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by rhdunn 1mo ago
Will they send him ... TO SPAAACE?!
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by rhdunn 1mo ago
ASM is still used in some areas, such as: 1. function trampolines, such as in libraries like ATL (Microsoft's COM template library); 2. hand-optimized encoders/decoders for things like ffmpeg; 3. niche applications such as Ben Eat
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by rhdunn 1mo ago
You mean like Microsoft, Google (GMail, YouTube, Android), Apple, Facebook, and others? Sorry, you can't buy an iPhone because Apple has got too many customers. Sorry, you can't have a GMail account because Google has too many cus
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
I had my GMail account locked for 1-2 years because I accessed it from my parents house (in the same country but in a different county) while on holiday. That was because they detected the account being used from a different IP address. Usi
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Part of it is scale. If you have a small number of clients/users it is possible to provide that support. If you have millions or billions of users then you can't scale the support to handle the support requests, so some form of au
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
The cost of training a model from scratch is going to be cost prohibitive for the vast majority of companies (even if renting the hardware needed for the 1-2 month training time). It's an interesting learning exercise, and some of the
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
My understanding is that the idea behind Khanacademy is to switch the classroom -- learn a topic as homework; do the questions in the classroom. That way the teacher can assess (and help) the students. The other idea is that a student only
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
20 years ago is 2006. I'm pretty sure I had a digital camera (DSLR) around that time with enough resolution (10 megapixels, IIRC) for decent photos. Wikipedia notes that the Canon EOS 1D Mark III [1] was released in 2007 with 10MP. Acc
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Digital cameras have existed before phones had the capability and have been around for a long time (at least 20 years). They made it a lot easier to take photos as you can take hundreds/thousands of photos and download them when you ge
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
95 years after publication. Many other countries also have an X years after the author's death clause where X varies between countries but is at least 70. There are also other weird issues such as the UK having a clause protecting Pete
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Audio transcription is a hard problem that is inherently non-deterministic and probabilistic due to ambiguities in the speech due to: 1. accents -- Especially around mergers (cot-caught [AmE], trap-bath [BrE] vs palm-bath [LondonE], pin-pen
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Speech recognition is a notoriously difficult problem to solve. It can work great as a first pass that someone can fix up, but not on its own. This is why having sentence/clause and word-level transcription markers along side a recordi
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
This is the same as when using LLMs as chatbots to ask questions. If you ask another question in the same context it has all the information from that context and will be difficult to stray from anything in that context, e.g. if the LLM has
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
You can incrementally refactor existing code to make it more maintainable and easier to implement the things you are working on. The issue with Netscape (per that article) was that it was a rewrite, not a refactor. I.e. replacing all the ex
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
That's fine if the projects are in a single place (e.g. GitHub) as you only need to create one account. If every project requires its own username/password just to report a bug, I may do that for the first 2 or 3, but not for ever
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Look at even older writing and you'll see em-dashes there too: Edgar Allan Poe, Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Brontës, among others. > “No, reprobate! you are a castaway—be off, or I’ll hurt you seriously! I’ll have you all modelled in
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
That's what gitolite does with some helper scripts for creating/setting up the repositories, adding metadata to the configs, etc. That way your `git` user can be set to reject ssh login attempts. The projects are managed by pushin
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Indeed. I've edited my post to fix the typo.
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
See also the codeberg blog post ( https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-... ) which has more informal guidelines. That includes projects that are: 1. created by LLM agents -- any vibe-coded projects; 2.
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
Two of the big issues I had were around the user/repository forced structure. That works to some extent when you have multiple users with a small number of repositories. But for my personal projects I wanted more control over the struc
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
It depends on what you are after? 1. Do you want something that works and feels like GitHub? -- Forgejo and Gitea are good for this. 2. Do you want a place to host git repositories with minimal hassle? -- GitLab, CodeBerg, and others are av
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
The watermarking is independent of the model. The model itself has the probability weights to determine the next token. The watermark is similar to things like temperature and top_p/top_k in that the watermark adjusts the probabilities
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
The only useful benchmarks are those you've created for your specific workflow. Only then can you assess whether a given model is better or worse for what you are using it for. There are tools like promptfoo designed for this.
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
What do you test? How much time/effort do you spend testing each of those things? How do you know those will be performance issues? There's only so much you can do -- making reasonable assumptions, choosing suitable data structure
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
It can sometimes be difficult to predict what will cause performance regressions when developing an application or web server with test data. So you do your best with what you know at the time of release, and then deal with performance issu
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
LLMs have been trained on a lot of data and have built representations of various concepts and links between them from that training data. This is why they are good when seeing names of things like `Semigroup` as they can draw on all the in
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
I knew it... Wuthering Heights was written by AI and Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, et. al. were AI bots churning out content! Or maybe -- just maybe -- using dashes isn't a sign of content being AI written, just a style it pic
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
The what happened section mentions the addition of the `setup.mjs` and `Math_Symbol.js`, along with a change in `package.json` to add `"preinstall": "node setup.mjs"`, so presumably checking for any of those would be a g
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
On my 4090 setup I'm getting 86t/s on a 12B Q6_K quantized model running entirely in VRAM. The current GPUs are optimized for processing huge numbers of triangles per second. There are three things at play here: 1. the organizatio
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by rhdunn 2mo ago
There are several aspects to this: 1. Better hardware optimized for matrix operations and other ML/NN specific workflows (NVIDIA hardware, Apple M4/M5 chips, Intel AI Boost, other NPU/TPU chips, etc.). 2. Bigger RAM/VRAM

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