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raincole 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

This is why I object to sleep() from unistd.h. What an anthropomorphizing notion. Didn't early unix programmers understand that a computer isn't a living creature and therefore isn't capable of sleep? They must have been really stupid!

not_a_bot_4sho 32 days ago [–]

Some of them were straight up psychopaths too, as evidenced by `kill()` !

prerok 32 days ago | [–]

Indeed and using SIGKILL is really cruel. At least with SIGTERM the process can say its goodbyes. /j

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