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by dbmikus 3y ago
Crows can solve puzzles that require a sequential series of steps. Would that imply they have sequential memory? I saw someone in the article comments mentioning this as well.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
llm-cli looks like it loads model files and it doesn't help with model development. It runs GGML model files. The models aren't written in Rust. Besides the point, GGUF is successor to GGML. There's a variety of ways to conve
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by dbmikus 3y ago
If my iteration times are faster, then I ship code faster.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
I use Copilot and it helps me out enough that I keep paying for it. ChatGPT is also often faster than Google or Stackoverflow for when I'm working with unfamiliar APIs.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
I should probably have not mentioned the academic use case. My advice is better for people trying to solve real-world problems, as opposed to improving the theory. Not to say that improving the theory doesn't later lead to massive real
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Not the OP, but I think the stated point is that some people are strictly against the development of products for the military and warfare, but then support situations when those products are used. I'm in kind of a similar boat, where
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Agree, distinction is fuzzy. I meant, instead of picking a research area because it seems cool/interesting/etc, either: 1. pick a product or user problem and try to solve that problem, then work back into the research you need
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by dbmikus 3y ago
You can compile the models to something that runs on edge though, right? For example, Tensorflow is a C++ framework that has Python bindings and a Python library, but when the models are served they are running on C++. Maybe the act of comp
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by dbmikus 3y ago
My general belief, is that the best way to learn at the frontier of something is to pick a problem or a goal and try to solve it. Then you will learn what is in the way of getting that done. Unless you already have deep expertise, I think i
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by dbmikus 3y ago
How has Python held it back? Most of the heavy computation lifting is done by C extensions/bindings and the models are compiled to run on CUDA, etc. What am I missing?
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by dbmikus 3y ago
The design world runs on Creative Suite, and the Figma acquisition improved that position. There's a network effect to the software, the file format, and creative team collaboration tools. Given this, competitors need to be meaningfull
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Just ctrl-f "pinecone" and got nothing. edit: pinecone is mentioned in the earlier parts of the blog series, though.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
I was reading through the notebook, and I saw that the `extract_pipe_output` function is filtering out elements without a "POSITIVE" label. There's a snippet like this: logits = extract_pipe_output(sentiment_pipe(texts,
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by dbmikus 3y ago
The collateral provably exists because blockchain code is public and ownership is secured via cryptography. Are you asking about an off-chain asset that is brought on-chain? For that, you are correct you need to rely on a socially trusted i
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by dbmikus 3y ago
UPI[1] exists in India. FedNow[2] recently went live in the United States. As for why it doesn't exist in every country: it takes a bit of technical work to get the system working and governments move slowly, for better or for worse. [
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Hate it when an article spends 90% of the time posing a question and 10% attempting a bare-bones answer. I got to the bottom and realized this was just an article to drive inbound deal flow.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
> I wonder if there's a way we could all somehow pool our resources and use that to pay for common goods that we all use. What would we call such a scheme? Is this tongue in cheek? I think it's called the government and taxes!
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by dbmikus 3y ago
There is a max comment depth for me for some reason so I cannot reply to graypegg directly... ZK-proofs are more advanced than just cryptographic signatures. The important point is being able to prove something without revealing the proof i
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Crypto gets actual real (non-trading/non-gambling) usage in parts of LatAm. This blog post[1] from Vitalik explains a little: > Unlike wealthy countries like the United States, where financial transactions are easy to make and 8% in
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by dbmikus 3y ago
In some cases, I find it sympathetic. For example, I don't think it's a clear cut moral resolution that people should exclude Iran from buying US goods and services, but they are on the sanctioned list. I supported Obama dropping
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Yeah, Uber was a classic case study for blitzscaling and the Uber v Lyft battles are a case study of blitzscaling by using VC subsidies to try to price out competition.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Personally, I had a really easy time getting Supabase to work locally. However, we use `dbmate` to manage our migrations instead of built-in Supabase migrations. Also curious to hear from others on this: > After a bit of sleuthing, it en
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by dbmikus 3y ago
No need to make such personal attacks in a comment here.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
I used Taskwarrior before and found it worked pretty well for tasks but not for longer notes or tasks that need a lot of description. I used it for a few years before moving to Org Mode for tasks and Tiddlywiki for my knowledgebase.
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by dbmikus 3y ago
I similarly am obsessed with maintaining my own knowledgebase and wanted it to be self hosted and open source. I was looking at setting up a wiki and considered Dokuwiki and Bookstack. I ended up using Tiddlywiki, which is by default a sing
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by dbmikus 3y ago
Agreed. Based on the headline, I was expecting more of a "gamer" gamer demographic--those that identify as gamers. But when I got to the breakdown of game categories, it was basically all digital board games and puzzle games. Game
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by dbmikus 4y ago
I think the general rule is "move fast and break things" unless you are handling money or healthcare. That said, some financial and health-tech firms do seem to fly by the seat of their pants.
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by dbmikus 4y ago
One of the tenants pricing is you don't charge based on your development cost but based on the value to the customer. So, I don't think it's worth thinking about the complexity of a feature or the cost to maintain in when thi
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by dbmikus 4y ago
There's a fair amount of work on key security, such as via multi-party computation, Shamir's secret sharing, etc. These let multiple parties combine to give access to a key. Some cool stuff here are companies like https:/&#x
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by dbmikus 4y ago
This story, in part, is the inspiration for the book "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", which I would highly recommend!

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