apparently you can nerdsnipe an LLM by asking it if there are primes whose digits sum to 9 (the correct answer is “no”) ^^ every single one i’ve tried it on goes crazy trying every single prime it can think of, for some reason they are all convinced such primes must exist
apparently you can nerdsnipe an LLM by asking it if there are primes whose digits sum to 9 (the correct answer is “no”) ^^ every single one i’ve tried it on goes crazy trying every single prime it can think of, for some reason they are all convinced such primes must exist
95% of what we are doing in AI is stuff that's simple enough to explain to a child, made way over-complicated by mathematical-looking notation and unclear thinking. A short rant 🧵 using attention as an example.
i genuinely feel unsafe with the status quo practices in software development
npm/poetry/cargo/whatever install 600 packages by a bunch of randos, and then load that code in a process that can read all my session cookies and signal messages and keypresses
it's BAD
This thread rocks. Fundamentally, I'm an optimist. There are huge problems in the world, but there are also millions of courageous, hardworking people tackling those problems. We do a disservice to the heroes making the world better by pretending that everything is getting worse
The “everything sucks” doomerism of the far left and right is wrong. Worse, it needlessly radicalizes people. Today is better than yesterday and tomorrow is going to be even better. So here’s a list of 50 areas where we're seeing progress. 1/
I was just at Starbucks in SF ordering an iced latte. The cashier asked if I would like to "round up" my purchase to support a local non-profit.
The non-profit was OpenAI.
You often hear about the fatality rate per 100 million or 1 billion passenger miles in transportation statistics, but over the last 15 years, U.S. airlines have averaged less than 1 fatality per passenger *light-year* traveled
There's a gorgeous book called How Computers Work by Ron White and Timothy Edwards that walks step-by-step from electromagnetism and 1-0 to RGB displays, all with LUSCIOUS illustrations. It's one of my top favorite books of all time.
hey tech nerds - here's a question
how many fundamental layers of abstraction are there between the output on my computer monitor and the little tiny on/off 1/0 switches in my computer
The reason why NSA suggests these specific languages is because this is the list of languages they already sneaked their backdoor in so a personal NSA agent can ensure that your program is memory safe in real time.
I see this trap everywhere, and I'm certainly not immune to it. Some kind of bug in our psychology. A lot of humility, curiosity, and willingness to fail is all you can do.
Something I think a lot about is how a salami company moved locations and suddenly all their product sucked. Until they realized a critical part of the curing was some old guy moving the salami between parts in the old factory taking forever. They didn’t actually know the recipe.