AlanYx

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by AlanYx 11mo ago
One thing to be aware of is that many (all?) current UGREEN boxes can't support ECC RAM. For anyone looking to use ZFS like the article linked here, that may be an issue, depending on one's view of the debate about whether ECC is
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
Yes, they used to compromise more along these lines in the past. e.g., Samba's vfs_fruit would never have gotten as good as it is without Apple open sourcing their SMBClient. Everyone benefits, even Apple (I'm sure they're ru
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
My favorite display era was the short-lived period of 4-bit greyscale X-terms. Just enough shades of grey to be usable, few distractions. There are a lot of greyscale radiology monitors available in the used market these days, but they tend
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
When nVIDIA sells DGX directly they usually still partner with SuperMicro, etc. for deployment and support. It sounds like they're going to be offering those services in-house now, competing with their resellers on that front.
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
There's a lot of work in this area. See e.g., the LoRP paper by Di et al. There's also a decent amount of work on the other side too, i.e., using LLMs to convert Prolog reasoning chains back into natural language.
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
FISA and the Stored Communications Act as modified by the CLOUD Act don't distinguish between (i) parent company overseas + US subsidiary and (ii) parent company in US + foreign subsidiary. In both instances the US asserts personal jur
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
Based on reported decisions (mostly SCA-related; FISA stuff is not public), Microsoft is the cloud provider who's litigated the most on behalf of client privacy. e.g., It was the Microsoft Ireland case, challenging the extraterritorial
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by AlanYx 11mo ago
Interesting take. It's also possible that it functions as a checksum of sorts for their intelligence operations to identify gaps. e.g., If intelligence has knowledge of X requests from country Y, but they're getting X+5 "wink
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Setting aside the legalities of the "wink" payments, I'm fascinated to know what is the purpose of the country-specific granularity? At most Israel would learn that some order was being sought in country X, but they wouldn&#x
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by AlanYx 1y ago
The canning process is the result of post-WW2 government funded research at WSU. It's a cool backstory for a cheese.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Have they indicated that they are working on microtypography support? The example in this link of character-level justification is incredibly nice (enough to get me to try Typst), but it's not clear at least from this link whether they
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by AlanYx 1y ago
There was a 2016 study looking at cover stories from The Economist that found it was a negative indicator (i.e., the opposite played out) within 1 year 68% of the time. Plenty of counterexamples though.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
I really like the wind tunnel example. That's a good way of explaining this to people. I wonder whether discussions over quantum advantage would be clearer if we split it into two concepts: (i) algorithmic quantum advantage and (ii) ph
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Yes, I was being somewhat flippant in my description of the transaction. But the net result of the transaction is the same. OpenAI can finance the GPU purchases by borrowing against the contractual guarantees it received from AMD to receive
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Not all of the $100 billion are purchases by OpenAI ("AMD expects to receive more than $100 billion in new revenue over four years from OpenAI and other customers "). For some reason the OpenAI portion of this deal is quoted in g
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by AlanYx 1y ago
>Couldn't they just buy the AMD chips if they're good enough? OpenAI would presumably need to raise money to buy the AMD chips. The "genius" of this deal is that AMD is "giving away" 10% of the company (at $
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's worth highlighting that that link suggests this may be linked to foreign states rather than just garden-variety organized crime ("...early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors..."
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Molly is actually a fairly interesting and complex character if you follow her from Johnny Mnenmonic all the way through Neuromancer (especially the second half) and Mona Lisa Overdrive. It's tempting to write off Case's behavior
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by AlanYx 1y ago
There's something about the yellow plastic version that feels more Lando, like it reflects some kind of distilled essence of the character.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It doesn't actually report blood pressure to the user, so it's not a question of accuracy in a traditional numerical sense.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's strange that Apple keeps pushing large watches, given how sensitive they are to design trends. Among traditional non-smart watches, things have started to reverse in the last couple years, with 36mm-39mm watches enjoying a resurge
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's a lot like Haskell in that respect. Once you get something to compile, it tends to work more often than not.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
The latest trend in educational software seems to be relatively high pricing. See e.g., Mentava, which sells for $500 USD/mo (not a typo). AoPS online courses are $28/lesson (though Beast Academy can be had for $100/yr). By c
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by AlanYx 1y ago
The paper is a joke, but Gutmann does make some useful, non-joke suggestions in section 7. There's probably room for a serious, full-length paper on quantum factorization evaluation criteria.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's wonderful that Khan Academy played a role in enriching her early education. It's proving to be a solid resource across the spectrum of math ability.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Pulitzer prize winning author Annie Dillard phrased it even more simply: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Do you happen to know of any good modern alternatives to those vintage Radio Shack kits?
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by AlanYx 1y ago
That's only a partial archive. There's another one with 55gb.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
There's probably a middle ground somewhere. IMHO, SICP leans a little too heavily on the homoiconicity of Scheme for its choice of exercises. Which is intellectually nifty but it could also include exercises from something like Craftin
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by AlanYx 1y ago
IMHO it's not empty talk; a lot of the elements of the plan reinforce each other. For example, it's pretty clear that state initiatives that were aiming to place regulatory thresholds like the 10^26 FLOPS limit in Calfornia's

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