KirillPanov

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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Yes, quite a few in fact. That's why you'll see a lot of intentional mis-spellings like "virtual signaling".
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
You should be able to use a propane barbecue lighter at short distance; those things generate stupid amounts of EMI. https://hackaday.com/2022/01/29/blast-chips-with-this-bbq-li... https://hackaday
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
From the pastoralist's point of view their hunting grounds are being raided by agriculturalists. And it is states -- which are without exception agricultural socieities -- that are responsible for the vast majority of human slavery
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
This is unreadable. Please, either indent your paragraphs or else put more space between paragraphs than between lines which are part of the same paragraph. One or the other, or even both. If you do neither it is illegible.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> Why? Self-preservation results from survival of the fittest. It's totally unrelated to intelligence. People conflate the two because they're extrapolating from a sample size of one: the only intelligent thing they know of is
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
This. Also, llama.cpp now works (really well) with Radeon Instinct cards, which are stupid cheap because everybody thinks you need to buy nvidia stuff. Pcie bifurcation FTW!
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Moving the mouse causes the browser to enable fingerprintable APIs . You aren't paying with computation, you're paying with your data. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/near-infinite-loop-of-hum...
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Also, giant black obilisks surrounded by violent chimpanzees.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Only superficially. You should give the Fast Weight Programmers paper a chance, and a thorough reading. It sounds like you already appreciate a fair bit of its main point. The best part about the FWP paper is the derivation of an FWP equ
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Personally I think the key/value/query terminology is kind of crappy, but at this point we're stuck with it. Think of the "fast" network as being like a hashmap. It stores key-value pairs. You feed it a query, whi
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> misses the query/key/value weight Did you click the right link? The words "query", "key", and "value" are in the image! For the rest, you'll want to read the paper: https://arxi
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
No, I didn't! Before I came across that image (and the paper Linearized Transformers are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers ) I very much did not understand transformers. I had spent at least 20 hours with Attention Is All You Need
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Honestly this single image does a better job of explaining transformers than anything else I've ever seen: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fastweights754x288.png It's pretty damn simple: a linearized trans
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> software for 1 user. This bogus assumption is the whole problem with the "upstream or nothing" attitude. You're letting a single project -- and usually a single individual -- be the gatekeeper between you and the entire
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> someone who kept a similar amount of trail-less cash out of the bank avoiding banks is not a crime.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> where doing something on a 3GHz CPU clock running multiple instruction parallel gets outperformed by LUTs that runs at 700MHz Easy: go wide. Make the FPGA-CPU interface four times wider on the FPGA side than the CPU side. Each tick of
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
The "upstream or nothing" attitude is an attempt to erase any difference between free software and "visible source". Offering changes back to upstream is always encouraged, but whether or not it is accepted is largely i
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
IPFS is propped up by AI companies. When it becomes clear that their models were trained on library genesis, they are betting that "but our web crawler stumbled into it through cloudflare's gateway" will be a good enough excu
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> make 'data' types strict by default and 'codata' types lazy by default Coq has been doing exactly this for over a decade...
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
In Washington State escrow agents actually are attorneys -- but their practice is limited to one very specific area of law: real estate purchase contracts. https://www.wsba.org/for-legal-professionals/join-the-legal-.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Also the distance metric for r*-trees is just plain wacky for anything other than low-dimensional Euclidean space. Even if you could make it perform well, it would not do what you want.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> Now the complicated part is how to define a company. We don't want a single company to just split itself into 2 legal entities HN routinely seems unaware that this is a totally solved problem in the tax law of virtually every indu
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Two words: regulatory capture.
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
PM10 is a misleading and unhelpful metric. PM10 is basically woodburning stoves. PM2.5 is much more hazardous to your health, and produced by industrial processes to a greater degree. Using PM10 is just artificially tipping the scale to m
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> to wind back all the things that can perform it, meaning all computers Beware, they are attempting this. It's a big project; UEFI, secure boot, and the end of General Purpose Computing. But they will throw absolutely everything t
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> This is peak nerd-delusion to think that the state will somehow be stopped by your cypherpunk schemes. Nonsense. Encryption is legal. We got rid of the ITAR restrictions on encryption. We prevented Key Escrow and the Clipper Chip Man
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
> 911 obviously doesn't have to work given the blatant disregard Google has had Revoking all of their FCC approvals will fix this problem, and right quick. Use of the PCS cellular spectrum is conditioned on several things; spectrum
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by KirillPanov 3y ago
Actually it's kinda smart. cloudflare-ech.com is going to be blocked by the Great Firewall and every other state-level filtering apparratus approximately ten nanoseconds from whenever this blog was posted. Cloudflare needs a bunch of n

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