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by oofbey 1y ago
Attention mechanisms are wonderfully interpretable as is. You can literally see which tokens each token is attending to. People don’t bother much these days. But that’s not a strong selling point.
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by oofbey 1y ago
One advantage to being in the biggest region: when it goes down the headlines all blame AWS, not you. Sure you’re down too, but absolutely everybody knows why and few think it’s your fault.
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by oofbey 1y ago
You don’t need to get to geostationary to get to orbit. The reason elevators need to get that high is because that’s the lowest place you could “anchor” the top of the elevator to something fixed relative to the earth.
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by oofbey 1y ago
They said the root cause was DNS for dynamoDB. inside AWS relying on dynamoDB is highly encouraged so it’s not surprising that a failure there would cascade broadly. The fact that EC2 instance launching is effected is surprising. Loops in t
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by oofbey 1y ago
Asserting that it's impossible or meaningless to measure the quality of a UI is to deny the entire field of UX research. Yes, it's subjective, but you can meaningfully measure the average across many humans. And that's exac
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by oofbey 1y ago
Can you give some examples? I think of my containers as decently good security boundaries, so I'd like to know what I'm missing.
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by oofbey 1y ago
This isn’t just a matter of taste. The colors exist to aid in the task of coding. How well they do that is measurable.
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by oofbey 1y ago
I agree. It just took me a while to figure it out. A 3B param LLM would do perfectly well.
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by oofbey 1y ago
On LinkedIn can’t you create an account and claim to be an employee of any company? They don’t do email verification to make you prove employment do they?
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by oofbey 1y ago
A docker container isn’t as bulletproof as a VM but it would certainly block this kind of attack. They’re super fast and easy to spin up.
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by oofbey 1y ago
That’s a rude way to put it. I think crypto is full on BS but I have many very smart, self aware friends who are into blockchain. What this is a strong filter for people likely to have crypto wallets on their dev machines.
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by oofbey 1y ago
In a sense, hardware's job is easier, because the goals are more clear. Make it faster, and more power efficient. Vast amounts of complexity within those goals. But try to summarize the north-star vision for a complex software proje
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by oofbey 1y ago
But on that compute budget it’s gonna sound so stupid. Oh right. Santa.
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by oofbey 1y ago
More than you can physically fit in a phone like that. Many hundreds if not thousands of watts of GPU.
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by oofbey 1y ago
You forget that MS Word loves to substitute things like em dashes in where you don’t want them. The “auto correct” to those directional quotation marks that every compiler barfs on used to be a real peeve with I was forced to use MS junk.
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by oofbey 1y ago
I gotta say. I miss landlines.
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by oofbey 1y ago
The business plan originally was to sell CPUs that ran Java natively. And these would be fast. That idea failed miserably.
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by oofbey 1y ago
I don’t think I agree with the assertion that instantly bringing the chicken up to temp wouldn’t result in it being cooked. Especially since the classic solution got the chicken up to 400F. I don’t care how fast it cools off, if we assume m
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by oofbey 1y ago
It’s funny which things have changed and which haven’t. That server which was super impressive for 2007 had 4 cores and 16GB of ram. Which is a reasonable small laptop for today. The 24TB of disk would still be pretty big though.
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by oofbey 1y ago
I’m very glad python is getting faster. But the correct answer to “Is Python Really That Slow?” is unambiguously YES. Unless you’re using some ML library like torch or numpy which spends all its time in optimized C code, python is still EXT
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MosaicML founder takes another swing at AI chips(techfundingnews.com)
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by oofbey 1y ago
The bet is that the government handout for these early units turns into an easy source of carbon free energy in a decade or so.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Which means you don’t need to build up transmission capacity. The article was factually wrong on that point. Put an SMR next to a data center or an aluminum factory and the power is used right there.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Why are people betting on small modular reactors? Even given all the problems described. I don’t think it’s that policy officials are gullible to marketing. I think the key reason is the promise of low price, high power, and fast deploymen
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by oofbey 1y ago
Maybe I’m dating myself but when I read “Support Vector” I assumed it was talking about SVM models.
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by oofbey 1y ago
A core design principle of the Internet was the ability to automatically route around damage. The requirement came from a desire to be robust against nuclear attack. Very few 20th century networking systems could do this. Star topology or r
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by oofbey 1y ago
What do you mean “the discover and fix phase is over”? That implies that safety critical systems stop trying to discover problems and fix them? In what world is that true? You are always learning from mistakes and fixing them. Forever.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Hopefully they learned lessons from why PEP-690 was rejected. I've spent quite a while trying to build this stuff for our codebase and it's never worked well enough to use.
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by oofbey 1y ago
Maybe your code is awesome, but you're almost certainly using a library which does it.
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by oofbey 1y ago
MIG virtualization is IMHO weak sauce. Only seven slices. Seven? Extremely limited hardware support. Difficult to configure - like the early days of CUDA. It’s been in the works for what 7 years now and barely functional. Meanwhile, don’t f

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