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by BitsAndObjects 10mo ago
Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greatest mathematician of all time…
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by BitsAndObjects 10mo ago
Check out both how Python strings are implemented and the string type’s semantics in the language. Strings are sequences of bytes only in the sense that everything stored in memory is a sequence of bytes. The semantics matter far more, and
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
Kind of reminds me of the idea of a “nursery generation” from generational garbage collection. The pre-cache is kind of a “nursery cache”, which expects a proportion of fetched lines to “die young” - ie get squashed before anything promotes
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The Return of the Viva(ednutting.com)
3 points by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago|1 comments
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
Back in 2018, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Bristol (UK) on the 1st-year Introduction to Computer Architecture course. Aside from coursework and exams, the final grade included a viva assessment. Three or four students wou
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
See also: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0E8zPucAAAAJ... Particularly (2014): https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
So why aren’t they offering for an independent auditor to come into OpenAI and inspect their data (without taking it outside of OpenAI’s systems)? Probably because they have a lot to hide, a lot to lose, and no interest in fair play. Theore
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
It’s exciting to see so much deep computer science that’s gone into optimising the language / JIT / GC / etc (inc. utilising hardware advances). In a world obsessed with AI and web tech, this is a refreshing read!
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
Sorry to say, Claude Sonnet 4.5 (with and without extended thinking) has this one solved now. So, not “any” LLM, but maybe some still need work. I presume they finally got around to training the internal reasoning loop into predicting when
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by BitsAndObjects 11mo ago
As a 29 year old that experienced EU citizenship then had it cruelly taken away by some stupidly thin margin of voters… feckin Brexit. I get how lucky I was for 25% of my life expectancy.
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
Water. Not being flippant.
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
"Claude Memory" seems related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684134
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
A pretty reasonable summary of things from an outside perspective - have my thumbs up ;) (And a very good question, to be answered at a later stage.)
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
Oh dear, I hadn't realised Bristol Uni had broken the link. That paper has some information, as well as my UG thesis: https://ia600408.us.archive.org/22/items/archive_IHGC/Thesis... Yeah the current clos
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
I suppose we could all do what Asahi have been forced to do and go back to using pens, paper and fax machines: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly64g5y744o
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
I haven't come across this specific feature before. From reading about it, it seems closely related to Arm (E)MTE ISA extensions - Memory Tagging Extension? What's interesting is that approach (software-defined 'random'
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
I enjoyed the typo in "error corection" (sic).
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
They don't require your email address to download the filters, so how exactly do they get your address in order to deliver this non-evil allow-listed notification email? It's likely they thought: "What if our existing users&#
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
I took a look at the list of filters before finishing the import. I'm left wondering what the point is. Gmail has quite effective spam filtering and email subscription management, making these filters almost entirely redundant. The few
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
Lol, transputers getting their 5-yearly re-mention. In most of the ways that matter, Transputers weren’t too early. And if you built one again now, you’d find little to no market for it (as per efforts by several startups and various relate
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
The biggest breakthrough that we need is something resembling actual intelligence in AI (human or machine, I’ll let you decide where we need it more ;) )
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by BitsAndObjects 1y ago
I spy a functional programmer lurking in this abuse of Python ;) Looks a lot like function composition with the arguments flipped, which in Haskell is `>>>`. Neat! But since you’re writing imperative code and binding the result to