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by a-dub 2mo ago
i don't think that's true. i still have a thinkeco ac modlet that coned sent me years ago as part of some kind of "make your ac smart" promotion. if you turn those knobs to the off position while the compressor is runnin
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by a-dub 2mo ago
that's a fun project. i'd be a little concerned about the servos failing to fully switch the switches or placing wear on them, maybe a dangerous failure mode where it is switched into and left in an in-between state unattended tha
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by a-dub 2mo ago
for a given expert, do you have a sense for what the spatiotemporal access pattern looks like?
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by a-dub 2mo ago
let me try arguing it this way: it is impossible for a non-tail-call-optimized recursion to use constant space. the stack grows with O(depth) and therefore memory usage does as well. a consequence of this is that the finite storage lru cach
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by a-dub 2mo ago
maybe the wrong terminology, but non-tail-call-optimized recursions spray their state across space with each iteration consuming a new stack frame, where iterative algorithms live in one stack frame and can re-use temporaries. the state spr
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by a-dub 2mo ago
lol. i once interviewed with facebook and had some "senior" dev on the phone who was balking and grousing at my claim that iterative algorithms are faster than recursive ones. the minute i mentioned spatial locality, he went quie
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by a-dub 2mo ago
> The multi-agent workflow led to interesting dynamics. For example, the key idea in producing this attack was discovered by a pair of workers working together. Both started investigating the idea; the first worker prematurely rejected t
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by a-dub 2mo ago
i tend to think of this stuff in terms of top down information theoretic approaches to composition and bottom up psychophysics of auditory perception. there is some cool work out there where physicists attempt to compute information content
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by a-dub 2mo ago
it's actually an interesting question: is there a point where the long acting prep injections have effective durations that look like vaccines and boosters. and yes, sadly, it appears that convenience and some of the psychological aspe
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by a-dub 2mo ago
the bletchley park trust sells (used to?) pamphlets in the gift shop that they call "reports" which have been written by some of the rebuild team and other associates.
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by a-dub 2mo ago
the nmc is most interesting, but also pretty cool to see turing's office in hut 8 (i guess the portable classroom like structure for a computer lab is a trope that goes all the way back to the beginning)!
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by a-dub 2mo ago
that's what i was describing! :) it's on the bletchley site (they share a parking lot) and was where tony sale and friends rebuilt the colossus. although i just looked. critically they have different ticket offices. it was a long
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by a-dub 2mo ago
knowledge graph guided task synthesis. very cool! i have long wondered about the "how do you get good coverage of all the tasks" problem. maybe some interesting theoretical work there around the rate of production of new knowledge
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by a-dub 2mo ago
i had the opportunity to visit bletchley about sixteen years ago... one interesting detail was that all the colossus machines were destroyed after the war as they were seen as too powerful and dangerous. it wasn't until years later tha
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by a-dub 2mo ago
use encryption and keys for all socket connections to adb, listen on 0.0.0.0 and unify the wifi thing with the socket thing, add an app level permission that allows apps to access an ephemeral system key via the binder to enable libadb styl
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by a-dub 3mo ago
i'm not totally sold on writing prose by hand. it's still a little too uncomfortable for me. but, for doing mathematics or memorizing things, i have specific rituals built around handwriting that i finally figured out how to make
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by a-dub 3mo ago
it's actually very stable on x86_64 these days, even with optimus.
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by a-dub 3mo ago
> The takeaway might be that historic data of market data might often be enough to make a reasonable prediction. Only external data that nobody else has (used) can make your prediction better then the market. that's basically the de
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by a-dub 3mo ago
something like that would be interesting. i just get the sense that doing it metadata blind would result in something that learns a somewhat brittle short-time covariance-like structure that doesn't use all available information to ach
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by a-dub 3mo ago
i think i remember seeing an unlockable bootloader on the remarkable?
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by a-dub 3mo ago
> Given the lack of forecasting signal, the obvious next step then is to seek out external (exogenous) features in the real world that can help prediction models. this seems right to me. maybe another interesting approach would be a fusi
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by a-dub 3mo ago
woah! there's a whole genre of old, abandoned and dilapidated bowling alley pics on the internet and it's amazing. thank you for that! and yes, you should post pics and stories like when jwz renovated the dna lounge. (i think one
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by a-dub 3mo ago
> If you are using Perforce as an enterprise system, $500 is peanuts. Perforce can get pricey. i think it was $600/seat back when i paid attention (20+ years ago). don't remember if it was perpetual or annual. > However, I c
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by a-dub 3mo ago
it's just not as interesting to me when it's no longer evidence of careful and deep thought paired with high quality execution and skillful craft. plus all the claude-isms get old.
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by a-dub 3mo ago
> It seems possible they trained this by doing full RL rollouts of agents interacting with each other. They likely view these prompts somewhat the same as raw reasoning traces, they don't want people to train directly on them. this
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by a-dub 3mo ago
how hardened are modern browsers with respect to detecting underlying os? seems like there would be loads of gaps?
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by a-dub 3mo ago
it's kinda like riding an e-bike, but in heavy and unpredictable pedestrian traffic.
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by a-dub 3mo ago
sounds like it is just supercharging the business of science with all of its known failings? it would be funny if by accelerating the enterprise it actually forced an effort to correct the trajectory.
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by a-dub 3mo ago
even though there's still a lot of work to push things over the finish line, i have enjoyed how much it has reduced the activation energy for starting and finishing "one of these days..." projects!
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by a-dub 3mo ago
it will be interesting to see if any new formats emerge. if ai kills the take home, what can replace it for similar "let's see how far you can go if you have resources available" style examinations? maybe we'll see speci

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