maccam912

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by maccam912 3y ago
it is not loading for me, so confirmed? Or unconfirmed? Not really sure.
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by maccam912 3y ago
There is a parameter called "temperature" that determines randomness. I think there is never a guarantee of the same response, but generally with a low temperature (something like 0.0, the lowest but still not deterministic) I get
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by maccam912 3y ago
Here's a question this group might know the answer to: are lithium battery and lithium-ion battery being used interchangeably by airlines? When they say "lithium" do I need to read that to also mean li-ion as well? Am I the d
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by maccam912 3y ago
Unrelated, I just wanted to get it on record somewhere that I sometimes like to send myself random strings of characters and/or bytes. Sometimes to friends and family too. Sometimes they think its so funny they send back random strings
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by maccam912 4y ago
Just removed https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/ec83d01dcaeb...
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by maccam912 4y ago
My main grocery store does pick up, which I use, and flat out says no to tips, instead just adding a 2 dollar charge for doing pick up. Thats the main reason I shop at that one. If a coffee shop on my way home made it obvious they don'
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by maccam912 4y ago
Maybe not exactly what you need from GPT3, but the SD of language models right now is Bloom: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom which might serve your needs.
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by maccam912 4y ago
Something I'm curious about in this whole thing: who is DDoSing kiwifarms? Most people find their content reprehensible but does that usually translate into people DDoSing something?
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by maccam912 4y ago
If youi want to skip over the updated filing and see the actual letter sent, it is here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
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by maccam912 5y ago
6.5 exabytes short? It sounds like a lot, but does someone more informed know if that is going to make a dent?
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by maccam912 5y ago
Agreed. Currency was the worst thing to happen to blockchains. Maybe someone needs to purposely create a hyperinflationary cryptocurrency.
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by maccam912 5y ago
The difficulty of mining is adjusted based on how many people are mining. I think it could have trouble if there was a very quick loss of mining power, but if it was a slower process and some miners gave up because it wasn't profitable
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by maccam912 5y ago
Was pleasantly surprised to find it a short humorous paper. If you want to learn econometrics, this will do more to prepare you for reading other papers than teach you anything.
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by maccam912 5y ago
Agree that the best tool for the job should be used. In this case if python is gluing together different technologies to get this working it might have been the best tool for the job. Generally I would rather have my code compiled (into sil
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by maccam912 5y ago
I switched from firefox to vivaldi about a year ago. So far it's been an improvement, tab stacks especially in my opinion.
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by maccam912 5y ago
Eh, I have to diagree on that. A mathematician reading ∛x in code will immediately know what it means, but that isn't necessarily true when seeing cbrt(x). Julia was written for mathematicians, not programmers, and takes some getting u
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by maccam912 5y ago
I remember shenanigans when V was first announced (release date for public preview, but for a little money you get early access), people being upset that it was half-baked, etc. and wrote it off, but I've heard that it has since change
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by maccam912 5y ago
Do you have a link to this unofficial verification?
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by maccam912 5y ago
Maybe we should abolish the USD so US patent trolls can't be paid?
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by maccam912 5y ago
I wish there was a good place for news about crypto/blockchain stuff that talk about stuff other than price action. Yeah it's cool. That some coin is up x percent, but I am interested in why. There are so many cryptocurrencies tha
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by maccam912 5y ago
Knowing that at least one row of data in a database might have been modified randomly means you can't fully trust any one line in the database completely. It reminds me of the story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by maccam912 6y ago
I used starlette and switched to fastapi. For a one person project the bonus free swagger docs in fastapi were what got my attention. If that's also built in to starlette... I guess then the marketing worked on me.
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by maccam912 6y ago
I don't trust myself to write a decent version, but if someone here wants to do some marketing for Nim I'm sure the code would be compact and easy to read, but could still end up quite fast here!
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by maccam912 6y ago
Thats what I said too, but after trying it out it does a lot better than expected. For the games I like playing the lag isn't noticeable. During little nightmares 2 I forgot I wasn't playing on a local machine.
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Ask HN: What is the most well-tested code you know of and what can it teach us?
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by maccam912 6y ago
I'll give it a shot. When you place an order for 1000 shares of AAPL for example your order is sent to a bunch of exchanges and you are supposed to get your shares from the 1000 cheapest shares available to be purchased. If your order
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by maccam912 6y ago
When it's a survey of many economists I tend to put stock in what comes out. In this case if 80% say there is a 25% chance of a second dip, thats a much more informed opinion than I could ever have on the subject. I now know it isn&#x2
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by maccam912 6y ago
Yeah honestly I just scroll right past them. I use telegram for my "Can you pick up some bananas on the way home?" messages. If I ever had a confidential tip for some investigative journalist I'd use signal. But it gets annoy
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by maccam912 6y ago
If you have fun parsing raw bytes, decrypting encryption, bit-twiddling, etc. you owe it to yourself to try it out. There was something quite satisfying about it.
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by maccam912 7y ago
Fair. COVID-19 would also work for me. That's used enough that people know immediately what you're talking about.

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