ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I love this story. Why? Because it is the story of so many startups. I was so perplexed in the mid-90's when the dot com "boom" had started by people who wanted to do a "startup" but had no idea what that meant. Lik
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I completely agree with you that I don't have much exposure to SUCIs. And thanks for the link.
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I pretty much agree with this, having some way to indicate model boundaries in an LLM parameter space to create back pressure on token generation would help a lot here. For me though the interesting bits are how the lack of understanding su
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is sort of meta to the article... Wow a web site generated using AI[1]. (or perhaps a human using AI) Anecdotally, when I was attending college there was a 12 year old girl also attending and in some of my classes, particularly my fres
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
With AMD64 style chips? Probably not. Multi-core systems really need a scheduler to get the most out of them so perhaps there are some very specific applications where that would be a win but I cannot think of anything that isn't super
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is really neat. So many engineers come out of school without ever having had this sort of 'start to finish' level of hands on experience. If you ever want to do systems or systems analysis this kind of thing will really, real
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I hope nobody was confused into thinking I thought a BIOS was required, I was pointing out the evolution from this to a monitor. I've written some code[1] that runs on the STM32 series that uses the newlib printf(). I created the UART
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
That's awesome. Back in the day this was the strong point of eCOS which was a bare metal "platform" for running essentially one application on x86 hardware. The x86 ecosystem has gotten so complicated that being able to do th
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I was feeling a bit like the Petunia and thought "Oh no, not again." :-) One of the annoyances of embedded programming can be having the wheel re-invented a zillion times. I was pleased to see that the author was just describing
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It amuses me that doing software and hardware engineering for decades and never once thinking about trigonometric functions other than perhaps sine and cosine, and then I get interested in software defined radio and find myself running into
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I ended up buying three of these as I was going to convert one to computer control. Last year at the ASVARO swap meet I sold the last one I had which had never been opened :-). The guy who bought it was pretty excited to have it (which is t
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As I recall not much. (I wrote much of the original the AUTH_DH code with Whit's help if you're wondering and a bunch NIS+)
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I was a TECO user on RSX-11M, then switched to FINE (Fine Is Not EMACS :-)) on Top 10 & 20. When I started at Sun I started using vi but on the Amiga I continued to use MicroEMACS which felt a bit like FINE[1]. After Sun I pretty much s
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You can thank Tom Lyon for it. Tom pretty much did the entire RPC/XDR/NFS stack to kick things off.
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> oh. did i meet you there? Probably :-). Ron was a huge fan of Roger Needham's (and, ngl, I was too) and Roger along with Andy Birrell and others were on a kick to make RPCs "seamless" so that you could reason about them
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Was going to post something similar. I love me a screed where the author rails against some group saying they don't know what they are talking about, and then goes on to demonstrate that they don't know what they are talking about
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
In current email you get ANOTHER email that says the invite has been updated. While it changes "automagically" on your Calendar. That second email is critical.
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A small bit of historical context. When I was participating in the PKP meetings at RSADSI, I believe it was Ron who insisted that DER was the only reasonable choice if we were going to encode things with ASN.1 (which we were because both DE
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I believe this is exactly correct. Email is a 'paper trail' and being able to change that paper trail ex-post facto benefits the sender waaaaaaaaaaay more than it does the receiver. I met an engineer from Google who quit when
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
A very long time ago when I was at Sun we struggled with this. Sun added something called the 'translucent file system' among other things. There was briefly a thought of changing stat so that it would report "data" bein
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Fascinating, I drove by it and thought "Oh look, they forgot to take down the sign when the store closed." It will be interesting to see how they do. For computer stuff, Central Computers has been the 'go to' store for a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Remember that bit about billions of dollars every quarter in free cash flow? That's after spending on things like 'recruiting' and 'building another 50MW data center' kinds of expenses. If you're a startup, r
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is the kind of cool stuff I'm going to miss during the coming dark ages. When ever I read this in a paper: "The authors acknowledge support from NIH Training Grant No. T32GM145452 (A.T.G., C.S.O., and Z.L.), NIH Training Gran
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Alternative is that OpenAI is being quickly locked out of sources of human interactions because of competition, one way to "fix" that is build you're own meadow for data cows. xAI isn't allowing people to use the Twitter
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Yeah, I probably should have put firing in quotes since there are a zillion ways to get someone to leave. Being "Laid off" is a form of firing, telling someone all of their multipliers are being zeroed out so that they "quit&
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> Google is just really bad at this, but seems to think it's not bad at this. That is a very charitable way to look at it, when I worked their I started from that point as well. "Hey, this thing you just did, you did it really
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Ask HN: Slopsquat CVE?
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I'll give you a counter example. "Retirement." Nominally retirement is "forever" in that once you are retired your pension/savings/whatever is funding your existence needs. Having lived most of my life in
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That's an interesting paper and worth reading. Not sure it has answered my question but I did learn some things from it that I had not considered. This was the quote I resonated with :-) "... the discoveries we highlight here only
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This is exactly correct, LLMs did scale with huge data, symbolic AI did not . So why? One of the things I periodically ask people working on LLMs is "what does a 'parameter' represent? The simplistic answer is 'it&#x2

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