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cowsaymoo··on Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
Cheap for now. One day, once the market shares balance out, the cloud spend will increase. Local LLMs may be important to prioritize for code that may be running after multiple subscription cycles into the future.

Edit: oh you best wrote closed-source model whoops

cowsaymoo··on Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route
cognitive behavioral therapy enjoyer:
cowsaymoo··on Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD
Here is their safety and warnings section disclosing that. It's really interesting because of how they're presumably required by law to make a CVS-receipt-length FDA medicine warning but all the dangers are for playing a video game. I think it's pretty cool to see how effective the FDA's procedures are at capturing your concerns, through forcing them to be transparent

# Indications: > EndeavorRx is a digital therapeutic indicated to improve attention function as measured by computer-based testing in children ages 8-17 years old with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD, who have a demonstrated attention issue. Patients who engage with EndeavorRx demonstrate improvements in a digitally assessed measure, Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA®), of sustained and selective attention and may not display benefits in typical behavioral symptoms, such as hyperactivity. EndeavorRx should be considered for use as part of a therapeutic program that may include clinician-directed therapy, medication, and/or educational programs, which further address symptoms of the disorder.

# Safety: > No serious adverse events were reported. Of 342 participants who received AKL-T01 in the two clinical trials supporting EndeavorRx authorization for age ranges 8-17, 17 participants (4.97%) experienced treatment-related adverse events (TE-ADE) (possible, probable, likely). TE-ADEs reported at greater than 1% across the studies include: frustration tolerance decreased (2.34%) and headache (1.17%). Other adverse events occurred less than 1% and included dizziness, emotional disorder, nausea, and aggression. All adverse events were transient and no events led to device discontinuation. Across other studies in children and adolescents with ADHD, rates of adverse events were similarly low (<10%) and no Serious Adverse Events have been reported. All reported adverse events across all clinical trials resolved at the end of treatment. Users should consider the totality of evidence presented along with their health care provider when considering incorporating AKL-T01 into their treatment plan.

# Cautions: > Rx only: Federal law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a licensed health care provider. EndeavorRx should only be used by the patient for whom the prescription was written. For medical questions, please contact your child’s healthcare provider. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, please dial 911. EndeavorRx is not intended to be used as a stand-alone therapeutic and is not a substitution for your child’s medication.

> If your child experiences frustration, emotional reaction, dizziness, nausea, headache, eye-strain, or joint pain while playing EndeavorRx pause the treatment. If the problem persists contact your child’s healthcare provider. If your child experiences a seizure stop the treatment and contact your child’s healthcare provider.

> EndeavorRx may not be appropriate for patients with photo-sensitive epilepsy, color blindness, or physical limitations that restrict use of a mobile device; parents should consult with their child’s healthcare provider.

> Please follow all of your mobile device manufacturer’s instructions for the safe operation of your mobile device. For example, this may include appropriate volume settings, proper battery charging, not operating the device if damaged, and proper device disposal. Contact your mobile device manufacturer for any questions or concerns that pertain to your device.

cowsaymoo··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different
cowsaymoo··on Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
Same, I've been pretty impressed as well and typically give Claude a shot. Sometimes I even pass their results back and forth in an LLM collab so they generate more diverse perspectives. However, this paper from 4 days ago shows that Claude can fall apart quickly in out of distribution tasks. If you ask opposite day questions, GPT-4 is weirdly strong at it (figure 2).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02477

cowsaymoo··on Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
Maybe they will take on that role too one day
cowsaymoo··on Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
Ah bravo! What was the prompt and Claude model?
cowsaymoo··on Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
Now this is truly the programming language that we should be using to benchmark LLM code gen in a private hold out set. There is no substantial datasets on the internet or github, and no documentation except the one provided. And that's all the model should need.

I asked GPT-4 to write a mat mul function, but that was too ambitious and it spit out outrageous nonsense.

To be more fair, I gave it in-context access to the documentation in prompt, along with the fibonacci example function; aka everything humans have access to. I then asked it to do the simpler task of converting a base 10 integer to binary. It was unable to write something error free even after 4 rounds of supplying it the error messages.

I repeated this 5 times in case it generates something grammatical in the Top-K@5.

I suspected there was some confusion it couldn't surmount about string manipulation. So I changed the question to something challenging, yet something that only used function calls, conditional logic, basic math ops, and numbers. First, I asked for an nth root approximator using newton's method. Didn't work. Asked for just the square root. Didn't work. Finally, I asked for a function that prints a student's grade given their integer percentage. Not even.

GPT-4 also persistently hallucinated the keyword BREAKING NEWS, which I think sounds like a pretty good keyword if Tabloid were to ever get error handling.

The spooky part is that the almost all the solutions at face value would get partial credit. They had the right abstract approach, being familiar with reams of example approaches in natural language or programming languages. However, in each case, GPT-4, 4o, Claude all failed to produce something without syntax errors.

I suspect this is the case because transformers do subgraph matching, and while on one end there are rich internal connections for all the problems I requested, on the other end there is nothing similar enough for it to even get a foothold, hence the biggest struggle being syntax. If the only barrier to executing Tabloid code (or other unseen languages) is more basic syntax training, then it excitingly suggests it just needs to learn the abstract concepts from leetcode scrapes once for every syntax it knows. Prior research has shown that grammar is easy for language models. When GPT-2 was made large enough, it went from babbling to grammatical sentences very early in it's training, and at that moment its loss plummeted.

All tests conducted in temporary data mode so that this eval stays dark.

cowsaymoo··on Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
Right, they never claimed to have found a roadmap to AGI, they just found a cool geometric tool to describe how LLMs reason through approximation. Sounds like a handy tool if you want to discover things about approximation or generalization.
cowsaymoo··on Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
The vocabulary used here doesn't have sufficient intrinsic dimension to partition the input into a low loss prediction. Improvement is promising with larger context or denser attention.
cowsaymoo··on Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue
Here is a more extensive font resource (and awesome website): https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
cowsaymoo··on Entropy, a CLI that scans files to find high entropy lines (might be secrets)
I transcend this problem by making all my database passwords 'abcd'
cowsaymoo··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
maybe they are saying patents are territorial, and not always respected
cowsaymoo··on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
Lool like each post you scroll desaturates the screen by 2%
cowsaymoo··on Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
That would probably require an active monitoring and notification system outside of the extension, maybe using a flight tracker api. It could be an added option at the purchase screen. At a minimum I may add this disclaimer here.
cowsaymoo··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
One idea could be the product launch dev day, which is something that originally was a point of tension (overcommercialization vs research). Launching GPT-4o at a dev day basically asserts Sam is picking up no compromise on where they were 6mo ago. Good time to finally leave if protesting that is what he believes in.
cowsaymoo··on Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
Somehow another disastrous news cycle for Boeing. Any feature suggestions for my new extension that highlights MAX routes on Google Flights?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/iabbdbcbohcifefhimd...

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