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New comment by shrewduser in "Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book"

shrewduser — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:46:44 +0000

maybe if you re wrote it from memory.

New comment by shrewduser in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

shrewduser — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:13:24 +0000

This doesn't surprise me, i find LLM's are really good at interpolating and translating. so if i made up a language and gave it the rules and asked it to translate i wouldn't expect it to be bad at it.

New comment by shrewduser in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

shrewduser — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:00:31 +0000

i wish i could do that in an interview.

New comment by shrewduser in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

shrewduser — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:35:26 +0000

I have very limited experience with llms but i've always thought of it as a compounding errors problem, once you get a small error early on it can compound and go completely off track later.

New comment by shrewduser in "Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world"

shrewduser — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:14:42 +0000

Google make almost all their money from search, an extremely lucrative property, which is under threat from all the new ai players.

So while they have a bunch of cool tech on the possibility horizon the only thing the market cares about is the ability to make money and there's some uncertainty on that front.

New comment by shrewduser in "Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support"

shrewduser — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:43:13 +0000

these are the entry level cards, i imagine the coming higher end variants will have the option of much more ram.

New comment by shrewduser in "Priced out of home ownership"

shrewduser — Mon, 27 May 2024 20:08:54 +0000

Sorry what? Shelter is a necessity for survival.

Is it communism to not allow people to buy up all the water supplies and sell it back to you at an extortionate rate?

The truth about the housing market is that it's not a free market anyway it's controlled by special interests, bad laws, zoning, local nimbys and councils the list goes on.

New comment by shrewduser in "Quake on an FPGA (MRISC32 CPU) [video]"

shrewduser — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:31:04 +0000

surely we could already do 1khz displays with OLED, but i assumed that the bandwidth required to meet that wouldn't be available on any of todays display outputs.

New comment by shrewduser in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

shrewduser — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:05:39 +0000

Any idea why south korea is particularly cost prohibitive? i would assume twitch would be very keen to have a presence there.

New comment by shrewduser in "Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU"

shrewduser — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:37:59 +0000

the license doesn't transfer if the company is bought.

New comment by shrewduser in "Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware"

shrewduser — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:05:59 +0000

> Facebook seems now to be something like the company whose former HQ it inhabits: Xerox PARC.

did you mean sun microsystems?

New comment by shrewduser in "Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%"

shrewduser — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:06:47 +0000

oh i saw this happen to me the other day, i was wondering if it was a new youtube feature or something. can't say i care for it.

New comment by shrewduser in "75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck"

shrewduser — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:41:10 +0000

do you not like it?

New comment by shrewduser in "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok"

shrewduser — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:02:20 +0000

tit for tat is the only way free trade is enforced...

New comment by shrewduser in "Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban"

shrewduser — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:56:46 +0000

so what, we can't ban any apps that allow you to send a message or are considered social in some way?

New comment by shrewduser in "Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Rich"

shrewduser — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:39:33 +0000

In a just world these people would be stripped of everything they own.

New comment by shrewduser in "I wanted to see James Taylor, but didn't know it would cost $5k"

shrewduser — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:04:32 +0000

yeah i was thinking the same thing, at the very least it's not designed with accessibility in mind and could easily trick people who are more vision impaired.

New comment by shrewduser in "An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down"

shrewduser — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:43:37 +0000

i feel like lawyers will be able to legally keep AI out of their field for a while yet. they have the tools at their disposal to do so and a huge incentive.

other fields like journalism not so much.

New comment by shrewduser in "ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location"

shrewduser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:01:02 +0000

The west doesn't just give everyone unlimited market access, especially if it's not reciprocated.

New comment by shrewduser in "ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location"

shrewduser — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:37:18 +0000

it is a national risk but i imagine there's also economic / trade grounds in the fact that china doesn't let american companies compete in their market.

I don't see any reason for it not to be in the purview of government.