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811.
by eigenvalue 4y ago
I think the best way to learn this stuff is from the people who did it, speaking in their own words. But watching videos takes forever, so the best way to do this is to read oral histories. The Computer History Museum has really great conte
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by eigenvalue 4y ago
If you absolutely want to prevent a Mac from not only going to sleep, but restarting for any reason at all (say, to install important security updates, which are usually forced on the user with no choice), there aren't many good ways.
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by eigenvalue 4y ago
I have found the vast majority of Netflix's original content from the last couple years to be pretty much uniformly awful. I really don't know why I have stayed a subscriber given that I almost never watch it and already have Amaz
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by eigenvalue 4y ago
This seems to clearly be a passion project. The author is being paid in the satisfaction that he gets in improving this famous game way beyond what the original creators managed to do, all while being bound by the same technical limitations
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Yes clearly once you have a key logger installed you have been compromised and have to assume the worst. But it would still be really useful to know that your keystrokes are being observed and recorded. I wonder if you could make a little d
816.
by eigenvalue 5y ago
That seems pretty unlikely to me actually. As the models and training data get much bigger, I think the initial weights become less important (at least assuming your random weights have certain desirable statistical properties, which they d
817.
by eigenvalue 5y ago
According to the LessWrong post, the smaller model trained on more data performs better on most of the tasks, but it’s worse on “college level math” questions. I wonder why that is. Is it because the extra capacity of the larger model was u
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Ask HN: Latest best practices to detect keyloggers on Windows/Mac/Linux?
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Cool article!
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Gwern’s site always reminds me of the Talmud (Jewish religious text), which also has a highly distinctive design with multiple “panels” and heavy emphasis of commentary and references. It’s also somewhat confusing and intimidating the the “
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
When this has happened at individual Walmart stores in the past, the company would immediately shut down the store and everyone would lose their jobs. A couple years later they would build a new store within 20 or so miles of the old store,
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Where I think something like this is most useful is as a common interchange format. For example, if you are using TickTick as a todo app and decide you want to switch to using Notion or something. If there were an ecosystem of converters to
823.
by eigenvalue 5y ago
For the stated use case, I have found DB Browser to be an invaluable tool to graphically interact with SQLite databases: https://sqlitebrowser.org/ You can do basically anything you would need to do to a database with it, a
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
“Some people whose work I’ve drawn from for this article, from the past and present, include Carl Menger, Warren Mosler, Friedrich Hayek, Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Saifdean Ammous, Vijay Boyapati, Stephanie Kelton, Ibn Battuta, Emil Sand
825.
by eigenvalue 5y ago
Surprised the clients couldn’t just randomly add a small random delay on N percent of requests to nullify the side-channel info leakage.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Whether or not there are exceptions (which of course there are) doesn't mean that there isn't a general pattern at work that is robust enough to make it a very strong predictor.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
I generally agree with you, but in this case I suspect Grace Hopper would be honored by it and also impressed with the engineering here. It's not like they slapped her name on a soda can or something.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
"Conceptually the answer in the theory is to suck up the excess money with taxes" Huh, why is that the answer? Why wouldn't the conceptual answer be "do the opposite", i.e. sop up the excess liquidity by removing mo
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Several big hedge funds require candidates to take the Wonderlic test ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test ) which is essentially an IQ type test (it strongly correlates with “G”). Didn’t seem to be an issu
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
In that case, they could probably just trigger a re-encoding of videos when they cross into 100+ views from over 50 unique IP addresses or something like that.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Seems like a sensible project for them since shaving 4% of YouTube's traffic translates to millions of dollars in savings. But I'm more excited about the possibility of using deep learning image models to get incredibly higher com
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend Coppola’s film Peggy Sue Got Married. It’s not as well known as some of his others, but it’s incredible. Funny and poignant at the same time.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
I second FastAPI. It's the fastest way to get a modern webapp or api up and running in Python with full support for async and it works nicely with ORMs like SQLAlchemy.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Agreed, I use Everything at least 10 times a day. Not only are searches instantaneous, but it doesn't even need to use a lot of time/compute to build the index because its using the built-in NTFS index. Why Microsoft doesn't
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
I just watched Alien again recently and had the same thought. It looks infinitely better and more realistic than anything made in the last few years. We should go back to using models and miniatures and restrict the computer to things like
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
I find it surprising that, even after using all those tricks, they are still only to achieve around 50% of the theoretical peak performance of the chip in terms of GFLOPS. And that's for matrix multiplication, which is a nearly ideal c
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
I agree, your version is much better and a lot less confusing.
838.
by eigenvalue 5y ago
You should buy one of the original design cans on eBay. I just checked and they are around $35 (but another $20+ for shipping!).
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
You can use Python with Pandas as an easy and powerful way to import from CSV files and then directly write or append the tables to an sqlite db. The whole thing can be done in just a couple lines of code.
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by eigenvalue 5y ago
Maybe try a powered usb-c hub and connect the displays to that instead of directly to the laptop?

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