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by bee_rider 3mo ago
“SoTA” as “source of truth agent” would be a pretty annoying/funny acronym to unless upon the world.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
> But it doesn't matter because Jensen sells the shovels and, in the background, tells people where to dig. Dude's basically a genius at making money. Being the default high-throughput device is an incredibly strong position. W
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
How do mathematicians view counter examples? Is it like an unexpected result in the physical sciences: annoying in the moment but potentially stupendously important as it reveals some inaccuracy in the current models? Or is it more like a b
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I wonder what the thinking inside NVIDIA is at the moment. They have countless examples to learn from here, about the danger of not being willing to cannibalize your high end products. But, of course, there’s a reason that there are lots
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The comment you replied to implies a lot of over-complicated motivations and grand coordination. But I think “commoditize your complement” explains a lot here and is probably even simpler than your explanation.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Weird Al, obviously. He’s the only one capable of combining our oral traditions into a single coherent body of work.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think Tracy Chapman is not a troll choice, but a prediction. It is an interesting pick that highlights that highlights that all the picks are predictions, given the age of the country. I think it is probably not a prediction that will
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
What was the disagreement on the atomics issue? I only know them from openMP (more of a Fortran person)… without much thought my gut says that it’d be possible to implement an atomic operation with a mutex, but sort of defeating the purpose
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
C will outlive all of us. C++… I don’t know it well. But I’ve heard there are a lot of different dialects, to the point where it is possible that two C++ programmers might be writing in essentially different languages. How “old” is the lang
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think they mean the physical process of handling the shoes. At most places you rent your land and get your shoes at the same counter, basically in one transaction, which seems difficult to handle with a kiosk.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I had a Toshiba NB305, which apparently had an Atom N450 (just looking at some old reviews, I don’t have it running anymore). It seemed fine for basic command line stuff and some web browsing (websites already had too much JavaScript at the
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I’m 95% sure that was sarcasm.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
That’s neat. It especially works because the words are a little bit nonsensical, so interpreting them literally becomes unexpected.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
All this LLM stuff uses pretty basic linear algebra, and that’s a hot topic these days (not to turn my nose up at it, doing easy linear algebra at massive scales turned out to be a really good idea). Maybe that explains some of the attracti
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think I agree with this. A possibly interesting quirk of it is that this is a fairly intellectualized description (specifically): > - Spending more time and attention when selecting next artist > - Reflecting on what you like ab
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Just don’t point the thing at any maggots.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Make an unauthorized copy of a baby that grew up to be famous, so you can use their likeness and get a bonus case.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I thought MISRA was fine, and I don’t really understand why people complain about it. At least as a Fortran programmer who had to dabble in some C, I found I could read and write MISRA C much more easily than the obfuscated nonsense that C
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
IMO “State of the union keynote argues” makes it pretty clear that this is a perspective from the person giving the keynote. The article title isn’t reporting it as a matter of fact, but as an argument.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
That’s interesting. Hyprland, spartan? It’s the fancy everything-and-the-kitchen-sink tiling WM, isn’t it?
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
There’s the “friends feed” in the app that has less garbage in it. I mean, these days it is just full of my friends posting pictures of their kids or reposting political things. But I can’t really blame Facebook for the fact that we got old
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Maybe. I joined fairly early, still have an account, but did become pretty disengaged from it after graduation. So maybe I didn’t get the proper gradual boiling experience.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Facebook only made sense in the context of living on a college campus… I think it doesn’t quite fit this pattern because realistically users were rarely in the “good fit” case for only ~4 years. Then, for each user, it becomes this sort of
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
They are doing the gag where they just describe representative democracy like it is a novel idea. Practically we also need expert organizations and agencies to help advise the representative and implement their ideas, but I wouldn’t describ
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think it is rare to hate writing in cursive, in the sense that it is almost always optional these day, so the only people doing it are fans.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Not sure, I’m not familiar with the web ecosystem. Not familiar at all, so my next question will probably be stupid. Would it have been possible to compile your C++ library to WebAssembly?
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Bankruptcy is still inconvenient. But mostly, people would be less able to get loans and then colleges would get to pick between reducing prices or having only a few rich students.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Yeah, I’m curious what put them in that case here, though. There are high quality open source linear algebra codes out there, so I’m surprised that they needed something generated. (But, just surprised and curious to hear more, not saying t
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I agree with this. I basically don’t feel comfortable trying to pretend a fancy matrix multiplication can be responsible for anything. But what if companies that don’t track responsibility outcompete those who do? In particular what if some
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
How big of an advantage was it, to have the code developed specifically for your project? These AI tools are pretty impressive, but why not have it generate a call to BLAS or PARDISO or something?

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