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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts Honestly I'm surprised that they use such a long prompt. It boggles my mind why they choose to chew through the context window length. I've
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I don't understand this at all. What this post suggests seems illogical to me: - The most obvious way to adjust the behavior of a LLM is fine-tuning. You prepare a carefully-curated dataset, and perform training on it for a few epoch.
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I was surprised by that part too. I always assumed that Craig was a young techy person. My takeaway from this article: - Craiglist was launched by a 40-year old, ex-IBM enginner. It started out as an online list for his circle of friends. -
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
The best argument I've heard (and I'm somewhat sympathic to) is to compare home equity with real estate investment vehicles. 1) REIT is a diversified bet on a group of high-grade properties that has positive cash flow, levered wit
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
This is cute, but I find OpenSSL's version policy way funnier. Here I quote it verbatim from https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Versioning : *Major releases* that change one/both of the first two digits
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I think one solution is to embed a self-adjusting feedback mechanism into the transit fee. - If the rush hour contines to get more crowded, the transit fee would raise until people avoid commuting on peak hours. - If the rush hour disappear
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I actually checked the PR because I was curious if a cutting-edge AI can generate 128k lines of quality code. I mean, if that's true it's great! Here is what I noticed while reading the PR: - The PR has surpurisingly little meat.
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I think that the stylized picture here is: 1. Bending Spoons (BS) is an itallian conglomerate, who is specialized in acquiring marginally-profitable software companies. 2. After an acquisition, BS attempts to cut the cost structure agressiv
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> If BM’s products were more affordable One thing worth noting here is that, contrary to the popular belief, Beyond Meat is not a high-margin business. You can check out their latest financial result (2025 1Q) to confirm this: First
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
So the biggest problem here is that Beyond Meat has a huge debt due in just 2 years: That’s a problem given that $1 billion in convertible bonds come due in March 2027. Beyond Meat has no way to repay that debt, and the credit markets
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
This seems to be one of the researches from Organic Robotics Lab at Cornell Univ. https://orl.mae.cornell.edu/ https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/08/biohybrid-robots-co... I believe that &
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> At the end of all things, when evolution has reached its inevitable end, all that will be left is a war between ant eaters and crabs. From reading the aritcle, it seems that ants are really crappy as an energy source: One thing m
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> a dedicated term for "positive real asset" in Japanese? Some seems to use the term "富動産" to mean that, but I don't think it's catching on. Side note: normal real assets are called "不動産" (which
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
In Japan, we have a special term for real estate that has become a financial burden on their owners: "負動産" (fudosan, negative real assets). It's such a huge social problem that people choose not to accept the inheritance if i
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
Here is the original paper from the researchers: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads2426 Apparently they wanted to create a material that: 1. is transparent, 2. can be made thick enough, 3. and is purel
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> Hilton, Safeway, Dell, Nabisco. The list goes on. For what it's worth, KKR's takeover of RJR Nabisco was actually a flop. KKR bought the company in 1988, and then spent 15+ years trying painfully to exit the position. It is w
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
Another practical reason is that it's dangerous. Pi0 uses ARX robot arm which weights 3-4kg per arm. It can easily break things or harm people if you allow it to move fast.
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
The interesting part of this research is that baboons, while evolutionary closer to humans, fail to perform this task. So scientists were thinking "hmm, maybe perception of geometric regularity is a unique skill to homo sapiens?".
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
This novella is a masterpiece and needs rediscovery. > The protagonist (P. Burke) is a lonely, severely depressed teenager. After a failed suicide attempt, an international telecommunication company offers her a new job -- to become a re
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
Maybe. But as an OSS developer, I find it cozy that even domestic food production has a certain global component. I like the image of a global community helping each other, just as we do in software projects. I mean, if American companies h
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
To add some perspective, the most expensive component of modern farming is fetilizers. Things such as Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash. America depends on other countries to supply some part of these materials (like Potash from Canada). I&#x2
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> So rather than $8 a share they get zero? Sounds like the board was the one that messed things up. The share was trading at $8-$9 at the time. The primary reason why the board has been rejecting the offer is that the CEO kept proposing
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
23andMe has been in a deadlock for a while. - The CEO is effectively the control owner of the company, having 49% of the voting right. She has been trying to take the company private for some time. - Last August, she proposed to buy all the
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
It would be funny if a prepper spent $100+ on an emergency radio receiver, and took all the trouble to ensure it's reliably working. Then, when the apocalypus day finally comes, all they can listen to is a jesus channel.
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
I'm pondering where this "AI-automated programming" trend is heading. For example: thirty years ago, FX trading was executed by a bunch of human traders. Then, computers arrived on the scene, which made all of them practicall
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/ ). He is one of the best contemporary hard SF writers in the world.
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
I like the take of System Science researchers on this matter -- they say that air/water quality monitoring works exactly because it introduces a feedback loop in the existing system. Here is a relevant anecodote from Prof. Donella Me
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
It seems that Windows NT naitively supported IBM's PowerPC processors (in addition to IA-32/x86). The "PowerPC Edition" did not sell much, so Micorosft discontinued the support in 1997. Because Wii and GameCube were Powe
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> The challenge here is not IK. No, a state-based RL research like this is essentially an IK problem. Given a goal position in the world frame, you need to find out the motor configuration to move your EEF to that goal position. > IK
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> Is this actually buildable Yes. The robot used in this study is Dexterous Hand from Shadow Robot. It's a real product, and costs around $200-300k (for a single hand). Controlling a real robot using a RL policy (model) trained in a

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