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  • well. indeed the devil’s in the detail.

    But going with your story. Yes, you are right in general. But the human input is already there.

    But you have to have human-made material to train the classifier, and if the classifier doesn’t improve, then the generator never does either.

    AI can already understand what stripes are, and can draw the connection that a zebra is a horse without stripes. Therefore the human input is already given. Brute force learning will do the rest. Simply because time is irrelevant and computations occur at a much faster rate.

    Therefore in the future I believe that AI will enhance itself. Because of the input it already got, which is sufficient to hone its skills.

    While I know for now we are just talking about LLMs as blackboxes which are repetitive in generating output (no creativity). But the 2nd grader also has many skills which are sufficient to enlarge its knowledge. Not requiring everything taught by a human. in this sense.

    I simply doubt this:

    LLMs will get progressively less useful

    Where will it get data about new programming languages or solutions to problems in new software?

    On the other hand you are right. AI will not understand abstractions of something beyond its realm. But this does not mean it wont expedite in stuff that it can draw conclusions from.

    And even in the case of new programming languages, I think a trained model will pick up the logic of the code - basically making use of its already learned pattern recognition skills. And probably at a faster pace than a human can understand a new programming language.








  • I could not comprehend what you were up to telling us.

    But the summary is:

    The key essence of this post is a deeply disillusioned and angry critique of modern American society, government, and technology. The author expresses a sense of frustration with the perceived emptiness, manipulation, and decay of U.S. institutions—seeing democracy as a facade, tech innovation as overhyped and hollow, and the government as ineffective. They convey a desire for systemic collapse or radical upheaval (accelerationism), suggesting that elites will soon resort to authoritarianism to maintain control. There’s also an undercurrent of socio-political pessimism, nihilism, and rejection of both corporate and state power—coupled with a belief that the current system is unsustainable and nearing a breaking point.



  • Well. For now the system is not yet running on the new hardware.

    It is now a pondering process of whether migrating everything as it is to the new hardware and then optimize/refactor.

    Or refactor before (or at least develop a plan) and then improve during migration…

    Be sure to make a new post when you decide what you go with, I’m sure people here would enjoy hearing about your approach.

    Nice to hear. Thanks. I will share updates.


  • BTW, your hard disks are going to be your bottleneck unless you’re reaching out over the internet, so your best bet is to move that data onto an NVMe SSD. That’ll blow any other suggestion I have out of the water.

    Yes, we are currently in the process of migrating to PostgreSQL and to a new hardware. Nonetheless the approach we are using is a disaster. So we will refactor our approach as well. Appreciate your input.

    I don’t know what language you’re working in.

    All processing and SQL related transactions are executed via python. But should not have any influence since the SQL server is the bottleneck.

    WITH (NOLOCK)

    Yes I have considered this already for the next update. Since our setup can accept dirty reads - but I have not tested/quantified any benefits yet.

    Don’t do a write and a read at the same time since you’re on HDDs.

    While I understand the underlying issue here, I do not know yet how to control this. Since we have multiple microservices set up which are connected to the DB and either fetch (read), write or delete from different tables. But to my understanding since I am currently not using NOLOCK such occurrences should be handled by SQL no? What I mean is that during a process the object is locked - so no other process can interfere on the SQL object?

    Thanks for putting this together I will review it tomorrow again (Y).