gavinray

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by gavinray 1y ago
The end of the previous Big Bang, a-la Big Bounce ;^) "It's turtles all the way down."
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by gavinray 1y ago
I asked several LLM's after jailbreaking with prompts to provide viable synthesis routes for various psychoactive substances and they did a remarkable job. This was neat to see but also raised some eyebrows from me. A clever kid with s
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by gavinray 1y ago
Not to be confused with Scylla DB's "Seastar" C++ non-blocking event driven server SDK https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
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by gavinray 1y ago
Maybe I'm jaded, but I fail to see how a bespoke file format is a better solution than bundling a normal image and a JSON/XML document containing metadata that adheres to a defined specification. It feels like creating a custom fo
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by gavinray 1y ago
Exactly, I will pay a premium for not having to deal with a human being in the car with me. It's a dice roll: you could get a very extroverted driver who won't leave you alone, or someone who smells bad, or someone rude, or a dist
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by gavinray 1y ago
I do a similar thing, except I email random people whose content or materials have helped me, or I appreciate. Everything from professors, musical artists, authors, and professionals. I never expect to get anything back but it's surpri
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by gavinray 1y ago
Have you never lived in a tiny studio/1 bed apartment? My wife and I have lived in a space so small we physically can't host people for the last 10 years and it's never bothered us. You just go out and meet people somewhere e
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by gavinray 1y ago
> "Once you've polished the windows, it is fun to go back and look at the view..." On the other hand: "If you get the message, hang up the phone." - Alan Watts
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by gavinray 1y ago
Two close friends of mine who were math prodigies that went on to do ML very early (mid 2010's) were always talking to me about an algorithm that sounds similar to this: "NEAT/HyperNEAT" (Neuroevolution of Augmented Top
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by gavinray 1y ago
"If I had asked people what they want, they would have said 'faster horses'" - Henry Ford
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by gavinray 1y ago
What is so absurd about the idea of ascribing consciousness to some potential future form of AI? We don't understand consciousness, but we've an idea that it's an emergent phenomena. Given the recent papers about how computat
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by gavinray 1y ago
It does not, but for what it's worth, I have been told I have quite a large head and they fit comfortably.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I own them, bought just recently. The eyes have these circular wheels near your eyebrow above the frame that lets you independently adjust the distance for each eye, if that's what you're talking about.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I also have this problem with the Viture glasses. Do you know if this accessibility feature is available when using it with phones?
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by gavinray 1y ago
Does Claude Code perform any different than browser Claude for writing tasks? I recently wrote a long Markdown document, and asked Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini to improve it. Comparing outputs, it was very close between Gemini and Clau
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by gavinray 1y ago
This is really cool and ought to be higher up I think, especially since you can freely edit + re-run the query in the browser. That "spark bar-chart" column output is one of the neatest things I've seen in a while. What a bri
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by gavinray 1y ago
I have faith that ML can approximate calories from images under the following conditions: - The food is inside containers of a standard size, which the model can use as a volumetric reference - Optimally, the containers are clear plastic, f
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by gavinray 1y ago
See also: "lincheck" by Jetbrains https://github.com/JetBrains/lincheck Toolkit for automatically deriving linearizability proofs for Concurrent Data Structures/Primtives. https://blog.jetbrai
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by gavinray 1y ago
Mental fatigue is when your brain is tired, but your body is not. In other words, you don't want to sleep or lie down, you want to stop thinking.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I actually had this happen to my personal AWS account a month ago. Someone had gotten ahold of one of my security keys and I stupidly didn't have 2-FA enabled. They spun up dozens of EC2's with high-end GPU's mining crypto an
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by gavinray 1y ago
I have zero knowledge of finance and trading, but when I got curious about algorithmic systems, it seemed like sentiment-based trading using current events was a more viable strategy than forecasting/regression-based analysis.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I also will chip in here and say in a work-related project, we evaluated fine-tuning in an attempt to get outputs to adhere to a metadata specification and weren't able to get better results than prompt + model parameter changes could
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by gavinray 1y ago
This is one of the most ridiculous RIIR I've seen. It's a CLI tool that makes API calls. I'd bet my bottom dollar that the performance difference between API-wrapping CLI tools in something like Ruby/Python vs Rust/
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by gavinray 1y ago
If you really want to bikeshed over size, you can use Preact which is a genuine 3kB full drop-in for React.
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by gavinray 1y ago
> React has become a behemoth requiring vendor specific hosting This is one of the silliest things I've read in a while. React is sub-3kB minified + gzip'ed [0], and the grand majority of React apps I've deployed a
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by gavinray 1y ago
The comments are all OP's alt's replying to themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340867#40340868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340941#40340942
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by gavinray 1y ago
I eat the exact same meals every day. Without a multi-vitamin I'd likely get some sort of vitamin/nutrient deficiency, I imagine.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I take 20,000iu of Vitamin D a day (10,000iu morning/night). You can take quite an amount of Vitamin D safely, an example: "Results of daily oral dosing with up to 60,000iu of vitamin D3 for 2 to 6 years in 3 adult males"
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by gavinray 1y ago
That's so bizarre, do you take other medications, or have an usual diet? I drink a zero-calorie energy drink every morning for the past 10 years and I've never had any issues.
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by gavinray 1y ago
> a zero mass rock A what, now?

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