dream_weasel

I have a feeling one authored this thread.

Except the last 2. The last 2 go in the milk directly and fall in your mouth a little soggy when you finish drinking it.

A man of culture

The embedding layer post tokenization is not just a probability machine the way you’re suggesting it. You can argue that it is probabilistic with inferred sentiment, but too many people think it works like how text prediction on your phone does and that is just factually inaccurate.

Verify output of course, but saying “it doesn’t understand anything” and “probability machine” is a borderline erroneous short sell. At the level of tokens it “understands” relationships, and those relationships are not probabilistic, though they are fundamentally approximated based on a training corpus.

And at the same time I wouldn’t say “hey fuck that, duct tape is terrible! It doesn’t hold beams together, I can’t use it to tow a trailer, it’s all just pretending to stick paper together because really every sliver of duct tape just sticks to the previous piece, etc etc” But that’s the cool thing we do on Lemmy.

The ad is bad, duct tape ain’t bad.

More than you would think. Most people don’t show up to ask to do research in my opinion. I got my first one by literally walking up to a Prof after class and saying “I like this. Do you know anyone who does research like this?”. He said “me”, gave me a test project, and I worked for him for like almost 20 years.

I should say I also did this my freshman year (the year before the story above) and I got referred to a different guy in the department where I worked for a summer but it didn’t work out for either of us. Turns out I’m more engineer than physicist, but it was good knowledge.

Edit: To be more direct about numbers, you’re right there’s not a spot for everybody or even half, but when I was in undergrad way less than that even went looking for research, they just did the job fair every year mostly and were students the rest of the time which was… not as reliable a strategy we will say.

This advice won’t be helpful to you unfortunately, but if there are students reading, the answer as others have said is already being connected. A key way to make this happen is through research with faculty followed by (potentially) internships and then full time offers. If you just show up and kick ass every day for 3 to 5 years and even get a 4.0 GPA the market will still be very tough.

Bonus points though which might help OP: anything you can do that narrows the pool helps you. For example, if you’re a white bread american dude maybe look for a job that requires getting a clearance, if you’re mandarin Chinese maybe look for something that requires some translation or speaking, etc. You may not be the best programmer or the best salesman, but you might be a top tier salesman for programming tools.

It’s just negligence. Power tools injure and people are stupid. The technology is alluring and people make dumb mistakes. There’s no deeper motive here, and self admitting you’re not even an amateur I will just tell you that you’re giving way less credit to these models than they deserve by calling them purely probabilistic, and way more credit then they deserve by trying to assert some kind of malicious incentive by anthropic.

These bastards are hard to make, and they have a lot of layers (not like NN layers, but training steps). They are, however, definitely better at programming than you or your buddy or any commentator here, and it lures you into a false sense of security before it makes a colossal fuck up.

What am I, a vexillologist?

Lasers, photos, or checkered flag usually.

I wasnt born for like 5 years after you got your card lol.

Shoot. You are bordering on older than me!

In fairness, torturing a dead animal draws even smaller, weirder crowds.

Façades*

Yes. The trick is not to be a cheap ass, but also not to get hustled. So I guess you have to know something about the work being done?

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Also, I keep the extra materials. I paid for them. They are mine.

See also that YOUR temperature drops overnight. Your body temp goes down about 2 degrees overnight starting at the same time your body starts releasing melatonin before bed. This means as you start to wake up you also start to warm up, so you’re partially at fault here too!

The guy in the thumbnail looks like a mix between Bob Saget and Jimmy O. Yang.

Try a different medium or visit a doctor maybe?

That sounds like 20 minutes or less of reading but the Internet is telling me that for slower readers that’s up to an hour for 8k words. If it takes you an hour, maybe don’t go for quite as long in a sitting and work up to it a little, if it’s 15 to 25 mins of reading I think I would switch to something more paper-like / talk to an eye doctor about it.

Ghost Boy by Jacob Tillberg.

The rest of his music is unfortunately flat and disappointing to me.

Leaving social media helps… But if someone is wrong on Lemmy that’s a whole new problem I can’t help with.

I would say don’t sweat it too much and if you eat downvotes sometimes that’s fine.