hatthew

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by hatthew 6d ago
Update: The name tilcayo has been associated with oncilla by a bolivian government survey of fauna: https://repositorio.uasb.edu.bo/items/0e30ad14-971b-4d99-9aa...
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by hatthew 7d ago
Yeah that's what I'm curious about. "Known to locals" is very vague, and there are a lot of situations that could fit that description. The situation you mention is probably the most reasonable concrete interpretation, b
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by hatthew 8d ago
> And they said, ‘I don’t know! My grandpa called it tilcayo, so I call it tilcayo. I'm curious if the locals knew it was distinct from other similar species, e.g. Oncilla/L. tigrinus, or if tilcayo is the locals' name for
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by hatthew 10d ago
Yes. Note: Generally "dark" (as opposed to "bright") means emphasis on the lower frequencies, which is a good description for brown noise, but they aren't formally the same. Formally, brown noise refers to a power d
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by hatthew 12d ago
I'm not familiar with the case, but to me it sounds like the bicycle manufacturer is encouraging people to use bikes in the drive through, maybe even providing specific tools explicitly for that purpose?
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by hatthew 14d ago
Ok?
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by hatthew 15d ago
Maybe the subset of japanese content I'm exposed to is biased, but personally I encounter doubled vowels (obaasan) more often than macron vowels (obāsan). The latter is explicitly " modified hepburn romanization". Even if th
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by hatthew 16d ago
My understanding of the result that was found is that the blowup doesn't happen in the real world, and only happens in an NS simulation. The bottom line is that NS is insufficient to model the real world, because in this case the real
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by hatthew 16d ago
Huh? Nobody's talking about that because it's old news. We already talked about it the first few times that AI made notable progress on a difficult math problem. Now, most people who care about the intersection of AI and math just
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by hatthew 18d ago
I feel like this whole thing hinges on one point. OAI says[0]: > However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs unforced). How true is this? If the implied statemen
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by hatthew 25d ago
I like the part where the value is actually still 8
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by hatthew 25d ago
Investments need a return on investment. If "the thing you wanted to exist now does" is the only return, that's not enough to support anywhere near the current amount of digital product creation happening today.
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by hatthew 29d ago
I find json annoying to write a lot of the time, but I do enjoy that it's a lot more difficult to get wrong than yaml. The json spec is pretty clear, and can be learned and memorized by any programmer in 5 minutes. I'd much rather
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by hatthew 1mo ago
The "File" menu is about CRUD operations on file-level objects. I think eventually (~decades) the concept of the menu bar will go away, but until it does, File is a fine name for the first menu on the bar. I don't know what i
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by hatthew 1mo ago
If you're like me and struggled to parse the title, my understanding is, "To obtain certain source code from Google, you could previously reference git tags, but now you have to fill out a form and wait for a human to give you a g
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by hatthew 1mo ago
This thought occurred to me too, but then I realized even 37% is very high. In a reasonable society, most individuals' earnings should go up all the time. The downward pressure that should exist is high earners retiring and low earners
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by hatthew 1mo ago
My experience is that current models are pretty good at making functional changes without too many more bugs than a human would make, but are still bad at making good high quality changes. I have a degree in software engineering specificall
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I feel like those examples are considered difficult because they're niche topics, but aren't actually all that difficult in a general sense. What I consider truly difficult are things like taking a ticket and implementing it in a
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by hatthew 1mo ago
A little bit of hand waving, but I don't mind it much. A cloud of steam rising from a boiling pot doesn't have a well defined border or consistent shape, but a human looking at a nearby object can usually make a clear and reasonab
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I have a hypothesis that that majority of ad clicks are misclicks where someone closes the new page within <1 second.
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by hatthew 1mo ago
One of the ways I think about this is to treat AI as if it were another person. If I want to give information to Bob but I think Alice might do a better job of writing something, I'm not going to ask Alice and then copy-paste her respo
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by hatthew 1mo ago
Reading a copy-pasted AI response feel the same to me as reading a massive wall of text with no punctuation. It may contain valuable information, but it's harder to extract the signal out from among all the noise, and the writing sty
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by hatthew 1mo ago
What is that 30% number based on? Surely that's a model specific limit, and is based more on the absolute token length, not percentage, right? I'm not sure it makes sense for e.g. Opus 0.2M and Opus 1M to both degrade at 30% of th
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by hatthew 1mo ago
I find that if I'm driving or doing a chore or something, listening to nothing can sometimes be boring, but if I listen to a podcast I'll sometimes get distracted by my own thoughts and miss 5 minutes of it. Music tends to be the
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by hatthew 1mo ago
It depends on the target audience. Many people prefer the oversharpened content. I always find it incredible how so many people never change the oversharpened and oversaturated default settings on TVs.
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by hatthew 2mo ago
Similarly I attribute about 70% of my quantifiable success (i.e. primarily salary) to a chain of events where the "luckiest" thing was that my OS got corrupted. If not for that I would probably be in a low level software job at 30
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by hatthew 2mo ago
Nonsensical issues go viral all the time without any conspiracy behind them
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by hatthew 2mo ago
I agree that resolution and burst speed don't matter a whole lot. But this page is missing the bare minimum specs that should be of interest to any photographer, such as: approximate field of view, fixed focus vs autofocus, output fi
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by hatthew 2mo ago
I've been seeing a lot of projects that let one use large models on machines with small amounts of memory. They seem to all be doing significant quantization and/or expert streaming. What's the benefit of these projects over
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by hatthew 2mo ago
> tailscale is setting a higher expectation for themselves What exactly is the higher expectation? As someone with little expertise and no stake in any of this, the blog reads as "our products are great and could have solved this pr

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