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by phkahler 2mo ago
I recall reading that the corals can reproduce both sexually and by cloning, with most in nature using cloning. The researchers brought them back to a lab and bred a bunch of them and found a lot of offspring could thrive in the warmer more
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Going forward, however, I expect the inference market to grow much faster than training costs (and that includes the assumption that training costs will continue to skyrocket), which means they really can make it up in volume. But
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Everyone repeats the statement DDR5 on-die ECC isn’t a replacement for regular ECC, but nobody ever shows data on DDR5 bitflips. That's because the on-die ECC cannot detect errors in the transmission of data from the DIMMs to
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> The commits are in my fork if anyone wants them but I can’t imagine why anyone would. This recently happened with solvespace (I am a maintainer). Someone posted a link to a fork with a bunch of goodies added. I think they just had
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Yeah Eric Raymond and open source were a bad move. Should have stuck to Free Software - as in GPL license. All that open source stuff was deliberately made corporation-friendly, which is not what's in the best interest of the code.
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by phkahler 2mo ago
Permissive licensing is a large part of the issue TFA is talking about. GPL does not have those issues. All FLOSS suffers from AI ingesting the code and being able to output work-alike programs to some extent, but for now large GPL programs
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by phkahler 2mo ago
>> Probes trained to predict the outcome of future edits (before they are materialized and written on disk) achieve performance above chance up to roughly 25 steps in advance. Are these probes effectively run in parallel? The way this
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by phkahler 3mo ago
The US military knows full well the importance of logistics. TFA is somehow arguing for distributed distribution networks that are harder to track and attack. Why not advocate for improved defenses along the supply lines? Or is it down to p
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> I do not give a shit if you want to use a 3 year old browser at this point. Go look at a blank screen. And I don't give a shit about your site/content/whatever. If you don't work with Firefox or my old Mac brows
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> Are there similar size, but less powered (and cheaper) workstations? I designed this: https://github.com/phkahler/mellori_ITX It's 195 x 190 x 60mm and takes a standard ITX board. You'll need to relo
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by phkahler 3mo ago
If the ink is refillable due to lack of DRM, why not just buy a commercial printer that supports those cartridges?
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by phkahler 3mo ago
But orthogonal matrices are square.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
If it can be made orthogonal, can you go a step further and diagonalize it? The storage and performance improvement from that would be huge.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> This doesn't appear to be AI posturing, did you read the tweet? It is about one product blatantly, directly ripping off another. Then it shouldn't reference AI or Vibe coding.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I think they're out of training data though...
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> I wanna see an inference chip where the weights are part of the rom of the chip. I've been wondering about that for a while now. For a lot of tasks putting weights in ROM is probably OK. OTOH: >> There would be 1 multipl
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I was drooling over the MC68000. I had a pre-release reference manual from 1979 and it was the most awesome chip around. Atari and Commodore and Apple used it after their 6502 systems. Arcade games used it after their 6502 and 6809 days. Th
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> Scroll wheel mice are slightly better because the middle button is physically different (and often slightly raised). I do have one stored away in case I need it. Solvespace does great with a scroll-wheel mouse. Scroll = zoom.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
"Gave away for free" does not mean they did so under a Free Software license. One could just put a copyright notice with NO license and they'd be in violation of the copyright.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> kind of obtuse on a trackpad too Oh, I actually hate trying to use solvespace with anything other than a 3-button mouse. Unfortunate because the web version can actually run on my phone but is unusable in practice.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> The Solvespace UI is a long, long way from being the sort of UI a contemporary kid has any kind of comfort with... Respectfully, I disagree. Even adults have used the word "fun" to describe using solvespace. But I don&#x2
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I haven't heard of any UBI experiments, only giving BI to some people, which would not have much impact on things like average rents over an entire region.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I have similar hopes for Solvespace - that every middle school student can pick it up and design things. We have a couple issues that keep me from recommending it too strongly though - bugs in the boolean code are IMHO the biggest blocker f
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by phkahler 3mo ago
>> A basic floor of income that everyone gets, Surely the author has to know that providing UBI is just going to lead to inflation of rent, food, and transportation.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I find Lehto's Law on Youtube to be quite entertaining while also informative: https://www.youtube.com/@stevelehto
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by phkahler 3mo ago
You are probably right most of the time, but that also depends where you are.
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by phkahler 3mo ago
I think John Carmack is confusing the usefulness of ones contribution to what went in to making it. Both of these men have done amazing things technically and deciding which one is "better" is a fools errand.
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by phkahler 4mo ago
For the HIG: Use menu item icons sparingly and with purpose. Icons allow people to find menu items more quickly, and help clarify what selecting an item does. I'm not sure that's even OK. I find icons disruptive to reading the me
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by phkahler 4mo ago
If feeding the source code through a complier yields a derivative work, why wouldn't feeding it to an LLM give the same result?
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by phkahler 4mo ago
>> What this actually means is, the constraints I have foolishly imposed upon myself are as follows.... Those kind of constraints can lead to increased creativity, and can also influence the overall style of a game. It's part of

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