danbruc

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by danbruc 2mo ago
Ohh, you mean when the CIA supported a coup d'état in Iran? No, sorry, that was 73 years ago. When the USA supported Iraq in attacking Iran including the use of chemical weapons in an 8 year long war? No, that was only 46 years ago. Yo
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Another fun fact - heavy water has a sweet taste.
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by danbruc 2mo ago
33M vertices and 1B edges easily fits into memory, if you use 32 bit integers, it will require about 4 GiB of memory. Out of curiosity I just implemented generating a random graph of that size and calculating one page rank iteration on it i
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Instead of the CDF I like to use one minus the CDF, the fraction of requests not yet completed at any given time. Then you can make it a log log plot showing the entire tail with details invisible in the CDF because in the CDF the tail is e
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Don't get me wrong, a function doing five things is bad. I consider code not good if you write if(condition) instead of if (condition) or a +b instead of a + b. Not that it is really bad on its own, but it indicates to me that the code
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by danbruc 2mo ago
I did not mean it as a metric but as an indicator what was wrong with the code. - the code is essentially good but all is in one file, you split it up, lines of code stay the same - the code is essentially good but lacks some structure, for
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Interesting that the amount of code remained essentially unchanged. In my experience it is not unusual that refactoring messy code cuts the number of lines in half.
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by danbruc 2mo ago
To add to this. - allow drawing wires backwards from sink to source - allow connecting inputs Also there is a problem with the tests and the simulator that showed up in the SR latch level. Despite having the correct circuit, the tests faile
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by danbruc 2mo ago
No, correct post. But maybe I am misunderstanding the idea behind the post, that is certainly possible.
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by danbruc 2mo ago
This reminds me somewhat of OLE, COM, DCOM, ActiveX, ... [1]. You can paste an Excel chart into a Word document and if you update the data in Excel, the chart in Word will update. You can edit the chart in Word using the Excel UI because yo
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Not the author, but this prevents leaking all URLs you are visiting to agolia. Instead of asking Was this URL submitted to Hacker News? you ask Which URLs have been submitted to Hecker News? , store that in a Bloom filter, and then use t
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by danbruc 2mo ago
There are 120 monomials of degree at most 7 in three variables. If we restrict the coefficients to the integers from -10 to +10, that makes 21^120 possible polynomials. And we need three of them, that makes 10^476. And we would still miss t
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by danbruc 2mo ago
You do exactly the same in a monolith, functionality is broken into modules with a public API and you can switch out the implementation at any time if you want or have to.
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by danbruc 2mo ago
We do not want to ban using those models, we want to ban the things that enable those models to exist.
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Never heard that name, but according to their safety data sheet [1] it is 95+ % dimethylformamide [2]. Not too different from acetone, with a additional dimethylamin group. Acetone-free nail polish remover usually contains primarily ethyl a
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by danbruc 2mo ago
Superglue is probably two order of magnitude stronger, so I doubt that this will replace cyanoacrylates. And while ethanol or hand sanitizer will not help much with superglue, acetone or nail polish remover will remove it. Then again, aceto
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by danbruc 3mo ago
If you do that, the oil, gas, and desalination infrastructure of the Gulf states will go down together with Iran. And besides that, why do you want to fight Iran to begin with?
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Ground troops. Not going to happen or will become a disaster. And even if, what exactly would be their mission?
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by danbruc 3mo ago
[...] you can always reverse (a process) to determine [...] There is a precondition - constant non-zero Jacobian - to the inverse existing and the inverse is claimed to be of a specific kind - polynomial. The counter example satisfies the
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by danbruc 3mo ago
The bet does not really matter, the central question is whether they have a fair coin or if they are trying to me in some way. Even without the magic store, I would be very suspicious of anyone approaching random people with an offer like t
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by danbruc 3mo ago
One could look at the likelihood of spontaneous coal fires and their effects, gather evidence about the activities surrounding the event, essentially trying to narrow down the set of possible states that would lead to the incident and then
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Let us start with coin flips. You repeatedly flip a coin and the number of heads will come out to be about half the number of trials. Where does that come from? It is not some intrinsic property of the coin, it comes from varying initial co
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Something Bayesian. Despite my best effort I just do not get Bayesian probability, it more or less just does not make sense to me. Can you convince me otherwise? What is your best example of something with a probability that can not be anal
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Only people that see businesses primarily as a way to get rich and not as a way to satisfy consumer demand while doing something you like.
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by danbruc 3mo ago
He will get the same as the others if he works the same number of hours to run the company. The dept would ideally be company debt and not personal dept, after all one reason to found a company is to separate personal and business risks. Bu
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Envy is the completely wrong framing, it is about fairness. If you design widgets and 99 people build them and everyone works the same number of hours, then the fair share is 1 % for everyone. One percent of the work, one percent of the pro
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Because the gap indicates unfairness and people care about that. If you are poor, raising the floor will be good enough, you primary worry will be sufficient income. Once you reach a comfortable life, your priority will - or at least may -
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by danbruc 3mo ago
I personally would not look for the way they reason in the weights, at least not directly. In principle I could replace a large language model with a map from all possible input strings to output token or output token distribution without a
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by danbruc 3mo ago
I remember thinking exactly the same thing around 5-7 years ago, in the GPT-2/GPT-3 era. ChatGPT was announced three and a half years ago, 30-11-2022.
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by danbruc 3mo ago
Why would a RTX 5090 with 32 GB not be able to deal with a 40 GB model? Is there anything preventing me from swapping the weights that do not fit into VRAM in and out of RAM? PCIe 5.0 x16 should max out around 64 GB/s, so slower than t

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