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by klank 1y ago
While doing work for hospitality optimization software, I had the fortune of seeing some of the cash management infrastructure at gaming trade shows. I wish I remembered more specific details, but I at least assume similar levels of capacit
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by klank 1y ago
What are your qualms with time per element? I liked it as a metric because it kept the total deviation of results to less than 32 across the entire result set. Using something like the overall run length would have such large variations mak
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by klank 1y ago
Sorry for such a delayed response, life. :-) But I wanted to agree with you very much. Lots of behind the scenes/tech stuff as well. Some of our protocols and technical approaches have lived on and very broadly. Exchange ActiveSync, fo
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by klank 1y ago
The original blog post has more details: https://krusty.space/projects/rourexos/ Ultimately, it's an eye of the beholder type thing, but it seems very fair to call it DOS-like to me. The DOS inspiration is pr
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by klank 1y ago
Glad to hear this sentiment, even all these years later. We got there finally, we really did. But oh my, was it a journey. The effort (and investment ms put in) moving mobile computing/devices forward during that time is (IMO) an under
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by klank 1y ago
In my opinion, mediocre is an excellent strategy when optimizing for longevity and durability.
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by klank 1y ago
Fair, thanks for pointing that out. If you allow me to view the weights of a model as the axioms in an axiomatic system, my (admittedly limited) understanding of modern "AI" inference is that it adds no net new information/kn
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by klank 1y ago
It's gradient descent. Why are we surprised when the answers get better the more we do it? Sometimes you're stuck in a local max/minima, and you hallucinate. Am I oversimplifying it? Is everybody else over-mystifying it?
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by klank 1y ago
I concur. I also find the assumption that tech-savvy individuals would inherently be for what we currently call AI to itself, be weird. Unfortunately I feel as though being knowledgable or capable within an area is conflated with an over-ac
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by klank 1y ago
Ok, but now tell me your real thoughts on sysgen. ;-)
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by klank 1y ago
Whether or not forced air (blowing) would be necessary would depend on the coal temp, metal size, and how you want to shape the metal. Simple forging of small enough pieces within a large enough coal bed might not even require forced air to
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by klank 1y ago
No. LLMs are not some new moral beacon that leadership will be happy to have a finger pointed at. Historically, "leadership" at organizations haven't cared about objective truths when those truths conflict with their desires.
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by klank 1y ago
This exchange made me think about how I've always been a fan of using the "natural" units of a system when reporting metrics. I do this because it helps those unfamiliar with the system more intuitively understand relative si
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by klank 1y ago
Unless you're deep in a conversation with a graphics nerd, when "the framebuffer" is referenced, what the person normally means is some area of memory, accessible programmatically, that directly represents the pixels displaye
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by klank 1y ago
The stories of Maggie, Titus, and Cantsbee were poignant and I found worth reading to reflect on our own humanity. I recommend reading for that reason alone.
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by klank 1y ago
I believe in, and am searching for the middle ground. I am not interested in discussing hypothetical extremes. I do not believe they are relevant.
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by klank 1y ago
If it is a choice between progress unfettered by concern for your "competitor's labor" or farming berries, I choose berries. However, I believe there's a middle ground and endeavor to find it. Based on your response it d
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by klank 1y ago
I don't think it's as easy as hand waving it away as "your competitor's labor". Your competitors labor is your community, it's people. I believe we all have an ethical responsibility to that. For the points you
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by klank 1y ago
I personally try to avoid attempting to manipulate interest and instead capture existing interest. In this framing, clickbait is something headlines can be accused of.
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by klank 1y ago
I'd love a further description of how you can have a program with the entire text of wikipedia that only ever outputs 5. It is not immediately obvious to me how that is possible. Assuming the text of wikipedia is meaningfully used in t
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by klank 1y ago
Holy cow! 10 year old me learned word processing first with wordperfect. I looked for reveal codes in other processors for years after that and was always disappointed when I couldn't find it. Young me was like "how can you edit a
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by klank 1y ago
The classic GR line is "the stress-energy tensor tells spacetime (i.e. the metric tensor) how to bend and spacetime tells the stress-energy tensor how to move".
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by klank 1y ago
The stress-energy tensor.
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by klank 1y ago
Thanks for sharing, brought back memories of using debug.exe to meticulously type in hex copied from a magazine to generate a .com executable. Ah, the pre-internet was glorious.
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by klank 1y ago
Yeah, I think you're right, it was cultural. For me, rather than the influence from Windows what I see is the focus on what we called "enterprise customers" at the time and leadership was obsessed about them because they were
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by klank 1y ago
Small correction, Windows CE and Pocket PC weren't Windows so we didn't "bring it over". That mess didn't come later until windows phone. In the defense of ce/ppc, we weren't really thinking about the fs a
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by klank 2y ago
Not person you are replying to, just FYI. I don't know, it all seems like language games to me. The meaning is never in its grammar, but in its usage. The usage is arbitrary and capricious. I've not discovered how more nuanced for
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by klank 2y ago
Thankfully, it is not difficult for me to see a past version of myself in the flippant or dismissive responses, which makes them considerably less painful. I can only hope the authors are faster studies than I was. Thank you for the kind wo
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by klank 2y ago
After I left the MFH industry I took a position at AWS. My thinking at the time was this was a safe "infrastructure" position where I could apply myself in relative safety just worrying about bits being pushed around the internet.
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by klank 2y ago
I too dissociated from my work and I did it for decades. This is not a healthy thing for a human to do and there will be an emotional debt paid, at some point even if only done for weeks, or months. I'm glad you did not last long in th

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