hereonout2

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by hereonout2 2y ago
Absolutely, I try to "automate" or at least have scripted almost everything I do. I do this almost always for reproducibility and documentation purposes first.
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by hereonout2 2y ago
I'm assuming this is academia and teaching to undergraduates the foundations of programming / comp sci using Java (which I'm not sure should be many peoples first choice these days!). This situation is pretty common and has e
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by hereonout2 2y ago
Indeed, some big, rare and once costly things are just too cumbersome to have a huge market. Who has the space to store an antique mainframe? Same thing happens in other markets, industrial grade 12 foot bed CNC lathes can be picked up for
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by hereonout2 2y ago
> They live by a sort of unspoken code that they believe exists but which other people may or may not be aware of. I try to be a nice guy but also believe (hope) I'm competent! On the above that's something I've recognized
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by hereonout2 2y ago
Expensive in general but combine some decent tooling and spot instances and it can be insanely cheap. The latest Nvidia L4 GPUs (24GB) instances are currently less than 15c p/h spot. T4s are around 20c per hour spot, though they are sm
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by hereonout2 2y ago
I've worked professionally over the last 12 months hosting quite a few foundation models and fine tuned LLMs on our own hardware, aws + azure vms and also a variety of newer "inference serving" type services that are popping
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by hereonout2 2y ago
> While MDMA is sometimes termed an “empathogen,” empirical studies have struggled to clearly demonstrate these effects Clearly the scientists carrying out these studies need to change their working hours. Visiting any European dance mus
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by hereonout2 2y ago
100k records is still pretty small! It feels a bit like the hype that happended with "big data". People ended up creating spark clusters to query a few million records. Or using Hadoop for a dataset you could process with awk. Pr
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by hereonout2 2y ago
Indeed, it's almost a cliche. I believe it satisfies some sort of primeval urge magnified by sitting in front of a screen for decades.
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by hereonout2 2y ago
I just paid to get my lawn cleared for a new patio. A guy single handedly shovelled 8 tonnes of clay soil into a skip over two days. He charged much less than I earned in the same two days configuring AWS lambda functions. It's hard to
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by hereonout2 2y ago
This is true for almost all of us though? Nearly everyone has to work at least 5x 8 hour days a week - some much more. Some have complex family needs that must be attended to before any personal time can even be considered. There is always
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by hereonout2 2y ago
During my late 20s I realised I was very good at my programming job but not much use at anything else. It was quite a disappointing realisation. I started to do less and eventually no programming outside of office hours and instead invest m
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by hereonout2 3y ago
I didn't read any sympathy in that comment, they just seem to be pointing out that 25 years is not a "low" sentence. I would also agree that spending a 3rd of your life in prison is in effect destroying it.
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by hereonout2 3y ago
An absolutely fantastic publication, nice to see it still going. If you can find it there's a 1000 page hardback compendium of some of the best articles available too.
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by hereonout2 3y ago
This is a bit more useful than things like vscode or flake8 (my preferred option) telling you that you "import xxx" but don't use it. I'd love a deeper way to identify and selectively reduce the cruft from projects thoug
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by hereonout2 3y ago
It also has no articles, one of the main ones listed is titled "Hello World". Looks like a toy weekend project by someone learning web development. A worthy endeavour no doubt but not sure why it's on the front page.
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Should have read the manual.
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by hereonout2 3y ago
People will throw up all sorts of excuses for not just renting a VM for a static site - scalability, ease of use, security. But in the vast majority of cases you could just take a $5 VM, apt-get install nginx and be absolutely fine. A tiny
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by hereonout2 3y ago
10M tokens is something like 14 copies of war and peace, or maybe the entire harry potter series seven times over. That'd be some legal document!
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Unfortunately they don't just sell singles, so you quite often get to number 15!
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by hereonout2 3y ago
You can install pytorch with it, I have been doing so for a while. [tool.poetry.dependencies] torch = { version = "1.13.1+cu116", source = "pytorch-cuda" } [[tool.poetry.source]] name = "pytorch-cuda&qu
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by hereonout2 3y ago
> The needs of people writing and deploying HTTP/REST servers is just so different from the people writing PyTorch models and numerical simulations that no tool will ever satisfy the very different needs of both camps. Is this true
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Indeed, it was just the first one that came up in the search to illustrate the massive difference. It's about twice the house you'd get for Manchester money. Maybe there's other factors to consider, but the idea that Romanian
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by hereonout2 3y ago
I just found a newly built 7 bedroom villa with pool in Bucharest for under €500k, not ideal as it's near the airport but if anyone could point to an equivalent in the Manchester metropolitan area I'd be very interested. Also foun
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Behold the wonders of the modern age!
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Depends on the definition, but only the very oldest have hit 40, many in their 30s and some still in their 20s. It's too broad to be of use here, those entering the workforce in 2006 were in a different world from those doing so in 202
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by hereonout2 3y ago
That's not quite true. The EU, US, UK, Japan all have legal minimum ages for employment ranging from 13-15. I don't think the laws have changed that much from when I was young. There's more focus on remaining in education sur
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Thanks, sounds different and would certainly instill a certain work ethic. I'm similar age and have been in paid employment since the age of 13, a lot of different things through farming, manufacturing, retail and catering before I sta
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by hereonout2 3y ago
It sounds like your saying from the age of 5-11 years old you worked 7 days a week as a farm hand. Could you say more about what era this was and how many how's a day?
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by hereonout2 3y ago
Siri came out 12 years ago, wake words are probably a bad example. Better examples are the magic eraser on my 2 generation old pixel phone or the fact llama2 runs genuinely fast on a Mac mini

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