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phh
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I'm a custom ROM developer that spans a lot of devices (TrebleDroid GSI, a generic kind of custom ROM that works on thousands of Android devices) I've bought dozens of smartphones to implement bug fixes (current total number is 50
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In France you can go very far (Paris <=> Barcelona, 1000km in 6h47, Lille <=> Barcelona 150km in 8h32), but only in the 30 biggest cities, and going from/to Paris. If you take two random points in the map (or even populatio
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That's the OP's point. At the time, the community was split between word-level, which has the shortcomings you're describing, and byte-level which is uselessly compute intensive. BPE was the first reasonable in-between. BLT i
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You're confusing shiming with rewriting. DirectX uses direct hardware access. DirectX uses direct hardware access. That doesn't mean you can't rewrite a DirectX-API implementation without direct hardware access. Likewise, And
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I disagree. Apps barely use Binder directly, but mostly call framework jar (which yes will do binder, but since they are reimplementing framework jar that's fine). Intents and permissions can be implemented without binder as the API is
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2y ago
How is this relevant?
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Their best models are not public weights but only behind their API
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2y ago
> A real-world web page compressed with WebP? Oh, how about the one you’re reading right now? Unless you use an old browser or have JavaScript turned off, WebP compresses this page starting from the “Fool me twice” section. If you haven’
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> Or even an architecture akin to an atonishingly large number of RP2050's. Groq and Cerebras are probably that kind of architecture
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2y ago
The "fun" part is that smartphones/tablets implement those features with S3 (CPU off, RAM in self-refresh). Updates? Well here is an RTC to wake-up. Voice control? Well here is an always on audio dsp. Remote wake-up? Well her
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Windows 11 now ships with rwkv.cpp
(twitter.com)
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I kinda hope that time-to-render is in their A/B rollout metrics to prevent rollouts...
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> Want a perfect flight sim? Put a GoPro in the cockpit of every airliner for a year. I guess that's the occasion to remind that ML is splendid at interpolating, but extrapolating, maybe don't keep your hopes too high. Namely,
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2y ago
Which is the reason you need to format your data to experiment with 16k
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Google/Android doesn't care much about backward compatibility and broke programs released on Pixel 3 in Pixel 7. (the interdiction of 32bit-only apps is 2019 on Play Store, Pixel 7 is first 64bits only device, while Google still r
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2y ago
Yes. I see CAP theorem as a (perfectly right) answer to managers demanding literally impossible requirements
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2y ago
Usenet is my main source, but I'm not aware of anyone implementing streaming over it? Sounds nightmarish to implement really
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2y ago
Jelly Star is really small, I doubt it's usual as an actual smartphone (but I understand the "under-smartphone" usage). For the people who want the just-big-enough-to-be-usable-one-handed (for average man hands let's say
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Yes, but they realized that at that point the problem is no longer the trains but people. You can't reliably board people that fast. IIRC, they moved from theoretical every 2 minutes to theoretical 2 minutes 30, and largely improve the
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> Trains arrive as often as every three minutes during peak hours along the central spines of both the Elizabeth Line and the RER Line A. I've taken the RER A everyday for few years (both and after automation), and that frequency co
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And this has the extra benefit that you don't give your website data to Google for free
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In my business area (ISP), when doing carbon accounting, we have "scope 3" which includes the electric consumption we incur the electric consumption of our devices at user's home. A first step towards reducing those externali
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> Government should just require open communication protocols/file formats, if a competitor is willing to host the same data at cost. Well, that's what happened with the "Office Open XML" standard, which has been a ca
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My guess is that it's there for the publicity of the article. It'll get better press coverage mentioning ChatGPT than without it. I think their work is great and very important, so I'll let allow them that usage.
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> Why are llama 3 weights listed as partially available ? When you hover over it, it explains: "Requires signing consent form"
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> And phi 3 weights are available. Only the post-RL weights ("instruct") of Phi3 are available. There are two categories of weights in this table: LLM weights and RL weights. FWIW it says "RL". I can't explain t
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How do you know it's carrier RCS? To the best of my knowledge they are only gatekeeping access to Google Messages private network, not carrier RCS? (Considering the very little number of carrier RCS that's not very relevant though
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> essentially unbeatable (unless there's a critical bug) due to hardware-backed attestation. FWIW Google started enforcing those attestations like one month or two ago, and there are many critical bugs. I haven't kept scores, b
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> EU keeps people poor. They keep people so poor that Americans need to hire European people for the high-end AI researchers, because EU still has the best education, despite having probably ten times less money. (Unless you consider bei
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> - BPF maps being broken because someone at Mediatek ran some proprietary static analyser and blindly pushed some fix Technically this one would possibly not be in Fuchsia, though Google let OEMs put so many hooks everywhere in the syst
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