ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Sorry for your loss Aaron. My father passed away just before Thanksgiving and it hit me harder than I expected (long illness, failing health, so I felt I was prepared but alas). Qmodem was for me the tool that IT gave everyone so they could
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is a good question, and it implies the definition of a parameter as a compression artifact/constant? If you've read chapter 4 of Feynman's lectures in computation where he talks about information coding, you get a sense
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As I mentioned in my edit, I'm not being snarky I'm really curious about this. I found your post very thought provoking. The JPEG example is a good one, and I was using the FFT in my edit which is like the magic in JPEG. The FFT c
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Okay, checking in here, so you see a 'parameter' as being an encoding? Is that like a unique encoding ? Like a bit pattern or more like a DNA pattern?
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on what a parameter in an LLM model represents.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I found this opinion piece or carter (also from the post) compelling: https://wapo.st/4gwS2JW From the piece: Carter helped restore trust in the presidency through ethics reforms more relevant today than ever before. He es
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Interesting that it takes an LLM with 405 BILLION parameters to accurately recall text from a document with slightly less than 728 THOUSAND words. (not quite three decimal orders of magnitude smaller but still).
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I have wondered if you could tow a barge with the processing, then incentivize the box transports to pull the barge along behind. There are challenges with seas and storms and things like the tow line breaking. I read a proposal for an air
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I agree with the author's point. It was the founding principle of "object oriented" programming in that once the object was a black box, you could just rely on it working and let go of the implementation details. But it is al
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Fun! I built a Crazyflie[1] back in the day which was bespoke 2.4GHz protocols (no ESP32 at the time) so this is a great upgrade to that. Also the use of a single low side MOSFET as the motor controller makes it simpler and cheaper at the e
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This was a very fun video. Both the technology involved and the passion of someone collecting these things.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I like this comment, it is exceptionally insightful. Any interesting question is "How is programming like trading securities?" I believe an argument can be made that the bulk of what goes for "programming" today is simpl
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
One of the few groups that gets it are truckers who still use CB (27MHz) but even they are becoming fewer.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The ability to push it through the air isn't there. You end up dumping a lot of power into the transmitter which then just heats the air around it rather than go anywhere because the oxygen is absorbing it. It is however great for a no
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I too have been watching the 900 MHz stuff as I have a number of unlicensed long range devices (1W ERP) that work in that range. The paranoid folks believe the FCC is trying to move all of the unlicensed stuff into the GHz+ range to limit
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It will be interesting to see if this work will help us understand why the universe isn't half anti-matter.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Apologies for not being clear, 3270s are VERY different from the terminals that connect to mini-computers and the VT-series from DEC. That said, the product capability that mini-computers were going after was to replace mainframes, and ma
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Wonderful article, and I really enjoyed rogue. I was first exposed to it when doing a port of BSD to the Data General NOVA and it was part of the distribution. I would pick one nit with the history though, CRT computer terminals were absolu
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I get that for state of the art fabs. Those optimize for long runs on big wafers. My question though is can you find a solution at a different node which favors cost/turnaround at the expense of not scaling? For example, could one make
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Node size and price / sq mm? The last time I looked at what it would cost to have a partial wafer it was > $25,000 (of which slightly more than half was NRE charges) but would love to find something "hobbyist accessible."
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
When I interned at IBM and this was a big deal. IBM was really invested on being "vertically" integrated "from sand to software" as they would say. One wonders what another run at this concept would be like given advance
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Technicalities! But its a good point. I was thinking unsupported fabric as would be found in clothing vs something strapped into a frame. A vague neuron in mine brain has faint memories of 'silk tweeters' in the Rogers Sound Labs
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is a pretty interesting paper. I was not aware of the acoustic properties of silk (a fabric that continues to surprise me). The ability to actively dampen noise emission would obviously be of interest to ninja assassins but as someone
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
A lawyer could advise you. My guess is that getting a registered receipt for certified mail addressed to their general counsel would be sufficient evidence for the courts that you had notified them but your lawyer will know better than I do
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
"Inside every amplifier is an oscillator trying to get out."
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I remain sad at this and other moves by Microsoft to generate recurring revenue from their operating system. Having lived from before the start of "PC software" to the present, one of the things that warped people was that as the
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
When I toured Jacques Littlefield's Tank Ranch they had, what I believe to be, this exact tank. They told the story of how it had been lost in the river and sat there and they went to see if it was still there and arranged to get it re
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is an awesome house and a great story. I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house (and did you leave the gear with it? It looks like you bought all new computers for the new
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is an excellent pointer. Thanks!
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is so great, I love it. I don't have amnesia but I have lots of trouble remembering what I was going to work on next and used an e-paper display[1] to help with that. My code is a lot simpler (as the display only has an ESP32 and

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