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euclaise··on Ask HN: What causes Claude's '[mistake] – wait, no [correction]' pattern?
Maybe RL? Just like similar corrections in reasoning traces. You can train non-'thinking' models the same way (though if you're naive about it then you might end up with responses that are similarly rambly), and I'd expect it to have been
euclaise··on What is Plan 9?
There isn't, though you can run it over wasm on it. I tried it a while back with a port of the w2c2 transpiler (https://github.com/euclaise/w2c9/), but something like wazero is a more obvious choice
euclaise··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
This is not exactly propaganda in the typical sense, but it clearly is the case that people successfully edit Wikipedia to further objectives. As an example, the Wikipedia page for Meta-analysis (which isn't even that obscure of a topic) currently contains content that seems to plausibly be trying to promote Suhail Doi's methods, and it seems that it has been like this for a number of years. It cites 5 papers from him, more than anyone else, of which the largest has 297 citations. It has a subsection devoted to his method of meta-analysis, despite it being a rather obscure and rarely used method. There have been additional subsections added over time, which also focus on somewhat obscure areas, but frankly these additions are sketchy in similar ways.

In general, it is not uncommon to come across slantedness issues. Is it completely 100% clear that Doi has come on and maliciously added his papers? Not quite, but good propaganda wouldn't be either, and would actually be far less suspicious-looking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

euclaise··on Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem
Simpler than, but somewhat reminiscent of, Plan 9's windowing system https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/rio
euclaise··on We Run FreeBSD Current at Netflix [video]
Between the official nvidia drivers and Linuxulator, FreeBSD can run CUDA applications, but it's a bit hacky

No other BSDs can

euclaise··on Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length
This one does have attention, it's just chunked into segments of 4096
euclaise··on Pile-T5
A lot of embedding models are built on top of T5's encoder, this offers a new option

The modularity of the enc-dec approach is useful - you can insert additional models in between (e.g. A diffusion model), you can use different encoders for different modalities, etc

euclaise··on Jan: An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs on the desktop
LM studio is closed source, so no
euclaise··on SlashScreen/ricket: An experimental WASM runtime for Plan 9
Neat. I've worked on some similar projects in the past

I have previously ported w2c2 to Plan 9 here: https://github.com/euclaise/w2c9

It ran basic Rust code fine.

I later managed to run C++ code without wasm, by (partially) porting musl and doing some linker hacking here: https://sr.ht/~euclaise/cross9/

euclaise··on Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud
There's a new 7B version that was trained on more tokens, with longer context, and there's now a 14B version that competes with Llama 34B in some benchmarks.
euclaise··on Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16sw4na/qwen_is...
euclaise··on Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
They actually have a performance edge, but they aren't well suited to chat models because you can't do caching of past states like with decoder-only models
euclaise··on Persimmon-8B
That tweet had it backwards, more tokens in tokenizer means that the 16k token context window typically allows for even longer passages than if LLaMA were 16k
euclaise··on Persimmon-8B
phi-1 is a code-specific base model, with further finetuning on top of that. This is a general language base model, not really comparable.
euclaise··on Chinchilla’s death
RWKV also uses some sort of L2-esque regularization, which was supposedly an idea taken from PaLM (although I can't find a source on this point, other than some message in the RWKV discord)
euclaise··on WonderOS
After skimming https://alexanderobenauer.com/articles/os/1/ - I think the items are more like objects than files. Files have a uniform I/O interface, while items seem like they can have unique properties instead of having a uniform interface.
euclaise··on Big vs. small GPU clouds for fine-tuning LLMs
I like runpod, although I've found that I typically have to set NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
euclaise··on Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
Training as GPT vs RNN will give you numerically identical results with RWKV, it's just two ways of computing the same thing. It's trained in GPT-mode because it's cheaper to train that way -- you can parallelize over the sequence length. In practice it isn't going to be any different than training with back-propagation through time for the same sequence length.
euclaise··on Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
> The bitter lesson [1] is going to eventually come for all of these. Eventually we'll figure out how to machine-learn the heuristic rather than hard code it. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) do this implicitly, but we don't yet know how to effectively train RNNs on ultra-deep sequences.

Linear RNNs and RWKV are examples of RNNs on deep sequences:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06349

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048

euclaise··on Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
Important note: They only did experiments up to 32k length
euclaise··on OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
Runit is way more minimal, the difference between them is extreme even on that alone
euclaise··on GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions
The only paper that I could find using an approach with fully separated experts like this is https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03306.pdf
euclaise··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
Here, lobste.rs, mailing lists, and 4chan

The other alternatives don't seem very viable

euclaise··on Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat
GPT-4 with Bing search ability, slightly lobotomized, but free
euclaise··on Intel Announces Aurora GenAI, ChatGPT Competitor with 1T Parameters
Can't be less though, the latency difference between them implies that GPT-4 is significantly larger. This is unlike with PaLM, where latency decreased.
euclaise··on GPT4 Has 1T Parameters
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/3586589.3586709
euclaise··on GPT4 Has 1T Parameters
I don't trust this. The article cites semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...), but semafor states the 1T parameter count without any source.
euclaise··on Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
Perhaps you're thinking of Rob Pike?
euclaise··on Why I Use Old Hardware
I think they're talking about compilation speed
euclaise··on Fuzix OS: Unix for the Z80 and 680x
I'd like to see this ported to TI graphing calculators
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