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by porphyra 1y ago
Yes I hate how Ubuntu sandboxes firefox by default (even when you install it via apt, it secretly installs the snap instead). Terrible. I eventually had to use a PPA just to get firefox. Also, Nvidia is non-negotiable due to performance req
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by porphyra 1y ago
I've had various Firefox issues on Linux such as mysterious bad frame rate that I wasn't able to track down (despite toggling every feature related to gpu acceleration in about:flags), slow startup (which I found was due to some d
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by porphyra 1y ago
Literally every self driving car service, including Waymo [1], Cruise, etc, initially launched as an invite-only program with a safety driver --- in the driver seat no less, rather than the passenger seat like for the Tesla robotaxi. I don&
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by porphyra 1y ago
There are also shops in China that will upgrade the SSD in a mac mini for cheaper and they will do all the work of the DFU restore etc.
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by porphyra 1y ago
The one at https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph/blob/main/exampl... supports both zooming and search.
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by porphyra 1y ago
It's not a static SVG though. The SVG supports interactivity. You can click on each element to zoom in and it even has a search feature.
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by porphyra 1y ago
Some of the questions are based on research papers, but an LLM that can search the internet may be able to look up the answer essentially instead of thinking through it by itself.
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by porphyra 1y ago
Even without tools it also outperforms Gemini 2.5 pro and o3, 25.4% compared to 21.6% and 21.0%. Although I wonder if any of the exam was leaked into the training set or if it was specifically trained to be good at benchmarks, llama 4 style
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by porphyra 1y ago
Honestly if it actually does score 44.4% on Humanity's Last Exam, that would be super impressive as Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3 with tools only score 26.9% and 24.9%.
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by porphyra 1y ago
Oops I think you are right. My parents subscribed to both and I must have mixed them up.
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by porphyra 1y ago
The Economist magazine uses a diæresis (two dots) in words like “coöperate” and “reëlect” to indicate that both vowels are pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong. This is considered old-school and uncommon though.
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by porphyra 1y ago
If you compare, say, the Peterbilt 579 and 589, you'll find that the former is way more modern looking and aerodynamic and the latter is very classic and old school looking. The 579 is also vastly more fuel efficient. I'm fairly c
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by porphyra 1y ago
Interestingly, the freight train network in the US is a lot better than that of Europe and Asia. A much larger fraction of goods is delivered by train in the US at a higher efficiency. https://www.marketurbanist.com/blog&#x2
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by porphyra 1y ago
That's part of the reason, but it doesn't explain the use of chrome, rectangular or round headlights instead of molded headlights that integrate into the bodywork, and many other design elements that have remained virtually unchan
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The one I linked is all electric.
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by porphyra 1y ago
For some reason, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, even brand new electric trucks in the US look very vintage, with their giant chrome grill and fender flares, compared to European and Asian trucks. [1] [1] https://www.peterbil
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by porphyra 1y ago
I've personally seen Pepsi Tesla Semis on the highway near Sacramento.
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by porphyra 1y ago
The article complains about issues with consumer GPUs but those are nowadays relegated to being merely a side hobby project of Nvidia, whose core business is enterprise AI chips. Anyway Nvidia still has no significant competition from AMD o
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by porphyra 1y ago
I feel like 3D reconstruction/bundle adjustment is one of those things where LLMs and new AI stuff haven't managed to get a significant foothold. Recently VGGT won best paper which is good for them, but for the most part, stuff li
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by porphyra 1y ago
One step at a time... it would be astonishing if any thermoelectric device can leapfrog mechanical compressors.
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by porphyra 1y ago
The macro magic in rust is amazing. It's so nice to just define a struct, slap a `#[derive(Parser)]` on it, and call it a day.
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by porphyra 1y ago
Also, in the US people have a deathly fear of bedsharing with the baby due to concerns about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and yet bedsharing is common in places like Japan while they also have a much lower infant mortality rate. Appa
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by porphyra 1y ago
Agreed, very sad... Most tools/websites will cause APNG to silently degrade into a static image of only the first frame.
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by porphyra 1y ago
working with GIF is valid but it is incredibly sad how it's still the only widely supported silent autoplaying video... (I guess APNG is supported in many browsers, but uploading one often results in deleterious resizing/recompres
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by porphyra 1y ago
Even if safe, municipal water where I live (San Jose, California) contains a ton of chlorine and is super hard, making it unpleasant to drink. In contrast, bottled water consistently tastes fine.
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by porphyra 1y ago
It's a CSS bug since the column gets narrower the wider your screen gets lol. The culprit is the 15% padding in the inline style applied to this div: <div class="container my-auto" style="color: white; padding-le
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This seems like the natural next step after Gaussian splatting. After all, triangles are pretty much the most "native" rendering that GPUs can do. And as long as you figure out a way to make it differentiable (e.g. with their wind
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Groq doesn't even have any true deepseek models --- I thought they only had `deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b` which was distilled onto llama 70b [1]. [1] https://console.groq.com/docs/models
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by porphyra 1y ago
I heard about burn [1] and candle [2] recently and they sounded interesting. [1] https://crates.io/crates/burn [2] https://github.com/huggingface/candle Interestingly, burn supports candle as a ba
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How do you run CLIP in Rust? I'm still not sure what the best inference stack on Rust is --- I tried onnxruntime bindings in Rust a few years ago and it was rather finicky to work with.

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