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by peter_d_sherman 5mo ago
I like this table in the page very much: https://www.wiisfi.com/images/wifi-phy-table.jpg Basically, it shows how a different encoding scheme/modulation is used based on distance (1024-QAM 5/6 - BPSK 1/2
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by peter_d_sherman 5mo ago
It would be tremendously interesting, I think, to learn all of the Chemistry involved in carpet manufacturing, both historical and current-day, both for carpets which are manufactured domestically and those manufactured abroad (different re
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Abbey Library of Saint Gall(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by peter_d_sherman 5mo ago|0 comments
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Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE(github.com)
107 points by peter_d_sherman 5mo ago|55 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
The author bills this C source code as a "Really stupid get-file-over-http program/function". I wholeheartedly disagree! I claim, much to the contrary, that it is very, very intelligent! See in terms of simplicity, in terms
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uget – stupid get-file-over-HTTP program/function(github.com)
2 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|1 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
>"Stage two was RLHF training on general chat prompts using a reward model to improve helpfulness. This worked. AlpacaEval scores jumped around 18.9 points on average compared to the fine-tuned checkpoints. Then something broke. The
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
An interesting set of ideas! The broader concept seems to be "ephemeral environments" , which is related to sandboxing, which is in turn is related to testing/debugging... Related: https://github.com/topics&#
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
Related: List of linux package search databases: https://github.com/sxiii/awesome-package-search
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Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search(github.com)
154 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|37 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
Related: Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684958 https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang SudoLang: A Powerful Pseud
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
>"Virtually all processors today have data parallel instructions (sometimes called SIMD) that can check several values at once. [...] The binary search checks one value at a time. However, recent processors can load and check more
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Making The Smallest Possible Linux Distro (x64) (2025) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|0 comments
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Building a tiny Linux from scratch (2025)(blinry.org)
3 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|0 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
>"Rebuilding Takes Years. Always. [...] Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was. [...] Now map that onto software. A junior developer needs three to five years to become a competent mid-level engineer. Five to eight years to
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
>"Single, reusable primitives play a disproportionately large aesthetic and practical role in mathematics, engineering, and even biology. Widely known classical examples include the NAND gate (and its dual, Peirce Arrow, logical NOR
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
>"If AI makes every engineer 50% more productive, you don't get 50% more output. You get 50% more pull requests. 50% more documentation. 50% more design proposals. And someone, somewhere, still has to review all of it. When t
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Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)(jakevdp.github.io)
111 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|11 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago
IMHO: Of all of the videos showing Pi's relationship with the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean (AGM), this is the best one. Related: Gauss–Legendre algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Legendre_algorit..
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Gauss' Secret Way to Calculate π Faster [video](youtube.com)
1 points by peter_d_sherman 6mo ago|1 comments
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100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem (2025)(cerebras.ai)
5 points by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago|0 comments
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Businesses you can start and run from a phone?(old.reddit.com)
4 points by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago|0 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
Brilliant idea! Heck, a brilliant potential bootstrapped-from-virtually-nothing-except-a-cell-phone business idea!
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
(Comedy writing mode ON): SNL's Stefon character: "This one has it all... Waffle House, FEMA, breakfast foods, federal emergencies, waffles, emergency preparedness, eggs, teleportation, bacon, black helicopters, hash browns, angry
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
What a brilliant idea! Split a "it needs to run in a datacenter because its hardware requirements are so large" AI/LLM across multiple people who each want shared access to that particular model. Sort of like the Real Estate
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
>" ASGs are more complex and concise than ASTs because they may contain shared subterms (also known as "common subexpressions").[1] Abstract semantic graphs are often used as an intermediate representation by compiler
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Abstract Semantic Graph(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago|1 comments
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
There's an interesting set of ideas here! If we look at the history of programming languages, we see the idea of Templating occuring over and over again, in different contexts, i.e., C's macros, C++ Templates, embedding PHP c
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
Full text: https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/bill/rig...
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by peter_d_sherman 7mo ago
>"The quacking that catches my ear is when something develops a dependency graph: your package depends on a package that depends on a package, and now you need resolution algorithms, lockfiles, integrity verification, and some way t

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