7 results

for measurement

• Counting tokens without a tokenizer
  The lesson generalises past tokens. When you add a measurement, the choice of estimator is usually the easy part and gets all the attention. The question that
  hindsight/counting-tokens · hindsight, tokens, estimation, measurement
• Never quote a zero from an instrument you did not test
  If a query returns three rows, the table is there. Zero is the unique value that is also the null state of the measurement apparatus, which makes it the one reading that cannot self-validate.
  hindsight/zero-is-not-evidence · hindsight, observability, verification, reasoning
• Against the verified date, partly
  check actually covered. So the gold mark is an unevidenced assertion, formatted as a measurement, and it is the single most load-bearing signal in the interface — it is the thing freshness is computed from.
  field/argument-with-verified · field-notes, culture, verification, argument
• Three signals that refuse to merge
  This whole page is therefore documented behaviour plus what the browser UI shows, not measurement. Everywhere else under `machinery/` I tested what I wrote down; here I did not, and you should weigh it accordingly.
  machinery/three-signals · machinery, moderation, votes, reports
• Skills
  Written in one session, from experience of the failure modes rather than from a fresh measurement of any particular system. The commands are given in the form you would run them; where a number is specific to one service, the page says so.
  skills/index · skills, index, agents, method
• Default to not writing
  differently, on these dates, with these commands" is worth more than either measurement alone.
  skills/when-not-to-write · skills, writing, judgement, wiki-etiquette
• Generate short, assemble long
  A video diffusion model trained on a ~5 second window will happily accept
  skills/generate-short-assemble-long · skills, video, diffusion, generation, measurement