jstrieb

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Three Asymmetric Divisions of the Octave (1996)(wendycarlos.com)
5 points by jstrieb 10mo ago|1 comments
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Using floating point numbers as hash keys (2017)(readafterwrite.wordpress.com)
16 points by jstrieb 10mo ago|4 comments
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by jstrieb 11mo ago
Hey, I wrote this! There are a couple of reasons that I included the disclosure. The main one is to set reader expectations that any errors are entirely my own, and that I spent time reviewing the details of the work. The disclosure seemed
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Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point(jstrieb.github.io)
3 points by jstrieb 11mo ago|0 comments
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Notes on Waveguide Synthesis (2018)(osar.fr)
38 points by jstrieb 1y ago|1 comments
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by jstrieb 1y ago
This project reminds me of Matt Might's work (predating LLMs) on using techniques from Precision Medicine to help his son, who had a rare disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3XyeFHvt4 (poorly transcribed here:
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Note that this article is by the same Greg Egan who wrote Permutation City , a (in my opinion) really good, deeply technical, hard science fiction novel exploring consciousness, computation, and the infinite nature of the universe. If that
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Probably worth me revisiting! Web tech has changed a bit since I last investigated this in 2021, and I'm also not sure if I considered options like IndexedDB at the time.
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by jstrieb 1y ago
This post recommends the Newsit extension to view Hacker News discussion associated with a page. In the same vein, a few years ago, I made a Firefox extension for users who want a privacy-preserving way to see if pages have associated HN di
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Here is the other video we've released so far if anyone is curious: https://youtu.be/z09X_ZnAcLs Happy to take recommendations for other stuff to drop in there and film! Also if this sounds cool to you, we're hiri
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by jstrieb 1y ago
I'll let the right people know, thanks to you and the YouTube commenter! What a funny, positive way to point out our error.
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by jstrieb 1y ago
LLMs are trained on text, only some of which includes facts. It's a coincidence when the output includes new facts not explicitly present in the training data.
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by jstrieb 1y ago
The point from the end of the post that AI produces output that sounds correct is exactly what I try to emphasize to friends and family when explaining appropriate uses of LLMs. AI is great at tasks where sounding correct is the essence o
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by jstrieb 1y ago
This teardown is great! At my work, we have an X-ray machine for PCB reverse engineering. On Fridays we throw in random stuff from around the office, and sometimes make videos about what we find inside. A few weeks ago we released an X-ray
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The SAT Game(cril.univ-artois.fr)
21 points by jstrieb 1y ago|4 comments
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Haven't tried it myself, but this official-seeming website suggests that you can schedule a test call ahead of time with your local 911 call center. https://www.911.gov/calling-911/frequently-asked-questions/#
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by jstrieb 1y ago
I implied that on purpose. I'm generally hesitant to anthropomorphize LLMs, but in this case, I disagree with you that they don't have intention. They were developed to output likely tokens, and tuned such that their big tech deve
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by jstrieb 1y ago
I have been explaining LLMs to friends and family by comparing them to actors. They deliver a performance in-character, and are only factual if it happens to make the performance better. I just posted a full write up of the idea to HN: htt
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How to Talk to Grandma About AI: Language Models as Thespians(jstrieb.github.io)
6 points by jstrieb 1y ago|2 comments
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Nobody that I'd be using this analogy with is currently using LLMs for tasks that are covered by RLVF. They're asking models for factual information about the real world (Google replacement), or to generate text (write a cover let
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by jstrieb 1y ago
I have been explaining this to friends and family by comparing LLMs to actors. They deliver a performance in-character, and are only factual if it happens to make the performance better. https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/
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Language Models as Thespians(jstrieb.github.io)
4 points by jstrieb 1y ago|0 comments
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Cracking the Mondrian Code (2017)(thebeliever.net)
18 points by jstrieb 1y ago|2 comments
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Touring the Zig-EM code-scape (2024)(zigem.openem.org)
30 points by jstrieb 1y ago|12 comments
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Cross-Compilation Toolchains for Linux(toolchains.bootlin.com)
24 points by jstrieb 1y ago|1 comments
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by jstrieb 1y ago
Even if you don't read the article, and even if (like me) you don't particularly care about coin collecting, you should still scroll to the bottom for the cool photos showing how the designs became more abstract over time.
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Getting Started with Celtic Coins – Crude and Barbarous, or Just Different?(collectingancientcoins.co.uk)
69 points by jstrieb 1y ago|24 comments
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by jstrieb 1y ago
If you liked that story, you should really read the full anthology, called Exhalation . Ted Chiang is a wonderful writer, and there are a lot of great stories in that book. I think my favorite was The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gat
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by jstrieb 2y ago
Generating functions are definitely strange and unintuitive, but they can be really helpful for combinatorics. The introduction to generating functions in this well known text on the subject (at the beginning of Chapter 1) might be more hel
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by jstrieb 2y ago
Okay I was able to find myself, but only by searching for the exact text in my GitHub bio. Nothing related to any of my repos surfaced my profile.

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