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by chaxor 4y ago
I suppose there could be many things happening on the internet that we are unaware of; however, torrents are very good and specifically tailored as a protocol for scientific data and ML. It solves the link-rot issues that occur due to mov
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by chaxor 4y ago
Git seems to be quite a good tool, and it's a blockchain.
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by chaxor 4y ago
It's a fine line to walk when publishing. For example, is it ok to use the term "Hilbert space" in an article? Perhaps in physics, but not if publishing in biology - or at least in biology, a few sentences to describe the te
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by chaxor 4y ago
They did mention Matrix - which seems to be the best and most obvious choice, if you're trying to optimize for open-source, e2ee, run-on-any-device, not-tied-to-phone, and other features. Going for worse tech solutions will just make t
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by chaxor 4y ago
Any idea how it compares to aspera? I may give benchmarking a shot later when I get to my computer, but if anyone has any intuition that could be helpful.
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by chaxor 4y ago
Isn't the main use of bittorrent for ML and research data? Academic torrents is a wonderful resource and what every developer should be using if they need to provide their neural network weights, training data, etc. How is there any le
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by chaxor 4y ago
This shows pretty clearly why some people look so ignorant when complaining about this system's abilities at this point: """ chatGPT: the punchline plays on the way that the numbers 7, 8, and 9 are pronounced, as saying
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by chaxor 4y ago
What's the big deal? Surely you have at least 512 GB of RAM, not the typical 1 TB for good measure these days. Modern computers with these bare minimum hardware requirements can handle a few electron apps.
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by chaxor 4y ago
/s here you forgot this
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by chaxor 4y ago
Why would you assume any GPT model is being used in the case they just described?
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by chaxor 4y ago
Isn't Google index much *much* larger though? There's a large amount of compression going on here (of course, not to say it hasn't probably memorized certain texts obviously [both important/factual snippets and less
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by chaxor 4y ago
I'm not sure what exactly you mean - but we typically store DNA sequencing data from people that want us to analyze it, databases of proteins and scientific articles, ML models, etc. Proper considerations of how to store the data and c
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by chaxor 4y ago
It's still very bizarre to me to see people completely write off spinning platter drives as 'old tech'. They're still used everywhere! (At least in my world) We have all of my teams data on an array of 18tb drives for a
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by chaxor 4y ago
A git repo is a blockchain... Git is why people like blockchains so much - the value is clear, since it's what we interact with all day.
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by chaxor 4y ago
It's gotten far , FAR worse since Guido stopped having as much guidance. The increase in mandatory updates at regular intervals is a recipe for disaster in most cases, as it is in python. Also, to pile on top of the stdlib probl
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by chaxor 4y ago
The idea that pinning versions and using environments will make your code run stable forever is very wrong (in python). You can't even get things to run for a few years this way. Many of the packages are simply not available anymore
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by chaxor 4y ago
R is a trash of a language. It doesn't have any sense of coherency to it at all. They keep trying to fix the underlying problems by ducktaping paradigms on to it over and over (S3, S4, R6, etc). There's never a clear sense of th
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by chaxor 4y ago
It's beginning to be a hassle now to even extract info off of external drives with usb-A, due to all the migration to USB-C. More devices will likely switch to wireless only, fed by big companies' shitty "cloud". Hopef
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by chaxor 4y ago
A big point being made in this thread is that the technology for physical storage of the media becomes obsolete quickly. One could argue that the physical book itself is the original storage technology. But, as many have said, that book o
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by chaxor 4y ago
Nooooooooooo. Whatever is to come of my cute animations! [Think of the trains!]( https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl )
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by chaxor 4y ago
It's a part of the Linux kernel now, so I think it's pretty safe
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by chaxor 4y ago
The experience is excellent when on a small screen. It's text and nothing more - as good websites are and should be. Adding fixed top bars and hidden pop-out side bars, etc, when they're absolutely not needed is annoying. Incre
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by chaxor 4y ago
TLS doesn't matter / isn't needed here right? The IP address is still in the header from what I understand. So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site. The
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by chaxor 4y ago
People don't understand quantum physics. People also don't understand AGI. Therefore it's obvious that they're related. So it seems clear that AGI will be solved with the help of quantum physics. My aunt Mildred is a ver
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by chaxor 4y ago
Yeah that cringy start to the OP's point removed quite a bit of credibility, despite stating 'they work in the area'. Probing towards a meta learner that is useful in many contexts is an intriguing idea though. I also wonder
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by chaxor 4y ago
Its not, but a lot of HN folks are blinded by their own stupidity whenever they see the word 'crypto'. The knee jerk reaction to that word shields them from any engagement in thought - it's just simply "some associat
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by chaxor 4y ago
Yeah! And get rid of those pesky switches too, hubs are all we need!
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by chaxor 4y ago
This likely isn't true due to the scale of disappearance of crabs. *90% of the are gone - in only 2 years* That's not just overfishing, something much worse has happened. The cod overfishing was also a very unfortunate tale, but t
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by chaxor 4y ago
Perhaps I should have added a "/s", in addition to my ":p", but I appreciate the explanation here nonetheless
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by chaxor 4y ago
Is your argument that translational symmetry in physics is wrong?

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