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by noosphr 11mo ago
Caveat emptor but this seems like an up to date paper on the state of bitwise reproducibility in dl with a bunch of citations to other papers that go into more depth: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09180
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by noosphr 11mo ago
While this is a bit too harsh - and the solution is naive at best - the problem is real. The idea of bitwise reproducibility for floating point computations is completely laughable in any part of the DL landscape. Meanwhile in just about ev
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by noosphr 11mo ago
It's amazing how fast your account hits usage limits.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
What's more amazing is how fast your account empties when they do that.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
This feels like a 6/10 on the scale of hysterical clickbait headlines I see on YouTube.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
The safest computer is a rock. The point is that when you start using rust in the real world to get real work done a lot of the promises that were made about safety have to be dropped because you need to boot your computer before the heat d
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by noosphr 11mo ago
At this point I'm willing to wave around the little red book for a 1TB of ram. I don't have that many kidneys left to buy gpus, ram and ssd at the prices they are now, let alone the prices next year.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Every release of redhat software makes me happy I switched to openbsd for my human scale computers.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Hacker news is there to promote ycombinator companies. So long as you know and avoid this it's surprisingly high quality. But that's there to lend more ligitimacy to ycombinator. Its also the currently last man standing in the con
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Senior developers know that every line of code is debt. Junior developers think that every line of code is wealth.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
I'm a good aerospace engineer, my rockets weigh an extra 50kg after every day I work on them.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
There are very high temperature transistors. We don't use them on earth because we expect humans to be near computers and keeping anything extremely hot is a waste of energy. But an autonomous space data center has no reason to be kept
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Space hardware needs to be fundamentally different from surface hardware. I don't mean it in the usual radiation hardenrining etc, but in using computing substrates that run over 1000c and never shut down. T^4 cooling means that you ha
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by noosphr 11mo ago
How much free time do you have to do this? Wash. Is clean? Yes: put in drier. No: GOTO wash.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
At this point with having to read the manual to open the damned door I'm seriously thinking about attaching a belt drive, motor, driver circuit and esp32 running an http with spin/stop commands.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Like I said, wait four years and all the main characters most recognised incarnations will be in the public domain.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Dysneys characters are entering the public domain, they can either cash out now or not at all. Mickey mouse is now copyright free, pluto is in two weeks, then pretty much the whole roster by 2030 https://michelsonip.com/news
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Banning the printing press in Europe would have stopped the 30 years war. Somehow I don't think anyone here would approve of the long term consequences. The end result of this will be that everyone needs to give their real name and add
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by noosphr 11mo ago
>someone https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/boom-yc-w16-is-building-an-...
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Vibe coding produces great one shot proofs of concept that fit inside its context window. It produces hot garbage when it needs to bring together two tokens from the far ends of a large code base together. This comes as no surprise to anyon
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by noosphr 11mo ago
It's how Linux is written so they must have great taste.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
My first job out of uni was developing a devops pipeline for Excel spreadsheets after one went rogue and cost the broker trader I was hired by $10m in one fun afternoon.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Do you know anyone who does serious financial work in Excel? I know plenty of people who think they do. I know a few that cost the world economy about a trillion dollars: https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-sprea
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by noosphr 11mo ago
>How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Openbsd has brought in x11 into their own codebase: https://xenocara.org/ This is why openbsd is great. I don't care about the drama that happens in Linux land at all.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
I've moved to openbsd for this reason. It works well and I don't have to deal with Linux drama. Toxic slug strategy is really working well for them.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Yes, they've made insane scaling bets before and they have paid off. If what we've heard about no acceptable pre-training runs from them in the last two years trying to increase the memory for training by two orders of magnitude i
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Yes, it's been a great two months.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
Those who don't use lisp are destined to re-invent it - poorly.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
I know I shouldn't, but I really can't help myself: https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/

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