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by dekhn 1y ago
Yes, almost certainly in this case Google sees traffic die off when a data center is in the dark. Specifically, there is a diurnal cycle of traffic, and Google usually routes users to close-by resources. So, late at night, all those backe
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by dekhn 1y ago
I see LLM inference as sampling from a distribution. Multiple details go into that sampling - everything from parameters like temperature to numerical imprecision to batch mixing effects as well as the next-token-selection approach (always
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by dekhn 1y ago
I go back and forth on this all the time. Generally, I consider applications in browsers an example of the inner-platform effect because I believe native applications are typically better (faster, resource efficient, more consistent UI). O
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by dekhn 1y ago
That just reduces my confidence in ARC-AGI, rather than increasing my confidence in Grok.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Can we trade? I live near a park and many days I hear the truck driving around the block literally for hours, and they just play one song.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I live across the street from an elementary school and during recess it gets quite noisy. I don't particularly mind, with one big exception: some kids scream a lot. I normally associate that screaming sound with "there is an eme
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by dekhn 1y ago
One of the best lessons I learned was during a hard financial constraint. Roughly around 1994 I had a new compute- a 486/66MHz with 4MB of RAM. I got LINUX and installed it, and was able to run X windows, g++, emacs, and xterm- but if
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by dekhn 1y ago
I think the real problem is that we won't have any real reliable way to determine whether they are sentient, or just appear to be sentient. And I've also concluded that it doesn't matter; anything which demonstrates enough c
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by dekhn 1y ago
"The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" is an amazing piece of art (generally considered NSFW). The entire "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji" series is phenomenal, really a testament to the japanese philosophy of sublime
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by dekhn 1y ago
oh you're talking about deterministic turing machines (have not heard that referred to as "classical" computer before- typically when people say that, they mean an actual physical real-world computer, not a theoretical model.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I see a lot of people who read Fielding's thesis and found it interesting. I did not find it interesting. I found it excessively theoretical and proscriptive. It led to a lot of people arguing pedantically over things that just weren
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by dekhn 1y ago
I predicted she'd last 1 year but she made it to 2. She had effectively zero power, and a boss that constantly undermined her.
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by dekhn 1y ago
This is my conclusion (and the path I've taken - basically max our index and retirement accounts). I've explained this to people and been told I'm stupid and irrational. Another thing I saw was families moving from the. midw
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by dekhn 1y ago
I was going to ask if Android exposes mlock, which is a call that implements memory locking on normal UNIX and LINUX machines, but it looks like it is restricted to 64kb on Android.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I don't think anybody wrote a description of a classical computer that excludes components that generate harvestable random noise. Effectively all computers are probabilistic, it's just that the probabilities for instructions, me
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by dekhn 1y ago
A zener diode- standard component- produces random noise. It needs to be mildly conditioned to be unbiased.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Isn't it fun when you can take a game you play and write an implementation (both the game and the solver), thinking through all the details, and at the end, the solution is simple, elegant, and enlightening? For many years I played Peg
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by dekhn 1y ago
What I've done is create one github project in my repo that is public, well-architected, implemented, tested, and commented. That's what I share if somebody wants a code example. I wrote the whole thing from scratch based on p
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by dekhn 1y ago
The site is filled with cool stuff. I wanted to learn more about optical lenses and found https://arachnoid.com/blender_graphics/index.html to be very useful.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I did not find my Prusa (MK3 upgrade to mk3s and also a new mk3s) to be reliable. It had all sorts of failure modes and eventually I stopped using both of them. I did repair both of them a few times but the extruder design is just really
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by dekhn 1y ago
At least in the case of sphere packing it's closely related to some core problems in information theory that helped make the Bell phone system so reliable. (not sure about convex shapes)
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by dekhn 1y ago
Previously known as "Fermi questions"- commonly asked of undergrads and grad students in quantitative fields.
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by dekhn 1y ago
In the interview, am I allowed to fix the server (which apparently "breaks down handling concurrent requests") instead of working on this silly programming exercise? What about proxy solutions? IE, proxies that take concurrent re
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by dekhn 1y ago
This sort of transform (what I think many people call inverse problems) is quite common in reconstruction problems- that is, where you pass light or other EM through an object, the light scatters, and hits a detector. Typically you want t
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by dekhn 1y ago
Thalidomide is still prescribed in the US today- it's an effective drug for several diseases.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I asked google 'what country has a flat tax of 13%' and it said bolivia and russia. Guessing they meant russia.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I really do wish there was a way to downvote "because I don't like what the person is saying, even if it's true"
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by dekhn 1y ago
zuck funds health research (a lot, and very ML focused) already
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by dekhn 1y ago
DAT was popular in the jam-band-taping community around the time this device was released. Folks would go to shows, and either record the show with their own mics and tape deck, or by plugging a line directly into the soundboard and then t
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by dekhn 1y ago
That's ABS- PLA is not really soluble in acetone. It's soluble in limonene.

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