i_am_proteus

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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
We do not know if that is less than 5% of users or less than 5% of paid users? We do know that PR teams enjoy framing things in the most favorable light possible.
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
Christian Science Monitor (nonprofit run, the religion really is siloed to the "Christian Science Perspective" section and the reporting is good and as independent as it comes)
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
>The fact that W7-X results are on a par with JET is remarkable because JET had three times the plasma volume of Wendelstein 7-X. What's important here is that W 7-X is a stellarator , a different type of fusion reactor from almost
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
Good point! The good news would be that GPT-4o average energy usage per query would be lower than 20 Wh. The bad news is that there's a quadratic increase in energy usage with the increase in a model's maximum context window. GPT
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
>GPT-4o query consumes around 0.3 watt-hours for a typical text-based question, though this increases substantially to 2.5 to 40 watt-hours for queries with very long inputs. Given a context window of 128 kilotokens, and how the energy u
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic) Indicates that the two o's are separate syllables.
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
If you aren't running direct-heated triodes, leave the heaters on and switch off the B+ :)
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by i_am_proteus 1y ago
One reason would be if anyone does not want to, or is not able to, enable virtualization (WSL requires this).
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
Why do the in-class testing without computers? We use an airgapped lab (it has LAN and a local git server for submissions, no WAN) to give coding assessments. It works.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
CLRS (Serious comment! It's "the" algorithms book).
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
It takes about a week to get used to it. Many years later, I am so completely comfortable with the ergonomics that I don't even think about the interface: pointing is natural, and my wrist pain is long gone in the past :)
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
>Chollet, a French computer scientist and one of the industry’s sharpest skeptics I feel like this description really buries the lede on Chollet's expertise. (For those who don't know, he's the creator of and lead contribu
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
L-Trac is still in production, made by P.I. Engineering, "The No Slogan Company"
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
Those looking for a shorter primer could consult https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01528
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
Quarto should "just work" for this. There's an option to wrap code blocks.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
If you move to Mountain View, you need to be able to afford to live in Mountain View. That takes a lot of remote jobs off the table, or substantially diminishes their prospects. If you live in Omaha and work remotely, far more remote jobs
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
The vocabulary term "net" means profit after expenses. Certainly the retail price would be higher.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
If a record nets $10 per, and you etch 20 records per week, the hobby pays for itself within a year. If your business happens to grow, you could buy another machine and make more records. If your business happens to not grow, the capital ou
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
Stanford does have faculty housing: it's made available for the tenured faculty member to rent for life. The school owns the house. The professor builds no equity. The alternative, given the cost of housing near Stanford and faculty
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
At that point, engine brake with the clutch.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
This is not true, you might have misread the guidance- it's retroactive to the date of the decision (7 February) and not retroactive to other existing grants ( https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files&#
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
There's some pedagogical value at the "fundamentals" end: exposing how automatic differentiation turns calculus into matrix algebra, especially for CS students who are weaker in math. For the rest of it, there's pedagogi
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
I get pretty decent, if high-contrast results pushing 320TX and 400TX to 3200. Pushing does increase grain; but using a larger format (6x7 or 4x5) reduces the apparent grain in resultant prints. I can't say enough good things about HC-
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
1930s films were slower (lower ASA/ISO) than "modern" films. Focusing mechanisms were worse: the SLR was developed in the 1930s; most cameras used in that era were rangefinders (or 'point-and-shoot'). Cameras and le
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
Interested readers may enjoy Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman, which chronicles, amongst other things, how Henry Kaiser led the rapid construction of the shipyards used to build the merchant fleet that helped the United States win th
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
The current embassy is indeed in DC proper, but it isn't directly across the river from DCA. It's about a mile upriver, near the Watergate.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
It happened in NC, too: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/10/duke-universit...
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
There's no real need for celestial navigation on land, the same way there's no need for celestial navigation in most coastal waters: if you can see lines of bearing to known landmarks/navigation markers, you can obtain a fix.
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by i_am_proteus 2y ago
The "right way"[0] to use Kagi is the unlimited search tier ($10/mo) and then aggressively rank domains in searches. Within a few weeks, the search quality improves tremendously, because I have filtered out the domains res

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