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by mzl 1y ago
In my view, using dedicated modelling languages for combinatorial problems is a great choice for getting models up and running quickly. Here is my take on how to model this problem using MiniZinc: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by mzl 1y ago
Here is my variant of solving the problem using MiniZinc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44353731
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Solving LinkedIn Queens Using MiniZinc(zayenz.se)
3 points by mzl 1y ago|2 comments
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by mzl 1y ago
SOTA LLM model training costs a lot, yes. But fine-tuning and training of smaller models is a lot cheaper. I've trained useful vision-models that delivered business value for industrial applications on a MacBook overnight.
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by mzl 1y ago
No, it is not. It is because converting to UTC loses information that can't be retrieved.
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by mzl 1y ago
No, but that is an even less likely situation, compared to the problems that the approach advocated for by Jon Skeet actually solves.
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by mzl 1y ago
I think you are underestimating the massive amounts of Python code that is built around these things. Also, a lot of businesses are not really interested in using an API for an LLM, instead they will modify and fine-tune their own models an
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by mzl 1y ago
Checking it shortly (I haven't seen the paper before) this seems to be a very good analysis of how results are reported specifically for medical imaging benchmarks. As is often the case with statistics, selecting just a single number t
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by mzl 1y ago
Or more generally the whole field of combinatorial optimization, of which metaheuristics is a (small) part.
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by mzl 1y ago
I didn't know that, that is unfortunate to hear.
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by mzl 1y ago
The semantics of Python makes it problematic to run at speed, it is not just about interpreted vs compiled code. Give the high levels of dynamic behaviors that are allowed, a Jit (like pypy) has a higher chance of getting decent performance
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by mzl 1y ago
MDX as a middle ground with most of the text standard markdown and the escape hatch of custom React JSX when needed has worked well for me.
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by mzl 1y ago
I tried Gemini Pro 2.5 with a lot of context: all the documentation for a system and several papers of interest, then asking it to use the system tom implement the proposed solution in the papers. The total context was over 500k words, so w
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by mzl 1y ago
A typing system should only infer things that it knows are true, it should never invent restrictions. In a language like Python that is duck-typed, `Any` is the only reasonable choice in the absence of other real constraints like a type-ann
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by mzl 1y ago
How would a typing system know if the right type is `int` or `Optional[int]` or `Union[int, str]` or something else? The only right thing is to type the argument as `Any` in the absence of a type declaration.
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by mzl 2y ago
For a very long time, Scala was stuck at JDK 8 which hindered anyone that had a mix of Java and Scala code from upgrading.
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by mzl 2y ago
From the linked web-page A cat written with UUOC might still be preferred for readability reasons, as reading a piped stream left-to-right might be easier to conceptualize.[14] Also, one wrong use of the redirection symbol > instea
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SambaNova Cloud Launches the Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B (198 tok/s)(sambanova.ai)
5 points by mzl 2y ago|2 comments
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by mzl 2y ago
Before the launch, Spotify had a deal with the music rights holders association in Sweden (STIM) that they could use a merged collection of friends and families music libraries. All this was removed before Spotify went out of beta. So while
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by mzl 2y ago
The standard heuristic any 2D packing algorithm starts with is left-bottom or bottom-left (the choice is symmetrical). Place a piece as much to the left as possible, and among equal choicse as low as possible (or vice versa, as the choice w
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by mzl 2y ago
If one was sufficiently inspired by code A when writing code B, then it is a derivate work. This is a core tenet of copyright law. At what measure is one sufficiently inspired for it to be a derivate work? That is up to courts to decide.
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by mzl 2y ago
Daylight savings time is not in a majority of countries. See the map on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
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by mzl 2y ago
> academia is mostly about shitting out as many papers as you can This is the classic case of publish-or-perish, since publication metrics are ubiquitous in all aspects of academic life unfortunately. Measuring true impact is the goal, b
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by mzl 2y ago
Yes, and if you recreate parts of what you learned you might run into copyright issues. Too much inspiration from something you've studied, and it becomes a derivative work subject to all the regulations. And there are no clear and str
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by mzl 2y ago
My guess is that that would introduce too much latency (neural networks generally have bad latency).
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by mzl 2y ago
Who has ever said that evolution is perfect?
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by mzl 2y ago
With the law, it is often about intent. If OpenAI had the intent to make a voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson's in her, then I think that might be problematic for OpenAI. I am not a lawyer though.
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by mzl 2y ago
Sounds similar to the Composition of Experts from SambaNova (although that is for increased accuracy on single systems mostly, not for decreased cost from various suppliers): https://sambanova.ai/blog/samba-coe-the-powe
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by mzl 2y ago
SEQUEL and SQL are different languages (although related), and the SQL standard says SQL is pronounced as "ess queue ell"...
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by mzl 3y ago
What Lisp would that be? Considering it is not (as far as I can see) mentioned in McCarthys History of Lisp ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800025.1198360 ) I think no actual Lisp used unary arithmetic bas

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