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by juancn 1y ago
I see the same mistake made everywhere, thinking that in software engineering that the hard part is making new code. A large chunk of the work is dealing with people, understanding what do they really want/need and helping them underst
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by juancn 1y ago
"Real electrical systems have to deal with issues of reactance and other exciting math-heavy constructs designed to drive you into some other field of study." They had me at this
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by juancn 2y ago
The Atari judge agreed: “When the nature of a work requires intermediate copying to understand the ideas and processes in a copyrighted work, that nature supports a fair use for intermediate copying,” he wrote. “Thus, reverse enginee
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by juancn 2y ago
Most of my code and the best of my work is owned by somebody else. I cannot put it in github even if I wanted to since I was handsomely paid for it, so your tool can never find me. This is true for some of the best devs for hire, in any cas
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by juancn 2y ago
The misleading info, yeah, I'll grant you that comes from somewhere else, but what about PII? GDPR requires you to delete the data if I ask, both the training data and the derived data (i.e. the model), so if I do a GDPR request to Ope
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by juancn 2y ago
I don't know if encoding really matters in the GDPR as written (IANAL). One could always argue that the weights are just an encoding of a lossily compressed representation of the training data, much in the same way a JPEG is a lossily
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by juancn 2y ago
The interesting thing here is that the weights of the model contain PII, hence under the GDPR, blocking output is not enough, a GDPR removal request requires you to retrain or refine the model. Think of the cost of being compliant if this h
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by juancn 2y ago
What's unnerving to me when I go to the US, is that legal limbo you're in between getting off the plane and going through immigration. At that point you're the most vulnerable. The plane is US soil, and it's well covered
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by juancn 2y ago
The Java example doesn't really compile due to generic arrays and mixing primitives and non-primitives, but the point still holds. Type erasure is still type checked though, it's just lost at runtime (i.e. the generics are not rei
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by juancn 2y ago
I would love a unified memory architecture, even for external GPUs. Pay for memory once, and avoid all the copying around between CPU/GPU/NPU for mixed algorithms, and have the workload define the memory distribution.
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by juancn 2y ago
Sorry I'm not a native speaker, the way it's written makes my mind itch and want to do something else, and I can read a lot of dense crap. But it's starts from nowhere, without context, is this fiction? Opinion? AI rambling?
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by juancn 2y ago
I worry about the security aspect of modern cars, now that they're connected things, many times the thing with the internet connection has access to the CAN bus too. You're a privilege escalation away from some piece of software w
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by juancn 2y ago
It's probably easier to change the OLEDs to use a more traditional pattern than changing the rasterizer.
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by juancn 2y ago
This sounds too good to be true, yet the paper is oddly compelling. They don't claim to explain how it works, they just provide a method to find naturally occurring superconductive particles and sort them out, presumably, so we can fur
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by juancn 2y ago
They just need to delay until after the elections and then pay the fine.
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by juancn 2y ago
From TFA: X had not responded to a court request for information, the court added, ordering the company to bear the 6,000 euro ($6,200) cost of proceedings. This looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me.
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by juancn 2y ago
They made a 7 layer film that does edge detection photonically, original paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01667
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by juancn 2y ago
The main data access difference between OLAP systems and OLTP systems is how many records on average do you need to access: - OLAP: most queries need most records (aggregations span large swaths of data) - OLTP: most queries access just a f
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by juancn 2y ago
SMR is discouraged for DVR use, many vendors (e.g. Ubiquiti) specifically ask for CMR drives.
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by juancn 2y ago
Besides all the revenue from things like Game Pass or PS+, I think the long game is building a game engine for procedurally generated games. They're working on a fantasy title too ( https://lightnofire.com/ ) which uses
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by juancn 2y ago
I thought about getting a gotek and replacing it with that.
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by juancn 2y ago
I still have my A500 (with a 1084s), it has a failed floppy drive, but it still works otherwise as far as I can tell. I want to spend some time restoring it.
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by juancn 2y ago
Sure, whatever you're comfortable with. On a startup, failure risk is high, choose something boring that's easy to hire for and most of all, you're comfortable with. Even if it turns out to become tech debt in the future, you
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by juancn 2y ago
The compute scheduling part of the paper is also vey good, the way they balanced load to keep compute and communication in check. There is also a lot of thought put into all the tiny bits of optimization to reduce memory usage, using FP8 ef
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by juancn 2y ago
Yeah, thank you! I couldn't find the right term.
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by juancn 2y ago
Unless the "outline" is like tensing a rubber band around the object. In that case, the collision would happen outside the convex part. Anyway, the details are not enough for me to fully grasp the algo described.
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by juancn 2y ago
Code alignment? I mean, the different instructions change the alignment of the rest of the code. - 64 bit register 0: 48 c7 c1 01 00 00 00 mov rcx,0x1 - 32 bit register 0: b9 01 00 00 00 mov ecx,0x1 It sh
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by juancn 2y ago
Background on k/simple: https://github.com/kparc/ksimple Background on k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) The OCaml code looks terribly write only, super hard to follow
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by juancn 2y ago
Using a projector and computing the light field (i.e. single pixel, controlled light source) it is also possible to look around corners. It's probably easier to achieve than time of flight of photons.
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by juancn 2y ago
"...and in the darkness bind them"

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