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by fritzo 3y ago
> For developers who do development on remote machines Gosh having started program on 286s in the 1980s, my M1 air feels blazingly opulently fast. What sort of local development are people doing that requires heavier compute than an M1 a
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by fritzo 3y ago
Conversely, does it even count if you merely read Shakespeare, rather than experiencing a performance, as intended?
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by fritzo 3y ago
It is dismaying that used paperbacks are often cheaper than e-books. I am ashamed to admit that often buy used paperbacks, despite the negative ecological impact of shipping.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Agreed. I notice daily fluctuation in my relative aptitudes for visually vs aurally ingesting media. On days when vision feels tough, I'll use osx screen reader at ~3x speed while looking at the document. Seeing the document helps me n
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by fritzo 3y ago
Doubleplus clearly Newenglish
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by fritzo 3y ago
And then sourceforge was taken over by malware injectors...
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by fritzo 3y ago
Sorry, I don't see anything public. I remember a particular talk he gave in maybe 2018 or 2019 while he was at Uber. IIRC the talk started roughly: <shows picture> Do any of you know what this animal is? This is a sea squirt. Wha
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by fritzo 3y ago
See also the Java LMAX Disruptor https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor I've built a similar lock-free ring buffer in C++11 https://github.com/posterior/loom/blob/master/doc
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by fritzo 3y ago
Even before AGI, suppose a data center uptime optimization algorithm is given a broad range of possible actions to achieve more 9's of uptime. Across all failure modes the algorithm sees that to achieve the next 9, it needs its parent
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by fritzo 3y ago
Question for Adrian: All your sentient beings are animal-like: they are discrete animals that move around, or at weirdest are a ruinous sludge that moves around and assumes the form of animals. But might we see mycelium networks as sentient
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by fritzo 3y ago
I think it's more likely that a self-intrested AGI would save us from a Carrington event
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by fritzo 3y ago
And failing will be the new passing.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Honestly though, I wish min and max were treated as first class citizens, the way addition and multiplication are. In-place max=, min= operators would be super useful, both in Python in general and in ML flavored libraries in particular (e.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Let's not forget 1989 Loma Prieta quake that caused the top deck of the bay bridge to collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake
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by fritzo 3y ago
"Writing should be restricted to the educated few who can responsibly carry the Church's message." -anti-technologist from 1000 years ago, probably
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by fritzo 3y ago
Gosh I find modern generative AI quite approachable exactly because there is a simple mental model: both transforms and diffusion models are conditional probability distributions trained on the internet. I feel comfortable with conditional
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by fritzo 3y ago
This attitude is like the rugged forest hermit's aversion to computers because silicon wafer production is out of reach for individuals.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Seems like a great way incentivize the CEO to prioritize developer experience. Maybe Google could follow a similar incentive plan to improve Gemini developer experience.
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by fritzo 3y ago
I end up deleting chats because I can't search them.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Thanks, I'm just as surprised!
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by fritzo 3y ago
That's a good example, but I wonder if people now have more options and are more career-mobile. 700 years ago masonry was a family profession. Now it would get brain drained by AI.
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by fritzo 3y ago
"ends meet" what a delightful veganization, as if the two ends --your expenses and income-- just barely meet. I used to literally buy the packaged ends of meat and cheese, which grocers sell for less because they're closer to
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by fritzo 3y ago
Would it be too much friction to host internally and require your users to "load unpacked"?
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by fritzo 3y ago
The main bar chart [1] seems at first shocking, then deceptive. Bar height is illegal $ transacted, but there is no multiplier for moral repugnance or "just how illegal is each $". Surely $1 transacted in illegal human trafficking
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by fritzo 3y ago
I agree proprioception is important in fiction, but I think of senses as being more immediate outputs of our sensors: touch, pain, temperature, sight, hearing, smell, taste, balance, etc. Proprioception seems like a more downstream integrat
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by fritzo 3y ago
PyTorch has had an XLA backend for years. I don't know how performant it is though. https://pytorch.org/xla
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by fritzo 3y ago
> we don’t live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club These chaotic orbits remind me of the chaotic solar system in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem". And they give me the same sense of terror that we can&#x
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by fritzo 3y ago
I thought the same, but it turns out unicycles are safer to fall off than a bike. When you fall off a bike, one of your legs is usually caught on the wrong side of the top tube. When you fall off a unicycle, there's no top tube to enta
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by fritzo 3y ago
I think the issue here is maintenance rather than manufacturing
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by fritzo 3y ago
It's the prose equivalent of an online recipe sandwich: thin slices of content interleaved with airy filler

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