Luna Nova

Luna Nova

@lunnova.dev

she/her | posts at https://lunnova.dev | code at https://github.com/LunNova Give some of your money to effective charities if you're well off!

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Steering vectors can work as activation oracles! Inspired by @isolyth.dev 's recent work on instruct vectors, I've ported the same approach to create Activation Oracles. Seems to work surprisingly well given the param deficit, nearly matching Activation Oracle LoRA performance.

trying to get tech support chat flows to direct anything useful when this happens is approximately impossible. Today, paraphrased. "it works on your mac so it's an OS problem" "using FF on Linux with the user agent faking being windows works" "your device cookies problem I won't file a report"

time for the old cold email someone who works on their cloud platform with the akamai error ref and hope it gets fixed maneuver.

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That'll do it. aint go agent getting into my infra any time soon! Would like to see GPT-6 try to get past this...

oh god oh god oh god oh god the recipe was wrong everything is wrong the ratios are all wrong it's not killing them it's making them smarter oh god i can hear them in the vents they're clicking in a way that sounds like math. i'm sorry i'm so sorry i just wanted a bug free kitchen

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Replying to @sunshowers.io

People talk about how the new money doesn't sponsor art enough. Wait until 2085 when SFMOMA will have a "fursuits of the 2010s" collection

> they want to prevent you from owning your own hardware me when an app blocks screenshots

oliver@eikopf.com

> random tech video > look inside > “they want to prevent you from owning your own hardware”

Steering vectors can work as activation oracles! Inspired by @isolyth.dev 's recent work on instruct vectors, I've ported the same approach to create Activation Oracles. Seems to work surprisingly well given the param deficit, nearly matching Activation Oracle LoRA performance.

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Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Anyone have a favorite model of burnout, executive function, akrasia, exhaustion, inertia, spoons, mana etc. that treats activation energy as a minimal energy level without treating it as spent, or otherwise doesn't use a global energy meter? n=1 anecdotes fine!

oh dear, you've imported some of the horrors of GPU shared memory/LDS swizzling to CPU land.

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social

By implementing a hedged read strategy taking advantage of (undocumented!) channel scrambling offsets, I've gotten as much as 15x reductions in tail latency. Works across Intel, AMD, Graviton, DDR4, DDR5, x86, ARM, you name it. Check out the C++ lib I wrote, watch the video, and try it yourself!

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my shader export compression is mightily broken and the effect is eerily reminiscent of trying to make out details in a night sky obscured by light pollution, except the sky now has intermittent complex transforms darting across its surface

The OLMo fully open foundation models are probably not going to get new revisions. Pretty sad as they were one of the few true open source options - mostly 'open weights' models don't share training recipes or data and are more like freeware.

swe confession: i keep trying to learn jj but always end up back in my idiosyncratic perma detached head git workflow