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WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime

patrickstevens.co.uk
59 points·by Smaug123·เดือนที่แล้ว·18 comments

Claude knows who you are

patrickstevens.co.uk
4 points·by Smaug123·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·7 comments

Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981)

gwern.net
37 points·by Smaug123·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·7 comments

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Smaug123
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Note that Neel Nanda replicated the results on a Qwen model.
Smaug123
·14 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The model itself, sure; the comment is about the production of more advanced models (to keep open weights near the frontier).
Smaug123
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
By the way, you've seen Cerebras? It's not gone as far as what you described - loads of cores and RAM but you still load up the weights onto it as software and they need to be streamed into the chip for large models - but it is a whole wafer.
Smaug123
·25 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
For what it’s worth, Claude did this without even being asked when I had it implement /dev/urandom in my deterministic dotnet runtime. (Fun fact: if the runtime only ever receives zero bytes from /dev/urandom then it will hang on attempting to initialise System.Random! That was the first way I asked for it to be implemented.)
Smaug123
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Does it have a terse syntax? I main F#, and when I have to work with Python I generally find myself complaining about how verbose it is. (Needing intermediate variables for what should have been a pipeline, the ceremony around parallelism, having to store constructor parameters as object fields, etc.)
Smaug123
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I didn't want to reimplement all the assembly-reading nonsense that comes for free with System.Reflection.Metadata. The `dotnetdll` crate exists but is GPL. Also in F# I can fall back to the CLR for fiddly things I don't want to implement (like the arithmetic opcodes on floats or whatever).
Smaug123
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To answer your question, although I would certainly have preferred you to phrase your comments less insultingly: this project would otherwise never have got to a state where it could find bugs. I am not paid to write this code, and it would have taken far more years than I would have been willing to spend.

It's not actually unheard of for people to pay other entities to build their passion projects. For example, I visited [Eltham Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Palace) last weekend, which was not in fact built entirely by the two Courthaulds who commissioned it.
Smaug123
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I mean, there is a reason the MIT licence contains these words:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND… INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF… FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE…

If you would like a tool built with my organic artisanal human fingers, then I am certainly open to sufficiently large offers of money to build one for you! Alternatively, you can simply not use it if you think it won't fit your needs :)
Smaug123
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I think the Stroop effect ("read these colour names, each written in a different colour") is probably the purest demonstration of this. Humans are trivially prompt-injectable.
Smaug123
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A few years ago, as you say, this was true. Nowadays I guess you just have to bite the bullet that Erdős problems aren’t interesting.
Smaug123
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Something of a passion project. It's going to fail horribly if you try and use it, I'm sure, but it can already do some neat stuff!
Smaug123
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I take a very dim view of slopping out 500kloc and then giving it to unpaid experts to perform the actual work of checking it (confirmed at https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583336-Auto... that this is what they did), especially given the reported incorrectness of the code (https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583336-Auto... or https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583336-Auto... for example).

They say in the Lean Zulip thread that this is actually intentionally a "low quality" release (https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/583336-Auto...); the paper notes that the quality is "inferior to that of expert-written Lean code". Then again, "Our results suggest that formalizing the core textbook infrastructure of modern mathematics is within reach".
Smaug123
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
("If grown, then unpredictable" is unrelated to your apparent attempted refutation "But X is unpredictable and not grown; checkmate".)
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm not, but is it yet possible to use the Vision Pro as a window manager for macOS? I'd totally get one if it were possible to lay out ordinary macOS windows in space rather than being confined to the simulation of a single rectangular screen.
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It’s still not clear to me that humanity was ready for GPT-2! Quite a lot of people claim to hate and fear LLMs. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/one-in-five-britons-think-ai-will... or https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54762-most-americans-say-a... for example.
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
By the way, you might be interested in looking up “blameless post-mortems” and indeed the field of incident response more generally. Modern incident response practice is to treat failures of an individual to do something as problems with the system they were operating in, because humans aren’t designed to be consistent or perfect and therefore shouldn’t be pretended or assumed to be.
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think it's more that the requested information is prominently featured in the article, and indeed is the content of the only graphic in the article below the intro banner.
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> So far, Mythos Preview has found what it estimates are 6,202 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in these projects (out of 23,019 in total, including those it estimates as medium- or low-severity).

> 1,752 of those high- or critical-rated vulnerabilities have now been carefully assessed by one of six independent security research firms, or in a small number of cases by ourselves. Of these, 90.6% (1,587) have proved to be valid true positives, and 62.4% (1,094) were confirmed as either high- or critical-severity. That means that even if Mythos Preview finds no further vulnerabilities, at our current post-triage true-positive rates, it’s on track to have surfaced nearly 3,900 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in open-source code
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I don't think you've addressed the fact that they can do long tasks that aren't in the training set? (And the fact that they're just statistical models isn't very relevant. So am I!)
Smaug123
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Nah - for example, AIXI is so inefficient that it's literally uncomputable, but it is beautiful.