The math involved in LLMs is not complex for anyone that has passed undergrad Calc and Linear Algebra classes. If you know derivatives, the chain rule and some matrix basics you can figure them out with enough studying.

The hard part about LLMs is not the math but the neural net architecture innovations they brought (eg self-attention)

Are you implying that you don’t remember that experience, or that salvia caused you memory issues?

It can if you don’t do a train-test split.

But even if you consider the training set only, having zero loss is definitely a bad sign.

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spaces in rm are a classic one, they’re even mentioned in the Unix-haters handbook

Not excusing Vanguard, but if you’re running Windows then your entire kernel is a blob. If you’re running most linux distros, then your kernel contains blobs for drivers.

There really isn’t a complicated discussion to be had unless you needlessly complicate things. There’s a big difference between having, say, better monitor or headphones in terms of resolution or sound quality vs having a monitor or headphones that add extra features.

It’s like saying that AR glasses that visualize a ball’s trajectory should be allowed in tennis or football because players can already invest in better rackets or shoes.

The detection problem is not unsolvable. First, you can forbid people that are using that monitor from matchmaking. You can find your monitor’s model number using software so that would be trivial. For a more nuanced approach, you can examine players’ reaction times and ban people that got too good too fast.

which is kinda stupid because they have two words for 4 (shi and yon) and only shi sounds like death.

not on my machine! every time someone posts a screenshot with a handwritten font it’s less readable and looks bad

GPLv3 fixes that

Because Arch’s philosophy is being easy to develop, not easy to use

That’s the WM or DE plus the individual programs. An i3 install with the same dofiles will have the same aesthetics on each distro.

And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite

The fact that big companies collect and sell your data is common knowledge now, definitely not something esoteric that only people in privacy-conscious bubbles know of. However, “normal” people refuse to not follow every trend or get inconvenienced.

If 95% of ford owners were satisfied with their black cars, vs 40% for another manufacturer that provides cars in multiple colors, then ford would be the better manufacturer.

Enough for them to believe that they live in a democracy, it seems (and I don’t say that sarcastically).

It’s not like people in liberal democracies have more influence. We can’t choose who runs, and each individual’s vote is negligible. I don’t know the specifics of China’s government, but I suspect they value being able to influence local policy and higher official elections via the Communist Party more than a direct vote on its leader – I would too, honestly.

I’d say that it has confidence in that, but their elections and government are structured in a different way.

The CCP has higher approval rates than western governments and the vast majority of Chinese believe they are living in a democracy. This is confirmed by western studies; latest one I’ve seen was from Harvard.

Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.

Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”

He is coming from a country that suffered terrorist attacks organized by the US (Operation Mongoose), being ready to fire his country’s deterrent weapons if they don’t stop receiving such attacks makes sense to me.