reaperman

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by reaperman 4y ago
I use a VPN to a cheap server in a lesser-known datacenter. Also works for bypassing government level blocks in middle eastern countries. But yes, AT&T throttles a wide diversity of content, even on their very highest tier plan (Unlimit
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by reaperman 4y ago
A lot of the latest high-performing models aren't making it to HN. I use paperswithcode by scanning major tasks for new models that come out #1 across multiple benchmarks and then reading those papers. BeIT-3 for example.
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by reaperman 4y ago
> But in 2011, Koomey re-examined this data[2] and found that after 2000, the doubling slowed to about once every 2.6 years. Koomey's own actual post from 2011 still showed consumer systems matching the 1.57 slope up to that time, F
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by reaperman 4y ago
I haven't seen evidence in a slowdown of Koomey's Law. Would be very interested in those sources!
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by reaperman 4y ago
Back in my day, "easter eggs" used to be cool.
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by reaperman 4y ago
I am very impressed with what Google has done for the state of machine learning infrastructure. I'm looking forward to future models based on OpenXLA which can run between Nvidia, Apple Silicon, and google's TPU's. My main li
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by reaperman 4y ago
Multiple block diagrams and the paper note that one of the inputs is supposed to be "text", but none of the example Jupyter notebooks or the live demo page show how to use those. I'm assuming just run the text into CLIP, take
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by reaperman 4y ago
Not to mention that > there is no slightly-worse-nuke that can only destroy half a city. Is itself false. The "Little Boy" that dropped on Hiroshima was the "slightly-worse-nuke" with a moderate blast damage radius (5
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by reaperman 4y ago
> make models that can run on consumer hardware. This will not be hard at all in 10-20 years given the pace of semiconductor FLOPS per watt improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law The neural engine
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by reaperman 4y ago
The CalDigit was notable for being the most compatible with MacBooks specifically, so there's no reason to think they'll suddenly be dethroned there.
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by reaperman 4y ago
Thanks for linking this. I love SublimeText but I also have to augment it with https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ sometimes. Always on the lookout for something that can do both. 010 editor is currently by far the b
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by reaperman 4y ago
> unless I missed it You missed it[0]. Last update was 2 weeks ago, not 2 years ago. Sublime has had 12 updates in the past 12 months, with 3 updates in December alone. 0: https://www.sublimetext.com/dev
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by reaperman 4y ago
They've been around since 2008. They released a huge major version change (4.0.0) just 2 years ago. They've released 12 builds in the past year[0]. They released 3 builds in one month last December. Two weeks ago was their most r
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by reaperman 4y ago
They have several different warm LED's at Home Depot. You can generally find 2100K to 3000K. Sometimes even 1800K in the specialty bulbs there. They're not terrible, but the low CRI keeps me coming back to halogen.
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by reaperman 4y ago
In contrast to the other child comment of this... Thank You!! Any additional suggestions for high quality LED's would be super appreciated. I'm still on mostly halogen lighting in my home. I keep trying to switch the LED's bu
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by reaperman 4y ago
What is "SSRI" in the context of LEDs?
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by reaperman 4y ago
> Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff. I mean, they fork it, develop it further, and give it back to the community. That's entirely within the spirit of open source! "Aggressively branding open-source stuff" wo
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by reaperman 4y ago
For clarity, China de-prioritizes T-bills in favor of US Federal agency bonds which are nearly the same risk but slightly higher returns/interest rates. They currently hold $1.2 trillion in federal USD Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/
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by reaperman 4y ago
https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-rising-holdings-us-agency-bo... > the only data I trust is China's holding of Treasuries - Do you not trust China's holding of US Federal Agency bonds? like Fannie Mae/