First agreed. Honestly I haven’t an LLM do anything close to an engineer. You can get lucky for a code snippet or two and maybe a few ADRs but even those are fraught with the chance of slop clean up work. I am not arguing that.

The node is only probalistic because of the random number added. After the fact the number is known.

You can try to reason about it which is an arguable improvement from the former engineer you can’t get ahold of anymore. So you can could see that it triggered a node associated with c++ when it generated this string of tokens or compare it other generations to map it to a type of call.

Where it doesn’t compare to a human engineer at the moment is quality or novelty.

What I mean is for post hoc analysis since you know the coin flips and the inputs you can step through the layers and nodes calculation deterministically.

Neural nets are dumber than you thought for sure. What I mean is the coin flip results are known after the fact.

I mean probabilities in matrices are nodes in a neural net, right?

The only thing that makes it non-deterministic is the tempature value which is known after the fact from my understanding, so that should be able to deterministic.

Opensource it and let users choose the levers. Otherwise fuck off. I don’t need another brain rot feed I have to figure out how to block or ignore in my life

I like a few graphic novel games. Now Steam recommends a deluge of GRAPHIC novel games that have zero interesting story or hook to them, because the tag system. It’s kind of nuts

Most of the LLMs architectures that I know of are neural net based.

Tbf the exact input and node activation is all you’d need for forensics, the only reason to refeed would old input plus new input mix, which should be new output.

TIL there are some unionized workplaces in SUSE that’s great!

Internet Archive (i know this one: archive.org), Ghostarchive, or Megalodon Is what the article mentioned as better alternitives.

I hate to say this but can’t LLMs solve the cognitive debt problem better then people? Wouldn’t having a stochastic machine that can have its state frozen in time, retrived at convience, and fed the same inputs be a potentially more transparent machine, thinking or otherwise?

I agree with you on stating thr problem though, and the term seems concise enough to me. The gap seems to be not in ability to do this but that creating graspable and reasonable audits for LLM usage is like many risk mitigation systems, an after thought in the industry.

That isnt what was described by cognitive debt which is what the post is describing

Honestly. Been doing brief 1 hour no tech time at home now and it’s crazy how many times my girlfriend and I will do something, finish a conversation, etc, and then just go “well fuck” because we both sat at a computer or in a phone usage spot out of habit.

There are no good countries in modern geopolitics but some times people do good things.

There were good cases. People hate but we have defended women and LGBTQ people around the world. There is a reason Iranian and Russian propaganda shows the US with the rainbow flag. There was a generation of girls that were able to get education in Afghanistan.

We were leading the defense and support of the Kurdish people.

The Marshal plan building the safetynets and basis for democratic socialism in the EU and Japan.

The ACLU, the EFF, the GNU project, TOR, Ammesty International, Doctors without Borders, human rights watch, the IWW, etc.

The global eradication of small pox. Heck all of the hate Elon deserves for the unconstitutional cuts to USAID are because millions were being helped.

International collaberstion on space exploration and development. The major contributions to the development of the global internet in general.

Leading the establishment and being the primary enforcement of international law.

The US also was the leader in the modern environmental movement! With the national park system, the EPA, pushing hard to save the ozone, the fight to stole wailing and other marine protections. Etc

If someone says this was solely the US they would be both factually wrong AND also missing the point that makes some of these great. The collaberation with the world aspects is what made they any sense of good. That said despite all of that it’s easy to say it’s a checkered score card (which after a ramble of great things should hint at how bad other things were). But I still supported us doing good things globally.

Context collapse and hallucination in the face of anything novel has been my experience 90% of the time. I even tried context compression by trying to do the research, test spec, plan, code tests, product spec, plan, code product method, but then the issue was the plan satisfied the AI too quick (“actually we already test all of the code, you can see that by reading the “we test all of the code” spec”).

I’ve been pro US imperialism for a while now, but honestly I’m glad that the rest of the world is shedding the worst of our power projection.

On one hand the heel position has really pushed a lot of the world in a positive direction, but there’s gotta be a better fucking way then, like you said destroying half a century of international relations and cooperation. That’s not to mention the bigger issue of US supported genocide in Palistein and the ethnic cleansing operation in the states, which I can’t excuse for any 4d accidently good things on the geopolitical scale.

Commercial support or if it’s critical enough infrastructure have a full time department/team to do it. Commercial support is the obvious choice for most countries starting out tbh.

Honestly SuSE, Ubuntu, and Hetzner all have good for enterprise support and its crazy that they don’t have more major gov business in the EU now.

But honestly yeah, pay for labour to maintain things. It’s not a breaking new idea. You can do that AND own the things instead of renting from private companies too. Also not a new idea.

The only thing new is that we are talking about computers and we have museums for them already so maybe get with the times, right?

I use VMs for OS isolated and hardware isolation. I run containers on top of OSs for apps.

That said I use Harvester so I can run containers on bare metal AND VMs as containers.

Even on one bare metal I do this, so I can spin up a test VM of harvester to confirm configs. If you one node is super beefy a neat trick is to have VMs running a cluster so you can have a kind of high availability even if your infra is a single point of failure.

The all in ones tend to be heat pump condensor dryers. Which are great, way less power used, and genteler on clothes, BUT take way longer.

I got one, and I struggle to think I’d ever go back to moving laundry over between machines unless I had to, even if it means 2-3 hours for medium load of laundry. It does that in the background anyways.