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by leopoldj 9mo ago
From Sofia to the West of Turkey should be relatively easy. After that, travel through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan will get hairy.
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by leopoldj 9mo ago
A few more: Jeff Dean doesn't use a compiler; he just glares at his source code until it executes. Jeff Dean once optimized a sleep(10) call to return in 5 seconds. Jeff Dean’s keyboard doesn’t have a Backspace key; he simply doesn&#x2
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by leopoldj 9mo ago
I just wanted to point out that Boom Aerospace is now mainly focused on delivering a Gas Turbine for power generation [1]. In an interview with CNBC Mr. Scholl talked about this pivot [2]. 1. https://boomsupersonic.com/press
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by leopoldj 9mo ago
I apologize if this is common knowledge. Modern C++ coding agents need to have a deep semantic understanding of the external libraries and header files. A simple RAG on the code base is not enough. For example, GitHub Copilot for VS Code an
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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language [video](youtube.com)
1 points by leopoldj 9mo ago|0 comments
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US Escalation Is 'Only Way' to Free Venezuela(bloomberg.com)
2 points by leopoldj 9mo ago|0 comments
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by leopoldj 9mo ago
What is the halation like artifact around the edges called? This makes the picture so unappealing to me. I'm so glad the modern digital cameras don't have this problem. I hope I'm explaining the issue well. I wish I could pos
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Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit(phys.org)
22 points by leopoldj 9mo ago|2 comments
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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth(newsweek.com)
2 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|2 comments
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Training AI to do my investment analyst job(businessinsider.com)
2 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|0 comments
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My Experiments with AI Coding(mobiarch.wordpress.com)
1 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|0 comments
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by leopoldj 10mo ago
This ship is a known blockade runner. "The ship has frequently carried oil from countries under U.S. sanctions, and its tracking data shows multiple recent trips to Iran and Venezuela" https://www.nytimes.com/2025&
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by leopoldj 10mo ago
As the article states, generating the key itself is easy. But getting credit and billing are the issues.
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Transformer Paper Authors Debut Open Source Model(bloomberg.com)
2 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|0 comments
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Oracle's stock slides 11% on revenue miss(cnbc.com)
45 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|5 comments
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by leopoldj 10mo ago
>As for Copilot? I don't know anyone who uses it. Do you? This sloppy journalism. One should probably read the original report in The Information [1]. Bloomberg has updated its story today with a note from Jeffries [2]. "The an
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Panomicron Holmium – 6x7 Rangefinder(panomicron.com)
1 points by leopoldj 10mo ago|0 comments
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by leopoldj 11mo ago
You went further with GCP than I did. I was asked repeatedly by support to contact some kind of a Google sales team. I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I. My friends who work with enterprise cloud have very high opinion
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by leopoldj 11mo ago
This kind of circular deals are very common and doesn't violate any laws. It's the magnitude and prevalence of it in the AI sector that flashes a warning sign.
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by leopoldj 11mo ago
Somewhat related, if you are on a C++ project, please consider std::from_chars. It's non-allocating and non-throwing. Works with non-NULL terminated strings. https://mobiarch.wordpress.com/2022/12/12/stri
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Azure AI Superfactory(blogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by leopoldj 11mo ago|0 comments
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Microsoft forms superintelligence team to serve humanity(cnbc.com)
4 points by leopoldj 11mo ago|3 comments
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2025 Top AI Startups(bloomberg.com)
1 points by leopoldj 1y ago|0 comments
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by leopoldj 1y ago
The blog doesn't verify if the code is actually using the GPU. The code will work perfectly fine on CPU, albeit slowly. You should run this to be sure: python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())" Stran
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by leopoldj 1y ago
There's more than one way to do self supervised training. This is the approach the author has taken. Training corpus: "The fat cat sat on the mat" Input -> Label -------------- "The" -> &quo
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by leopoldj 1y ago
The author is conflating RAG with vector search. I think. One can use any and all available search mechanisms, SQL, graph db, regex, keyword and so on, for the retrieval part.
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Current AI models won't make scientific breakthroughs(cnbc.com)
3 points by leopoldj 1y ago|0 comments
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Tunix: A Library for LLM Post-Training(developers.googleblog.com)
2 points by leopoldj 1y ago|0 comments
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by leopoldj 1y ago
Multiple registrations are being filed for the same person in order to game the system. This is discussed in some details in a USCIS report [1]. The increased application fee is presumably to stem that practice. https://www.uscis
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Trump to add $100k fee for H-1B worker visas(cnbc.com)
10 points by leopoldj 1y ago|1 comments

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