minimaltom

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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Sure the thermodynamic reduction of `weight-loss := energy-in < energy-burned` is true, but youre erroneously extending that reduction to assert basically ~variance in outcomes is explained by effort and measurement error~. Most pointedl
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
I think this is a commonly-held misconception. Even when individuals accurately account for calories and workout intensity (using hard data, not feels), theres a large variance across individuals, broadly attributable to 'metabolics&#x
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Usually, chronically-overweight ppl have tried regulating weight with all kinds of diets, lifecycle interventions, regular exercise, etc, and a lot of the time the thing that actually worked was the GLP-1. I think this speaks a lot to the v
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Right, but what x86 KVM setup is there in practice that doesnt present a mmu to its guest and hence keep its own track (shadow) of memory mappings?
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Yeah most cloud providers have live migration and a reasonably-well-tested playbook for updating the node kernel + hypervisor.
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Oh yay another one lol. This one seems much more general than the prior one that needed nested page tables. Patch Thursday for cloud VM ppl lol
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Me too / born in Sydney! A good mental model is that its like super, the kinds of things that super can invest in are equally diverse and it all depends on who you setup with Systemically i guess thats more a question of 1) is US equit
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
This is actually nice to see, because sneaky things to maximize good outcomes for PERM like advertising roles on the radio late at night / in random community newspapers is (or was) standard practice.
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
"401(k)" is a class of tax-advantaged account for retirement, theres no one global 401(k). If you are concerned, you can look at your disclosures or ask your provider. All of this is kind of beside the point though, because the is
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
This was an incredible read, take my upvote!
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
South Korea had an extremely large population of retail investors investing in options and leveraged ETFs, to the point that 3% of the adult population has now been margin-called. That setup isnt true for the US, not even close.
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Paperclips can be very difficult to obtain sometimes :P (have you seen smiling friends?)
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Hell yeah!!
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by minimaltom 2mo ago
Silver-coated wire? I don't have that lying around.
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
Unless the load moving from down providers overloads the remaining ones, cascading into a catastrophic, model-wide failure. (Luv a lil cascade, as a treat)
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
Most new tech has insane P/E multiples for a time, for me the litmus test between "capex is high but but within a few multiples" and "capex is insanely overbuilt, ahh collapse etc" is whether revenue growth continue
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
Even if you are colliding with 20 people a minute thats still 3.5 straight days of running into people. Even if gentle thats probably heavy bruising, and any conflict or discourse is gonna slow down that 20-people rate. I imagine theres pro
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
Thanks! I had a clanker graph it with sliders, its a very interesting function to play with! seems like it has the negative 'hump' typical of a GELU coupled with the saturation of a sigmoid. Its interesting that saturation is idea
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
HF says activation function is "SiTU-GLU", but I can't find any info on that? Anyone know / is this a typo? Even the python code for inference seems to use normal activations.
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
This seems very similar to the ion-exchange membrane rowow et all have been refining on youtube over the last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luulTI1RKHE&t=114s . Rowow himself has videos on using electrochemistry
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
Even if theres a massive drawdown it will recover in the medium term (and in the short term is a great buying opportunity). For the people who are close/early to retirement and can't do that, well, they need to manage sequence of
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
I luv this sentence but have no idea what it means lol. Do you have many ducks at home?
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
I agree you probably don't need top-dollar bay-area engineers for this, but hardcore outsourcing to a LCOL probably isnt going to work either due to novelty and generally being setup to do the more rote thing (generalizing a ton here o
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by minimaltom 3mo ago
This, taken in combination with the SAE paper, the golden-gate claude paper, the feelings / introspection paper, and note in the fable system card (that they are silently nerfing responses about activation shaping), is basically confir
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
If you know whats going on, could you link to em? Somewhat similar to you, I also got the sense that this was a pointed response/positioning to some controversy. Not because I have any clue whats going on (I dont), but just cuz it patt
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
Frontier labs have their own variants of MLA and certainly their own balance/scaling-laws for things like MoE vs FC vs Attn. MoE scales really well for inference with horizontal scaling + batching, which these guys luv. On the architec
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
Yes. A tax on the ultra-wealthy, rather than a measure aimed at increasing housing. Its very roundabout as NYC can only make taxes for NYC, but the net aim is to increase the effective tax rate for the ultra-wealthy, using secondary propert
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
Theres no gotchas in the quoted text, but curious if you got the impression from your emails that any of it was.. AI generated? The camber, affirmation, word choice, triplet phrase... leaves me wondering. But without a smoking gun its hard
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
In this case you can say "the contract we reviewed was poisoned via technical means to show different words, depending on how the file was read". Perhaps if pushed you can say you loaded it into GCAI/Harvey/Legora and re
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by minimaltom 5mo ago
It seems like the main attack scenario for this + legal AI would be during discovery: if opposing counsel gave you a poisoned PDF, and you threw it into one of these products to help you sift through it and got bad answers. However, wouldnt

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