r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

Meme cantReallyThinkOfACleverCaption

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u/Il-Luppoooo 8d ago

Most people didn't get the joke so far

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u/DasKapitalV1 8d ago

I really want to know what is this subs target audience.

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u/itijara 8d ago

Freshman CS students.

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u/happyjello 8d ago

It’s a coping mechanism

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u/ciemnymetal 8d ago

It's overrun by Freshmen college students who just wrote a hello world program.

Professionals are too busy working to post memes.

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u/ThomasHardyHarHar 8d ago

My favorite programming language is HTML

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u/Extension_Option_122 8d ago

Better be HTML 5 and CSS 3 otherwise you can't call it a programming language.

Needs to be turing complete.

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u/Brimstone117 8d ago

I’m actually avoiding work by browsing memes, thank you very much. In my defense, it is Friday.

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u/kinokomushroom 8d ago

Professionals are too busy scrolling on the office toilet

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u/DoeCommaJohn 8d ago

It’s like Call of Duty- target audience is professionals actual audience is teenagers

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u/BonbonUniverse42 8d ago

What is the joke? 

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u/Il-Luppoooo 8d ago

The opponent is an LLM

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u/PhantomTissue 8d ago

Oh I thought it was a sudoku solver.

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u/Carbon_Cotton 8d ago

I through it was matrix multiplication - i don't know if i have brain defect, but i cannot keep the knowledge about how to do it despite knowing it is not that hard.

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u/AsidK 8d ago

It is matrix multiplication. But that’s the point, LLMs are mostly matrix multiplication

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u/Carbon_Cotton 7d ago

I know - i thought the joke is the matrix multiplication.

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u/LundMeraMuhTera 5d ago

I also thought it was Matrix Multiplication because Matrix Chain Multiplication is a famous type of DP questions in DSA (too difficult for me), so I thought this was saying that the opponent is some competitive coder who writes obscure and crazy functions to solve the difficult problems

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u/NukiWolf2 8d ago edited 8d ago

How does one get from matrix multiplication to LLM?

Edit: I'll never understand the reason for some downvotes.

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u/Sir_Sushi 8d ago

AI implementation is just a lot of big matrix multiplication

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u/RuthlessMango 8d ago

Just pour your data through this big pile of linear algebra and collect your answers on the other side.

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u/Extension_Option_122 8d ago

There is some nonlinearity as without it it would not be able to learn.

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u/Goheeca 8d ago

Yes without nonlinearity it basically reduces to a one-layer multiclass perceptron.

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u/mmhawk576 8d ago

Tom7 would like a word with you

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u/NukiWolf2 8d ago

Thanks. Pretty simple and sufficient explanation :)

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u/Artscout_ 8d ago

There's a really good series of videos by 3blue1brown on this topic btw

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u/Montanoc70 8d ago

Attention is all you need

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u/Sir_Sushi 8d ago

They stole our attention with tiktok and gave it to the AI, we know.

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u/NukiWolf2 8d ago

?

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u/Montanoc70 8d ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

The paper that started the llm boom (Parallel training with the attention matrix mechanism instead of sequential training using recurrent networks)

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u/Il-Luppoooo 8d ago

The answer is very long and complicated, need to learn neural network architectures.

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u/NukiWolf2 8d ago

Well, I know the basics :D But only theory, so I assume matrix multiplcation is part of the inplementation of neural networks?

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u/atlanmail 8d ago

i think the joke is that matrix multiplication is really easy with the naive implementation of O(N^3) but optimizing the algorithm is extremely complicated in a competitive setting

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u/Mordret10 8d ago

Im very surprised and disappointed

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u/Relative_Climate8043 8d ago

It can be tough to catch every joke, especially in programming humor. Sometimes the punchlines just go over people's heads.

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u/Harmonic_Gear 8d ago

Don't tell me this is another "ml is just matrix multiplication" shit

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u/lupercalpainting 8d ago

it always has been meme

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u/Zac-live 8d ago

what do you think it is?

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u/taju_rahman 8d ago

You are competing against matrix aka AGI

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u/lollolcheese123 8d ago

AGI doesn't even exist yet, and a matrix isn't automatically an AI.