LLM

FUCK THIS SHIT! No, really. It just hallucinated a non-existent package, with such a confidence lmao Yes, yes, I know, it cannot know anything about “existence”, but at least these dorks do not “deserve” the exuberant money they got paid. Uniform Code Block Rendering in Eww and Shr To get syntax highlighting in eww and shr, you need to use a package that intercepts <code> and <pre> tags and applies Emacs’s built-in font-locking. The eww-code-blocks-mode is a good choice for this. ...

Oh, look DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC (codeforces.com) So, a model memorized a lot more of a convoluted stuff and been able to spit out a coherent code. While this is absolutely amazing considering that it works at the level of syntax, and that its “representation” captures only “possible relations among tokens” and posses no “understanding”, thinking leave alone reasoning capacities whatsoever. It just picks up one of the few next most probable tokens, given the previous “context” (a sequence of tokens “so far”). ...

Have you ever seen the real complexity of the outside world, a glimpse of how overwhelmingly complex everything is? Let me show you something. Recently, I stumbled upon yet another post on /biz/ about some guy bragging about “finally made it” with a shitcoin. The attached screenshots show the chart of HiFi shitcoin (or whatever it was?) going “vertical” for a while. And, as usual, in retrospect everything was “simple” and “obvious” – the guy was “early” on a shitcoin after enough of trying. A classic story in some sense. ...

And while passing by… Yet another “look, look at us, we are soooo smart and clever, give us much more money just because we are so cool” article dropped. https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/ The lack of exact precision is not the fundamental issue here. Even if one manages to overcome the “numerical instability issues” and would be able to reproduce always the same structural output from the same linguistic (or otherwise structured) input the “hallucinations” and “subtle bullshitting” won’t go away in principle. ...

To understand what non-deterministic, “syntax level” probabilistic models are actually producing (an illusion), we have to understand how the Mind (of an external observer) works, and how it produces Maya (which has been intuitively understood since the early Upanishads) – an ultimate illusion created by the Mind itself – an inner representations of the “outside” world, which the mind (and body) uses for “decision making”. The “outside” world is inherently complex, non-deterministic and “concurrent” at the level of “compositions” and, at the same “time”, deterministic enough at the level of the “most basic building blocks” (of biology, lets say) – “simple” molecular structure’s (“small” molecules) are exactly the same, exact copies of clones of each other (otherwise everything will break) while larger molecular structures (like whole proteins and their compositions) may have “flaws” or “mutations” or just simple “kinks” – a slightly different shape or a resulting form. ...

DESCRIPTION: Idiots, idiots everywhere.jpg I am getting old and my cognitive abilities are slowly declining, and I will have no pension or social security, so I need a “Turing Award” or something. (only partially kidding). And, yes, I “hacked” these “longevity” memes and “protocols”, but seems like fighting an increase in entropy and the second law of thermodynamics is not that efficient as some meme-guys claim on YouTube ). So, lets settle one fundamental meme-question once and for all, so we can let it all go and focus on “bio-hacking” and what not. ...

So-called Humanties (as the way of producing a sectarian socially constructed pretentious abstract verbiage) are done for. At least none of them deserve that high upper-middle-class social status anymore. Yes, you have to be actually smart to ask the “right questions” (be a prompt engineers LMAO!), but still. Watch how it spews out an outstanding “paper” in 30 seconds. I really don’t know what I have studied (wasted my life) for. Yes, yes, these are not final answers, and it missed subtleties, and more accurate, insightful formulations, but who needs them anymore? ...

The purpose of examination in a college or university setting is to empirically verify that a student has his own genuine understanding and could actually apply it. It is that simple. This is why some courses even allow to bring a textbook to an exam, because if one does not [already] understand the principles and techniques, the textbook is of no use. However, bringing pocket calculators, smartphones is considered a cheating, precisely because by using these devises one could appear as possessing one’s own understanding. ...

OpenAI has recently benedicted us with a 20 billion parameter “open source” model, which is a significant step up from the previous 7 billion parameter model. This model is designed to be more efficient and effective in understanding and generating human-like text, or rather to appear to do so. It is a total crap, by the way, at least compared to the online free-tier GROK (which is also very basic and limited). It is, obviously, “competing” with the DeepSeek’s “open source” offerings, and have a very similar “feel”. ...

I have noticed a resent dramatic change in the behavior of major GPTs online providers – most notably, Gemini is now providing just outline of code, full of stubs and “mocks” of real APIs, and not the full code. This is a significant change from the previous behavior where they would provide a semi-complete (but ridden with errors) code solution. Perhaps, mimicking the behavior of ChatGPT, which has been doing this for a while now – they “optimize” for more what appears to be a “dialogue” (more like a normie-level chat), to create a better illusion of “actually conversing with an artificial intelligence”. ...