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by b33j0r 3y ago
In physics of the impossible (in 2008, I know a lot of our opinions of the author have shifted) Michio Kaku makes a pretty good case that force fields are the least likely phenomenon to exist. There’s just not a field that hangs out in spac
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by b33j0r 3y ago
We should have listened to the doomsayers. Our llama-conomy has become over-taxonomic of our resources, and now we’re going to have to reboot the whole system! We didn’t listen. We didn’t listen!! ;) The actual topic is interesting, but yes
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by b33j0r 3y ago
The list helps me a lot, if my tasks are linear. But I sympathize in general that it’s not always possible. Rewriting lists when I’m almost there seems to be key. Breaking down “evaluate framework choices, by making small prototypes” was on
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I can’t get it to recognize the stop token consistently in the 7b models. About 50% of the shots, I get a sentence and a half of beautiful poetry, then a codeswitch into kanji, and then ral ral ral ral ral 膳 ral 杯 ral ral Until I kill the p
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by b33j0r 3y ago
For some reason its training thinks they are decorative, I guess it’s a pretty funny elucidation of how it works. I have seen a lot of “pasties” that look like Sorry! game pieces, coat buttons, and especially hell-forged cybernetic plumbuse
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by b33j0r 3y ago
There are kinda two python cultures: programmers and data scientists/engineers. The data guys often use anaconda, which is pretty much like installing every package in advance and then crossing your fingers. They care about loading mat
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by b33j0r 3y ago
It’s not full-circle, as much as industry maturity. More stories lately are about “why we went pack to monoliths and building with borland C++” Not long ago it was more likely “how microservices solved everything at our company, and why onl
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by b33j0r 3y ago
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice ;)
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Haha, would you want ESP32 hackers at your venue? Breaking into wifi and rooms to make tech points? Hosting this never made sense.
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Author of nit, here. I tried to move the landscape towards semantic reasoning. It’s on github but kind of abandonware. Life and incompetency happened ;) No shilling. I commented here because I still think my framework was decently thought o
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Haha, for posterity, if anyone was interested in the things I mentioned. My specific frustrations came from leaving out torch.no_grad when running inference. I used copilot to refactor that, and it just didn’t put no_grad back, and I did no
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Ok, well now that we’ve downvoted me below the visibility threshold, I was being sincere. And Altman did say that. I am not a hater. So. Maybe we could help other people figure out why VRAM is maxing out. I think it has to do with various n
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by b33j0r 3y ago
There is a bait and switch going on, and sam altman or mark zuckerberg are the first to tell you. “No one can compete with us, but it’s cute to try! Make applications though” —almost direct quote from Sam Altman. I have 64gb and an RTX 3090
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I don’t anticipate “natural language programming.” I anticipate systems that maintain a declarative state of running services, based on requirements and iteration/adversarial chore-checking. You won’t be using ChatGPT to write source c
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I am super disappointed in the lack of evolution of dataflow, but am encouraged to see things like airtable, and I guess blender and etc using node-based interfaces for functional logic. I did my senior thesis/project in CS (we had to
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I thought the “indistinguishable from magic” testimonial at the top was a bit arrogant, but am currently trying to find out if these extraordinary claims have extraordinary evidence ;)
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I don’t have any direct criticisms about anyone in particular, but the other thing is that any rational person spending this much time and money probably attempts to think of a business plan. So vendor lock-in creeps into our ideas even uni
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by b33j0r 3y ago
That’s true. But isn’t that separate from the systemic issues with the MAX line? Which is what I think the main story is here. We’ve been watching it for years. It just cut too many corners to be as reliable as “737” came to be known for. S
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by b33j0r 3y ago
They oversold the Cybertruck for how long it took and what it ended up being/costing. The market for it was maybe irrationally exuberant a few years ago, but a lot of that evaporated just from consumer ADHD and years of examples of new
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Separate generated content from maintained content. Works for me. But on the specifics here, from a very python POV. Strict YAML is easier to maintain than json if you have deeper than one or maybe two levels of nesting, multiline strings,
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by b33j0r 3y ago
So to clarify, a free game engine is being made available for free, if I have paid and/or been approved to be a qualified developer? At least words still mean something
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I was a bit bemused the other day when I saw a reiserfs update on arch. Kinda funny, if Mussolini had invented sliced bread, would sandwiches have been a bad idea for decades too?
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Have you implemented it? The orm aspect is actually pretty weak. You end up implementing an RPC api anyway. And then you wonder how this was sold to you as declarative and idempotent. I exaggerate here because graphql does not solve the dat
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Components are a good idea, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater! Just don’t make me develop a production site with a dev environment that falls over due to CORS for my first semester at my fancy new job ;) (And why do you call state
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I mean, I’ve built both ways. The least productive thing I have seen from the debate involves two teams doing the same thing, but one team are python nerds making an API and the other are node nerds making an API. N’er the twain shall meet,
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I am using htmx. I still have a nagging feeling that this has mostly dragged the overton window back towards hypermedia (big fan of the book, recommended). It still feels wrong. I don’t know if I mean wrong as in “incorrect” or wrong as in
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I love that this piece talks about the database. That is a problem I focus on. It’s API versioning all over again, and we never _actually_ solved that before we moved forward. I see this being our reality anyway. In many cases; not all. Yo
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by b33j0r 3y ago
It was indeed an autocorrect fail. I thought someone would know what I was talking about. I can see now how linguistically ambiguous my comment was. Yes, I was promoting arcolinux. It's a fun and educational arch derivative. I really d
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by b33j0r 3y ago
You are correct. I really wasn’t aware that talking about famous linux people was such an inside joke in this forum. My bad (sincerely.)
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I am like disturbed that two people thought complimenting Erik’s work was worth a downvote. Who the heck hates nice people so much to spend that. I’m an arch contributor, your’re barking up the wrong tree.

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