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by Agraillo 2y ago
My first (almost) thought was "Ok, looking at the llama, where's the quality boost?" I think the explanation is probably in how LLM are trained. Even without knowing deeply the internals, I suspect that it's the compress
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by Agraillo 2y ago
The article lacks references, especially about the law that enforced banks to make loans on non-market conditions. Even if the sources are in Russian, it would be better than no sources at all
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by Agraillo 2y ago
About 10 years ago working with AST trees I (re)invented a flat structure representing trees in a flat array. It reminds me of what is described here but not exactly. In my case I needed only two indices per node: total sub-region length of
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by Agraillo 2y ago
This comment inspires a more philosophical observation. I tend to notice that it's an illusion that education exists for the sole purpose of preparing human labor for future jobs. Partially it does, but another part is fixing progress
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by Agraillo 2y ago
This is my speculation through observation, but imho friendship in its pure form is a genetic program. If you're "no longer twenty these days" (semi-quote from Bernie Taupin), you may not remember how it was but just look at
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by Agraillo 2y ago
Nice engineering achievement. According to Wikipedia the biggest NASA interplanetary vehicle to date is powered by 600W solar panels. Will your personal gaming PC work with 600W power supply or is it doomed to "de-orbit"?
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by Agraillo 2y ago
Thanks to this post and a comment referring Iterated Function System, two polish people are interestingly connected in the field of the subject: Wacław Sierpiński (Sierpiński triangle) [1] and "Wacław Szpakowski", they could even
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by Agraillo 2y ago
Why Tom's Dinner? Because it is a cappella. There's a book "How Music Got Free" by Stephen Witt [1] detailing the history of mp3 format and related events. It is a very good read and there's an explanation Increase
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by Agraillo 2y ago
I think it is a good direction imho. Once being familiar with SQL I learned Prolog a little and similarities struck me. I wasn't the first one sure, and there are others who summarized it better than me [1] (2010-2012): Each can do th
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by Agraillo 2y ago
It's interesting that the literal programming mentioned in the description and in the comments is old, but it basically suggests making a text primarily intended for computers more human. What is new here imho is that the idea of exten
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by Agraillo 3y ago
What keeps my hope for democracies in the world is an observation I made after reading The Year 2000 by Joseph Goebbels written on 25 February 1945. He more or less said that Stalin wasn't bound by the rules of democracies then he woul
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by Agraillo 3y ago
I think it's more than this. In my case in most of images I made about basketball there were more than one ball. I'm not an expert, but some fundamental constrains of the human (cultural) life (like all piano keys are the same, th
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by Agraillo 3y ago
My understanding is that they use a side effect of the Bark model. The comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35647569 from JonathanFly probably explains it well. If you train your model on a massive amount of audio m
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Very good for my taste, but I should clarify, I'm obsessed with catchy tunes, as a listener and as a hobby musician, growing my own brainworms from time to time. And I must say that suno.ai is very impressive, in my case semi-ready bra
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by Agraillo 3y ago
The designers of everyday things also fall into this trap. My favorite example is the hammer drill, this kind should had the mode switch. I have a very decent device but implementing the same problem on/off approach showing and hiding
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Not to mention the fact that due to the very high introductory price you can't appeal to the developers the same way Jobs appealed with the iPhone. Then you had at least millions of existing users to encourage writing "disposable&
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by Agraillo 3y ago
As a daily destination, Quora is no longer usable for me, no need to repeat what others already said. But the digest still surprises me and the posts are often good, even if it's a rewritten Wikipedia entry. It's like a user-gener
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Many things Apple related are very often about applying existing technologies to a novel place. Many forget that the touch screens at the time were resistive [1] that required pressing (small but nevertheless) at the screen and mostly usabl
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Absolutely, that's why a bicycle/kick scooter is better than Segway, at least for your health :). This new tech is interesting. If we forget about the price, in my opinion the design is not that great. Btw, this reminds me of deta
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by Agraillo 3y ago
A little idea utilizing a new level of indirection. You might call it "HoloTile meets Segway". A platform is one square meter (or rather circle) capable of moving in any direction (using conventional wheels). It is covered with Ho
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Funny, my misspelling sometimes also. I suppose this has something to do with probabilities inside our brain, the phrase "Single page" might be more probable than "Single file" (Hmm, I smell some similarities to LLM prob
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Everywhere the company showed their Modula-2 development system people started making inquires about the mouse and its availability as a separate item, Logitech scrambled to put together a developers kit for DOS and started to offer the mo
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by Agraillo 3y ago
The article mentioned Philippe Kahn (Borland co-founder) as the student of Wirth, never heard the fact before. The podcast [1] confirms this. Probably the Borland's decision to buy Compass Pascal might be influenced by his Kahn's
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Wikipedia has categories that from what is perceived, should form a DAG (Direct Acyclic Graph). But very often they don't. I saw this with my own eyes when tried to implement "DagView" (a visual control trying to navigate DAG
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by Agraillo 3y ago
While not seeing anything special in this particular VT implementation, I can only praise the virtual tables sub-system of SQLite as a whole. I'm very used to it, it makes the SQLite/sql engine sometimes just a glue for connecting
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by Agraillo 3y ago
The same is usually true for "human" inventors. I mean not forgetting or gambling, but having many unsuccessful attempts with probably a single good outcome. Recently read "Reinventing the wheel" by Steve Kemper (also kn
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Ask HN: Can LLMs "invent" life hacks?
5 points by Agraillo 3y ago|4 comments
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Mosab Hassan Yousef [1] in his book "Son of Hamas" described what it was like to be in Moscobiyeh [2]. "I have been sitting on this chair for three weeks," he said finally. "They let me sleep for four hours every w
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Adaptive Unconscious(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Agraillo 3y ago|0 comments
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by Agraillo 3y ago
Sir George Thomson (Nobel Laureate) wrote a book "The Foreseeable Future" in 1955 predicting different things. But as I discovered there are another editions with revised texts (The 1955 edition is searchable in Google Books). Aft

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