LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 3mo ago
NO2 and blood pressure is not the same as death
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Correction. More sun exposure is CORRELATED with being less likely do die. I don't think there's a single causal connection in this article.
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Which unity mcp do you use? I've been playing around with the official one, but was wondering what other folks use. Ran into a package conflict issue with the popular coplay one
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Fun exercise. Type in pokemon or japanese. You can really see the nearest neighbor text in embedding space. Pokemon gives passafes referencing animals and japanese passages referencing foreigners
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Pretty effective. You can even type in "child murder" and "genocide" and get relevant passages
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
John Carmack slaved away writing super optimized ground breaking realtime 3d game engine code that created a multibillion dollar industry. Adrian Carmack mostly took photographs of clay scultures (and in some cases actual plastic toys, in t
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Didn't Adrian Carmack (the art guy; no relation) get something like 10x more equity in the company than Carmack and Romero b/c of how badly they botched their cap table?
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Expensive, but corrected for inflation, around the price of a ps3 at launch, and the ps3 was sold as a loss leader when it came out
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
No I have not
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
There's an aspect to this which feels like part of it is that Zuckerberg himself is sliding into middle age. Facebook has been around for 20+ years now. The youthful exuberance of Web 2.0 has given way to the exuberance of an even grea
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Definitely not. If anything this arcana is what feeds the llms not the other way around. Imagine if you replaced "games engineering" with "political history" or "nuclear physics"
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery! I suppose there's still Quake 3 Arena and DOOM3 to complete the full "John Carmack" early 90s to early 2000s technical overview series. Or maybe something with the Sega Saturn. I he
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Lovely book. Skimming through it. One thing that might help contextualize it is a brief discussion of the how contemporary hardware like the SNES rendered sprites so efficiently compared to the PC hardware at the time. It's not obvious
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Someone ping Fabien Sanglard! Looks so much like his site!
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
I started building a VR game during COVID and released it 2024. When it released, I was using GPT and Copilot to add a lot of quality-of-life stuff (like visual juice) faster. Yesterday, I finally got around to setting Opus 4.8 on the codeb
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Unintended consequences of wiping out a species, evolved resistance to the gene drive modifications, accelerated unintended mutation, cross species jumps of the transgene.
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
When I was doing my PhD in bio one of my colleagues developed something called CRISPR gene drive, which had the potential of exterminating species wholesale. There was talk of using it to wipe out mosquito populations. The riskiness of it w
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
The obvious solution is to simply do more steps for larger sequences though, right? How exactly does this work with CoT?
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Does anyone know of the current intrinsic limitations with Diffusion text models compared to autoregressive? I ran this question by ChatGPT and Claude and they came up with limitations in GRPO RLVR, but I'm not sure..
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
This was exactly what I was thinking of. RLVR is the secret sauce behind o3 and its many successors. Its the secret sauce behind why the current models are so great at coding and soon to be unbeatable at math. LLMs can pose many questions a
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
I was learning Cloudformation IAC and Docker Compose stuff for my job. Had preview access to GPT-3. It could do most of this IAC stuff. Asked it to write a Dr. Seuss poem about Keynesian economics. This was around 2022. In hindsight, it wou
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Hmmmmm
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
You work there?
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
How is ANSA bio? I just got hit up by a recruiter for this company at random, and now I see them mentioned on Hackernews
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
I attended a talk by Brian at Stanford, and I asked why not just use Gibson assembly to stitch together 5 kb synthesized strands from a company like Twist Biosciences. The answer I got was along the lines that they were simply going to get
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by LarsDu88 4mo ago
Well its a real simple encoder I guess
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
I think the long term trend is typically the high end technology of today will be the mid to low tier technology of the future. If putting 1024 data pins all connected via a nanoscale manufactured silicon interposer right now seems complica
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
- For high end AI inference chips, DRAM already goes onto the interposer right next to the GPU to bring the bandwidth as high as possible. Apple will eventually do this for the exact same reasons. It's not just soldering RAM to a PCB
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Simply physically moving the RAM closer to compute can make communication faster. Ideally, RAM and compute should be combined. That's kind of what our brains do. We'll probably need more mature memristor technology to achieve that
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Right now, at this point in time, for applications like local AI and certain types of gaming, I would argue for most people having more VRAM is more useful than having faster VRAM. I personally now do more AI stuff and gaming on my M5 mac w

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