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petters
1y ago
> Our FOV is wide, so it's a better match. It's pretty big vertically as well. IMAX is close to 4:3
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1y ago
Whichever method you use, you need to produce a different file that better reflects your intentions
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1y ago
You are writing your project file incorrectly. It's not a lock file
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Free-threaded build is not experimental in Python 3.14
(discuss.python.org)
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1y ago
> In fact, I don’t think anyone understands std::function<> including the 3 people who implemented it. "I don't understand it, so surely it must be very difficult and probably nobody understands it"
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petters
1y ago
This topic has 123 points, but the linked post on SO only has 11 upvotes.
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1y ago
Isn't that what Deepmind did 12 years ago?
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1y ago
Thanks, those very, very big mountains made no sense to me. The radius of Pluto is more than 1000 km
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1y ago
If you are able to paper over the fractional numbers and get a usable solution, an integer solver should also be able to find a feasible solution easily. Perhaps not optimal, but better than just solving the LP and rounding
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1y ago
This also got me past one interview. I came up with k/n but now I think it's better to just generate a random float in [0, 1] and keep the k largest ones
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1y ago
One simple test is that you give the model a really bad idea and tell it the idea is yours. You then test that the model does not say it's good. The now rolled back model failed spectacularly on this test
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1y ago
This part about double decent is really good: https://alexshtf.github.io/2025/03/27/Free-Poly.html#fnref:2
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1y ago
You're safe
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2y ago
I completely agree. Hope something like this is eventually standardized. Problem is that uv probably does not want to execute anything to find out dependencies, so it would have to be a very restrictive subset of python syntax. The fact tha
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2y ago
Dubbing by the original actors is very common when making movies. But usually the dialog is the exact same so it’s not noticed
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2y ago
Seems to relatively quickly run into numerical problems: https://mandelbrot.site/?re=-0.7375916562086786&im=-0.189982... EDIT: The number of iterations can be changed
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2y ago
I think you should. Looks like there is more work to do
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2y ago
This has been a larger productivity boost for me than LLMs. I suppose I should use LLMs more.
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2y ago
I don't think he is always arguing in good faith, unfortunately.
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2y ago
> To me, the current LLMs aren't qualitatively different from the char RNNs that Karpathy showcased all the way back in 2015. It's very difficult to understand this statement. What meaning of "qualitatively" could pos
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Is it possible to implement a “glider gun” in 3D? (With reasonable rules) That was an open question a while ago
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2y ago
Signed: Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds
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2y ago
They are, but they should not be
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2y ago
I completely agree! This is an oversight that should be fixed
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2y ago
Wasn't it because of extensive scraping?
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2y ago
A mouse wood be very nice for Super Mario Maker!
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2y ago
I used a lathe by myself at school when I was 12 or younger. But we live in different times I suppose
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2y ago
I climbed a 200m+ radio tower when I was a kid. Started really early so no one would see me. Saw the sunrise at the top but still felt like summer night when I got down. Best view I’ve ever seen
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2y ago
> matrix multiplication, which is O((n^2)log(n)) Isn't the fastest theoretical algorithm something like O(n^2.37) ?
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Optimality of Gerver's Sofa
(arxiv.org)
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