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by gardnr 2y ago
As a software developer I can say that it is not bad. It's pretty great, actually.
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by gardnr 2y ago
> GPU acceleration on Apple silicon There is at least one benefit. I'd be interested to see what their security model is.
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by gardnr 2y ago
Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays From March 20th: Apple has been sued in federal court over what plaintiffs allege is false advertising of several Apple Intelligence features. Filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San
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by gardnr 2y ago
There was a paper[1] from last year where the authors discovered getting the model to output anything during times of uncertainty, improved the generations overall. If all of the post-training alignment reasoning starts with the same tokens
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by gardnr 2y ago
Back in 2009, Bruce Schnier described a process to cross borders: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/laptop_securi...
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by gardnr 2y ago
This is super useful. So much boilerplate code to run async calls and gather. I have been using tqdm.gather() so I am glad to see this library supports it.
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by gardnr 2y ago
In the Five-eyes jurisdiction, it is legally allowed to use strong end-to-end encryption. Any potential laws that are contrary to that would come up against some serious 4th amendment issues. The idea of cryptography as a munitions was larg
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by gardnr 2y ago
Great project! Nice work! It reminds me a bit of marimo: https://docs.marimo.io/guides/publishing/
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by gardnr 2y ago
Being both eager and lazy does make it sound magical.
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by gardnr 2y ago
Then Facebook complied with the new law which had negative outcomes for Canadians. The politicians then blamed Facebook for the negative outcomes: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-facebook-instagram-news-blo... I do be
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by gardnr 2y ago
maintaining a precarious class benefits those in power
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by gardnr 2y ago
I remember calling a taxi 3 hours before my flight to get to SFO. After an hour and four different phone calls to the taxi company, I took BART and barely made it before the counter closed. The feedback system incentivizes drivers and rider
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by gardnr 2y ago
Oh, now I see what you mean. I am not in the sector but AFAIK there has been no direct benefit from GoF. There is huge potential which some experts believe outweigh the risks, which is why it is controversial, and that is why it has been po
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by gardnr 2y ago
I haven't been following it closely but I am guessing the documents from the Select Committee were the closest thing to "compelling evidence" The Intercept wrote an article about it: https://theintercept.com/2
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by gardnr 2y ago
It's hard to read with all the fancy scrolling.
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by gardnr 2y ago
One way to send and receive email from your vanity domain in the free version of gmail: # Use Cloudflare Email Routing. * Point your MX records at their MX. * Cloudflare forwards email to your gmail.com address. # Use AWS SES or s
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by gardnr 2y ago
Perplexity: a metric, often used to evaluate LLMs, is derived from the negative average logprob of the tokens in a test set. Lower perplexity indicates that the model assigns higher probabilities to the observed tokens, reflecting better la
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by gardnr 2y ago
Remember: inference is memory bound. https://www.databricks.com/blog/llm-inference-performance-en...
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by gardnr 2y ago
Based on your evaluation, it sounds like it will run inference at speed similar to an M4 Max and also allow "startups" to experiment with fine tuning larger models or larger context windows. It's the best "dev board&quot
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by gardnr 2y ago
It's cool. It just feels a bit like an advert.
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by gardnr 2y ago
In case you haven't seen this one yet: Title: "RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data" Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, yet the choice of whic
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by gardnr 2y ago
They could enable dismissing the popups with the escape key or by clicking outside the popup. I have to admit, I've just closed the tab a few times instead of acquiescing to click "got it".
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Back in January, someone on Reddit claimed the list price was $16k.
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Who made superbad.com back in the late 90s?
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by gardnr 2y ago
Thanks for asking. I should have mentioned this is based on anecdotal personal experience. I used to have an ancient laptop with a bad mic and a low res webcam. I noticed much higher callback rate after upgrading. This is admittedly a small
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by gardnr 2y ago
It's worth it to note: When doing interviews for a new role, the camera quality really does matter.
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by gardnr 2y ago
This is the real advantage. Any crapbox with 16GB of ram is good enough for most things (unless you work on JVM microservices), the main benefit of the new laptops is the unreal battery life. That, and USB-C charging is handy if you spend a
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by gardnr 2y ago
> Respectfully, the US and its lackeys That reads like sarcasm to me. The embargo gets voted in every 6 months. There's huge lobby made up of bitter ex-land-owners from Cuba that now live in the USA and buy politicians. The travesty
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by gardnr 2y ago
Mostly classification and object detection. Looks like segmentation and pose estimation as well. Here's the page for the chip: https://developer.sony.com/imx500 And the model zoo: https://github.com/ras
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Parallel construction is legal in the USA

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