j2kun

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by j2kun 2mo ago
I'm mostly replying to your "standing on the shoulders of giants" part, when in some cases, the giant is the work you did in the past and forgot about :)
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by j2kun 2mo ago
FWIW, you may enjoy https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines
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by j2kun 2mo ago
I was reading another source that claimed this example was inspired by an existing (rational polynomial) example from the literature (created in 1999 by a Russian mathematician Vitushkin). > The seed is almost certainly Vitushkin's
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by j2kun 2mo ago
I think one counterpoint here is that you can still get value in using FHE in settings that don't involve scaling the number of users (e.g. B2B, public/private collab).
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by j2kun 2mo ago
IMO a big unanswered question in FHE (which is my field so I care about the answer) is key management. If you have a service with lots of different users, and each user requires 100 MiB or more in evaluation key material, simply loading tha
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by j2kun 2mo ago
> gaining any sort of insight The server providing the FHE-based service does not gain any sort of insight. This is a key point: only the client can see the output of the computation.
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Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms(sofar.belfortlabs.cloud)
93 points by j2kun 2mo ago|42 comments
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by j2kun 3mo ago
There is also Michael Lewis's book "Who Is Government?" if you want more meaningful stories.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
People do this all the time https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1iu44ub/up... https://usafacts.org/government-spending/ https://sankeymatic.com/gallery
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Discovery is the entertainment for the rest of us.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
FTA: > the number 12 features heavily in the Bible: Jacob’s 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 apostles and the crown of 12 stars in the Book of Revelation are just a few examples. And about "aspect ratios" (the article d
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Call me grumpy, but numerology does not make architecture more beautiful.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
In my view, LinkedIn has never really been a place for serious discussion.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
I think I agree, the FAR bigger impact on my book's sales was Google search deciding not to surface it in search results. Presence on pirate websites had no effect, and eventually I switched to the PDF as "pay what you want."
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by j2kun 3mo ago
The main function of copybara is not moving code but modifying code to make it suitable for a different repository structure, build system, etc.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
There are at least some technological solutions here, such as anonymous credentials. [1] Modern versions of this technique allow one to associate metadata (like a proof of age exceeding a threshold) in such a way that the verifier can'
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by j2kun 3mo ago
For our situation, building a foundation of trust in our community is more important than attracting as many contributors as possible. If a one-time face-to-face introduction is infeasible, then there are many other projects to contribute t
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by j2kun 3mo ago
> and if their bot is actually good? why not? fix One reason: automating the construction of a "trustworthy" profile lowers the bar for attackers who want to plant xz-style backdoors. Not to mention polluting the various signal
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Neat! I also enjoyed https://q.uiver.app/ by https://github.com/varkor which is a bit more specialized.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
> Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer? Indeed, thankful for that.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Perhaps polyhedral optimization, tiling, scalar evolution, vectorization... I guess garbage collection is pretty advanced in the syllabus.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
Looks like there is quite a bit of overlap with regards to the optimizing parts between these two courses. I guess it's switching from the dragon book to academic papers that makes it advanced.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
I'm a bit confused about what makes this course "advanced." Most of the topics (dead code elimination, data flow, dominator analysis, SSA form) seem like they belong in a first course on compilers.
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by j2kun 3mo ago
What is kind of annoying is that the author jumps to "I hate compilers" instead of "I will report/help fix this bug upstream."
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by j2kun 4mo ago
Instead, Google gave up on search engine development /s
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by j2kun 4mo ago
Their whole argument is that AI's added efficiency means they don't need to set aside valuable human time anymore. Why can't they just point Claude at Claude Code and ask it to reduce memory usage by 90%?
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by j2kun 4mo ago
We all saw their code...

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