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by jdub 4mo ago
When confronting confusion between film and video, I wasn't about to get into FIELDS per second. :-D
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by jdub 4mo ago
Alan Cox had a pre-netbook netbook smaller than a VHS tape at linux.conf.au 2001, and milled about chatting with colleagues and fanboys while his kernel builds scrolled by in the background. Everyone would gawk at the strange little machine
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by jdub 4mo ago
Nah, not film rates [1], video: NTSC is 30fps and PAL is 25fps because the cathode ray tube scan rate was built around AC power cycles. When low fps truly Hz. Sorry. [1] generally 24fps because that is culturally what film looks like and pe
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by jdub 5mo ago
Reinforcement learning perturbs the model such that the token prediction process (inference) tends towards the desired result.
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by jdub 5mo ago
Ah, it seems like the architecture was designed by a slop machine. OK.
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by jdub 5mo ago
Oh, and: > I must apologise that I haven’t so far open-sourced any part of this that I don’t have to. With some blather about commercial opportunities. Which is a weird thing to say without linking to the bits that must be shared (under
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by jdub 5mo ago
Hrm, yes-we-scan and printervention are built on SANE and CUPS respectively, which makes sense. But running them in a whole wasm-emulated Linux kernel and userland seems... like a lot.
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by jdub 5mo ago
> Giving someone in government the ability to block someone's payments and trusting they won't abuse it might be fine as long as good people remain in power, but do you really want to bet the entire nation's ability to liv
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by jdub 5mo ago
I first saw Connections in the late 2000s... the final scene of the last episode, "inside the British Airways computer" (an entire floor of a large building), had me standing on my couch pointing at the screen. A year or two befor
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by jdub 5mo ago
> Most people won’t settle for a product if it’s not the very best and incredibly convenient. ... uh?
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by jdub 5mo ago
Seriously, you'd do better to engage with ideology and philosophy rather than the personal letters of flawed human beings.
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by jdub 5mo ago
It's not a gotcha. It's incredible what these things can do despite being next token predictors from a weird dataset. That's at the heart of the "bitter lesson", and you don't have to believe in magic to see
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by jdub 5mo ago
Reinforcement learning for "reasoning" perturbs the model to generate completions in a particular chain of thought / alternative selection structure. It's three next token predictors in a trench coat.
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by jdub 5mo ago
Ha, if you think Marx is objectionable then you really need to read Das Kapital.
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by jdub 5mo ago
That terrible analogy does not produce a useful mental model on any level. You probably need to read Das Kapital.
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by jdub 5mo ago
I've had occasional concerns about the Linux Foundation and how it operates, but there's no question it has been a transformative contribution to Open Source. A bunch of folks decided to get off their butts and gather donations to
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by jdub 5mo ago
... there's also a bit of a frequency illusion factor.
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by jdub 5mo ago
Opponents of obscene wealth/income inequality are typically not motivated by envy – that is your own projection.
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by jdub 5mo ago
Nah, it's an awful way to learn. Especially to learn to be good or great. When you start reading, it helps to have some guidance towards good and relevant books, from e.g. school, mentors, criticism, etc. Then, when you encounter a &
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by jdub 5mo ago
If guest memory can be reclaimed, it doesn't need to be paged to disk once you hit RAM contention. It's mostly saving accounting overhead, but it'll have some effect on latency, which you're more likely to perceive under
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by jdub 6mo ago
The dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains is "well-read with zero judgement", where connections can be made even if they're not thought through. Grinding through completions isn't reasoning.
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by jdub 6mo ago
You're hearing "don't invent fire" but what's being said is "for fuck's sake, stop lighting fires in the cave".
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by jdub 6mo ago
Less reasoning than a dimension of brute force unfamiliar to human brains.
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by jdub 6mo ago
> Security is less or no concern [waits for chickens to come home to roost]
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by jdub 6mo ago
> It feels personal at this point. Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for pol
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by jdub 6mo ago
That's not how trademarks work. The Tolkien state (and related orgs) have registered "Palantir" under many (generally publishing/merchandising) domains, but Palantir Technologies has registered it under IC 009: computer
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by jdub 6mo ago
Calling it "Harmony" is a historical death knell. :-D
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by jdub 6mo ago
What makes you believe that most things have been digitised in the first place?
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by jdub 6mo ago
Young singers brought up listening to autotuned vocals can unknowingly learn and emulate the sonic signature of the tuning algorithm (and the telltale lilt when it's used as an effect, but the subtle tuning case is more surprising). If
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by jdub 6mo ago
The USA didn't New Deal hard enough to keep up with the rest of the "Western" world's more humane form of capitalism, which you can see in how consistently the USA lags behind other countries in measures of actual human

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