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by dTal 3y ago
Indeed, alongside all the other numerical calculations and symbolic manipulation... Example question: what is the diameter of a sphere of tungsten - in inches, say - that weighs the same as a human (say, 150 lbs)? Looking up the formula for
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by dTal 3y ago
Feel free to turn it off. The "ultimate" calculator wouldn't deny the option to have the classic button paradigm...
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by dTal 3y ago
Not really, it's just a question of accounting. mmap is functionally the same as disk cache. As long as you've got the RAM, it'll run from RAM. If you really want, you can force llama.cpp not to use mmap and explicitly load e
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by dTal 3y ago
Nitpick: the title of the qntm story is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo" - the latter is the title of the fictional Wikipedia article that is the framing device :)
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by dTal 3y ago
Yeah that's using over 5 gigabytes, not 400 megabytes. Your process monitor is inaccurate; the memory used doesn't "count" because it's disk backed and the kernel is free to discard memory pages if it really needs
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by dTal 3y ago
>These things aren’t deterministic so it’s hard to even use things like trial-and-error experiments to figure out what works, which as a computer scientist I find completely infuriating! Nitpick: they can be made "deterministic&quot
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by dTal 3y ago
Nearly 2 millennia, and it was itself preceded by quite a few centuries by the Code of Ur-Nammu. That's not to say there's not a grain of truth in this perspective. My impression is that Romans were notable for their pioneering wo
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by dTal 3y ago
You can observe the Meissner effect using an ordinary pencil lead, so I wouldn't call it "very strong evidence": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIizmhzPQc
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by dTal 3y ago
TensoRF – NeRFs from Tensor Decomposition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30784957 - March 2023 (3 comments) 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering - https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by dTal 3y ago
Language models make nothing but fake news.
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by dTal 3y ago
Kids, but not adults. What's the difference? A more interconnected world model with underlying structure. LLMs have such structure as well, proportional to how well they're trained. A "stupid" model will be more easily c
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by dTal 3y ago
This comment thread is frustrating to read. You said: >You seem to think that geniuses are made by their upbringing. From the comment you are replying to: >There's absolutely a genetic component, and they are born that way, but i
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by dTal 3y ago
Can you remember the story? It sounds thematically similar to "There Will Come Soft Rains", but the details don't match. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...
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by dTal 3y ago
An artist friend of mine with no programming knowledge used ChatGPT to produce a variety of cool visuals for a music gig, in Processing - spinning wireframes, bobbing cube grids, that sort of thing. They didn't even know they needed to
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by dTal 3y ago
If the argument is that superconductivity = better efficiency = less energy use, then I am afraid that Jevon's Paradox has some bad news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by dTal 3y ago
You really don't understand why a billionaire who throws around his vast wealth for the specific purpose of being an internet troll - laying waste to useful platforms in the process - gets people "riled up" as you put it?
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by dTal 3y ago
Just ban fossil fuel extraction. Then fossil fuels will become too expensive to burn. That is a much more "free market" solution than a byzantine system of taxes that will probably fail to adequately model all externalities.
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by dTal 3y ago
I literally address making plastic / oil derivatives in the last line of my comment. Given enough energy, and raw feedstock matter, we can make anything we need. Nuclear power gets us all the energy we need. Matter can simply be recycl
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by dTal 3y ago
I don't want to shut down any part of society. I want to cut off the supply of fossil fuels. Plenty of alternatives exist, and I suspect that people would avail themselves of them, rather than regress to a pre-industrial state. We can&
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by dTal 3y ago
>Everyone else wants western standards of living and is copying the same infrastructure to get it. This is an excellent reason why we should focus on putting our own house in order, in spite of all those people who say "there&#x27
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by dTal 3y ago
Which part don't you agree with? Please be specific. I was careful to spell out every link in the chain. If you agree with the premise and logic, but simply dislike the conclusion, I really don't know what to tell you.
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What lies? We could do with some specifics.
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There is only one solution to the climate apocalypse, and it's not popular: Fossil carbon extraction needs to be halted. Worldwide. Close the coal mines, shut down the oil rigs. Everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on th
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by dTal 3y ago
>The cornerstone of a fair tax system is to avoid double taxation That's pretty arguable. To me, "fair" simply means that we all obey the same rules. Those rules can be anything we want, if we think they'll make socie
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by dTal 3y ago
It is entirely about fairness. We live in a society. Tax is necessary to maintain that society. Everyone needs to pitch in. If you want "rights", that comes with "responsibilities" - they invariably pair.
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>Why not then, dip into your bank account? By this logic, there are trillion of $$ in bank accounts all around the world. That's a lot of money. My bank account is dipped into. It's called "tax". I pay it at a consi
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by dTal 3y ago
Exactly this. What's good for the goose is good for the gander!
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That's a very odd definition, considering fish don't have limbs.
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Avoiding the need to ground and strip the aircraft every time someone drops a pen seems pretty utilitarian.
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by dTal 3y ago
God forbid you edit images, they'd have had a heart attack...

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