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Introduction to (Multimodal) LLM-as-a-Judge(yinghonglan.substack.com)
6 points by rented_mule 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
I'm trying to keep this account anonymous so that I'll speak my mind more easily, and she's probably more private than I am, so I don't want to say her name. Among other things, she worked on mission control software for
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
CodeWhale (formerly deepseek-tui) automates this over DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro. My shallow understanding is that it prompts the model to evaluate the complexity of a given task, then decides on Flash vs. Pro at various reasoning levels for
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
I want you to be wrong, but I think you're right. The cost discrepancy I pointed out is evidence of that. I've heard a lot of things that are consistent with what you're saying from one of my closest friends, who happened to
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
And if we're keeping costs proportional, send orders of magnitude more rovers and that helps the time argument for rovers as well.
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
The total cost of Curiosity to date is well under 5% of the cost of the recent trip humans took around the moon (something like $3B vs. $90B, or $20 vs. $600 per US taxpayer). Imagine the amount of science that could get done if we gave eve
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by rented_mule 4mo ago
I think a lot of people don't understand how different it is to live in rural communities in general, and then to your point, how much more extreme rural Alaska is than "regular" rural areas. I live in rural California. Durin
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
The equivalent in San Francisco: https://sfpopos.com/
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
My initial use was in a repo where I create models for 3d printing using a library called build123d. There are a handful of parametric models and then many instances of those models with parameters (one that's 24 mm in diameter with a
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I retired a few years ago, but I still write a fair bit of code. I was using Copilot's code completion before I retired, but coding agents hadn't come around yet. I've been wanting to try them, but I kept putting it off, and
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I worked on a predecessor to that at Xerox at the start of the 1990s. The first was the Xerox 4850 which was the size of 3-4 clothes washers, cost several hundred thousand dollars, and printed at 50 pages per minute in black plus one color
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
> You still need a prime tower when switching tool heads, but that is significantly less than a full purge. But I believe the INDX has the same restriction. INDX no longer needs a tower. They say there is 13 milligrams of waste (which th
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I can imagine filament vendors making bundles of filaments with interesting mixes of colors. CMYKW is an obvious one, but there must be other color combinations that will mix in interesting ways.
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer(blog.prusa3d.com)
224 points by rented_mule 5mo ago|76 comments
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
Chinese tech companies' 996 policies, and large Chinese tech companies in general, are newer than that ethic in the US. What I hear about 995.5 (every other Saturday off) from my friend at Xiaohongshu in Beijing sounds remarkably consi
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I don't know how you'd define niche, but there are many applications where multidimensional arrays of a uniform data type are needed and data frames are not. Image processing would be a simple example where you might have 2D array
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
numexpr is for different use cases than Polars or Taichi, which themselves are quite different from each other. numexpr is more akin to numba - it speeds up numpy usage. numexpr speeds up different kinds of usage than numba does. numba is b
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
Yep. PG&E is the electric company for most of Northern California. Their "time of use" plans typically specify 4 PM to 9 PM as the peak period.
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
Here's a 26-year old post on the exact topic of messiness you raise: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... A decade ago, I was sitting in on a meeting about a rewrite and, befor
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I'd take your point further... No format is useful for everything. But we have to be aware of the trade-offs of each format (or language or tool or ...) in order to make the right choice of what to use for a given use case. We do tha
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
I think what the original comment is pointing out is that GeoJSON lacks a concept of a shared boundary. Shared boundaries expressed in GeoJSON get around that by duplicating data. Whenever data is duplicated, there's a risk that the co
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by rented_mule 5mo ago
There's a good chance of that, yes! Farmers tend to be very good at getting every bit of value out of things. I live in the Sierras, uphill from many of these peach trees. Near the peach trees are lots and lots of almond trees. Almond
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by rented_mule 6mo ago
I have friends at two different companies that are taking a stick, rather than carrot, approach to this. They've set monthly minimums for token usage. Anything less than that gets you dinged in your next performance review. Imagine hir
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by rented_mule 6mo ago
It's easier to predict, understand, and react to your own driving behavior.
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by rented_mule 6mo ago
It's inline. Search the page for (and heed): epilepsy warning
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Rust for CPython Progress Update April 2026(blog.python.org)
2 points by rented_mule 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rented_mule 7mo ago
I saw hints of this ~20 years ago. I was working on software for a consumer device. For manufacturing it, we chose Foxconn. One non-negotiable point from their end was that they had to write some of the software on the device. They didn&#x2
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by rented_mule 7mo ago
What an honor to have Walter Bright respond to my comment! I used Zortech C++ extensively in the late 1980s and early 1990s on OS/2 and Windows. That beautiful black and purple cube-shaped box sat prominently on my bookshelf for many y
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by rented_mule 7mo ago
Something not unlike this happened to me when moving some batch processing code from C++ to Python 1.4 (this was 1997). The batch started finishing about 10x faster. We refused to believe it at first and started looking to make sure the wor
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by rented_mule 7mo ago
As a kid, I had the hardest time understanding what a computer was. At 9 years old in 1977, I had a friend whose dad was a computer programmer. The friend tried to explain to me what a computer was, but I just couldn't understand it. W

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