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by petters 3y ago
Most games could possibly be encoded in less than 26 bytes. There are not that many legal moves each time and if you sort them by probability it may not require many bits to describe which one the players chose.
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by petters 3y ago
The period is also not independent of the amplitude. That is only the case of you approximate sin x ≈ x in the differential equation
183.
by petters 3y ago
Seems it could take some explanation to ask a guest whether they wanted coffee or tea. But a language with 200 words necessarily becomes verbose I suppose
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by petters 3y ago
Doctors could be replaced before nurses and care takers
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by petters 3y ago
Docker is not a VM. It uses the same kernel as the host
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by petters 3y ago
I don't know about llama.cpp, but yes this method works best if the binary layout on disk is exactly what you use for matrices in memory
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by petters 3y ago
You don't have to do the loading/discarding explicitly. You could just mmap the entire network and let the os handle that.
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by petters 3y ago
Does it support installing a certificate for inspection of https traffic? (Like mitmproxy)
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by petters 3y ago
> If you are going to test everything anyway, version numbers might as well be a simple incrementing integer, or a date, or a random string. You are perhaps right when you say that semver had failed, but what you list above as alternativ
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by petters 3y ago
Greg Egan's Permutation City also features the topic. It's truly scary, but there is of course also the potential of eternal life in paradise.
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by petters 3y ago
I'm afraid they would just end up something like this: https://qntm.org/lena
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by petters 3y ago
> billions of DNA base pairs controlling their behavior Total genome size of C elegans is 100M.
193.
by petters 3y ago
Correct, not all things listed in the featured article are bad. Exploring ChatGPT/copilot for developer productivity also seems correct, for example.
194.
by petters 3y ago
Bertyar88 did not take down the exchange. The exchange successfully stole his/her money.
195.
by petters 3y ago
They said “basically,” so no need to nitpick. And I’m not sure about unbounded; surely it is bounded by a suitable exponential function?
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by petters 3y ago
> spinlocks are roughly 1000 times more performant than mutexes That is absolutely not universal. See e.g. but there are of course many places discussing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21970050
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by petters 3y ago
Can someone please let me buy actual tiles shaped like this? I would like to renovate my bathroom
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by petters 3y ago
Right, SAT can sometimes be thought of as the assembly language of discrete optimisation.
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by petters 3y ago
> Maybe this is a good cause to reassess the premise of alignment as a valuable goal? Could you elaborate here? Alignment seems pretty obviously a good thing.
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by petters 3y ago
Not really bad. It’s less than an hour per year. Most users would not notice.
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by petters 3y ago
But it looks the same....
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by petters 3y ago
I believe things with charge can be both created (electron-positron pair) and destroyed (electron + proton = neutron)
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by petters 3y ago
Can't believe you post on HN haven't tried them. I've been thinking of a vacation to Phoenix just to try them and I live in Europe :)
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by petters 3y ago
They say that the laws do not apply to them, but has this been tried in court? We can be sure of one thing: of everyone started using VPNs and the laws do not actually apply, the laws would change
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by petters 3y ago
Username checks out. There is an other article about fp32 vs fp16 the front page for you as well!
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by petters 3y ago
If mathematicians have to choose between two definitions where one results in the task not making sense, and the other gives rise to a new theory with nontrivial open problems, the choice is easy :)
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by petters 4y ago
Having the style and background be the same might be desirable.
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by petters 4y ago
Significantly less bright.
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by petters 4y ago
> I think brute force on an NP problem is factorial(n) No, NP ⊆ EXPTIME, which means that exponential time should be enough.
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by petters 4y ago
Are there some infinite graphs and k that only admit non-periodic solutions?

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