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bigdict··on Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face
Trainium nvfp4? Sure buddy.
bigdict··on Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face
I'm thinking it's the same model that was used to create the fake, so its "mind" went to the same place probabilistically.
bigdict··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
> the discoveries I’ve made

The title says AI did it.

bigdict··on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
I would! If you are thinking to write one, do it!
bigdict··on Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
But... they are equivalent?
bigdict··on Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function
Was it a controlled study or just correlation?
bigdict··on Five Practical Lessons for Serving Models with Triton Inference Server
Huh? Triton inference server and Triton the kernel language are two distinct, very different things… Is this AI-generated?
bigdict··on LMArena is a cancer on AI
> What actually happens: random Internet users spend two seconds skimming, then click their favorite.

> They're not reading carefully. They're not fact-checking, or even trying.

Uhhh, how was that established?

bigdict··on Matrix Core Programming on AMD CDNA Architecture
cuz area and power
bigdict··on What is a manifold?
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium…
bigdict··on Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
What's the point of the relu in the loss function? Its inputs are nonnegative anyway.
bigdict··on Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
Exactly, it's a natural way to write a college essay. I've never not cringed reading an article/blog post that is structured that way, it comes across very contrived. I've also noticed that LLMs tend to prefer it, and humans tend to avoid it in general.
bigdict··on Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
"delves"

dashes

an explicit "conclusion" section at the end

bigdict··on Notes on Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (2024)
Lisp In Small Pieces
bigdict··on Dinesh’s Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998)
Pairs great with the tale of the Death Valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu....
bigdict··on Emacs dired-mode as a file manager
Once you realize that elisp is a better shell programming language than bash, it ceases to appear insane.
bigdict··on Vision Transformers Need Registers
Has this been used widely since?
bigdict··on Gemma 3 QAT (Quantized Aware Training) 3x less memory
Thank you so much for continuing to support Gemma 3 with these updates.
bigdict··on Gemma 3 QAT (Quantized Aware Training) 3x less memory
Amazing, I've been wishing for this! Do you have any estimates on how much accuracy is first lost then recovered compared to the original bf16 and the naively quantized models?
bigdict··on Multi-Token Attention
Sure, you can get better model performance by throwing more compute at the problem in different places. Does is it improve perf on an isoflop basis?
bigdict··on OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback
Gemma 3 is.
bigdict··on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
* the code is at https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma

* you download the weights at https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma-3/

bigdict··on Open-Sourcing R1 1776
"undo their disgusting propaganda, apply our beautiful correct opinions"

This is so cringe.

bigdict··on Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)
Why is it timely?
bigdict··on How does fentanyl get into the US?
Have you seen the RFK confirmation hearing?
bigdict··on 1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek
You are quoting Wikipedia, not US foreign policy :)
bigdict··on Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
Does it have an entry for what we don't know we don't know?
bigdict··on 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
> What gave you the impression I was assuming bad faith?

You said "I would guess you're not asking a serious question here"

bigdict··on 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
Why are you assuming bad faith?
bigdict··on EmacsConf 2024 Notes
I thought lexical scoping is standard now?
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