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yujzgzc commented on Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie   alexharri.com/blog/icelan... · Posted by u/alexharri
tomsmeding · a month ago
The article describes that a government body is using this library to generate indictments. In that situation, you do not want something that is mostly usually correct. Indeed, they asked the author for a strict version that does not try to guess the declension of unknown names based on their suffix, presumably so that they can just not decline them, which is better than picking the wrong declension 0.05% of the time.
yujzgzc · 25 days ago
By the author's own evaluation the solution proposed is not always correct either. The real danger would be the LLM hallucinating a different name altogether.
yujzgzc commented on Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie   alexharri.com/blog/icelan... · Posted by u/alexharri
yujzgzc · a month ago
Valiant effort at old-school engineering applied to a niche problem. (Iceland has a population of only around 400,000 people!) As much as I love the geekery of this stuff though, isn't it already a better ROI to get an LLM to generate the strings you need? It has its own other problems (not claiming it'll be perfect) but for something so language related, it makes a lot of sense. Would also work for other languages that have the same problem with declension of proper nouns like Russian or Finnish.
yujzgzc commented on Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left   medium.com/@gabiteodoru/w... · Posted by u/gabiteodoru
anonzzzies · 2 months ago
Once you get used to it, traditional ways look tedious and annoying to me. I think the power is in 'once you get used to it'. That will keep out most people. See python llm implementations vs k ones as a novice and you will see verbose unreadable stuff vs line noise. When you learn the math you see verbose code where the verbose code adds nothing at all vs exactly what you would write if you could.
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
I mean, I got used to RPN and think that's the utmost bestest way to write. Objectively it's not as usable. Learnability is a part of usability
yujzgzc commented on Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left   medium.com/@gabiteodoru/w... · Posted by u/gabiteodoru
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
Humans can't either? I think if this convention had been more usable form of programming, we'd know by now
yujzgzc commented on How to Network as an Introvert   aginfer.bearblog.dev/how-... · Posted by u/agcat
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
Man I would hate to run into the person parroting my words at a party
yujzgzc commented on The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine   amusingplanet.com/2025/06... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
> Jumping Frenchman syndrome is not a medical condition or a case of collective hysteria, but a classic case of operant conditioning —a learned behaviour reinforced by social stimuli—that developed in a closed community.

Sounds like religion

yujzgzc commented on We Can Just Measure Things   lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/1... · Posted by u/tosh
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
Another, related benefit of LLMs in this situation is that we can observe their hallucinations and use them for design. I've come up with a couple situations where I saw Copilot hallucinate a method, and I agreed that that method should've been there. It helps confirm whether the naming of things makes sense too.

What's ironic about this is that the very things that TFA points out are needed for success (test coverage, debuggability, a way to run locally etc) are exactly the things that typical LLMs themselves lack.

yujzgzc commented on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it   philmckinney.substack.com... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
yujzgzc · 2 months ago
My dude such systemic problems can't be attributed to you being out of office. If a hurricane had hit hp headquarters you'd have been just about as responsible. Board made a decision, CEO made decisions, were they wrong? Possibly. What can one man do about it? Not much honestly, unless you own the shares.
yujzgzc commented on Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints   cell.com/current-biology/... · Posted by u/srameshc
boomlinde · 3 months ago
Can't wait for my phone to identify me by making an impulse response recording of my nose so I can convince it that I'm me at 6 in the morning.
yujzgzc · 3 months ago
They demonstrated it on a 24h recording, not likely applicable for phone unlock...
yujzgzc commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts   fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
tecleandor · 3 months ago
Not at all. Useful or not, LLMs will almost never say "I don't know". They'll happily call a function to a library that never existed. They'll tell you "Incredible idea! You're on the correct path! And you can easily do that with so and so software", and you'll be like "wait what, that software doesn't do that", and they'll answer "Ah, yeah, you're right, of course."
yujzgzc · 3 months ago
No there are many techniques now to curb hallucinations. Not perfect but no longer so egregiously overconfident.

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