vrighter

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

yes they can. I regularly do. Regexes aren't hard to write, their logic is quite simple. They're hard to read, yes, but they are almost always one-offs (ex, substitutions in nvim).

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

1% slowdown is pretty bad. You'd still do better just not using it. 19% is huge!

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

no, they aren't processing high quality data from multiple sources. They're giving you a statistical average of that data. They will always be wrong by nature. Hallucinations cannot be eliminated. Anyone saying otherwise (irrelevant of how rich they are) is bullshitting.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

python is a language explicitly designed to resist any form of proper optimization. It just can't be made fast

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

yep. you could of course swap weights in and out, but that would slow things down to a crawl. So they get lots of vram (edit: for example, an H100 has 80gb of vram)

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

that's why they need huge datacenters and thousands of GPUs. And, pretty soon, dedicated power plants. It is insane just how wasteful this all is.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

yes, but that doesn't help if the software refuses to run on modern java

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

i wasn't born yet. I don't even think half of me was in my dad's balls yet

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

imagine that to type one letter, you need to manually read all unicode code points several thousand times. When you're done, you select one letter to type.

Then you start rereading all unicode code points again for thousands of times again, for the next letter.

That's how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

funny how everyone who wants to write a new browser (except the ladybird guys) always skimp on writing the actual browser part

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

ai chip demand explodes amongst manufacturers of crap who hope that demand for ai chips amongst consumers somehow explodes too

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

in yes/no type questions, 50% success rate is the absolute worst one can do. Any worse and you're just giving an inverted correct answer more than half the time

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