SethTro

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by SethTro 3y ago
I love my ESP32-S series. I use them in tons of LED projects[1]. Sadly it seems WS2812b are fundamentally incompatible, under FreeRTOS, with wifi due to timing glitches from interrupts. In my next two project I'm going to have to run t
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by SethTro 3y ago
LLVM merge: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118029 Benchmark: https://bit.ly/3AtesYf Benchmark seems to be in the range of a 1-5% improvement for 80% of sizes.
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by SethTro 3y ago
Right out of the bag lots of wasted lines word_bag: dict[str, int] = dict() # Multiset for line in raw_corpus: words = line.split() for word in words: if word in word_bag: wor
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by SethTro 3y ago
Another factor in favor of 8 bits is that inference speed will generally be 2x faster than a larger model at 4 bits.
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Dropbox: After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love(dropbox.tech)
3 points by SethTro 3y ago|0 comments
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by SethTro 3y ago
Moderately different; Particularly with respect to how to performance. If I read this correctly immortal objects stop changing refcount which prevents cache line invalidation while `gc.freeze()` just stops cleaning up objects with zero refc
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by SethTro 4y ago
https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/22/982 Seems to be a known errata which was fixed by a microcode update
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by SethTro 4y ago
(1022362 + 82432) gpu-hours / 2048gpus / 5 months ~= 15% uptime. That's only 0.08 nines of availability! I remember in one of their old guidebooks a lot of struggle to keep their 64 machine (512 gpu) cluster running this was
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by SethTro 4y ago
Some discussion of remaining infinite BB(5) machines yesterday in [1][2] [1] https://www.sligocki.com//2023/02/02/skelet-34.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689068 and
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by SethTro 4y ago
No, they choose a percentage of income for housing, I think 30% or 35%, and calculate from that so 50K * 1.2 * 0.3 = 18K/year = $1500/month
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by SethTro 4y ago
Should have [2021]
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by SethTro 4y ago
Do you know the subject line of the follow up email (for those laid off)?
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by SethTro 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844057
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by SethTro 4y ago
A good blog post has lots of hard parts (layout, scope, visuals, audience). Laurence Tratt, you nailed it for me! I loved the details you put in "Benchmarking methodology" and the clean layout with instructive visuals.
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by SethTro 4y ago
You can 3D print cones if you have access to a 3d printer. I've made a few larger and smaller sets for work, travel, home. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3784941
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by SethTro 4y ago
The paper has only a single benchmark reported from a single system where they report > In our performance test, we see a speedup of 18.2x, saturating and even surpassing this estimated theoretical upper bound. IMHO if you exceed your th
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by SethTro 4y ago
Title is a bit sensational: Should really be "1/4 of SF charging stations are broke". They rounded 22.7% up to 33.3% bypassing the more logical/sensibleness 25%
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by SethTro 5y ago
I hate absolute ratings (e.g. 5/5 with 1 vote being ranked higher than 4.99/5 with 100 votes). All the top games seem to have 1 report giving everything positive ratings so that other fabulous games with more ratings but say a 4.9
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by SethTro 5y ago
https://oshpark.com/ is my favorite for low volume runs. You get 3 copies for $5/in^2
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by SethTro 5y ago
It is highly unlikely that the duplicate portions of the file will have an offset that's a multiple of 2^16 which would be required for chunks to have matching hashes. On the client side you could theoretically run lbfs over your files
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by SethTro 5y ago
In practice yes, Museums occasionally clean & restore their paintings which shifts the color balance, grain, texture similar ways. There's a some great pre/post conservation photo in this article: http://blogs.getty
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by SethTro 5y ago
They did a follow up randomized experiment where people jumped out of planes (at 2ft) with and without parachutes. https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/02/breakthrough-resea...
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by SethTro 5y ago
The start packet should contain something from the server like the level seed, so you can't "start" without it.
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Glitter Factory (2018)(nytimes.com)
1 points by SethTro 5y ago|0 comments
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by SethTro 5y ago
> White is now down a piece, but he has a strong pawn center, and the bishop pair. White is in trouble. The position is still With no bishops on the board...
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by SethTro 5y ago
> more than 99 percent of art thieves are motivated by profit rather than aesthetics. This is why art crimes are typically solved on the back end, when the thieves try to sell the work. But with Breitwieser, law enforcement's chief
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by SethTro 5y ago
I find the first argument, that if you're project is in GitHub then they have the right to train in it, weak. Plenty of projects are hosted elsewhere but have been mirrored by random users (e.g. not the copyright holder) to GitHub
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by SethTro 5y ago
I diffed down to understand why Open Office (1663 consistent with Microsoft Office) differs from Google Docs (1655). "ago--never": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2 words. "tiger-lillies--what": G docs 1 word vs OpenOffice 2
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by SethTro 5y ago
Discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094925 Side note, I'm happy to call Bruce a friend in the real world where he's an equally talented juggler and runner.
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by SethTro 5y ago
Leolabs is tracking as well. Their data suggests a slightly lower but >2% chance of collision https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1380549507390259203

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