understand the source of, and 3.) steer the behavior is fascinating.

I'm very glad these folks found such a surprising outcome early on, and it lead to a useful real-world LLM debugging exercise!

sgrove commented on Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model · Posted by u/lcolucci

sid-the-kid · a year ago

That's fair. We just removed the sign-in for HN. Should be live shortly.

Each person gets a dedicated GPU, so we were worried about costs before. But, let' s just go for it.

sgrove · a year ago

I think it's not going well? I keep getting to the start a new call page, it fails, and takes me back to the live page. I assume your servers are on fire, but implementing some messaging would help ("come back later") or even better, a queueing system ("you're N in line") would help a lot.

Really looking forward to trying this out!

sgrove commented on Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs github.com/nathanhleung/p... · Posted by u/18nleung

mubou · a year ago

The fact that the source is so small is wild. I would have expected a huge convoluted parsing library implemented in types.

On the other hand, the fact that this is even possible is more wild. Instead of replacing JS with a proper statically-typed language, we're spending all this effort turning a preprocessor's type system into a turing-complete metalanguage. Pretty soon we'll be able to compile TypeScript entirely using types.

sgrove · a year ago

Or even run doom in TypeScript's type system!

sgrove commented on Fly.io outage – resolved status.flyio.net... · Posted by u/punkpeye

cj · a year ago

I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that there are certain categories of apps that simply “can never go down”

Examples include basically any PaaS, IaaS, or any company that provides a mission-critical service to another company (B2B SaaS).

If you run a basic B2C CRUD app, maybe it’s not a big deal if you service goes down for 5 minutes. Unfortunately there are quite a few categories of companies where downtime simply isn’t tolerated by customers. (I operate a company with a “zero downtime” expectation from customers - it’s no joke, and I would never use any infrastructure abstraction layer other than AWS, GCP or Azure - preferably AWS us-east-1 because, well, if you know the joke…)

sgrove · a year ago

All of your examples have had multiple cases of going down, some for multiple days (2011 AWS was the first really long one I think) - or potentially worse, just deleting all customer data permanently and irretrievably.

Meaning empirically, downtime seems to be tolerated by their customers up to some point?

sgrove commented on Dwarf Fortress – Boatmurdered Part #1 – Intro (2006) lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortr... · Posted by u/Tomte

gloflo · a year ago

Why would want to hear a so wonderfully written story changed into a shallow, awkwardly phrased shadow of itself, read by robot voices in podcaster cadence?

sgrove · a year ago

I asked ChatGPT to rephrase your emotive reply into an expression of personal preference (which I think you were trying to express):

> I feel that transforming such a wonderfully written story into a podcast with robot voices might result in a shallow and awkward rendition that doesn’t capture the essence of the original work.

I can definitely agree with that in the general sense! But I have a long commute, and I thought the content of it would still come through well enough, and I've appreciated it for a few other subjects. It's not as good as having professional voice actors read it out, but it still has some value to folks!

sgrove commented on Dwarf Fortress – Boatmurdered Part #1 – Intro (2006) lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortr... · Posted by u/Tomte

sgrove · a year ago

Does anyone have a pdf of all of the pages together? This seems great to listen to as a NotebookLM podcast on a commute to work on Monday.

Better yet, if someone has already _done_ that Notebook Lm podcast and has a link to it, please share!

sgrove commented on Show HN: ML Blocks – Deploy multimodal AI workflows without code mlblocks.com/... · Posted by u/neilxm

sgrove · 2 years ago

Interesting! Always interesting to see the ideas in the air at the same time!

https://linzumi.com/

Definitely think this sort of idea could become the "serverless" equivalent for ml-using apps. I'm curious what you think re: versioning, consumption from various client languages, observability/monitoring/queueing, etc.? Feels like it could grow into a meaningful platform.