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by hex4def6 5mo ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blairmc99/55275010559/in/photo... I don't think I've ever seen a manual that expected me to use DeMorgan's Theorem as part of a test procedure... :)
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by hex4def6 5mo ago
One of the all time greats. I think I'll play through it this evening. "...And what is the 'Self', if not a pattern of data? What is consciousness, if not an illusion of intelligence residing within meat?" — Prime F
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by hex4def6 5mo ago
Agreed. For such low frequency stuff, it feels way safer to just buy a cheap <$500 scope for this kind of work. Using a $50k scope when it's not needed just seems needlessly risky. Also, float the DUT, not the scope... Sometimes tha
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by hex4def6 5mo ago
Hmmm. Looking at: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/... I'm not sure I believe the graphs. For example, here's another frequency response chart of some stethoscopes: https
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by hex4def6 5mo ago
I'm curious about the units -- watts doesn't really seem right. It seems like joules would make more sense, right?
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by hex4def6 6mo ago
I think you could alter the prompt in subtle ways; a period goes to an ellipses, extra commas, synonyms, occasional double-spaces, etc. Enough that the prompt is different at a token-level, but not enough that the meaning changes. It would
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by hex4def6 6mo ago
I was in the same boat. I'm in the bay area, did a roof mount system. ~9.5kW with Enphase microinverters. I think it cost be ~15k all in. The usual installer price is normally around $2.5-$3/w (so about $25k - $30k). I got someone
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by hex4def6 6mo ago
The point of a benchmark is that it allows a relative comparison. The Pelican is one such benchmark. Feel free to create a "how does it compare to Claude 3.5 Sonnet" benchmark. If people find it useful, it will be run against new
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by hex4def6 6mo ago
"The memo stated Gov. Newsom's administration made two errors. The first involved double counting CalPERS contribution rates for the upcoming year, which the LAO said was a $1.6 billion miscalculation. The second issue involved in
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by hex4def6 6mo ago
First of all: Awesome work! Playing with it now. One suggestion: The main splash screen image is nearly 8MB big. It takes a noticeable time to download on my connection. I'm not sure what bandwidth costs these days, but seems like that
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
Sure. But I bet you'd have a significantly easier time converting a child rather than a 30/40/50-yr old to a religion. My point is that LLMs are suggestible, perhaps more so than the average adult, but less so than I child I
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
That just implies LLMs are suggestible. The same is true of children. As we get older and build a more complete world model in our heads, it's harder to get us to believe things which go against that model. Tell a 5-yr old about Santa,
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
I've gotta say, this writeup gives me an itchy feeling. It really does feel like poking around a synthetic brain at this point. You could make the argument it's closer to the blocks of a CPU compared with a brain, and it's no
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
Linux can fool you into that sense of security for a long time. But there will come a point where the facade crashes down. Maybe it's plugging your laptop into an external projector, or getting to sleep and wake correctly without the W
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
The author explicitly shows how in Apple's walled garden, even that had hurdles that have been put up, 'for security'.
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
If you're benchmarking something, old & well-characterized / understood often beats new & un-characterized. Sure, there may be shortcomings, but they're well understood. The closer you get to the cutting edge, the le
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
Aren't human coders also nondeterministic? Assigning different agents to have different focuses has worked for me. Especially when you task a code reviewer agent with the goal of critically examining the code. The results will normally
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by hex4def6 7mo ago
As someone who worked on kindle power consumption many years ago: One of the (by far) biggest consumers of power is the WiFi connection. It has to wake up and respond to the AP in order to not get disconnected every x seconds. Off the top o
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
Same. I've been exploring some computer vision recognition stuff. Being able to reason through my ideas with an LLM, and make visualizations like t-SNE to show how far apart a coke can and a bag of cheetos are in feature-space has been
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
No. I'd argue that no one would really care given it's GCC. But if you worked for GiantSodaCo on their secret recipe under NDA, then create a new soda company 15 years later that tastes suspiciously similar to GiantSodaCo, you&#x2
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
Two socks and two sets of googly eyes are required for this exercise. Attach googly eyes to socks. Insert hands in socks.
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
The article is literally about how the efforts to keep humidity down have resulted in the growth of these extremophiles.
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
That's like saying 'why give people calculators, when you can pull out a slide rule' The whole point is that you are enabling the LLM through tool use. The prompt might be "Download all the images on the wikipedia articl
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
If I can start an agent and be able to walk away for 8 hours, and be confident it's 'smart' enough to complete a task unattended, that's still useful. At 3 tk/s, that's still 100-150 pages of a book, give or ta
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
Yes. And murder is illegal. And yet, Al Capone was in Alcatraz on tax evasion charges.
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by hex4def6 8mo ago
I'm failing to see the smoking gun here. There are two ways you could interpret "counterfeit". 1. Fake IC (identifies as FTDI 232 IC), fake cable (FTDI logo on it) 2. Real IC, fake cable (eg, I buy the FTDI IC and make the ca
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by hex4def6 9mo ago
If you're talking about Chavez, I'd disagree quite strongly. But even Maduro had his western-based supporters, at least in the early years; for example this op-ed in the Guardian: "Although there are abuses of power and p
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by hex4def6 9mo ago
We are discussing UI/Icon design, not the geopolitical implications of AGI or the Holocene extinction event. Why should someone that disagrees with you on whether capitalism is uniquely responsible for bad icon design now be forced to
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by hex4def6 10mo ago
> We used to have a training ground for junior engineers, but now AI is increasingly automating away that work. Both studies I referenced above cited the same thing - AI is getting good at automating junior work while only augmenting sen
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by hex4def6 11mo ago
I think the forced countdown is a bit unfriendly, especially when LLM delays eat the majority of that. Perhaps limit it to X questions. Also, having a min / max funding range (e.g, min 100K, max 500K). I might not want to wager the sam

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