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by WJW 1y ago
Do you think this is some revolutionary insight you've stumbled upon? Most people already know this, and yet the system is still the way it is.
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by WJW 1y ago
Last week my primary task was writing a github action that needed to log in to Heroku and push the current code on main and development branches to the production and staging environments respectively. The week before that, I wrote some cod
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by WJW 1y ago
I don't think that's correct. It only shows renewable sources, and of those solar and wind are (obviously) the vast majority here in NL. But it's not even possible to enable showing coal and nuclear on that site, even though
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by WJW 1y ago
So what makes you think it is possible to precisely define such a frontier? And why should such a thing, if it is possible at all, be 1. doable by humans and 2. doable with the amount of energy and computing power available to us within the
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by WJW 1y ago
> If the complexity of chess is finite this is possible. This is like saying the distance to Mars is finite so it should be possible to just go and live there. It's not theoretically impossible, but at the time it is practically i
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by WJW 1y ago
We had an interesting case here in the Netherlands, where at the moment the biggest problem for big battery operations is to get sufficient grid transmission capacity. One clever company bought the site of a bankrupt aluminium smelter for c
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by WJW 1y ago
Not always, or rather not exclusively. For example, some types of distillation benefit from sparse-ifying the dense-ish matrices the original was made of [1]. There's also a lot of benefit to be had from sparsity in finetuning [2]. LLM
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by WJW 1y ago
If you have good enough (LSP+MCP) tooling, I'd expect that the LLM can learning quickly vs the LLM having lots of examples would converge towards being the same thing. At the very least it could generate many potential examples, put th
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by WJW 1y ago
I understand what GP meant, but extraction of values from a sparse matrix is an essential operation of multiplying two sparse matrices. Sparse matmult in turn is an absolutely fundamental operation in everything from weather forecasting to
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by WJW 1y ago
You can compile to javascript as well.
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by WJW 1y ago
What specific application do you have in mind that radix sort is more important than matrix multiplication?
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by WJW 1y ago
In an interesting way, the reverse is also here: some district heating plants use heat pumps to extract waste heat from sewage to provide efficient heat for district heating systems. See https://www.eneco.nl/en/about-us
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by WJW 1y ago
You don't have to guess about the military applications, it's all over the news. Even bog standard FPV drones that Ukraine is churning out at a rate of >100k/month have image recognition these days, so that if the video st
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by WJW 1y ago
Get some people down there with shovels and carts, same as any public works project earlier than ~1720.
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by WJW 1y ago
> I would blame the adoption of containerization for the lack of interest in XML standards, but by the time containerization happened, XML had been all but abandoned. It got abandoned because it sucks. New technology gets adopted because
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by WJW 1y ago
XML died because it sucks. Everyone who had to deal with it back in the day jumped to YAML and/or JSON as quickly as they could. Google didn't cause that, but because they're a search engine they followed it.
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by WJW 1y ago
You can have an issue with that if you want, but I won't be joining you. Put up your own money (or time!) if you want to keep XSLT. Personally I think there are many better ways to spend money than on features nobody uses. Even just gi
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by WJW 1y ago
Pretty cool! Adding kTLS is definitely an improvement. I made an actually zero-syscall per request server a few years ago (and blogged about it at https://wjwh.eu/posts/2021-10-01-no-syscall-server-iouring.h... ) but as
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by WJW 1y ago
Well yes? People get to decide what to do with their own money, and managers get to decide what to do with the companies' money. That's basically what being a manager means in the first place. They decided spending that money on m
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by WJW 1y ago
Not to mention at step 2 of my plan of getting to the moon by climbing progressively higher trees. Step 3 will come any day now!
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by WJW 1y ago
According to the comments that is just a variation of coppicing, which is several millennia old and practiced around the world. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing which also mentions the Japanese variant) Whi
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by WJW 1y ago
You can't just say "80% is wasted" when it's just wood that is used for other purposes than timber. Until we can convince Mother Nature to grow trees which are perfectly straight and preferably already square, the proces
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by WJW 1y ago
Why are there hundreds of food recipes in the world? Shouldn't the most delicious dish just kill all the others? In the end there will be only one dish and we will all eat only that.
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by WJW 1y ago
That is a very cool name for a kindle. Never stop believing in dragons! You could actually make them extinct that way.
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by WJW 1y ago
So the miners safeguard your money (hopefully), they are also responsible for actually transmitting your money (hopefully), and you don't take any deposits or make loans to customers. You don't hold your own money, you don't
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by WJW 1y ago
I didn't originally write this, but can't find the original place I read it anymore. I think it makes a lot of sense to repost it here: All of the World Of Darkness and Chronicles Of Darkness games are basically about coming of ag
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by WJW 1y ago
On the margin, that is true. But it also needs a situation where there are many competitors in any market, where consumers will choose only the best product at the best price instead of paying attention to politics/religion/locati
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by WJW 1y ago
No, it hasn't changed my approach. I open source things precisely because I don't care if other people profit from it or not. In fact, I *hope* the users of my code gain a better life because of it, just like how I hope the read
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by WJW 1y ago
Most businesses are indeed incompetent, but that's OK as it is usually not required to be all that competent to still make a lot of profit.
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by WJW 1y ago
I don't doubt that the people selected to walk on the moon were indeed fit and healthy, but it seems like a stretch to think that the people who flew on the earlier Apollo missions were selected to less stringent criteria. The selectio

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