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by amluto 8mo ago
Indeed, and thanks. I edited it :)
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by amluto 8mo ago
> O(l n) If you don’t have large numbers of repeats of each element, then l needs to scale like O(log n), so O(l * n) is at least O(n log n). Fundamentally, what’s going on here is that switching between computation models can easily ad
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by amluto 8mo ago
Try versitygw. I’m considering it for a production deployment, too. There’s much to be said for a system that doesn’t lock your data in to its custom storage format.
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by amluto 9mo ago
> Frankly, RocksDB, SQLite or Postgres would be easy choices for that. (Fast) durable writes are actually a nasty problem with lots of little detail to get just right, or you end up with corrupted data on restart. For example, blocks may
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by amluto 9mo ago
> Creating a new record batch for a single row is also a huge kludge leading to lot of write amplification. Sure, except insofar as I didn’t want to pretend to be columnar. There just doesn’t seem to be something out there that met my (
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by amluto 9mo ago
You can do row by row appends to a Feather (Arrow IPC — the naming is confusing). It works fine. The main problem is that the per-append overhead is kind of silly — it costs over 300 bytes (IIRC) per append . I wish there was an industry
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by amluto 9mo ago
I think part of the point is that the SVG is the hard part. Gemini is quite good at generating images, but it’s trained to generate raster images.
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by amluto 9mo ago
> And sometimes it changed the existing code base to make its new code "pass", when it actually should fix its own code instead. I haven’t tried MiniMax, but GPT-5.2-Codex has this problem. Yesterday I watched it observe a Pyth
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by amluto 9mo ago
As far as I know I wasn’t banned or restricted or anything. The client just never managed to create a room or initiate a chat or whatever they called it.
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by amluto 9mo ago
On the two occasions I’ve tried to chat with someone on the public Matrix server, I was completely unable to get it to work. I’ve tried with the new Mac app and with some older thing years ago. So… choose your poison? I’m sure Matrix/
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by amluto 9mo ago
Let's do the math, conservatively. Suppose there's an event and the intent is to broadcast at 60 fps (which is on the high side) and that you want to be able to switch between cameras or even composite multiple camera feeds toget
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by amluto 9mo ago
Does that mean that anyone who contributes their own money to their child’s Trump account is contributing post-tax dollars but the money gets taxed again when distributed (presumably less the basis of the contribution, which will be negli
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by amluto 9mo ago
Off the top of my head: for a lot of OCR tasks, it’s kind of worse for the model to be smart. I don’t want my OCR to make stuff up or answer questions — I want to to recognize what is actually on the page.
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by amluto 9mo ago
> do time sync by having A/V sync and good clocks on each device and aligning based on audio loud enough to be recorded by all devices Why do you need good clocks? For audio, even with simultaneously playing speakers, you only need
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by amluto 9mo ago
Radio telescope dishes are huge so that they can receive (or even transmit in the case of Arecibo, which is gone now) a narrow beam. At long wavelengths you need something huge to get a narrow beam. But you can also use multiple, much sm
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by amluto 9mo ago
Today I asked an LLM (Codex whatever-the-default-is) to implement something straightforward, and it cheerfully implemented it twice , right next to each other, in the same file, and then wrote the actual code that used it and open-coded a
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by amluto 9mo ago
This article is lumps design and implementation together. In my experience, LLMs are really quite bad at designing anything interesting. They are sort of tolerable at implementation — they’re remarkably persistent (compared to humans, anywa
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by amluto 9mo ago
Most of the results here are in mice, but they apparently did a small pilot study in humans: https://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojEN.html?proj=176336 To the extent that there are results, they're paywalled. But, oddly, t
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by amluto 9mo ago
The problem with the GH front end being an unbelievably bloated mess will not be even slightly improved by moving to Azure.
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by amluto 9mo ago
> GitHub Agentic Workflows deliver this: repository automation, running the coding agents you know and love, in GitHub Actions, with strong guardrails and security-first design principles. GitHub Actions is the last organization I would
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by amluto 9mo ago
I’m pretty sure that the SMP kernel would boot on UP and vice versa, though.
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by amluto 9mo ago
It was really not that rare to want to move a disk from one system to another. Except that there was an obnoxiously high chance that Windows would refuse to boot.
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by amluto 9mo ago
They could have shipped both HALs. Or made it easy to switch which one was in use without reinstalling. CDs were around and hard drives weren’t that small at the time. (Or maybe the really early SMP versions predated widespread availabili
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by amluto 9mo ago
> Drivers in the UK must be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). I would like to see better tests. I have a pet theory that visual perception deficiencies along the
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by amluto 9mo ago
> She was worried about a friend who was travelling in a far-away city, with little timezone overlap when they could chat, but she could talk to ChatGPT anytime about what the city was like and what tourist activities her friend might be
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by amluto 9mo ago
> Radiate the shit out of it by spraying it into the vacuum, dispersing into the finest mist with highest possible surface, funnel the frozen mist back in after some distance, by electrostatic and/or electromagnetic means. Repeat. F
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by amluto 9mo ago
If you want something at all customized, it takes longer than that to receive the server. That being said, you can buy a server that will outperform anything the cloud can give you at much better cost.
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by amluto 9mo ago
Did you say “free market”? There is one provider. There is a lot of regulation, mostly incompetent. It’s a mess.
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by amluto 9mo ago
In the Bay Area there are little datacenters that will happily colocate a rack for you and will even provide an engineer who can swap disks. The service is called “remote hands”. It may still be faster to drive over.
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by amluto 9mo ago
I skimmed the paper, and I think I completely lost the plot. Sections 2.1 through 2.4 talk about the decomposing the per-token-pair attention (key vector from the ith token with query vector from the jth token, where, in inference, the jth

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