inciampati

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by inciampati 10mo ago
It is true that graphs communicate very well. But they do come from text... And in the end we need to be able to describe what we see in them in text.
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by inciampati 10mo ago
To have a competitive code writer with ngrams you need more than to "scale up the ngrams" you need to have a corpus that includes all possible codes that someone would want to write. And at that point you'd be better off with
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by inciampati 10mo ago
Very beautiful. Love this. If it helps, AFAIK (I do atomic force microscopy of DNA), DNA's height is closer to 2nm than 4.
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by inciampati 10mo ago
The authors study a bunch of wild low rank fine tunes and discover that they share a common... low rank! ... substructure which is itself base model dependent. Humans are (genetically) the same. You need only a handful of PCs to represent t
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by inciampati 11mo ago
> The entire reason for skin color variations is a genetic optimization for UV absorption at specific latitudes vs sunburn risks. This seems obvious but was not confirmed by genetic evidence. The rate of adaptation turns out to be much h
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by inciampati 11mo ago
Markov chains have exponential falloff in correlations between tokens over time. That's dramatically different than real text which contains extremely long range correlations. They simply can't model long range correlations. As su
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by inciampati 11mo ago
Just had a fantastic experience applying agentic coding to CAD. I needed to add some threads to a few blanks in a 3d print. I used computational geometry to give the agent a way to "feel" around the model. I had it convolve a sphe
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by inciampati 11mo ago
Love that a term from Vinge has almost entered our lexicon. The author is a "programmer archeologist".
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by inciampati 1y ago
And if you're alone it's worth running with a chair into the street to do it as visibly as possible.
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by inciampati 1y ago
Effective coding is not code first think later. LLMs aren't effective when used this way. You still have to think. IMO a vibe coder who is speaking their ideas to an agent which implements them is going to have way more time to think t
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by inciampati 1y ago
It turns out you can use a fused triton kernel for a true RNN GRU and run just as fast as the minGRU model in training. Yeah, it doesn't work for very long context but neither does minGRU (activation memory...)
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by inciampati 1y ago
matrix doesn't get used "in the wild" by normies because it's not marketed for anything. However, it does get use "in the wild" by groups who need an IRC/slack/discord system that's open source a
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by inciampati 1y ago
I wish I had radar eyes
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by inciampati 1y ago
Alewife parking and the T in?
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by inciampati 1y ago
Kindness would be plotting all of this with a log scale. The plots could be drawn on napkins for how much they explain.
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by inciampati 1y ago
Yes! Strudel and tidal cycles are amazing livecoding systems. I'd like to match the expressiveness of bitwig though so I'm working on a merge of glicol (web based livecoding with signal processing) and studel.
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by inciampati 1y ago
Now do mayonaise.
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by inciampati 1y ago
Isn't webgpu 32-bit?
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by inciampati 1y ago
You're correct, the distinction matters. Autoregressive models have no hidden state between tokens, just the visible sequence. Every forward pass starts fresh from the tokens alone.But that's precisely why they need chain-of-thoug
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by inciampati 1y ago
The setup in the post plus a speech to text system and aidertmux and aider would be sufficient for a very wide range of tasks. Or a multi screen setup with the phone as a multimodal input system and the AR as the screen.
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by inciampati 1y ago
Mechanical repairs, and often indicative of mistakes about lifetimes. So it's just part of the game.
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by inciampati 1y ago
I've found this to be very true. I don't think this is a hot take. It's the big take. Now I code almost all tools that aren't shell scripting in rust. I'm only using dynamic languages when forced to by platform or d
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by inciampati 1y ago
> EDIT: I can find very few voices (not currently working directly for the administration). There's Jeff Ferry who believes "tariffs imposed during the 19th century spurred industrialization and ultimately positioned America as
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by inciampati 1y ago
Just got this running. It took a minute to figure out "where the config file is" but once I got it set up with openrouter keys... wow! This plus speech to text = Look ma no hands!
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by inciampati 1y ago
The AI companies don't understand that they're the commodity. The real tools are the open source glue (today: aider) that bring the models into conversation with data and meaningmakers like ourselves.
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by inciampati 2y ago
What support do you need?
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by inciampati 2y ago
If tariffs will strengthen the economy while everyone else predicts disaster, you've discovered market insight worth billions. The Dow didn't just drop 2,200 points because investors are confused, it dropped because people with se
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by inciampati 2y ago
Bingo. Breaking the system does not make anything work better except human suffering.
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by inciampati 2y ago
The "intentionally tank the economy to roll over national debt at lower rates" theory completely misses how government bonds actually work. A bond is essentially a promise: you lend the government money for a specific period, and
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by inciampati 2y ago
The problem is simply observational. We don't even have reliable DNA and RNA sequencing of our own bodies. And we cannot reliably observe things in a host without knowing, to some extent, what we're looking for first. Even that sp

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