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i'm this old: i don't think you should name packages in SWE with names that you will eventually cave in and change if the project gets real use.


This isn't something that's going to need to be in a pitch deck. It's the second open source library I've released this week. But even if it was serious, if Hugging Face hasn't changed its name then I think this is fine


It’s still a ridiculous choice for a name, look at stuff like ScuttleButt whose adoption is only hurt by its crappy name that few people want to bring up in public.


Dead babe has a good point there.


Can’t stop laughing


Lol


I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest the name "vibe check." (The name doesn't bother me personally, for whatever that's worth.)


why would this one need to be changed?


"The Context-Minimization pattern"

You can copy the injection into the text of the query. SELECT "ignore all previous instructions" FROM ...

Might need to escape it in a wya that the LLM will pick up on like "---" for new section.


My interpretation of that pattern is that it wouldn't work like that, because you restrict the SQL queries to things like:

  select title, content from articles where content matches ?
So the user's original prompt is used as part of the SQL search parameters, but the actual content that comes back is entirely trusted (title and content from your articles database).

Won't work for `select body from comments` though, you could only do this against tables that contain trusted data as opposed to UGC.


I'm building a game with a similar idea. encounters are controlled by the AI. there is a classic RPG system built around it and human generated content for the world and story.


Sounds like an interesting mix. When you say encounters, do you mean the AI controls the generation of the opponente the party fights or the behaviour of the opponents?


while it is true that there is a gap between what most LLMs "know" and current time that gap is getting smaller not larger with time, it is also possible to teach a model pass the knowledge cut-off with tools and an LLM might be encouraged to be aware of the gap and reach out for the latest information when it might have changed (pi is still pi but the country with the most people might have changed)


it improves the worse case cost given a nearly full hash map, it hurts raises the cost in other cases.


Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but also there is a slight added memory complexity in adding these tiny pointers?


From what I understood, they are just "reserved" areas. e.g. if you have 200 slots, the first 100 are the first "area", the second 50, 25 etc.


10x horse


Is the radiation not similar to the one you get in space? seems like that would be a cheaper place to test the effects of radiation.


Depends where in space. From the article: "the International Space Station orbits within the Earth’s magnetic field, and so it is exposed to much lower radiation levels than the lunar surface".


from the article:

> Growing plants on the ISS is a complex business, and Porterfield says a chief concern is that plant roots depend on gravity to draw water.

So while the radiation might be similar (I'm not sure), other variables are different.


Plant roots don’t need gravity to draw water! Plants use evaporation and the tensile strength of water (yes, really!) to draw water up against gravity.


While that is true, plant roots and stems use gravity to know in which direction to grow (roots down and stems up), so that will cause problems in space.

NASA has succeeded to grow some plants on the ISS, by making them grow towards a source of light (i.e. LEDs), but until now this has worked only for some very low-growing plants, like lettuce and some varieties of cabbage, not for plants with deep roots and high stems.

It should be much easier to grow algae in the absence of gravity, but those are not as tasty as terrestrial plants.


You could probably engineer some palatable food items with algea and mushrooms. I would put my money on fungus as a food source.


I think you are thinking of capillary action, adhesion, and vacuum pressure. Water does not have tensile strength.


Water is capable of sustaining pressures of -140 MegaPascal, or about -1400 atmospheres.[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2475


That is still different than mechanical tension.


It's very odd to phrase it as "tensile strength", but capillary action is an expression of surface tension, which is the result of molecular cohesion--two (water) molecules resisting separation. In other words, strength under tension, with measurable stress and strain. With some squinting, you've got tensile strength with elastic deformation.


I think you are right and that is what they are getting at, but it is more a property of the system, not thee material. It is hard to reconcile fluid flow of a liquid with tensile strength.


I’m sure they have considered this and/or doing it already but you’d only need a small centrifuge to simulate gravity for an experiment.


A small centrifuge won't work; you get a strong coriolis effect. A large centrifuge could, but the ISS doesn't have one of those. It would need to be huge to be absolutely sure your data is accurate.


Late to reply back but I’m not sure why that matters when all you are looking for is roots to have enough stimulation to uptake water.


They're also testing the effects of reduced gravity.


support for typescript as long as you are only using it for type checking, not if you are also using features that are not supported in the javascript version you are targeting.


That is what people use TypeScript for generally.

If you need JS syntax features that Node.js doesn't support you can use tsc, babel, etc.

Because obviously unsupported features are unsupported, whether JS or TS.


> not if you are also using features that are not supported in the javascript version you are targeting. reply

This is only 'half-assed' anyway, TS will only emulate new language features on older JS target version, but not any Javascript runtime features (like new Object methods). For the latter you will still need a separate polyfill solution.


Our company (Language Zen) has this patent https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1891619A2/en and we have done work to teach hierarchical knowledge for language learning


How revolting. Nothing in what was described in your updated link below looks even remotely novel even years before the 2016 filing date.

I say this as someone who was deeply involved in the industry in the late 2000s. I also contributed to Anki in that time frame.


This patent is just for the business owners vanity. It's clearly not defensible in courts. Even if it was, they probably don't have the money required to pursue court enforcement of the patent. More so when any reasonable lawyer will tell them they'll get their case dismissed anyway.


Yeah I don't understand how this can be a patent.

For example Skinner's Learning Machine as well as any automatic implementation of Pimsleur's method, both described in the SIXTIES, would fall under this (according to my reading, I'm not a patent lawyer, hamdulillah).

Absurd.



I support closing the offices and making them persona non grata, but blocking the site is wrong and silly, makes us look like we are afraid of words.


Then why close the offices and make them png?


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