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by btown 2y ago
The underinvestment in, and abandonment of, a project for a CUDA compatibility layer https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq by AMD a few months ago hints that they no longer see CUDA compatibility as a g
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by btown 2y ago
This assumes that you trust their metric for expected remediation. But in practice, utility companies are incentivized to provide a conservative estimate of how long repairs will take, and to the extent they're training models on the d
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by btown 2y ago
Can't call it hypertext without using hyperthreading!
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by btown 2y ago
See also: https://github.com/krakenjs/zoid which allows you to present a simple interface to sites that want to embed your application and send parameters/register callbacks. All the caveats of frames still apply,
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by btown 2y ago
The latency to download all the weights would be a limiting factor on WebGPU. But if the weights are already downloaded and optimized locally…
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by btown 2y ago
If we thought websites mining Monera in ads was bad, wait until every site sells its users’ CPU cycles on a gray market for distributed LLM processing!
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by btown 2y ago
For the code-minded out there, a "random variable" is something of a lazily evaluated value that can be "sampled" and emit a quantity (or a vector/tensor thereof) each time. And the OP article boils down to the fact
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by btown 2y ago
My team and I use https://pop.com/ daily! It's fully cross-platform and lightweight (no chrome added to windows), and it's absolutely viable to say "can I take control" and type in someone else's ID
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by btown 2y ago
> Picture a world where you can walk around New York City and everything you need is falling out of windows onto you. At a moments notice, at the drop of a hat. That's a world I want to live in. That's why I'm teaching you
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by btown 2y ago
On the esoteric software engineering side, Tom7 is the channel you're looking for! https://www.youtube.com/@tom7
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by btown 2y ago
Economically, Cloudflare can do this because they only need a V8 isolate per instance (so barely any RAM besides instantiated JS objects), whereas a Lambda needs RAM for the entire runtime environment. So many more customers can run on the
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by btown 2y ago
My implication is that Facebook will solve this, not by disallowing access to NY teens, but by incentivizing NY teens and their parents to opt into the exact type of addictive feed that they currently have, and in the meantime falling back
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by btown 2y ago
> [The definition for Addictive Feed applies] unless any of the following 18 conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another: > ... (b) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on user-selected privacy or
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by btown 2y ago
I see the name "dang" discussed here quite a bit; it seems to be an internal code name for a highly effective algorithm for surfacing relevant content. Whatever it is, it seems to be far more intelligent than any other automated s
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by btown 2y ago
State machines are great for complex situations, but when it comes to performance, it's not at all clear to me that they're the most scalable approach with modern systems. The data dependency between a loop iteration for each char
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by btown 2y ago
And, notably, in any kind of government, a group with temporary political power will naturally want to optimize for the preservation of that power. A dampening function that resists rapid change, and specifically resists things like mass su
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by btown 2y ago
Apparently when the pandemic hit Insight pivoted into a remote model with ISAs, then stopped accepting new cohorts. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Insight-data-science-scam-dur... https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
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by btown 2y ago
There's a parallel universe where the right person on the Google Chrome Network Tab team (or, earlier, the Firebug team) foresaw this a decade ago, and resolved: "we will make it possible for any developer to plug in a custom bina
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by btown 2y ago
Thank you so, so much for this link. Her creativity and bravery, and the way they're intertwined, is so incredibly inspiring. (FYI: Readers should note that content warnings for self-harm apply in Part II.)
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by btown 2y ago
A truly, consistently end-to-end approach!
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by btown 2y ago
For one, OCR’ing the word Incognito from the screen?
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by btown 2y ago
Just like any sufficiently complex program inevitably grows to have both a reimplementation of Lisp and a homegrown email client... any sufficiently complex library inevitably grows to have people arguing about whether it deserves the ter
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by btown 2y ago
Since it’d be twice as good as Meet, we could call it Duo! Oh wait…
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by btown 2y ago
Palantir's entire business model is based around "if you think your situation is more complicated than our pitches, that's fine - just keep hiring our forward-deployed engineers, and we'll customize anything you want to
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by btown 2y ago
It also seems Wikimedia isn't trying to relicense the content in any way that strips its e.g. CC-SA status, but rather providing the licenses as context alongside each API call. https://helpcenter.enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x
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by btown 2y ago
Beyond this, an LLM can easily become confused even if outputting JSON with a valid schema. For instance, we've had mixed results trying to get an LLM to report structured discrepancies between two multi-paragraph pieces of text, each
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by btown 2y ago
You'd absolutely love Palantir's AIP For Defense platform then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU&t=1m27s (April 2023)
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by btown 2y ago
The OP privacy policy explicitly states that autocompletion algorithms are part of the scope. "Our algorithm that picks from potential suggestions is trained globally on previously suggested and accepted completions." And this can
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by btown 2y ago
Makes me wonder if that 20% compute commitment to superalignment research was walked back (or redesigned so as to be distant from the original mission). Or, perhaps the two deemed that even more commitment was necessary, and were dissatisfi
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by btown 2y ago
A commercially available tool that can turn still images into depth-conscious panning shots is still tremendously impactful across all sorts of industries, especially tourism and hospitality. I’m really excited to see what this can do.

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