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by bloaf 2mo ago
Organizational inertia is a real thing. There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI. A lot of the answer to "how much impact has AI had" comes down to "how much have we even attempted?" In my workplac
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by bloaf 2mo ago
There have been demonstrated rowhammer-based ECC bypass attacks. ECC mitigates but does not fix rowhammer.
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by bloaf 2mo ago
As long as rowhammer is still out there, aint none of your memory safe. Fixing rowhammer is the memory safety absolutism I want to hear more about.
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by bloaf 3mo ago
Obesity rates have been declining over the same time period.
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by bloaf 3mo ago
I think the other alternative is that the senior guy thinks that the junior guy is working on a problem where the juice isn't worth the squeeze. "Just ask an LLM" can be interpreted as "if the AI can't give you a qu
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by bloaf 3mo ago
I don't think this is entirely true, insofar as non-local models inherently have a "man cannot serve two masters" problem. The end user and the org running the AI may have different goals. That means even if AI alignment wer
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by bloaf 3mo ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/classrev/kipling.ht... I think the history of children's literature may be shorter than you think.
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by bloaf 3mo ago
My search returned what might as well have been a random assortment of bible verses. It made me wonder what Terry Davis would have thought of modern AI. Would it be the natural evolution of his shortcut for random bible verses that he bui
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by bloaf 4mo ago
The same guy found Sympy was similarly far behind in differential equations (although Maple edges out Mathematica here): https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_ode_tests/index.htm He does a few other side-by-side comp
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by bloaf 4mo ago
Does SageMath use Sympy, or is there some other integrator built in? Last I heard Sympy was one of the worst performers, even among other open source CASs. https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/repor
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by bloaf 4mo ago
How do they stack up doing actual computer algebra things like symbolic integration? https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports... Note that alternative open source solvers like Fricas fail 10x t
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by bloaf 4mo ago
I don't think anyone really knows. I consider these scenarios: 1) We stumble onto an algorithmic improvement in intelligence. This isn't just "what humans do but faster", its "better than what humans do". I&#x
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by bloaf 4mo ago
I'm don't know what makes a bad CEO but I've definitely worked with people who could be replaced by a current-gen AI.
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by bloaf 4mo ago
I think that what technical people fail to understand is that a lot of the time, "compliance" is not the same as a binary compiles/does not compile. For a lot of rules/regulations, compliance means "making enough ef
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by bloaf 5mo ago
Something else to note: The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was an order of magnitud
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by bloaf 5mo ago
A counterpoint is this The lab tested for chromium in two ways: one test (ICP) measures all chromium of any kind, and the other measures hexavalent chromium specifically. The ICP test returned a concentration that was an order of magnitude
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by bloaf 5mo ago
So I've got a gut feeling that math (like human languages (like programming languages)) is best learned in service of some greater end. I look at some truly impressive projects like CLASP which sprang into existence not because of so
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by bloaf 5mo ago
HTTP error codes are divided between server (5xx) and client (4xx). Where do these "application errors" occur if neither on a server nor a client? I think the reality is that management sees "5xx means server error, so our te
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by bloaf 5mo ago
> The API failed silently because the database connection pool was exhausted downstream. I work with a team that does stuff like this, returning a 200 and a body containing "error: I didn't do what you said because _insert erro
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by bloaf 6mo ago
I remember a study from a while back that found something like "50% of 2nd graders think that french fries are made out of meat instead of potatoes. Methodology: we asked kids if french fries were meat or potatoes." Everyone was
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by bloaf 7mo ago
That's the thing with evaporation: you don't want your water to leave stuff behind after it evaporates because that will foul your equipment and cause lower efficiency. You could in principle design systems with enough fouling m
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by bloaf 7mo ago
But for things like e.g. DAG systems, it would be great to be able to upload a new API definition and have it immediately available instead of having to recompile anything in the backend.
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by bloaf 7mo ago
I've always thought the flexibility should allow python to consume things like gRPC proto files or OpenAPI docs and auto-generate the classes/methods at runtime as opposed to using codegen tools. But as far as I know, there aren&
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by bloaf 7mo ago
Taichi, benchmarked in the article, claims to be able to outperform CUDA at some GPU tasks, although their benchmarks look to be a few years old: https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi_benchmark
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by bloaf 7mo ago
I'm not a fan of the way grey hydrogen was written off: That hydrogen is already being produced today by several different refinery processes, and then burned in a furnace because no one else wants it. So the right way to handle the
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by bloaf 8mo ago
You think companies are all deliberately leaving big money on the table by making hourglass clothes as an oopsie? They're doing it because people are buying clothes based on superficial appearance, and most people prefer the aesthetics
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by bloaf 8mo ago
Expecting mass-market, lowest-common-denominator products to be tailored to your special circumstance is the issue. Normalize going to a tailor, instead of grumbling about how you aren't benefiting enough from the sweatshops mass retai
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by bloaf 8mo ago
It would have prevented both this 7zip attach and the recent notepad++ one.
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by bloaf 8mo ago
I've started using winget to install my apps for exactly this reason. I can't keep track of every url for every piece of software.
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by bloaf 8mo ago
At my company I saw a team of devs pay for a special purpose "query optimized" database with "exabyte capability" to handle... their totally ordinary HR data. I queried said database... it was slow. I looked to see what

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