dan-robertson

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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
Huh, weird. Both links work for me
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
I like http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html which has a different focus from the Ciechanowski article.
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
For patch sets/commutation, I find their system appealing. I think it’s tempting to yearn for something better still (eg darcs had a kind of sed-like patch that could apply its search to patches that are merged with it). If you look at
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
I don’t think that’s sufficient without mechanisms to keep down providers’ costs. Eg if a hospital decides to have private rooms for patients as opposed to open wards, should the single payer have to pay more? What if they just decide to ch
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
Try to find an old graph theory proof (eg of the five colour theorem) and be amazed at how describing things in terms of a walk around a zoo is so much less clear than sets of vertices, edges, paths, etc. The history of mathematics is full
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
The competitive incentives between insurance companies in the US have pretty unfortunate consequences, and it would probably be good for people if rules could be changed in a way that socialised costs more across ages, etc. But so long as i
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
Maybe the comment was edited as it definitely says crime now.
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
The voltage isn’t really the limiting thing (you actually get 220 volts to almost any American home for some appliances like A/C or cookers). The issue is that the regular 110V circuits aren’t meant for more than 15A and that then limi
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
I think much the reaction to the Brian Thompson killing also seemed ok with the violence despite it happening before the events you describe, though I guess that could be an outlier.
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
I’m surely out of the loop here but what crimes are there evidence of Leon Black or Les Wexner having committed?
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by dan-robertson 6mo ago
Most people boil too much water. Get a kettle that can take a smaller amount of water and then boil what you need. If that’s not good enough, you can get a kettle that keeps water warm and then you don’t need so much energy to boil it (or f
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
Bread is much cheaper today (at least relative to incomes) than in the days of bread riots.
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
I think there are a big range of opinions people have. There are some hardcore housing resisters whose opinions get a lot of sway because of the way processes work (public consultations, activism, etc). Lots of people are a bit sceptical be
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
Isn’t the initial response to a lack of housing that people consume less housing than they would like, rather than homelessness, eg families with children sharing rooms more than they might like, adults living with roommates, or just people
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
The government intervention in the markets for agricultural products is because farmers are often an important political base, not to keep prices low for consumers. Without the intervention, prices would fall and supply would have to fall t
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
I’m not so convinced by this. In the uk I think the big home grown successes are either serving the local market physically like supermarkets (though they are not very new as companies) or they will be relying on some difference in regulati
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
This and companies like paddy power are the breakout British business successes of the last few decades
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by dan-robertson 7mo ago
Why does being a top AI researcher so often come with this philosophical bent you describe?
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by dan-robertson 8mo ago
I tried some Julia plotting libraries a few years ago and they had apis that were bad for interactively creating plots as well as often being buggy. I don’t have performance problems with ggplot so that’s what I tend to lean to. Matplotlib
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by dan-robertson 8mo ago
I think being faster probably is important but it brings a bunch of challenges: - the split pricing model makes it hard to tune model architecture for faster inference as you need to support fast and cheap versions. - the faster the model i
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by dan-robertson 8mo ago
Is it really a problem with the industry or is this the sort of thing where discussions go on forever on message boards where no one is in charge and people aren’t trying to work together to some actual goal, but where industry doesn’t suff
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by dan-robertson 8mo ago
I think it’s just very alien in that things which tend to be correlated in humans may not be so correlated in LLMs. So two things that we expect people to be similarly good at end up being very different in an AI. It does also seem to me th
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
The OP is about security and you specifically ignore security when bringing up a common flamewar topic for which much discussion has already been had on this site. Perhaps such discussion could at least be limited to articles where it is le
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
For inference you don’t need gpus to be clustered together as much (generally training has lots of synchronisation steps so you can be bottlenecked on that instead of ‘real’ work) as they can handle separate tasks in parallel. But maybe oth
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
I don’t think that’s a great description of what’s going on here. I think there are two things: 1. The actual thing the authors spend a lot of time thinking about seems to be more generally how to make good use of solar power for things tha
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
If two lines are at right angles in the ground and, say, outside the arctic/antarctic circles, what range of angles might be between them in a web Mercator projection?
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
Yeah I think I’m a bit outdated here. But I do think Linux hdr support is weak enough that many Linux-oriented apps are unlikely to do it well
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
The readme suggests this is a Linux-first app and as HDR basically doesn’t work at all on Linux(?) I don’t think it’s very surprising that this app doesn’t handle it. It does a great job for my purposes – describing which buttons to click o
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
I’m not sure it’s very useful to rehash an argument with very tenuous relation to the OP here. The normal reason to use the Mercator projection in these situations is (a) it’s what people are used to and (b) it preserves angles so if you zo
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
I think disposable vapes are banned in the U.K. (where I think the author is?) or at least they will be soon. But the non-disposable options end up being cheap enough that they can be disposed of when empty. I think a better thing to do may

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