Matumio

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by Matumio 3y ago
Most backup tools allow you to verify a random subset, say 0.1% of the backup. If you do that together with every backup you would eventually notice.
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My heat pump: a personal story about a broken heating industry(greenallianceblog.org.uk)
32 points by Matumio 3y ago|95 comments
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by Matumio 3y ago
Yes there is a wealth tax in Switzerland, but... it would have to be much higher to make a difference. Raising it will not pass a referendum, which it practically has to in Switzerland. It has one big advantage, though: official numbers abo
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by Matumio 3y ago
It works on Linux. But you'll notice every now and then how it just doesn't quite want to fit in, especially the developer tooling around it. It's not that it doesn't work, you just stumble over minor annoyances that don
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by Matumio 3y ago
With the right small neural network architecture you could probably just repeat random weight initialization until you find one that works. This is known to work for some of the Atari games. The trick is, of course, to engineer a good input
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by Matumio 3y ago
The second reason. Companies that are worse at getting people to self-exploit tend to do worse financially, and thus tend to disappear. Of course, if too many people quit or burn out, then the company will go bust, too. The optimum will be
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by Matumio 3y ago
If you have a Mastodon account somewhere you will be able to interact/follow. Posts are not just going got flood over, though. Each Mastodon instance has its own local view into the fediverse, and discoverability depends on what other
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by Matumio 3y ago
That's RELU, which clearly belongs to the realm of AI. Dangerous stuff.
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by Matumio 3y ago
Yes. And copying does not equal stealing. While we're rambling about broken metaphors, pirates have to physically get you and threaten violence. Imagine if they just copied your car or newspaper instead, without breaking anything.
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by Matumio 3y ago
I didn't believe all the hate until I watched someone unfamiliar with Linux set up an empty Electron project in WSL. After we hit the third "Linux"-bug that turned out to only happen in WSL, I suggested to maybe just install
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by Matumio 3y ago
> C++ is not a runaway nuclear fire which contaminates and melts everything around it when it comes to sanity and security. Not sanity, maybe. But security? How much more would it take to declare a nuclear meltdown: https://al
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by Matumio 3y ago
This is the way you use a gun. What a flowery blossoming place this world would be. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares
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by Matumio 3y ago
Back in those days, GIMP was just barely usable for painting, and Krita was mainly good for crashing. Both have come a long way since then. GIMP is still mainly an "image manipulation" program. It got better at painting, too, but
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by Matumio 3y ago
> not totally sure about TDD itself - the "don't write any code without a red test" part I'm not into TDD, but I'm absolutely into "never skip the red phase". After fixing a bug or writing a test, I alw
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by Matumio 3y ago
For those who missed what happened back then, the AlphaGo Movie is really worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y Not very technical, not about Go tactics either, but it's just a very well-done movi
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by Matumio 3y ago
And in art, you are even encouraged to copy anyone's work, except your own. Getting inspired by another artist is great.
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by Matumio 3y ago
If you like the puzzle of firing thrusters manually, try "ΔV: Rings of Saturn". The game is 2D, but you get six keys to individually fire different thruster combos, and a separate key to fire the main engine. Then try staying in c
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by Matumio 3y ago
The Mandelbrot example seems to make interpreted Python stand in for "the CPU performance"? If that's true, then I'm surprised they only see a 10x speed-up. I would expect more from only compiling that loop for the CPU.
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by Matumio 3y ago
> When faced with multiple tasks, a CPU allocates its resources to address each task one after the other Ha! I wish CPUs were still that simple. Granted, it is legitimate for the article to focus on the programming model. But "CPUs
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by Matumio 3y ago
First note the difference between "it's simulating the human brain" and "it's behaving in an intelligent way". Only one of the two requires tracking of blood sugar levels (to explain fatigue) and controlling mo
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by Matumio 3y ago
It won't ever simulate the human brain. It may simulate human cultural knowledge, or emotions, but only as far as they are encoded in the current millennium's written knowledge. The human brain doesn't even have the concept o
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by Matumio 3y ago
It's convenient because of the small size. I once got an bigger "upgrade" for my small wacom tablet, but it only collected dust. It used too much space on the desk to always keep it ready, and the larger active area meant t
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by Matumio 3y ago
> Imagine [...] solar panels mounted a few meters off the ground, dump the carbon under the panels. When I try to imagine that, I can't help it. I see leaves mounted on top of a tree. Using solar power to bind carbon into a dense tr
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by Matumio 3y ago
Basically the northern hemisphere has more land/forest. When it's summer there, trees turn CO2 into wood much faster. Until mushroom season. (It's more complex of course, and not just the trees.)
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by Matumio 3y ago
> You are gatekeeping with strawmen. Love the image. "Hey you! No visual aids go into this town! One more step, and my strawmen will React!" But the accountant with the abacus continued towards the east gate. He squeezed betwee
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by Matumio 3y ago
I went to a routine check-up at the ophthalmologist. Later I got an email with the PDF bill. Except the PDF wasn't in the email. I had to visit the site of whatever service provider they use. I had to login with 2FA and accept their te
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by Matumio 3y ago
Pretty sure they use "open source" in a fair way here. Others are able to grab their sources and legally publish builds that are pretty much identical (up to the telemetry...). What you're looking for is the "anti-featur
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by Matumio 3y ago
Yes, the author's background matters when judging the value of a text. A nobel laureate is usually correct about the basics of their own field. I wouldn't trust a 10 year old child's knowledge about poisons. Even though some
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by Matumio 3y ago
They also didn't define DTLB, ALU, or CPU for that matter. I thought it was a good choice. They were assuming deep familiarity with modern CPU architectures through the whole text, so a one-sentence definition of all the terms would ei
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by Matumio 3y ago
I think what you describe ("confidence about the next token") is the entropy of the model's output. A model can be very certain about the next token (its output has low entropy) but if it is usually wrong on the text you meas

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