The Cost of Software
jeferson.me
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?

As we continue developing our software, we accumulate a growing amount of technical debt just to keep the system running. But I believe we are on the brink of an even larger issue. Cognitive debt.

Hope you enjoy this reading, all feedback is welcome.

  • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    and fed the same inputs be a potentially more transparent machine, thinking or otherwise?

    This is where you go off the rails. LLMs are probalistic, not deterministic. It will probably give the same output, but thats still not actually true. This is where hallucinations come from.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

          • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            2 days ago

            For training maybe. But execution as far as i know are just a bunch of probabilities chucked into matrices. Back in my physcos days I could u derstand the math, but not today.

            Also what needs citing, that nodes translate to debugable, reproducible outputs.

            Because again, it’s all probablilties under the hood.

            • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 days ago

              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.

              • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                2 days ago

                No… No they’re not. Either that or nerual nets are even dumber than I thought. My understanding was emulating nodes of information like brains do. Thats not probabilities. But willing to be wrong if you can bring sources. The connection between points in probability doesn’t make sense. Thats a nonsense statement.

                Thats also no how simulated annealing works. The temperature value is roughly the probability it will pick a different, less optimal step, in order to try and find better alternative paths. The temperature value is roughly the probability of trying something ‘random’. Not deterministic at all. The temperature value is lowered with time and progression. Its known the entire time, but its still a weighted coin flip that determines which path to take.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

                  • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                    1 day ago

                    I’m not convinced of that you do. Nor is knowing that flip helpful. Because it’s non deterministic. An internal coin flip is not an input either.