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by hatthew 1y ago
Downwards acceleration is free
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by hatthew 1y ago
In my experience I don't notice any difference in accent between the east coast and west coast. The only regional accent I notice in many native english speakers is southern. All other accents seem to be cultural (AAVE, ESL) or dying (
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by hatthew 1y ago
What does the word "know" mean, then?
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by hatthew 1y ago
Really? Dithering is generally only useful with quantized colors, you can't dither something that's already quantized without knowledge of the original, and many/most people who want to do quantization also want to do ditheri
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by hatthew 1y ago
Hell no, any experienced engineer would rather do it themselves than attempt to corral an untrained army. Infinite monkeys can write a sequel to shakespeare, but it's faster to write it myself than to sift through mountains of gibberis
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by hatthew 1y ago
ok, let me know when that happens
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by hatthew 1y ago
Having an LLM code for you is like watching someone make a TAS. It technically meets the explicitly-specified goals of the mapper (checkpoints and finish), but the final run usually ignores the intended route made by the mapper. Even if the
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by hatthew 1y ago
A human might see a gap in guardrails and avoid it, or upon seeing unexpected behavior they might be able to tell that a guardrail was breached and have some intuition of where. An LLM will happy burst through a gap in the guardrails, claim
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by hatthew 1y ago
What? This is exactly what I would expect an LLM to be good at. Stack Overflow gives common solutions to common problems. LLMs give niche solutions to problems that aren't common enough for extensive discussion, but are still already s
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think the main difference between shortcuts like "compilers" and shortcuts like "LLMs" is determinism. I don't need to know assembly because I use a compiler that is very well specified, often mathematically prove
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by hatthew 1y ago
public perception of covid changed from The Apocalypse to The Flu 2
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by hatthew 1y ago
The suggestion is that the hawk hears the signal and knows that the line of cars is about to be unusually long in a minute, so it prepares by flying into position.
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by hatthew 1y ago
Does this have anything to do with decibels specifically or is it just general log-space arithmetic?
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by hatthew 1y ago
I think my comment on projection was prompted by "which of these is right? No one knows." and "Read that. Meditate on it. Now, notice: You still don’t know how to solve..." when the documentation seems relatively clear (
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by hatthew 1y ago
Am I the only one who feels like this is a rant where the author is projecting their unfamiliarity with numpy? Most of the examples seem like straw men, and I can't tell if that's because they are or if the author genuinely thinks
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by hatthew 1y ago
Oh right, that makes sense. So the argument is that comparing a 50C GPU+radiator in a 20C room vs a 50C GPU+radiator in 0K space, the one in space will dissipate more heat via radiation than the one on the ground? As you say, I'd expec
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by hatthew 1y ago
Followup question, wouldn't nearly any cooling solution that works in space also work on the ground? Radiative cooling is the most basic/common cooling solution on the ground, the main challenge is just figuring out how to to move
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by hatthew 1y ago
sorry for late response What I mean is that if you have multiple speakers around you, if any one is 1 foot closer or further than another, it'll be off by a millisecond already. Given that most people probably aren't going to have
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by hatthew 1y ago
Sound travels at a speed of ~1 foot/millisecond
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by hatthew 1y ago
Title says o3 beat a [human] player. That implies there is some competition that has the capacity to be fair or unfair.
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by hatthew 1y ago
It's solved in the same way that baseball is solved: an omniscient superhuman player can get the perfect hit every time, but the fun is that we're imperfect and have to minimize our mistakes and maximize our recovery from mistakes
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by hatthew 1y ago
Do your OS and screen both support HDR and have it enabled? It works by default on my mbp m2's screen, but not its external monitor or on my windows desktop/laptop.
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by hatthew 2y ago
The default example `100 / 4~6` gives the output `17~25`
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by hatthew 2y ago
Under the "Limitations" section: > Range is always a normal distribution, with the lower number being two standard deviations below the mean, and the upper number two standard deviations above. Nothing fancier is possible, in t
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by hatthew 2y ago
I guess part of my question is, are there any macrostates that are useful to us that can't be described using more abstract human-subjective terms? If a macrostate can be described using human terms, I'd say the state is somewhat
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by hatthew 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the distinction between "high-entropy macrostate" and "order". Aren't macrostates just as subjective as order? Let's say my friend's password is 6dVcOgm8. If we have a system
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by hatthew 2y ago
Let's say you have a photo of a starry night sky, and a photo of a slightly brighter sky with no visible stars. If you do "fully accurate on average" dithering, the dithered output would be identical. But in that context, the
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by hatthew 2y ago
Let's say the original image is solid light gray, maybe 99% white. The palette you have for dithering is only pure white and pure black. What's the "best" possible output? Would it be pure white, or would it be 1 black p
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by hatthew 2y ago
Isn't iceberg lettuce so common in part because it's one of the most stable lettuces? Still absolutely hilarious that Truss was outlasted by a head of lettuce, but I want to make sure that we're being accurate.
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by hatthew 2y ago
I am slowly coming around to the idea that nobody should ever use the word "understand" in relation to LLMs, simply because everyone has their own definition of "understand", and many of these definitions disagree, and p

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