johnthuss

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by johnthuss 4y ago
What prompt are you using for summarization? I’ve tried several variations without consistent results.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I got the llama 65B model working on my M1 MacBook Pro, although not alpaca on top of it yet. The models are VERY slow unless you have enough RAM to fit them in. The 65B one is basically unusable with my 16GB of RAM (it produced about 8 wor
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by johnthuss 4y ago
In Safari at least, bookmarks appear as results in the search bar so the fact that they are unorganized is mostly irrelevant. That said, I only bookmark things that a web search doesn't easily return, which is a small set of things.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"Don’t let junior SWEs get 2000 lines into a change before submitting a pull request." This is good advice. Share your code early and often so you can get feedback before you're fully committed to one approach.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"NIF, the world’s largest and most energetic laser system...-located at LLNL in Livermore, Calif.—is the size of a sports stadium" That's an important piece of information - the thing is gigantic!
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The original version of GWT was mainly about solving compatibility issues between browsers (of which there were many). Modern GWT/J2CL is all about leveraging the mature Java development tools, especially code completion. GWT can be us
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a facto
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This is great! There is more info from Google about this feature here: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin...
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Everyone Is Sick(wired.com)
5 points by johnthuss 4y ago|1 comments
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ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS(wired.com)
3 points by johnthuss 4y ago|1 comments
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Stable diffusion is a big open source AI project. https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It’s funny that the AI used itself as the NLP that was monopolizing the husband.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"As part of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming com
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"it is hard to express the view that a women’s refuge — or a rape crisis centre — should not accept male clients who claim to be women."
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It's too big to fail ;-)
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"because GPT is good enough to convince users of the site that the answer holds merit, [the] signals the community typically use to determine the legitimacy of their peers’ contributions frequently fail to detect severe issues with GPT
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"People also are willing to pay for convenience and simplicity" This is my reason for primarily banking at one of the large banks. I have my mortgage, checking and savings accounts all in one place and the physical bank and ATM is
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by johnthuss 4y ago
While I love null safety, It's hardly a given. For Dart in particular, it sounds like there was a serious discussion about the choice, and it could have gone the other way. (edit: removed incorrect statement about Python's type sa
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"To solve the slow cold starts, AWS announced SnapStart for Java functions. In short, it initializes the Lambda function and saves the state in the memory, and restores it instead of doing the initialization again. This feature makes u
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by johnthuss 4y ago
While I like Java Client apps for cross-platform development on desktop (I wrote one myself), it's hard to argue that this platform is successful. Have there been any popular desktop apps written with Java Client that aren't Java
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It is fascinating that this unique system developed there. Cultures are a bottomless bucket of diversity.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"For Dart, we chose the path of sound null safety." Null Safety is the killer feature of modern programming languages like Swift and Kotlin. It provides a clarity you just can't get otherwise and saves you from runtime errors
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by johnthuss 4y ago
“Yet, there’s no reason to despair. ‘There are agricultural practices, such as no-till farming, that we know how to do and we know greatly reduce erosion,’ says Quarrier. ‘The key is to reduce our current erosion rates to natural levels,’”
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Row change auditing options for PostgreSQL (2020)(cybertec-postgresql.com)
9 points by johnthuss 4y ago|2 comments
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Java Value Objects in Action with Valhalla(youtube.com)
4 points by johnthuss 4y ago|0 comments
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"The potential changes include new rules that would require marketable retail stock orders to be sent to auctions before they are executed, a new standard for brokers to show they get the best possible executions for client orders, and
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"ChatGPT helps us represent software in a programming language, but the hard part is representing it in English in the first place."
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by johnthuss 4y ago
A large part of this problem is caused by the ubiquitous use of transitive dependency resolvers in Java build tools like maven and gradle. Developers are not even aware that log4j is one of their dependencies because they are not using it d
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This is the entire purpose of this legislation. It requires hospitals to publish their prices for these specific “shoppable” services. The problem with this legislation is that prices at one hospital are only useful in comparison to another
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This is just a logical consequence of having huge employee turnover. It's not an intentional strategic shift. If they can get their legs back under them I expect they will resume their open source work.

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