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by bryan0 3y ago
Hah I went through this last year. I canceled Sirius/XM with an agent over chat. Basically you just need to paste: "no thanks, I would just like to cancel my account" to everything they say. After about 10 times they will act
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by bryan0 3y ago
Can you please explain why this distribution of embeddings is expected for high-dim spaces?
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by bryan0 3y ago
Wow I don’t know how I missed that. Thanks.
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by bryan0 3y ago
Ok thanks for the info. That case seems to be about if you can be charged with a crime if you refuse to reveal your password with a search warrant. While the case for this article seems to be about whether refusing to give a passcode when q
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by bryan0 3y ago
Yeah thinking about it more I think this makes sense. It seems like it could be brought up in court though? Just not used as “evidence” again you?
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by bryan0 3y ago
Am I missing something or is the headline (and most of the HN commentary) missing the point of this ruling? The ruling is not about whether you have the right to refuse to give your passcode (of course you have that right). Rather the rulin
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BMW recalls SUVs after Takata air bag inflator blows apart(abcnews.go.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
> One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace Auto-Regressive token prediction with planning. Anyone have a good source for learning more about this topic?
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San Francisco got a facelift ahead of APEC(sfgate.com)
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Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted(cnn.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
we have look up latency requirements on the elastic side. on pgvector it is currently a staging and aggregation database so lookup latency not so important. Our requirement right now is that we need to be able to embed and ingest ~100M vec
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by bryan0 3y ago
384 dims. we're using: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...
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by bryan0 3y ago
we've been using pgvector at the 100M scale without any major problems so far, but I guess it depends on your specific use case. we've also been using elastic search dense vector fields which also seems to scale well, but of cours
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by bryan0 3y ago
But according to the article it was not disclosed (??) > Google’s advertising auctions require the winner to pay only a penny more than the runner-up. > “Google has not been transparent about what they are doing” with pricing, Whinsto
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Manhunt underway for 'dangerous' convicted felon suspected of killing tech CEO(sfgate.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
Can someone explain the mechanics of this specific trade to a noob? The trader bought 550k options yesterday for SPLK to hit $127/share? Since that seemed highly unlikely they were only priced at $.04 each. but now that SPLK is at $145
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by bryan0 3y ago
> Switch from pgvector, get FREE AirPods Pro. > Book some time here, and we will help switch you over for FREE and get you a pair of FREE AirPods Pro This just comes off as sketchy to me. If the tech is good it will stand on its own.
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Silicon Valley's quest to live forever now includes $2,500 full-body MRIs(washingtonpost.com)
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Tech billionaires behind $900M land grab launch website defending secrecy(sfgate.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
Terrence Tao has an old excellent presentation on the “cosmic ladder” which shows how from this measurement you can build up to measure the largest distances in the visible universe: https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2010
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Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert(nature.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
Looks like last tropical storm to hit CA was from hurricane Nora in 1997: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Nora_(1997) Edit: ok I see it might have been downgraded to tropical depression by the time it hit CA
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by bryan0 3y ago
I think the article explains very well why "intelligence" is a useful and important concept. Namely because it is concise way to discuss abilities which are highly correlated without naming each ability individually.
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Big change for some CLEAR users: TSA will soon require you to show ID(thepointsguy.com)
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by bryan0 3y ago
And to build on this, take a look at the code change. Currently in llama.cpp there are many techniques for sampling the next token: llama_sample_token_greedy - just take the top probability llama_sample_top_k - sample only from the top k pr
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by bryan0 3y ago
Wow thanks for the tip! I’ll check for this next time I use it.
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by bryan0 3y ago
In TST I right-click to “delete tabs below this one” all the time. In sidebery I don’t think there is a way to do this?
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by bryan0 3y ago
This happened to me when talking to Amazon support. I told the guy I wasn’t giving him the OTP and he apologized and said “I understand”. I’m pretty sure it was legit but who knows. I just never give it out.
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Phone numbers for airlines listed on Google directed to scammers(nbcnews.com)
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San Francisco’s downtown becomes a wake-up call for other cities(sfgate.com)
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