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by oersted 2y ago
To be fair these are part of a preinstalled suite of native apps, an extension of the OS, rather than being part of the larger app ecosystem. You could argue that implicitly they have the brand-name in front: e.g. "Apple/Mac Photo
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by oersted 2y ago
Perhaps, the landscape has improved a lot in the last couple of years, there are lots of implementation tricks to improve efficiency on consumer hardware, particularly for inference. Although it is clear that the computing capacity of the G
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by oersted 2y ago
It is an exciting concept, there's a huge wealth of gaming hardware deployed that is inactive at most hours of the day. And I'm sure people are willing to pay well above the electricity cost for it. Unfortunately, the dominant LLM
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by oersted 2y ago
It's a good point. To be fair, any system that lasts as long as C has will have legacy cruft that you need to learn to step around and it's hard to get rid of. Relative to other standards, C has been remarkably disciplined at keep
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by oersted 2y ago
I was somewhat dismissive, but I agree that this way of thinking about dependencies is the right approach for systems programming. And it is fair to expect that users will read the manual in detail for any tool or library they adopt in the
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by oersted 2y ago
This is helpful, thanks. And I assume that no one imagined that you would need more variants of strcpy to begin with, strncpy is a pretty good name too, and then it's hard to break the pattern. Similar situations with lots of other nam
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by oersted 2y ago
You are right, perhaps "guess" is the wrong term, I meant that it is unreasonably hard to identify and remember which is which.
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by oersted 2y ago
C programmers like their overly concise naming schemes don’t they… How do you expect a user to guess the subtle differences in behavior between strncpy, strlcpy and strscpy? Sure screens were smaller before and you didn’t have autocomplete,
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by oersted 2y ago
To me it is an issue of documentation mainly, smart programmers cannot read minds either. There are standard and effort-efficient ways to document function APIs, whereas DSLs need full user guides. They have complex rules about what are val
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by oersted 2y ago
I do think there are examples out there for this value prediction trick that could make sense, which is why I was a bit frustrated by the example they chose. Someone mentioned sparse vectors for example, where you are guessing 0 rather than
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by oersted 2y ago
Indeed, any language that encourages you to program by building tailored DSLs for every problem domain has the same issue (Lisps, Racket…). It sounds very productive to always be able to express solutions with the perfect language for that
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by oersted 2y ago
I enjoyed the read and it taught me new things, I just wish that the reference example would have some minimal practical value. I don’t think there is any reasonable scenario where you would be using a linked list but the memory is contiguo
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by oersted 2y ago
You can definitely punish countries as an independent entity: with trading sanctions, refusal to give in on certain diplomatic compromises, or different degrees of military retaliation. Same with companies: mostly fines, but also limits on
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by oersted 2y ago
I think the point of OP was that in many ways companies have many of the same rights and privileges as individuals, but cannot be punished in the same ways.
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by oersted 2y ago
Certain laws apply to any person, which includes companies. A company can own things like you own things, and has similar protections. A company is accountable to its promises (contracts, fraud...), like you would be, although punishments m
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by oersted 2y ago
Modern companies are a lot like we expect AGIs to be. It's an interesting thought that I keep coming across, I'm not sure if I necessarily agree with it. In a sense, companies are super-human intelligent autonomous beings, with mu
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by oersted 2y ago
A lot has been written by and about Peter Freuchen. Could you provide a more specific reference for these customs and rules? I'd like to read-up on it.
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by oersted 2y ago
I believe this is the original source, it has the whole prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ds9gi7/i_just_sai...
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by oersted 2y ago
BQP (Bounded-error Quantum Polynomial-time) is in PSPACE sure, but that doesn't mean much. P ⊆ BPP ⊆ BQP ⊆ PSPACE BQP problems can be solved on quantum computers in polynomial time, some of these problems may be outside of P and BPP (B
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by oersted 2y ago
Of course, Mermin's device can be simulated in a classical computer, we do quantum physics simulations for research all the time. That doesn't entail that we can have quantum computer speedups on a classical computer. Indeed, the
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by oersted 2y ago
I agree. Perhaps I don't have a good understanding of "late-stage" capitalism. I think that the current version of capitalism is "working" (very relatively), exactly because there is substantial oversight from the g
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by oersted 2y ago
I agree with all your points. And there is indeed a fundamental systemic issue with how private companies that deliver critical social services interact with the government: healthcare, education, energy, banking, logistics, real-state... I
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by oersted 2y ago
You are right, that is not remotely "relatively quickly", it should have been prevented. My point was generally that the system (and specifically the current flavour of capitalism) is not fundamentally broken, it has the right sha
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by oersted 2y ago
Not really, it's just bad management, they took unjustified risks for cost-cutting, and the system, both government and market, is punishing them for it at the first sign of something bad happening. You could argue that the punishment
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by oersted 2y ago
You are absolutely right regarding the capabilities. Although many image generators now seem to be fine-tuned to output impressive but formulaic art by default, to ensure a good first-impression for a broad audience. Midjourney for example
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by oersted 2y ago
The ever-circulating rumour is 1.7T - 1.8T for the whole thing. But it is not very substantiated, mostly started by SemiAnalysis and geohot based on rather loose speculation (such as API latency and price), and not much solid evidence to co
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by oersted 2y ago
Yes but is the heating in HVAC through temperature controlled air flow like for cooling? Over here it is mostly using radiators with water heated with natural gas (same gas that was used for cooking when fire stoves were common).
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by oersted 2y ago
From my anecdotal experience, residential HVAC is fairly uncommon in EU. Lived in northern Spain and Netherlands for many years.
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by oersted 2y ago
Fantastic explanatory video by the author: https://youtu.be/sRbcw2sGkJw?si=USBnDyShTJNAeKVj It’s a shame that the repo docs are so sparse in comparison.
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by oersted 2y ago
It does seem to match transformers, but I wouldn't say it meaningfully outperforms them in terms of quality vs parameters. Model: #Params (M), SlimPajama (15B) ppl ↓ - GPT-3: 356M, 14.26 - Llama: 407M, 14.25 - H3: 420M, 18.23 - Mamba:

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