Acronyms, shorthand etc. are routinely used on here to refer to US states,universities etc.
For those of us outside the US, its a minor pain of using hacker news. Interestingly, this is the first time I've heard complaint about it and its a non-US university.
One of the backend developers at Anam here, one of the hardest parts of developing this has been monitoring and analytics.
Most off the shelf solutions, or existing platforms heavily skew towards the normal http web service world. However, the bulk of our interactions happen over webrtc in long-running sessions, where the existing solutions for in-depth metrics and monitoring are much less mature and well documented.
Currently we're using influxdb, prometheus, grafana and some hand rolled monitoring code alongside the stats that webrtc offers itself. Would be interested to know how anyone out there is monitoring conversational flows, and webrtc traffic.
Personally been here about 15 years. There are ebbs and flows of different trends, but HN has never been pure tech or science.
My favourite thing about HN has always been it's sprinkling of the "interesting/thought provoking" amongst the more technical or science based e.g.
5 in depth articles about <insert language tech stack etc.>, blog post on seagulls in 1973 east Berlin, philosphical article ruminating on death and coding, Go compiler written in C# etc. etc.
I get the point about self promotion. But fwiw I think this list is quite insightful, and a fun read.
This is pedantry, temperature introduces a degree of randomness (same input different output) to LLM, even outside of that non-deterministic in a security context is generally understood. Words have different meanings depending on the context in which they are used.
Let's not reduce every discussion to semantics, and afford the poster a degree of understanding.
I understand the point that you are making, but the example is only valid with temperature=0.
Altering the temperature parameter introduces randomness by sampling from the probability distribution of possible next tokens rather than always choosing the most likely one. This means the same input can produce different outputs across multiple runs.
So no, not deterministic unless we are being pedantic.
I get that maybe you meant culturally, but Ireland is a member of the EU whereas the UK is no longer. This forces a tighter alignment so makes your point about Ireland redundant.
The UK has continuously been pulled between it's dying imperialist vision of itself as a world power, it's close but conflicted ties with the US, and it's similarly close and conflicted ties with the EU.
For those of us outside the US, its a minor pain of using hacker news. Interestingly, this is the first time I've heard complaint about it and its a non-US university.