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by hansvm 5mo ago
Unless you're pushing a ton of extra work into a network-capable accelerator, that sounds exactly like what you'd want for, e.g., an encrypted S3 implementation. You have encryption, RS encoding, striped checksumming, sending frag
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by hansvm 5mo ago
IME it's always lack of experience, at least at the level being described here. It's the same kind of person adding CORS handling to a pure backend service for "security" reasons. They just don't know any better and
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by hansvm 5mo ago
The "it looks like there's stuff we didn't previously know about here" class of guesses has historically been fruitful, yielding, among other things, the discovery of several planets. Maybe dark matter isn't the ans
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by hansvm 5mo ago
It's one of the worst-named books, and it's definitely worth reading. I can't recommend it enough.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
With one class of exception (everyone with an early-morning flight piling in before the airport opens and creating a security backlog around Thanksgiving and Christmas), it's never once been more than 10min from walking in the front do
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by hansvm 6mo ago
That's equivalent to changing the temperature. Also, so long as the function is non-negative for all inputs and positive for at least one you'll always get a valid probability distribution.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I did some kind of hard work, and the AI took away some other kind of hard work off my plate. For some problems, targeted brainstorming is still very valuable.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
> The fact is, LLMs are incapable of invention and synthesizing new ideas. I don't think it's fully appreciated how much of the hard work of "synthesizing a new idea" is just combining existing ideas. LLMs have given
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by hansvm 6mo ago
IME there usually isn't much contention looking at the same section of shelf. If I'm looking at the cured meats, I'm the only person looking at any shelves within 6ft either direction. Other nearby people are walking past, lo
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Been there, done that, and Windows feels the need to delete such files from _flash drives_ you dare to attach to the machine.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
> It is honestly so shameful that we keep falling for this gambit. I'm not sure who "we" is in this story, but the _most_ optimistic of my peers pointed to typical MS projects of that scale having a little proper investmen
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Is there a library of good tools for LLMs to call? I have to imagine the bot-detection avoidance mechanisms are a major engineering effort and not likely to work out of the box with a simple harness and random local LLM.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Maybe. On the other hand, in economy on some planes I just literally don't fit in a forward direction because of femur length and cycling muscles, I don't fit in a sideways direction either because of broad shoulders and arm muscl
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Health care companies are radioactively affected by mishandling healthcare data (give or take practical impact being very toothless, especially nowadays). The data itself is mostly not an issue though under any legal theories, and if Joe Sc
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Interestingly, there exist problems which provably can't be learned via gradient descent for them.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I'll use 1NN as the interpolation strategy instead since I think it illustrates the same point and saves a few characters. Recap: 1NN says that given a query Q you choose any pair (X,Y) from your learned "model" (a finite set
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by hansvm 6mo ago
For dynamic alpha, start by pretending the new incoming, windowed data doesn't exist. Look at your old data. How quickly do you want it to disappear? It'll have some formula like e^-(bt) for some constant b governing what proporti
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by hansvm 6mo ago
If I paid all my doctors $1200/hr and doubled how much time they spend with or on me, that'd still pale in comparison to healthcare expenditures attributed to me between actual insurance payments and actual money leaving my bank a
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Not ordinarily, at least not anymore. They cancelled Project Beanstalk in the late 2010s, now relying on the legal system to extract perceived debts.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I mean, they're not bad, but they have spicy chargers, the corners are uncomfortably sharp, the keyboard often doesn't register, the LCD is prone to vertical bars and other issues even without physical damage and is extremely sens
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Or we can use this camel's straw to finally draw a bit of inspiration from our French compatriots. The power these people wield is artificial, and we're capable of taking it away.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
That works well for sorting/bucketing/etc in a few places, but as a comparison it's prone to false negatives (your values are close and computed to not be close), so you're restricted to algorithms tolerant of that behav
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by hansvm 6mo ago
My normal issue with floating-point epsilon shenanigans is that they don't usually pass the sniff test, suggesting something fundamentally wrong with the problem framing or its solution. It's a classic, so let's take vector n
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by hansvm 6mo ago
standup> My coq experiments are promising, but it feels a little harder than it should be, and I'm worried it'll be too slow to deliver without some training and long practice sessions.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Sure, why not? Current US music revenue is $6/mo per US taxpayer. For less than half the cost of Spotify you could 5x the income going to musicians if you skipped the middleman and magically just paid them directly. That doesn't s
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I don't really know, but I have a story which might prompt some conversation about it. At $WORK we had a system which, if you traced its logic, could not possibly experience the bug we were seeing in production. This was a userspace co
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Yes and no. Storage should cost in the ballpark of $200M/yr or less. Transcoding, networking, and delivery should be similar. Let's round up to $10B/yr just for fun. YT makes $40B/yr (revenue IIRC) across its 3B customer
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Yes, but distillation involves heat, and I'm curious if possibly the sugar reacts with anything to cause different aromatics or something, or perhaps fermentations stopping at higher sugar concentrations have a better aromatic profile
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by hansvm 6mo ago
And lazy unload, so you can't find it even if you've already scrolled through the whole thing.
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by hansvm 6mo ago
On qutebrowser I type 2H instead of H, and it doesn't go to the most recent history item at all. Mostly though, no, spammy websites still do this, and browser's haven't fixed it.

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