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by anyfoo 5d ago
It’s interesting though that composite PAL/NTSC (especially NTSC) has a massive effect on the picture, owed to the fact that the color carrier was embedded into the luminance spectrum, so a re-digitized PAL/NTSC signal will still
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by anyfoo 8d ago
Unlikely, as the quote about >230k misattributed people comes from the article itself . So even without taking into account that I generally expect more from the BBC, the author of this article seems to be at least aware of the fact. Be
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by anyfoo 8d ago
I grew up in Germany. For the past 13 years, I've lived in the US. Oh, how I wish I could go back to the "day in day out, everyday in public transit" instead of this car hell. In Germany, just like in Japan, I didn't fee
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by anyfoo 8d ago
I was also thinking about that, but that miscounting story is so old, notable, and well-known by now, that it's basically popular knowledge around the world. So I hope that the BBC, but especially also the Japanese government that the
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by anyfoo 8d ago
Did you actually visit Japanese families, or is that assessment based on what you saw in convenience stores and similar? "Convenience" food and western style food has somewhat increased, but on average Japanese cuisine is very hea
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by anyfoo 9d ago
But our universe also has black holes. So what then, is it black holes all the way down?
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by anyfoo 9d ago
I don't know about JavaScript, but those statements are definitely not universally true in other languages.
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by anyfoo 9d ago
> I failed a job interview once by using reduce() in a coding test. The reviewer didn't understand why I hadn't used a loop. Honestly, sounds like the reviewer failed the interview, not the other way around.
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by anyfoo 11d ago
I mean, sure, although the crashes could sometimes come with data loss as well. You might now ponder whether a broken login screen, i.e. temporarily not being able to access data, is maybe better than downright losing it, but my point was m
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by anyfoo 11d ago
I think people just forgot how insanely unstable and prone to breaking MS OSes were back then. Crashes and hangs that take down your entire machine were common, and “reinstalling the OS” was seen as a normal thing that you just had to do ev
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by anyfoo 11d ago
That’s ubiquitous in slightly lower level programming (pretty much every non-small C program probably does it in some way or other), but the problem with doing that in this database scenario is that you might run into atomicity issues. To t
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by anyfoo 12d ago
Gödel effectively says ZFC must be incomplete, otherwise it would not be sound, but does that stop you from listing all mathematical propositions it can generate in some well-defined order?
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by anyfoo 14d ago
Adding 32GB of RAM is vastly better than adding 32GB of swap, it’s not even close. However, it’s also vastly more expensive. That has always been the case, not just in the current insane situation. We use swap because we have plenty of disk
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by anyfoo 14d ago
I’m not sure I understand. In your equations, why is swap taking away from RAM? It’s purely additive. Say you have 64GB of RAM, of which 4GB are dirty pages that are never, or at least very rarely, accessed. With 64GB RAM + 4GB swap, you fi
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by anyfoo 15d ago
Fair enough, you looked and did the math. On my laptop (totally different use case), there is currently plenty of memory in the compressor.
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by anyfoo 15d ago
Yes, only dirty (i.e. modified) pages profit from getting paged out to swap. But while I don't have any hard data, I imagine that depending on the workload, there can be a punch of pages that are read during initialization, or a one-of
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by anyfoo 15d ago
You never saw any issues, but your systems might have been faster with swap. Even if you're nowhere any threshing threshold, RAM used for caches is better than RAM used for unused pages, which could have been paged out to swapspace. No
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by anyfoo 15d ago
It highly depends on your specific workload, but freeing up RAM by paging out rarely or downright unused pages to swap can definitely give a performance advantage. In consequence, I always give swap. Even on the off-chance it ends up unus
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by anyfoo 15d ago
This comes up every time swap is mentioned. Even if you have plenty of ram, having swap can help with performance. Why? Because the OS can page rarely used or seemingly downright unused dirty pages to swap, freeing up precious RAM for cache
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by anyfoo 15d ago
> The SLED system does not feature numeric types. Yet natural numbers (non-negative integers) can be emulated using lists: > '(nil nil nil) ; three Pfsh, how pedestrian and unnecessarily high level. What you of course want to us
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by anyfoo 16d ago
I don’t know, so is your brain? And in the end it’s all elementary particles and four fundamental physical forces that even unify to one at high energy. That sort of reductionism is kind of useless. “It’s cloudy outside, it makes me sad.” -
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by anyfoo 16d ago
Are they open ear?
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by anyfoo 16d ago
But it is? At least for AirPods. The AirPods Pro are not open-ear form factor. I do not know about other open-ear airbuds.
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by anyfoo 16d ago
You're probably partly right (though I use the same context size for all models, so there still is a difference in the model/quantization itself), but I definitely see it "thinking itself into an extremely expensive and error
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by anyfoo 18d ago
I observed this as well. I have problems that get solved very quickly using non-thinking mode, but in thinking mode it digs itself into giant holes, that it sometimes doesn't manage to escape from. Like wanting to implement an entire e
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by anyfoo 18d ago
> As you may see, the scores are around the random guessing level, with the smallest model being below that threshold. Err… can someone explain to me what is meant here? Surely the model wouldn’t consistently “guess wrong” compared to ra
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by anyfoo 18d ago
Depends on the actual audience, I guess. My stated “wisdom” comes in part from /r/LocalLLaMa, and my impression is that the tasks that users there give their models to try them out lean towards rather simplistic, on the reasoning
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by anyfoo 18d ago
Not for me. As stated elsewhere, even Q5 (!) seems to be enough to kill the model’s ability to solve a particular problem in reasonable time. But that might just be right at the edge of what the model can do in the first place. I have anoth
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by anyfoo 18d ago
I have a very interesting self-made coding benchmark, very intricate and technical, but 100% a real world problem I had to solve. I’m not going to further elaborate, since I don’t want future models to train on the solution. To my own surpr
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by anyfoo 19d ago
Nowadays, it's considered bad form to map anything at 0... you now know one of the reasons why! In the case that I know that has a 1:1 identity mapping of the address space, the physical address space doesn't actually have anythin

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