amoss

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by amoss 3y ago
Upgrading hardware is an ongoing process. You are proposing a single point of change without any reason for it to be handled that way. You are arguing that all change has the same cost. I don't see your reasoning for this. A smaller ch
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by amoss 3y ago
So how many backbone routers are 20 years old? Your claim was that any change to the ASIC was the same design cost. But really? A 40-bit routing table design, where there is a 32-bit fall-back to preserve the top 8-bits vs a 128-bit routing
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by amoss 3y ago
Nah, hardware people just don't negotiate hard enough. Add a one-byte option into the header, give it an unassigned value (e.g. 6) and assume that any box that does not understand it will pass it through unchanged. Use it as the most s
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by amoss 3y ago
People hate kludges and backward compatibility, but IPv4.1 with 5-byte addresses would have been the dominant standard by now.
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by amoss 3y ago
Tabs in makefiles is another classic.
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by amoss 3y ago
The reasoning in that essay comprises pedantry and poor judgement. Language reflects usage. Accepting that a particular usage has existed for hundreds of years, but claiming it is too novel to be correct is quite bizarre.
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by amoss 3y ago
We've reached an inflection point, the new version would be: Nvidia can sell twice as many transitors for twice the price every 18 months.
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by amoss 3y ago
The CFO read an article in Forbes that said we would save money by migrating to the cloud, so we now have an unlimited budget for consultants to build us a cloud platform....
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by amoss 3y ago
Latency and throughput are not inverses, although they may exhibit anti-correlation over small ranges. A low latency does not imply high throughput. In particular xterm does not buffer input / rendering, so while individual keystrokes
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by amoss 3y ago
Only partly, the argument that OVPN put forward had two parts: 1. They have no information to hand over as they do not keep logs. 2. There is no law that requires them to keep logs. They proved the first part in court, but there wasn't
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by amoss 3y ago
The estimate is 100 000 casualities (20k dead and 80k wounded), and it seems to be correlated with several different intelligence sources. The number is news because Russia is waging a large-scale invasion of another country using cannon fo
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by amoss 3y ago
> Today, thought leaders casually opine on how and where ML will be useful, and MBAs feel like this is an acceptable substitute for expert opinion. Sounds like standard operating procedure.
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by amoss 3y ago
I choose not to choose Java. I choose life.
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by amoss 3y ago
This could be true if you consider survivor bias.
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by amoss 3y ago
An interpretation that is obvious can be easy to arrive at - but that does not make it correct, only low effort. If the test had not failed then it was not ambitious enough. If they had not pushed the rocket to its current breaking point th
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by amoss 3y ago
If it is based on an LLM trained on the internet then it is probably outputing "gib moar srvrs plz" every twenty seconds.
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by amoss 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation - interesting link. The same sort of rigidity appears in functional programming styles, where is bound more tightly into the data definition. I'm thinking about the sum types in Haskell for example, where the
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by amoss 3y ago
There is some kind of bottleneck shown in Table 4 and I can't see what it is by reading the text in section 7. The IPC/core drops from about 2.5 to 1.5 for the same stall rate at the number of cores is increased?
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by amoss 3y ago
What connection are you drawing between the two? BNF is used to define language grammars. Prolog is written using Horn clauses. There is not an obvious connection.
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by amoss 4y ago
Does your model explain the need for a minimum wage?
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by amoss 4y ago
* People like to eat. * Capitalists don't like to give people money. * People will not work for free. Just about covers it.
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by amoss 4y ago
For the ongoing maintenance costs I have assumed that the costs per GW are given with respect to faceplate capacity. You have assumed (or know) that they relate to the useful output. I went back to check in the source document (and in refer
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by amoss 4y ago
How many liquidity injections and financial bailouts we will need over the twenty year timescale in the plan? One advantage of this plan is that it provides a direct liquidity injection and provides demand in several key industries. It goes
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by amoss 4y ago
There are two factors that you have not addressed: - Ongoing maintenance costs (the numbers are in table 5, but essentially wind requires 2x the maintence cost of solar on shore, and the ratio is worse off shore). - Material used in constru
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by amoss 4y ago
Perhaps this is more what you are looking for: throw together a playlist with a particular "vibe". Doesn't have to be large, 5-10 tracks works fine. Either switch on enhanced and look at the suggestions, or use the separate s
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by amoss 4y ago
uptime 8:26 up 38 days, 9:49, 4 users, load averages: 1.59 1.51 1.60
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by amoss 4y ago
The number of tokens in the training set is not a good measure of the information content of the training set - if it was then the training would not work as the training set would be statistically random. The Kolmogorov complexity of the t
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by amoss 4y ago
> It amazes me that it understands spatial layouts from training only on text such that it can draw physically accurate diagrams, and it understands graphics libraries well enough to draw with them. Is there evidence of this? The Whiteho
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by amoss 4y ago
That's interesting. What kind of problems?
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by amoss 4y ago
- autonomously design, code and distribute whole apps (but not the most complex ones) This is a bold claim. Today LLMs have not been demonstrated to be capable of synthesizing novel code. There was a post just a few days ago on the performa

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