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Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

arxiv.org
2 points·by wesammikhail·3 miesiące temu·0 comments

Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects

promotestartup.com
29 points·by wesammikhail·4 miesiące temu·9 comments

Show HN: I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image

snip2img.com
8 points·by wesammikhail·4 miesiące temu·2 comments

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wesammikhail
·4 dni temu·discuss
It's been working for tens of thousands of years. What changed in the last few decades wasn't parenting or technology. It was the rise of the nanny state where the parents gave up the parenting of their kids and entrusted that to educational institutions instead.
wesammikhail
·4 dni temu·discuss
Funny you bring this up.

Back in the day when I was like 15 and DC++ was still a thing, I used to browse people's shared folders. One day I came across a file called "the paradox of false positive". It was a 1 pager that described how a machine which is 99.9% accurate at identifying terrorists would be completely useless due to this false positive base rate fallacy you're describing.

It really stuck with me throughout the years. It's kind o remarkable how even a 99.9% accurate heuristic is insufficient at scale.

Which begs the question: lets assume the intentions are pure (which we know they're not but lets be generous), what other options are there when 99.9% heuristic is not good enough? how do you design systems when they're guaranteed to fail as they scale up?

edit: and what do you know, I just saw this as I scrolled down on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816959
wesammikhail
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
if("false" === true) echo "PHP sucks";

else echo "You're full of shit!";

// output

> You're full of shit!
wesammikhail
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Been using PHP for 20 years and have built multiple startups with it that went from ideas to exits.

Today's PHP is better than it has ever been. Are there some things that are rough around the edges? yes ofc. But there is no language that doesn't have that. It's all trade-offs.

Last week I switched from Nginx+FPM to FrankenPHP and my god even the deployment experience got 10x better.

Safe to say that if you haven't tried the language, give it a shot. Within a few days you'll know if it's a good fit for you or not!
wesammikhail
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I dont know what it is with products names these days. Antigravity, Antimatter, Composer, Clay, Ramp, Bolt, etc.

You'd think the founders would Google for naming conflict before choosing a name.
wesammikhail
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Models consume more tokens than ever for the same tasks.
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
you'd be surprised how good small models have gotten. Size of the model isnt all that matters.
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I've seen sources like this before. It's all hearsay and promo. I was asking for any publicly available verifiable information regarding the cost of inference at scale. I haven't seen any such info personally which is why I asked.

I'm dying to see S-1 filing for Anthropic or OpenAI. I don't actually think inference is as cheap as people say if you consider the total cost (hardware, energy, capex, etc)
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
“people start with a k8s cluster for 5 users” doesn’t really exist

Most people in the BiP these days barely know how to deploy a database or host something using nginx. it's all vercel, supabase, aws, clerk, yada yada. Cost aside, I think that people are addicted to complexity.
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
source?
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
One of the stipulations is that OpenAI achieves "AGI"... Need I say more?

Also a lot of this "money" is in cloud compute and credits not cash so...
wesammikhail
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Pick a few each day and go from there. Easy as that.
wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
You're welcome. And yes indeed it does
wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
you're welcome :)
wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
put in a shot of tequila in it. that ought to get you to perk up real nice.
wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I post some stuff on social media like code snippets and some markdown instructions. Most platforms have terrible support for rich formatting. So I decided to do it this way instead. I can now just post screenshots.

Also, when creating technical docs and presentations, this turned out to be super helpful.

Just a fun side project I figured others might find useful!
wesammikhail
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
The is the most totalitarian bullshit I've ever heard on HN. The fact that you're okay with another human, just because they have a robe, to compel you to do as they ask OR rot away without a conviction is utter madness.

Imagine if this was the 1500s and the man in the robe was a priest. Would you be okay with that? and if your answer is some form of distinction without a difference argument, I'd urge you to not even reply.