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HTMX and shoelace is an awesome combo. Super fast to prototype things and tweak as needed. Being able to copy paste snippets and directly inject data in a straightforward way is a nice way of working. It limits cognitive overhead so you can focus on the domain logic rather than fight javascript dependencies.

I don't think autoregressive models have a fundemental difference in terms of reasoning capability in latent space vs token space. Latent space enables abstract reasoning and pattern recognition, while token space acts as both the discrete interface for communication, and as a interaction medium to extend, refine and synthesize high order reasoning over latent space.

Intuively speaking, most people think of writing as a communication tool. But actually it's also a thinking tool that helps create deeper connections over discrete thoughts which can only occupy a fixed slice of our attention at any given time. Attentional capacity the primary limitation-- for humans and LLMs. So use the token space as extended working memory. Besides, even the Coconut paper got mediocre results. I don't think this is the way.

The fundemental challenge of using log probabilities to measure LLM certainty is the mismatch between how language models process information and how semantic meaning actually works. The current models analyze text token by token-- fragments that don't necessarily align with complete words, let alone complex concepts or ideas.

This creates a gap between the mechanical measurement of certainty and true understanding, much like mistaking the map for the territory or confusing the finger pointing at the moon with the moon itself.

I've done some work before in this space, trying to come up with different useful measures from the logprobs, such as measuring shannon entropy over a sliding window, or even bzip compression ratio as a proxy for information density. But I didn't find anything semantically useful or reliable to exploit.

The best approach I found was just multiple choice questions. "Does X entail Y? Please output [A] True or [B] False. Then measure the linprobs of the next token, which should be `[A` (90%) or `[B` (10%). Then we might make a statement like: The LLM thinks there is a 90% probability that X entails Y.

Hey, I’m building agents on top of temporal as well. One of the main limitations is child workflows can not spawn other child workflows. Are you doing an activity for every prompt execution and passing those through other activities? Or something more framework-y?

Hi there, I would be interested in a chat about those back-office patterns and use cases. Could you send an email to a2V2aW4gQCBkZW94eSAuIG5ldA==

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