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by enriquto 2y ago
Is there any way for us individuals to help libgen? Some sort of ipfs distributed storage? It would be a tragedy if it was lost. It's an essential resource for scientists and for bibliophiles! I've recently stopped buying books
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by enriquto 2y ago
> > a skilled LLM user can generate solid responses to almost anything. > I don't think my students, who often leave the "as an AI I have no opinions" in their essays, are skilled LLM users This thread is really funn
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by enriquto 2y ago
> POSIX is supposed to be descriptive of what exists, not prescribe new behavior Well, it can be argued that ape already existed when that POSIX change was written :) Everything is working as intended. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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by enriquto 2y ago
Great. Now forbid spaces in filenames.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> it's just interesting that all the images are of vector fields. Because they are! You can indeed "flatten" all these forms into vector and scalar fields, and you lose some information but the data is the same. It's
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by enriquto 2y ago
> I still don’t have much intuition for k-vectors and k-forms The references that you cite are great. Also Tristan Needham's book "Visual Differential Geometry and Forms", or the classic "Gravitation" where this
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by enriquto 2y ago
Sir, this is a text editor .
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by enriquto 2y ago
Well, of course, open source would mean that you can also download all the training data and re-do the training yourself.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> if we don’t feel stupid it means we’re not really trying Sounds a bit like Kernighan's lever: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
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by enriquto 2y ago
Is this really "open source"? Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
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by enriquto 2y ago
Mostly solo dev. I only use branches when working with some colleagues who are "branchists". It's not that I don't understand branches, but they always look unnecessarily cumbersome to me. The worst offenders are &quo
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by enriquto 2y ago
Maybe explaining why would you ever want to have branches in your code? I'm a longtime git user and never felt a need for them.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> The economies are too integrated for this scenario. This exact reason was put forward by political thinkers in the 1910s to "prove" that a major war in Europe was completely impossible. It was then put forward again in the 1
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by enriquto 2y ago
> spending 4 weeks on like 5 pages of a 10-page chapter. But is that the best use of your time? Look at it as the best use of paper :) Many math books are dense . They don't bullshit you around. Spending several hours on a single
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by enriquto 2y ago
> compute the non-overlapping areas of each polygon within each pixel In the given example (periodic checkerboard), that would be impossible because the pixels that touch the horizon intersect an infinite amount of polygons. Not that TFA
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by enriquto 2y ago
It would be nice to see the "carbon" version of this infography. How much carbon is in the atmosphere as CO_2, in the biosphere as part of living stuff, and buried kilometers underground as gas and oil. Also, how much of that ca
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by enriquto 2y ago
Linux and Windows keep supporting even blatant bugs for decades, in order not to break old working code that relies on these bugs. The ecosystem keeps evolving healthily under that constraint. Breaking working code for an essentially styli
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by enriquto 2y ago
Or maybe, you know, just don't knowingly break other people's working code.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> the way it was made callable is super wonky. why do you say it's wonky? it's just sys.modules[__name__] = wat According to the official python documentation [0] of sys.modules: > This is a dictionary that maps mod
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by enriquto 2y ago
> from wat import wat Given the cool nature of this project, I'm surprised they don't offer simply "import wat" with identical usage syntax. Thus inviting curious users to wat/wat in order to discover the trick.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> the latter is much easier: sample 10,000 elements uniformly at random and take their median Do you have a source for that claim? I don't see how could that possibly be true... For example, if your original points are sampled from
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by enriquto 2y ago
> What is the equivalent of the training data for something like the Linux kernel? It's the source code. For the linux kernel: compile(sourcecode) = binary For llama: train(data) = weights
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Most of the content in training datasets like The Pile are not licensed for redistribution in any way shape or form. But distributing the weights is a "form" of distribution. You can recover many items of the dataset (most e
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by enriquto 2y ago
> The training data contains most likely insane amounts of copyrighted material. If that is the case then the weights must inherit all these copyrights. It has been shown (at least in image processing) that you can extract many training
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by enriquto 2y ago
It's alarming that he refers to llama as if it was open source. The definition of free software (and open source, for that mater), is well-established. The same definition applies to all programs, whether they are "AI" or no
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by enriquto 2y ago
> people still can't get used to .local/.share/.config I'm one of those people... I don't want yet more hidden stuff in my home dir; I want less. My dream is to have zero hidden directories in my home. What I
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Unicode chars support. I prefer to type α instead of \alpha. This is not done by default by LaTeX, but if you can bear to \usepackage{unicode-math} then it's readily available. A life changer! Regarding presentations, what do you
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by enriquto 2y ago
Great site! If you want to improve its looks, you can just remove all the css styling. Also, since you are using mathjax, it's better to use the dollar signs as in LaTeX, and not all these ugly tags with classes. As a rule of thumb, g
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by enriquto 2y ago
You will take self-texting from my cold, dead hands.
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> 2M tons of wild fish used to produce 27% less farmed salmon ... > The issue is not the absolute number but that you are using more to produce less. But this will always be the case when growing animals. The 83% number seems quite e

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