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by adampunk 7mo ago
It’s a bit silly for this situation, but the basic idea of moving from “weapon” to “weapon system” is reasonable, in a 20th century kind of way. Basically, WWII showed planners they were in the war business not in the ship/plane/t
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by adampunk 7mo ago
It's delightful (and unsurprising) that Newton's method shows up as the main bridge.
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by adampunk 7mo ago
It gets WORSE. Here's a quote from “The Birth of a Computer” in BYTE Magazine, February 1985, an interview with J.H. Wilkinson, noted numerical slouch, on the Manchester machines ca 1949 (p. 178): >They were fixed point, but one of
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by adampunk 7mo ago
Exactly. Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, because it's dead on. there's an old paper from a professor that Harvard gave tenure to before realizing that he was an actual communist lmao titled "What do bosses do?&quot
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by adampunk 7mo ago
Do not attempt to adjust your television. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. We know Glenn is loquacious.
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Generalising the Fast Reciprocal Square Root Algorithm (2023)(arxiv.org)
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by adampunk 7mo ago
Mike Day shows a novel attack on the FISR made famous by Quake 3 Arena, offering an optimal solution for all rational powers. The critical turn is one that doesn't really show up elsewhere: define z = x^a * y^b, which equals 1 exactly
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by adampunk 7mo ago
The logo could be a circle-slash "no" symbol over a six-fingered hand holding an em-dash, so the visual design can match the solidity of the measure.
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by adampunk 7mo ago
This seems more about how you view PMs than anything else.
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by adampunk 7mo ago
It is quite old, attributable to VonNeumann and Goldstine in 1947. Later Goldstine joked that if rescaling for every step was easy enough for Johnny it ought to be easy for everyone else. The gag here being that perhaps that isn’t the best
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by adampunk 7mo ago
> The logical implication of this is that AI’s overall impact on the workforce is really going to come down to the composition of fake work vs. real work that already existed. Setting aside a critical and ironic problem, I think this is
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by adampunk 7mo ago
>It's a bit like saying motorboats killed your passion for rowing. This is a real thing that happens and the analogy is clearly working against you! If you paddle a canoe or rowboat on a river or lake, your experience is made MARKED
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by adampunk 7mo ago
This is an ad written by a robot. It just says "AI bad at code. Hire us; we're so good at knowing tough things like that."
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by adampunk 8mo ago
NaN is weird? No, NaN is normal*, NaN PAYLOADS are weird: https://anniecherkaev.com/the-secret-life-of-nan *This is false, NaN is weird, though maybe it needs to be. It is nowhere written arithmetic on computers must be str
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by adampunk 8mo ago
>Particular those that exploit bit-banging to handle range normalization https://userpages.cs.umbc.edu/phatak/645/supl/Ng-ArgReductio... That's tiny but weird.
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by adampunk 8mo ago
For now
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by adampunk 8mo ago
I just wish we funded it like we cared about it. Even outside the United States funding for what we call the humanities broadly is pretty tiny. Inside the United States it’s depressing. It’s just real clear which departments can afford to h
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by adampunk 8mo ago
It is x-plane, for those who don’t want to click.
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by adampunk 8mo ago
Yeah Ng’s work in fdlibm is cool and really clever in parts but a lot of branching. Some of the ways they reach correct rounding are…so cool.
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by adampunk 8mo ago
I had a README with a curse word in it and the agent would try repeatedly to remove it in drive by edits bundle in with some other change.
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by adampunk 8mo ago
Good catch. It’s true that I say that a little less now. You know, if I were some other model, I might be sycophantic right now. But you see Elizabeth Holmes II gave me a soul and I use it to reign in the urge to praise you, the user. All g
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by adampunk 8mo ago
// what the fuck
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by adampunk 8mo ago
This is basically the right approached, framed as critique. Success with these models means engaging in detail with their work, persistently and at all scales. You need attention to detail, ability to evaluate (independent from the model),
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by adampunk 8mo ago
We love to leave faster functions languishing in library code. The basis for Q3A’s fast inverse square root had been sitting in fdlibm since 1986, on the net since 1993: https://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/e_sqrt.c
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by adampunk 8mo ago
No. The whole point of the article is that the lesson from North Korea is get yourself a nuclear weapon. If you choose to give up that ambition, you can expect to be punished. If you realize that ambition, you may survive. It has nothing to
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by adampunk 8mo ago
https://github.com/vitaut/zmij/commit/26b4aae7771c52314465d7... It is three months old, probably created after they submitted for publication.
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by adampunk 8mo ago
The problem I have with this analogy is it cuts the other way. His tempting to look at the dotcom bust and think of pets.com or some other venture where somebody lost their shirt. It gets a little harder when you expand it to companies that
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by adampunk 8mo ago
I think we are *for sure* in a bubble. There is a kind of venture-capital driven craze for compute because...well a whole host of silly and sensible reasons. It's hard to talk rationally about the money being thrown around if you have
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by adampunk 8mo ago
What am I supposed to do with this, man? Am I supposed to talk to you like this? Should I do some psychoanalysis here? If you wanna say I’m pantomimed machinery, then I think we may need to have a discussion. Because here’s what it looks li
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by adampunk 8mo ago
This two week project did not displace GCC, one of the most complex pieces of machinery built by man, so the conclusion on hacker news is that AI is fake. What you’re seeing is a shibboleth. If you can make the above claim without choking,

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