loxias

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by loxias 3y ago
Experience.
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by loxias 3y ago
I have little to add other than I f---ing love your spicy take :D ...and agree with most of it. Yeah ofc I know results lead theory in all physics esp materials... :) Disagree re: the not getting how science works, though you might be fa
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by loxias 3y ago
> To be honest, this is a hunch thing more than a I can teach and explain it thing... Chiming in, not just you. :) I very briefly studied materials science a few decades ago and I'm 0% surprised that a potential breakthrough invol
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by loxias 3y ago
Yup. It either works or it doesn't. Unlike many other claims, this one doesn't require anything rare or super hard to do. The furnace, tubes, materials, could be bought for around $10k. I'm only a hobbyist scientist. When I
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by loxias 3y ago
I don't care about any of this drama. I could be wrong but as I understand it the claim is that lanarkite and copper phosphide, when ground together at a 1:1 ratio, sealed under vacuum in a quartz tube, and heated to 925C, become a *ro
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by loxias 3y ago
First, I love your attitude towards life and this comment elicited satisfying chuckles from my soul. That aside, perhaps you could explain to me what's "new" and/or "better" about a quantum RNG? Were all the
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by loxias 3y ago
These things look neat! I can tell, being in the engineering industry for 20+ years that there's a lot of excitement and progress happening. One thing I really wish there was more of though, was motivating examples that make sense in
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by loxias 3y ago
That sounds super cool! I'm at the very early planning (read: daydreaming ;) stage for a tiling project of my own, (where my "constraints" are "has to be nerdy-awesome"). Like find a specific conway's game of
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by loxias 3y ago
Um, yes. The Linux Kernel has many lines of code, implementing ... gasp ... many things. I'm sorry, I'm possibly dense but... did something notable change about the scheduling-clock recently? I have vague memories of poking
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by loxias 3y ago
I might be missing something but is this actually arguing for blindly and naively taking time-since-epoch as fp value and then think of the smallest (which would change over time!) possible epsilon?? Disappointing to me how visually appeali
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by loxias 3y ago
It's just as awesome as you think. Sadly, those projects always end up getting cancelled.
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by loxias 3y ago
I love this comment for similar reasons as the sibling comment to this one :) In the late 2000s (pre iPhone), it just so happens I was lucky enough to work for OQO -- the "Rolls-Royce of Handheld Computing". This project is a DI
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by loxias 3y ago
I agree in spirit, and I also share an attitude of "if you're hacked, it's your fault." It's Not That Hard to choose to not run random binaries from the internet, and keep your ports closed. > There's only
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by loxias 3y ago
I'm excited too, but be advised, people said the same thing about the revolutionary "write once, run anywhere" programing language and platform coming out from Sun Microsystems in the 90s... "All of this has happened bef
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by loxias 3y ago
Mosh is not at all like ssh, tries hard to avoid duplicating ssh functionality, and this is by design. If it were like ssh the authors would have had to then handle security/authentication and all that jazz perfectly. It was written t
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by loxias 3y ago
> Apparently SSH over UDP with much less code and configuration compared to Mosh. What configuration? I'm trying to assume best intent but have you ever used mosh? It has zero configuration. That's the whole point.
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by loxias 3y ago
Mosh was designed for a great number of things, including what you mentioned. To me, mosh is "careful and impressively pedantically correct UTF-8 terminal emulator" + "careful and impressively pedantically correct state synch
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by loxias 3y ago
Absolutely. Keeping a testing or unstable chroot, explicitly for the purpose of running or developing bleeding edge versions of things without disturbing your real install, is a time honored tradition, decades old. Many, many people do t
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by loxias 3y ago
I've been using the same debian stable setup, mostly unchanged, for almost 20 years. The most recent "new bullshit" I had to learn was figuring out EFI/GPT enough to boot onto a new thinkpad. If you prioritize stability
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by loxias 4y ago
IME Firefox (esp with the right extensions, like autosuspend tabs) is very light on system resources. A bit more so than chrome. I run only Linux though. All the "websites that should be a program" (Netflix, Hulu, Slack, Amazon
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by loxias 4y ago
> Is the actual ‘intrinsic’ vector space uncomputable? Too slow to find? OMG yes. It's also an unsolved problem, once can approximate it. I've written several non-parametric blind arbitrary dimension DR algorithms and been o
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by loxias 4y ago
kinda/yes. To translate to more intuitive concepts: the matrices don't contain much variance in as many degrees of freedom as they could. Think of a point cloud of a piece of paper floating in the wind. It would be a 3xn list of
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by loxias 4y ago
Hi! I in _no way_ mean to detract or malign or "anything negative" the parent comment (communication is hard!!), BUT I really compliment that exact sentence. :) My background contains signal processing, "pre-deep learning M
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by loxias 4y ago
That's what I think of NPR as.
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by loxias 4y ago
Yeah, that stuff. Was recently discontinued, Micron pulled out, there's been some articles about why. Eventually I guess we'll have CXL, which might catch on, but then there's the delay for software support. It's a s
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by loxias 4y ago
If only Intel hadn't cancelled Pmem. Insanely high speed, density to match NVMe, could have changed the way we use computers (or at least powered some killer DB servers)
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by loxias 4y ago
Look at the changeset :) It contains a link for "ggml-alpaca-7b-14.bin". Because there's no substantive change to the code, I assume this fork exists (and this HN post exists) purely as a method to distribute the weights.
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by loxias 4y ago
Not sure what's going on here, the premise of the post ticks me off. How to politely decline a take-home test is to decline it. Unsure how anyone who can't do take home tests is qualified to do the underlying work. Make room for
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by loxias 4y ago
Thanks! I was genuinely asking, will need some time to read and digest. LangChain looks interesting.
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by loxias 4y ago
> Write a short note explaining your decision for every application Is there any evidence or reason to suspect that this would result in the desired effect? (explanations that faithfully correspond to the specifics of the input data res

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