midland_trucker

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by midland_trucker 2y ago
As someone who has dived into Rust over the past few months, the two main reasons for employing it are: A) Bleeding edge performance (Shares the same problem space as C/C++, zero cost abstractions etc.) B) Memory safety (Giving it a ra
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
Nah, my theory is you're seeing run-of-the-mill brash business dealings with the unusual characteristic of being broadcasted publicly. You wouldn't accuse the same of CEOs from more 'boring' companies because we only get
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
Arianespace of course a huge success for a brief period, until it wasn't.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
Liquid-fueled setup is largely unsuitable for ICBMs. Want something that can sit in the silo for years and then be immediately available - so solid rocket motors are the way to go, plenty of other defence companies that are specialists in t
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
They only just announced it a few weeks ago, surely not launching it would be the business decision if this was the case.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
I'm yet to see a study that convinces me of the potential of this concept. All of them when you get down to the details have at least one of: - An unrepresentative test set , i.e. a population with similar blood pressure at recordi
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
This is my gut feeling about a lot of activity going on in modern corporations. Private equity firms, for example, have been historically blamed for a lot of once great engineering companies in the UK being combined into a bloated mess of a
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
I recently needed to render markdown to view some notes. Thought opening chrome w/ a plugin or VSCode felt similarly sluggish options to do such a simple task. Now a few weeks after playing with textualize this pops up! Neat tool.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
> In Go, I found that using an interface was not free: it can make the code slower. In C++, if you implement the following type and call count on it, you find that optimizing compilers are able to just figure out that they need to return
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
Exactly, it's just the wrong people at the top and the wrong incentives. Is Arianespace structurally capable of producing economical access to space? Probably not.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
Perhaps we're talking past each other, is "loss threshold" a specific term in LLM literature? Merely pointing out that the debate as to whether we are compute or data limited (OP) has not concluded at all; There are lots of c
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
That's a fair point. Not at all like training on Wikipedia in which nearly every sentence has novelty to it. Then again it would give you data on every accent in the country, so the holy grail for modelling human speech.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
> Dataset size is not relevant to predicting the loss threshold of LLMs. You can keep pushing loss down by using the same sized dataset, but increasingly larger models. Deepmind and others would disagree with you! No-one really knows in
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
The WebGL equivalent sites were a delight to go through; So well structured and thoughtfully displayed. It's so great to find a resource you can put some trust in amongst all the outdated and fragmented code out there. Looking forward
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
I certainly wasn't and appreciate you posting it, great site! A little intimidating initially, but after a minute curiosity has you flicking between the different controller channels and stages in the mission.
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
I'm not sure I can get on board with the sentiment of your first point. Anaesthesia as another example took more than a century to get right, had some huge failures and wasn't taken seriously. It surely earns the label of innovati
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by midland_trucker 3y ago
As a programmer not part of this world: what's the go-to alternative in this situation? Does ECS not naturally arise from using OOP? Trying to think if you are creating instances of players/physics objects/items how that woul
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
Perhaps a lot of people wouldn't agree and I admit I'm stirring up debate a bit to see what other people think. To me it seems if we see orbital success in the next 5 yrs, mass production of starship thereafter and SpaceX sticking
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
A thing I find mind-blowing is that if this concept succeeds, that I and everyone reading this will be able to afford to go to low earth orbit on a relatively modest salary within the next ~20 years (conservatively). This feels like quite a
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
Goes to show that nailing down the 'HN crowd' opinion is more difficult than it seems!
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
I find it really hard to see how productive a collective pause and 'think' about something so inherently unpredictable will be. > "implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
It was a specific rebuttal to the parent comment which seemed to not understand the reality of resources in vs resources out of animal agriculture. Of course you can caveat a lot about my comment, beef for instance is arguably the most inef
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
I'm pointing out that you don't seem to realise how insanely resource inefficient meat is: [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/feed-required-to-produce-... [2] https://cbey.yale.edu/our-sto
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by midland_trucker 4y ago
> In this case a Plant based Diet would require much more agricultural land for the same calorie intake than a balanced meat and plant one. Where do you think the calories in meat ultimately comes from?