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by nmstoker 2y ago
To get a sense of the impact, see this quote: >> Performance >> Preliminary benchmarks by me suggest excellent performance improvements --- 10% geometric mean speedup in pyperformance, with up to 40% speedup in Python-heavy benc
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A new tail-calling interpreter for significantly better interpreter performance(github.com)
3 points by nmstoker 2y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
My UK contract had no IP terms and after many years they tried to sneak them in via the employee handbook - I objected and we negotiated, ending up with a reasonable and amicable split: anything directly related to their line of business is
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by nmstoker 2y ago
It does look pretty cool, even though I'm not a massive puzzle-fan. The writing style is lively and the snippets shown do seem to draw you in. You mention that it was left unfinished - did you finish it or is it still unfinished?
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by nmstoker 2y ago
First the needs of the user-base should trump those of the dev. And secondly the kinds of apps that are referred to here are not the type that need massive efficiency or some complex feature - when inconvenienced by yet another single-use c
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Yes, as the author indicated: >> I have a lot of thoughts about both, but here I’m just going to throw out a few quotes, encourage you to read them, and suggest a couple of things.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I like Firefox but with mobile they do seem to sit on pretty major bugs for multiple years
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Nice thing here is it scales well and voice data doesn't leave the device.
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Moonshine Web: real-time speech recognition running 100% locally in the browser(bsky.app)
3 points by nmstoker 2y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Authentic in so far as there's no back button and using it in Android backs you out of the whole site!
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by nmstoker 2y ago
The issue is not that one chirality has to flip and you can accumulate change over long time periods, it's that every occurrence of chirality had to flip at once or the things won't work together: so the DNA has to mysteriously al
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Life forms are effectively locked into the current set of chiral molecules. For a cell to flip, it would need all the corresponding mirror changes to happen as well, since the behaviours are interlinked - this makes it something that would
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I think you may mean something other than phenomenon ("an observable fact or event"). Seeing anything more than zero times makes it a phenomenon by definition.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I vaguely recall seeing this in the UK in the 80s and then being impressed with the much more authentic animation styles of the later cartoons.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
This struck me as pretty unconvincing - if it's even true then they are no doubt leaving out crucial points around why it was impractical (besides the cross wind point they admit)
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Charles Handy, management thinker and author, 1932-2024(ft.com)
1 points by nmstoker 2y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Unfortunate ambiguous uses of the word drop throughout the otherwise excellent article
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by nmstoker 2y ago
The paper is linked at the top of the blog and there's a nice thread going through this on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/lauraruis.bsky.social/post/3lbfeqqp...
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Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives LLM Reasoning(lauraruis.github.io)
2 points by nmstoker 2y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
There's no language rule that a phrase can have only one meaning. You seem to be taking this too precisely, as the earlier explanations of there being two interpretations are quite entirely reasonable.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
This is really important to get right. There's a balance as you want to avoid introducing crap but a little restraint and wider awareness makes a huge difference. I recall being significantly put off after making my first significant c
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Perhaps I'm paranoid but this has multiple red flags that make hesitate to install - even the "too good to be true" aspect of such comprehensive features makes me wonder (which is probably irrational and taking it a bit too f
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Why don't DLR stations just get trashed?(youtube.com)
2 points by nmstoker 2y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
It could just as easily imply that people aren't paying attention when they read it. Inability to understand a text is not always on the author, plenty of times it's on the reader.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I presume this relates, directly or indirectly, to the Anaconda licensing changes. Even though you can avoid the license issues (eg with conda-forge) it brought up a discussion where we looked into moving away and found we didn't face
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PyTorch Deprecation of Conda Nightly Builds(dev-discuss.pytorch.org)
3 points by nmstoker 2y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Surprised there wasn't more interest in this here. Jeff's video on this: https://youtu.be/4aaF2HgTVe8?si=TAVC2qT3vqiqzpBk
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by nmstoker 2y ago
That's an illustration of the difficulties. I got the disk, video dvd and even drank the coffee but I initially thought the notebook was some sort of box for the video so didn't realise you could open it to read!
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Absolutely, but if only the games console could be forced to go full screen in the browser... It keeps moving when I'm playing Edit: strangely this seems to happen only in Firefox mobile, not Chrome mobile
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I must be missing something because I understood that pip cached packages already. Perhaps it still creates a copy of the package files in the virtual environment, thus the cache only saves repeated downloads and not local disk space. If th

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