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by leobg 3y ago
hnswlib, usearch. Both handle tens of millions of vectors easily. The latter even without holding them in RAM.
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by leobg 3y ago
Author is probably a firstborn. If you’re 3rd in birth order, you don’t need that reminder.
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by leobg 3y ago
This looks great. I wish there was an iPad version. Not for me (I prefer desktop), but for my kid.
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by leobg 3y ago
Isn’t there that scene in ”Dances With Wolves” where you see hundreds of dead buffaloes all the way to the horizon?
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by leobg 3y ago
BF Skinner, entry in one of his notebooks (as cited in “A Matter of Consequences”): > Some way of controlling the strength of my own behavior. How to stop work before the optimal condition fades? This might be automatic if it were not fo
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by leobg 3y ago
My wife and I were on the Seychelles some time back. Our neighbor there was some 60 year old British guy. He was building a house on his land by himself, to rent out as a vacation home. He’d be working during the day and take out his kayak
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by leobg 3y ago
I want to buy a hydraulic press, and then fabricate the walls for my house right from the dirt at the building site. Like when they built The Dakota.
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by leobg 3y ago
That’s what I was thinking, too: How long would it take a layman to build his own house, say from bricks. 1 year full time? Probably more. 10? Probably less. So now, if it’s done not buy a layperson but by someone specialized with big machi
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by leobg 3y ago
To me, it has always seemed completely bonkers that for most people, the roof over their head should be their #1 expense throughout their adult lives. It boggles my mind that walls made of bricks that someone laid some 50 years back along w
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by leobg 3y ago
Of course. But weren’t they trying to find out whether or not that fact was represented in the model’s parameters?
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by leobg 3y ago
> In one experiment, they started with the prompt “Bill Bradley was a” and used the decoding functions for “plays sports” and “attended university” to see if the model knows that Sen. Bradley was a basketball player who attended Princeto
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by leobg 3y ago
I may have mixed it up with “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”. Some of the big ideas in there: 1. Nonviolence as a Principle: Tolstoy concludes that the core of Jesus’ teachings is nonviolent resistance to evil. This was a radical idea at
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by leobg 3y ago
AFAIK, Amazon will ban you because you’re not adding original content. Look at their TOS before bothering. Most likely you will waste your time. (An acquaintance of mine had a similar site.)
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by leobg 3y ago
Well they say what tastes good goes to France. What looks good goes to Germany. Germany, to me, seems like the most mimetic food culture there is. In general, it’s all appearance, no substance.
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by leobg 3y ago
You may find Tolstoy interesting. “What I believe” is the book.
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by leobg 3y ago
I think that’s a Buffett quote: “It’s not greed that drives the world. It’s envy.”
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by leobg 3y ago
Curious: Why does SpaceX say it’ll work on the Great Lakes, but not on the ocean? Don’t the satellites cover the whole planet? Are they somehow hibernating when traversing the ocean or… Ah. I think I know the answer. They can only serve int
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by leobg 3y ago
Love the lingo: “Prepaid billing allows API users to pre-purchase usage.” I just hope the guys who write their documentation are not the same who RLHF the upcoming AGI.
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by leobg 3y ago
Why not combine both worlds? Have the AI (slow) figure out the path to your goal and write the (fast) script. Whenever the script breaks due to changes in the site, the AI will update it. Might take it half an hour. But no more human “janit
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by leobg 3y ago
I’d love it to have face detection as well. The cameras and the “GPU“ are there.
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by leobg 3y ago
It was that picture in the article showing the size of that beast in relation to man that triggered this fantasy. Think Skinner’s ping pong playing pigeons - but scaled up to Godzilla size. Click & treat! :)
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by leobg 3y ago
SpaceX’s Starlink is the only subscription I have that keeps billing me less and less over time. 100 > 80 > 65 > 50. This is over ~2 years. They don’t even make a fuss about it. I just see it on my credit card statements.
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by leobg 3y ago
My grandpa told me that when he was POW in WW2 he got sick. He charred wood and ate it. He lived to be 95 years old.
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by leobg 3y ago
Not drinking anything might work even better. Killing bacteria and parasites is what your stomach acid is there for. Doesn’t work that well if it’s diluted.
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by leobg 3y ago
Would be great to use clicker training on them.
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by leobg 3y ago
Even crazier: “Could of”. Like “You could of said so”.
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by leobg 3y ago
Should make this into a podcast episode for parents. “No mode”. Kinda went extinct for a decade. But maybe it’ll be rediscovered.
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by leobg 3y ago
It’s always been an illusion that you can draw conclusions from light that hit a film or sensor for 10 milliseconds. Ever noticed how difficult it is to take a snapshot where all the people involved don’t have some weird expression on their
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by leobg 3y ago
Where was that, if I may ask? My kid is interested in fossils.
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by leobg 3y ago
If OpenAI is your biggest expense maybe I can help. Have reduced LLM cost for several companies by factors of 10 and more. Email in bio.

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