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by kevmo314 1y ago
“Global variables that can pass code review”
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by kevmo314 1y ago
I’m not convinced by the loops proposal. TensorFlow had this kind of lazy evaluation (except I guess TF was the worst of both worlds) and it makes debugging very difficult to the point that I believe it’s the main reason PyTorch won out. Su
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Instagram (the provider) will transcode for compatibility but likely the preview is before transcoding, the assumption being that the device that uploads the video is able to play it.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Very cool! I've been looking for something like this for a while and couldn't find anyone doing it. I've been investigating a way to translate LoRAs between models and this seems like it could be a first step towards that.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Good question, the geojson data is actually broken down into two parts, a true JSON file and a quad tree: https://github.com/evansiroky/node-geo-tz/tree/master/data So I guess it's a bit of a lie th
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Since the geojson for the timezone data is a static file you can avoid using a database entirely and ship it to your app. If you'd like to avoid shipping a giant geojson, with the generosity of CDN providers you can actually hit the np
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by kevmo314 1y ago
> The way you make code last a long time is you minimize dependencies that are likely to change and, to the extent you must take such dependencies, you minimize the contact surface between your program and those dependencies. A lot of va
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by kevmo314 1y ago
That's how night mode works on Pixel phones, right? I believe it takes a few images in rapid succession and took advantage of the noise being random which meant a high quality image under a noisy sensor with some signal processing.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Yeah I completely agree. I see it more like the benefits of going solo have eclipsed the benefits of a team in an organization. I don't think it's a strictly better environment but in many dimensions going solo is now better than
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Doing work on a team isn't really what the article is discussing though. I'm referring to the very research-y skunkworks-style autonomy. I am well aware that people in companies can work effectively on teams and that people rise t
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by kevmo314 1y ago
From what I can tell, this approach appears to combine "make a plan" style prompting with reinforcement learning? That seems like a clever way to induce reasoning as the model will be incentivized with the plan reward, but does th
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by kevmo314 1y ago
AI didn't bring anything new to the table, this is a human problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU
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by kevmo314 1y ago
> Maybe the 2025 Bell Labs is the wider ecosystem of VCs and free floating innovators who end up starting startups instead of doing things in house. Yep, agree with this statement. That's exactly what I think happened.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Shannon did a lot more than just information theory. In fact, anyone who fits the autonomy persona does because that was part of the definition. Sure, licensing information theory is a bit of a stretch, but Shannon literally built one of th
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Yeah, that's the point of my next sentence. Why would someone who comes up with information theory want to give it to an employer? I think an answer to that was a lot clearer in the 1960's when going from idea to product was much
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by kevmo314 1y ago
> The reason why we don't have Bell Labs is because we're unwilling to do what it takes to create Bell Labs — giving smart people radical freedom and autonomy. My observation has been that smart people don't want this anym
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by kevmo314 1y ago
PyTorch essentially landed on the same bundling CUDA solution, so you're at least in good company.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
> is it possible you and the other party have (perhaps significantly) different mental models of the domain—or maybe different perspectives of the issues involved? Yes, however typically if that's the case they will respond with som
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Cool observation! Despite knowing both about how floating points work and how random number generation works, this never occurred to me. I do wish the solution were a bit simpler though. Could this be upstreamed into the language's API
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Whenever someone has done that to me, it's clear they didn't read the ChatGPT output either and were sending it to me as some sort of "look someone else thinks you're wrong".
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by kevmo314 1y ago
> If you could have the same solitude, sweeping views, natural beauty, cameraderie, etc., but without real danger, would it have the same appeal? Well, yeah. Most of the gear for mountaineering and other pursuits are to try and minimize
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Yeah I'm in the holding it wrong camp too. I really want LLMs to work, but every time I spend effort trying to get it to do something I end up with subtle errors or a conclusion that isn't actually correct despite looking correct.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
The article is definitely suggesting the former... But even the article doesn't describe the latter either. Grouchy G could have enjoyed the flight despite being a complainer, we really don't know.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Ok perhaps paradoxical isn't the right word, self-refuting maybe?
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Isn’t this article complaining about complaints? Does that make it paradoxical? I think complaints, even gossipy ones, hold value. I agree with the general premise that it’s easier to complain, but in the hotel towel footnote honestly I’d c
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by kevmo314 1y ago
The pitch is kinda funny to me: > Modern apps are made of too many services. They're everywhere and in constant communication. So we made tooling to make it easier for you to make more of them!
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by kevmo314 1y ago
Yeah, I often feel like I run out of energy more frequently than running out of time. Optimizing away minor nuisances has helped for me but still I'd love to be able to utilize my time fully.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
If you're reading r/startups or r/entrepreneur, I suspect original OP drives some satisfaction and meaning from building a money-making machine themselves. Not everyone wants to travel the world their entire life, and working
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by kevmo314 1y ago
I do read the docs a lot less now though with IntelliSense, so if my craft were reading and understanding docs I'd probably be measurably disappointed by this future.
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by kevmo314 1y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion it's because they lifted the model architecture almost directly from Parakeet: https://jordandarefsky.com/blog/2024/parakeet/ Parakeet references WhisperD which is at https:&

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