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New comment by IWeldMelons in "New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs"

IWeldMelons — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:32:03 +0000

chemical sensing is still quite good though.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn"

IWeldMelons — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:36:17 +0000

Gain Of Function research is far more pressing, non-hypothetical, issue which may have already caused a major pandemia.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]"

IWeldMelons — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:12:52 +0000

How about NeurVA, NeurTN or NeurOLED?

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:31:45 +0000

"NULL" in fact is a macro, not a part of the language. null (zero pointer) is, and it is explicitly defined in standard, that comparison of two null pointers lead to equality. You example simply won't compile, it is not undefined; the pointers simply are of different type, period.

here what standard says:

"A pointer to void may be converted to or from a pointer to any object type.

Conversion of a null pointer to another pointer type yields a null pointer of that type. Any two null pointers shall compare equal."

therefore, convert any of them or both to void amd compare. you'll get equality.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined"

IWeldMelons — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:22:18 +0000

Cannot find any confirmation to your statement. Otoh "All null pointer values (of compatible typewithin the same address space) are already required to compare equal. " in the limked paper.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:15:14 +0000

You are not being serious at this point. OTOH I find that chatting with LLMs helps me in studying a lot, esp. when I fight over subtle hallucinations.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:40:44 +0000

Not as interactive, not gamified.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:40:15 +0000

No. I meant literally, leaving all the semantincs intact.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:39:21 +0000

As I emphasized, very clearly, that it does not make difference in this very particularly case, I want to stress, nontheless, that the phrasing of the title is misleading; from what you've said yourself, we need to measure bitcoin price in 2010 dollars then, as the title suggests "first time in history", presumingly Bitcoin history. Guess what it is not there yet. It is 80K in 2010 dollars.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:33:25 +0000

LLM hallucinations in fact has a positive side effect too, if you are using them for learning some subject; makes you verify their claims, and finding errors in them is very rewarding.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

IWeldMelons — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:08:50 +0000

Never understood this kind of sensational statements without inflation adjustment. Although does not make difference in this case, but all these claims "X has never been this expensive" often ignore inflation adjustment; render them meaningless.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)"

IWeldMelons — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:15:57 +0000

I think OCaml needs a face lift to make it look like Rust.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood"

IWeldMelons — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:35:56 +0000

ribosomes are not proteins though.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA"

IWeldMelons — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:31:02 +0000

Typical US-centric way of thinking. If your healthcare system is crippled it does not justify making internet mess for everyone else in the world.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Borgo Programming Language"

IWeldMelons — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:27:24 +0000

"tiling"? what do you mean by that?

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA"

IWeldMelons — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:20:10 +0000

If someone is making a brazen statement of being "a bad guy because 80K is not enough, and could not find anything decent for those extra $30K" what kind of treatment would they expect?

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Performance improvement plans are on the rise"

IWeldMelons — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:48:31 +0000

Can you be PIPed, if you are self-employed?

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?"

IWeldMelons — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:29:21 +0000

can technically be patched with ReeactOS's implementation of the functiom.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Arrested and Charged Because My 11yo Was Walking 1 Mile from Home"

IWeldMelons — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:25:33 +0000

Hmm I live in a large Asian city. 11 year olds ride buses and do shopping errands by themselves. A mile a bit of a stretch though unless it is a school trip.

New comment by IWeldMelons in "Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation"

IWeldMelons — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:51:35 +0000

Can relate fedora borked my btrfs twice. I do not use either anymore. Debian+ext4 or Freebsd+zfs depending on purpose.