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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
if we're sharing tunes from lesser-known artists on Bandcamp- the clever timpani line in this track will sound familiar to anyone who has ever heard Pet Sounds :) I thought it was a very appropriate appropriation of a famous Brian Wils
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
I encourage everyone to listen to his 1988 solo album self named “Brian Wilson”. It’s brilliant. Frequently called “Pet Sounds ‘88” since many fans consider it to be a spiritual sequel. The 80s synth dressing might seem off putting at first
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
> Again, Mike Pemulis is lecturing Hal, but this time he is helping Hal prepare for the college board exams. Pemulis states that for the function x^n, the derivative is nx + x^(n-1). In fact, the correct expression is nx^(n-1). This
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
I'm suspecting this is because future Apple Intelligence features (when they actually get released) will allow LLMs to write notes, and of course we all know markdown is well understood by LLMs.
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
just saying, the comment you just wrote could have appeared, word for word, on any HN discussion in the last 20 years. The only words that would have to change are "PopOS" / "Arch" / "Manjaro" for mor
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
They are talking a lot about this new engine - I'd love to see details on how it's actually implemented. Given llama.cpp is a herculean feat, if you are going to claim to have some replacement for it, an example of how you did it
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by andy_xor_andrew 1y ago
ok, I'm hooked - how is setting an env var in the current process unsafe? My gut says it's not unsafe in a memory-ownership sense, but rather in a race condition sense? whatever the issue is, "setting an env var is unsafe&quo
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I'm super excited for this! But it makes me curious. What's the process like for getting such a low-level primitive added to Linux? Especially a low-level primitive that 1) exist basically just to emulate behavior of a completely
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Thanks, this looks great. I've been playing with Huggingface's Smolagents, which is fun to tinker with and relatively easy to read through. But it is so tightly coupled to its two agent implementations - ToolAgent and CodeAgent -
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
cool site, have you considered using asciicinema instead of screenshots? Seems like the perfect tool for what you're trying to do https://asciinema.org/
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Great to see. AlphaGo inspired me so much, right as I was taking ML courses in college. Right as I was learning about Q-Learning in college, they published Deep Q-Networks / AlphaGo. It really lit a spark in me.
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
on this topic, I have been wondering lately - what's with China's dominance in the battery science area? Is it still true that they're the only ones who can make LiFePO batteries? Is anyone else working on production of these
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I wouldn't go that far, but I agree, my reaction to reading the details was to go "huh?" From the title, my best guess was they applied some kind of RL/GRPO to an existing model. But... they took an existing model that h
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo): There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually bloc
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Essentially yes, because they work for you and me. Why would you expect that people who serve the public could remain unknown to the public ?
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Maybe the "community notes" model isn't so bad after all
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I guess it's a matter of informing the public that homomorphic encryption means no information is visible to Apple, so Apple never receives any information about your pictures at all. I guess you could make the argument "well what
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Apple always seems to design services the way a privacy-obsessed nerd would, (if you forced said privacy nerd to design a P2P tracking network). It's like, "oh, you want all your photos to be searchable, like 'dogs' or &
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Respectable and advisable? No. Smart? Yes. Their audience here is the incoming administration, which is founded on party loyalty and an "us-vs-them" mindset, where "them" are the corrupt elites. They're making a bet
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
it's definitely an interesting topic, because my skeptical mind is easily split in one of two ways- either 1) it's a real phenomena that is under-diagnosed and ignored by medical professionals (something I believe happens) or 2) i
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
is it weird that my first reaction upon reading the title is “a product with Firefox in the name isn’t already open source??”
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
to be honest, this is far better news than I was expected, and sooner, too. is anyone else besides Intel making ~4nm* node wafers on US soil? *yes I know I know I know about the misnomer with using nm measurements nowadays
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
the style of ChatGPT always reminds me of bad fanfiction. Which I guess makes sense. There is a lot of bad fanfiction floating around on the web. The hallmarks of this style are easy to spot. Lots of vacuous sentences, which (usually) mak
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
US chip production really needs its SpaceX moment, but it seems like it will never happen, and we're left with the crumbling empire of Intel. By "SpaceX moment", I mean a startup entering an impossible market, where the barri
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
regarding the "security" aspect, I'm interested in what an attack vector would look like against a build system like, say you are building code, and all the below functions are compilers, and * denotes an evil compiler. Every
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
Will -—disable-gil ever be the default that should be targeted by everyone? Or will python have “requires-gil” libraries and “allows-no-gil” libraries?
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
maybe dumb question, but what accounts for SD card density improvements? what's the primary factory that allows fitting more and more memory? is it transistor shrinkage, like CPUs?
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
out of curiosity, what applications might I see this used for?
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I'm dumb and have no real education in economics. But even my dumb self makes the correlation that in 2020/2021, we handed out free money to keep people afloat (a very good thing), and then immediately following there was a surge
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by andy_xor_andrew 2y ago
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit, but I still don't understand decoder vs encoder vs decoder/encoder models. Is the input/output of these models any different? Are they all just "text context goes in, scores for all t

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