birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
8d ago
This is why I would run it against a proprietary suite that actually does a bunch of real, fully integrated runtime tests
birb_cromble
8d ago
I'm not an LLM defender here, but I think most Tarantino movies fail this rubric.
I don't know why but that's fucking me upore than it probably should.
birb_cromble
8d ago
But early Americans didn't need to know Latin, and yet apparently that was common enough to be a routine entrance requirement to Harvard and other universities
Honestly this might be part of it. You can't really immerse yourself in Latin without a time machine, but you can get by pretty well if you spend a long time banging on the grammar, which is exactly how we teach most languages today
birb_cromble
8d ago
If LLMs/AI are posed to completely disrupt all the knowledge work, why do we not see it in stocks?
IBM's stock is absolutely shitting the bed at the moment, and roughly corresponds with anthropic claiming they can handle cobol now.
Here's a request. It's not identical to some of the stuff I do at work, but it's close enough that I'd like to see how it goes on 4.6 vs 4.5 and a cheaper plan.
https://github.com/petrandreev/jBPM3
I'd like to see this modernized. You can stick to only the core project for simplicity. That includes, but is not limited to:
- Migrating to Jakarta
- Upgrading to hibernate 7
- Replacing the now-unsupported xml mappings with annotations
- Compiling against java 17, and producing Java 17 bytecode
- Upgrading to JUnit 6
- Finding replacements for dependencies that are completely dead and rewriting the points where they interface with the code.
If you can get all the tests to pass and post the jar + dependencies somewhere, I can run a local test of the output.
birb_cromble
10d ago
Several top level posts have boiled down to posters thinking that the free model one can demo on the LLM's developers website, represents the best that developer is able offer.
But the OP says:
Yes yes, I haven't used every model and every scaffold (some of the systems he discusses are not publicly available at any price).
There is also a quote about the use of frontier models.
This is the second time this week where you have not engaged with the the actual content and delivered this "free models" swipe. What's going on here?
birb_cromble
11d ago
Once you're over 30, you really need to be using a larger mic. By the time you're retirement age, it should be at least ten feet wide.
birb_cromble
11d ago
There are significant costs involved in serving tokens
Both you and @RandomRanger expressed this sentiment, and I'm a little perplexed. When I've noted concerns about the financials of some of these big AI companies, people have assured me that the inference side of things is profitable. Is this a different enough use case that it would be a significant cost, or are you including all the infrastructure necessary for it in this calculation as well?
birb_cromble
12d ago
I'm a huge fan. Looking forward to the new one coming out this year.
birb_cromble
12d ago
If anybody has recommendations for multiplayer cooperative games that can be played in 20 - 40 minute chunks, I'd like to hear them.
Examples include:
- Helldivers 2
- Darktide
- Vermintide
- Jump space (getting a little long)
- Phasmaphobia
Bonus points if you can tell me why it's fun.
What they probably have in mind is government programs where agricultural surplus products were processed into shelf-stable products like powdered eggs and distributed to low-income people.
As somebody who grew up poor, those programs were awesome, and I'd like to see them expanded.
One of the biggest problems with food stamps back in the day was that you could just... sell them. When we stayed in one place long enough to get benefits, my mother would barter food stamps for booze or other ineligible goods. I, on the other hand, would get saltines and mustard for dinner, if we had the money for it. Sometimes I'd just get a big glass of water. The EBT card system probably makes that harder, but not so hard that it doesn't happen.
On the other hand, programs like government cheese were fantastic if you were a hungry kid. It wasn't fungible in the same way food stamps were, so it usually ended up sitting in a big box in the fridge and you could just... eat it if you were hungry. The real, undeniable, fundamental foodness of it acted as an extra guardrail against abuse in a way that is probably impossible with financial assistance
I don't know if it's maximally efficient in the purely utilitarian, ruthless economic way that a lot of people here prefer, but as a hungry kid having real food in the apartment was hard to beat.
birb_cromble
13d ago
As a kid, I loved government cheese. My mom would sell her food stamps, but nobody wanted to buy the cheese, so I got to eat it
birb_cromble
14d ago
Spending to date for this year is $1330 lower than last year at this point.
Month over month spending is slightly higher than last month, which is almost entirely due to gas and junk food when driving back and forth to my father's. I'm not sure what to do about that, exactly. The gas is non-negotiable, and on the way back I'm usually not in a kind of mental state that where I can resist the impulse buy on the way out of the building. I think for now I'm just going to focus on the rest of the week as best I can.
Next month is going to involve some expensive dental work that my insurance is trying to avoid covering, so I'm guessing that my progress will likely get wiped out after that.
birb_cromble
15d ago
Wise Human>Normal Human who's paying attention > LLM > Normal human who's not paying attention > Own opinion > People who give advice on Reddit.
Given the amount of training data that comes from reddit, isn't the output of the LLM going to converge on Reddit-like responses?
birb_cromble
16d ago
Are we talking cap and ball old, or "would need a custom slide cut" old?
I don't see the average mid-level PHB deciding to voluntarily shrink their teams to use AI instead;
Voluntarily is doing a lot of work in that sentence. When the guy who killed Merrill Lynch, a bank that survived the great depression, can walk away with $165 million in compensation, we're at the point where incentive alignment at the top is as close to opaque as you can get.
birb_cromble
16d ago
I'm not 100% sure of the details. Most of what I remember, I remember second hand from old war nerd articles.
birb_cromble
16d ago
I think you'll end up in New Jersey regardless of your choice.
Unless you take a wrong turn, then somehow you'll inexplicably end up in Dundalk.
birb_cromble
16d ago
Fixing it whole assed would require a new stock, or bedding your existing stock with epoxy.
Theoretically you can do that job yourself, but it's messy and hard to recover if you do it wrong. I'd go to a gunsmith, personally. They can check the barrel for problems at the same time.
birb_cromble
16d ago
With the rifle unloaded and safe, see if you can "wiggle" the receiver inside the stock. The design of the 10/22 puts a lot of faith in a single machine screw, and if the inletting isn't tight, you can get a lot of movement that hinders accuracy.
birb_cromble
16d ago
I'm honestly a big fan of holosun for pistols. The reticle is nice if you have bad eyes.
For your 10/22, how's your accuracy? I did a half-assed home "bedding" job using metallic tape around the inside of the receiver inletting on mine, and it took me from two inch groups at 25 yards to quarter sized groups.
birb_cromble
16d ago
For terrorist insurgencies, this means that the main goal of their attacks is actually sending signals. So the point is not to weaken the enemy's military by blowing up their troops and materiel, but rather to message audiences on both sides of the conflict (as well as these in between) that their cause is viable.
One of the best examples that I've seen of this was when the IRA would warn the public ahead of time about impending bombs. Not only did it serve to keep collateral damage down, which fed goodwill, but it also showed that the authorities couldn't do much about it, even when they were forewarned.
birb_cromble
16d ago
Rather, in a split second I imagined myself walking to the car wash; realized that I didn't have my car; and realized that this was a problem.
It's funny you mention that. When reasoning models get it right, they tend to do the same thing.
Did you forget the link?
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