sanjiwatsuki

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by sanjiwatsuki 6mo ago
I used to be a big keyboard enthusiast until I did a bunch of typing tests with many inexpensive keyboards. To my surprise, the data showed a statistically significant increase in my typing speed on several budget membrane keyboards.This di
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by sanjiwatsuki 2y ago
If AMP had stuck around, we wouldn't have the quagmire of terrible UX on news sites today. The hostility towards AMP was wholly undeserved.
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by sanjiwatsuki 2y ago
The current best open weights model is probably Cohere Command-R+. The memory requirements on it are quite high, though.
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by sanjiwatsuki 3y ago
Almost no one can tell a difference with today's encoders (unless the track is particularly degenerate for the encoder) but I think there is an edge case: listening over Bluetooth. When the already encoded audio is then encoded again i
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by sanjiwatsuki 3y ago
No shot. Mistral Medium's outputs from API were virtually identical. Miqu really was Mistral Medium which happened to be a continued pretrain
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by sanjiwatsuki 3y ago
The VRAM usage is closer to a 47B model - although only 2 experts are used at a time for inference, all experts are needed to complete it.
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by sanjiwatsuki 3y ago
If you're looking for the best small model, I'd recommend using Berkeley's Starling-7B model [0]. It'll run on a lot of commodity GPUs and performs well in head-to-head comparisons against bigger models, edging out the m
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by sanjiwatsuki 3y ago
I really enjoyed Zume Pizza as a product. They sometimes could get a pizza to my door within 10 minutes of me ordering.
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by sanjiwatsuki 4y ago
HR reasons are more common than you'd think. There's only so much HR and legal power to go around and it sometimes is easier to plan layoffs in multiple stages, rather than go for one big one.
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by sanjiwatsuki 4y ago
The *majority* of times I've taken a taxi in my life, the driver has tried to scam me. It was ridiculous. I guess I just look like an easy mark or something. It was very routine for them to turn off the meter in the middle and say &quo
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by sanjiwatsuki 4y ago
This is one of the interesting parts of gun control legislation. It often polls well in isolation but massively under-performs when it's a ballot initiative, even when the gun control side spends substantially more.
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
Although there are certainly some servers with gauntlets to join, I think that's only for some really huge ones that have scaling issues. I have no issue joining a Discord for technical assistance.
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
I do recall that one of the features that Wealthfront had was to design their UX in a way that discouraged behaviors like frequently checking the valuations, making it annoying to make emotional transactions, etc, etc. Rather than having a
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
AFAIK, every tool that integrates with these things apply a negative boost equal to the peak added to avoid clipping.
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
IIRC, Apple was already scanning iCloud server-side for CSAM [0] so I'm not sure if that excuse holds. [0] https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-co...
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
The metrics don't really change much if you account for CO2 emissions needed for production/transportation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?...
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
This accurately describes the magnus effect which powers the majority of the movement that a pitch has.
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by sanjiwatsuki 5y ago
I don't think this is accurate. [0] and [1] have 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics benchmark tested on both the M1 and the 4800U in the Lenovo Yoga Slim-7-14ARE and the M1's GPU stomps the Vega 8 R4000. It outscores even the Ryz
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by sanjiwatsuki 6y ago
Consumption taxes can be made arbitrarily progressive. Imagine a hypothetical one where the rate on spending below $1,000,000 a year is 0% and 200% after that point. There's a reason why the wording is specifically "a progressive
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by sanjiwatsuki 7y ago
This article is really inaccurate. The impedance isn't a good signal for how much power needs to be pumped into the headphone. The impedance also doesn't act as a good signal for what devices could generate enough volume. It also
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by sanjiwatsuki 7y ago
For further background, there were two surveys of top economists, one for European economists, one for US economists, where the economists were asked if the EU used its antitrust powers to protect EU-based firms from international competiti
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by sanjiwatsuki 8y ago
Can you back up those assertions with some sources? This seems overly simplistic.
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by sanjiwatsuki 8y ago
I see people saying that drugs in the US are twice as expensive as other countries in the comments. I'll summarize [0] which is one of the sources for that number. People in the United States spend roughly 2x per capita compared to Ger
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by sanjiwatsuki 8y ago
"Build Me Up Buttercup" ends with one of the most interesting fade-outs. It actually ends with a key change during a climax, ending unresolved. I've always found that to be one of the most interesting artistic fade-outs from
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
For a soda tax to work and reduce consumption, the price for soda must rise. The cost of the taxed drinks, indeed, sharply rose. The cost of the other untaxed drinks that were caloric substitutes, like juice or milk, did not go up. This sug
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
For those interested in how the sugar tax might affect things going forward, the NBER did an early study on the effects of the sugar tax on Mexico [0]. [0] http://www.nber.org/papers/w21197.pdf
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
This sort of "static tax analysis" makes tax increases look like they'll generate more revenue than they would really do. This, in turn, makes the policies sound more affordable since the tax revenues are exaggerated.
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
This article is really poorly written in order to paint Trump in the worst light possible. First, Donald Trump's dad died in 1999. The article is calculating as if he received 1/5th of his father's estate in 1974. Furthermore
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
Actually, according to the latest CNN/ORC International Poll, Trump is the leader in the second choice polling, as well as first choice. Granted, take early polls with a grain of salt. Citation: http://i2.cdn.turner.com&#x2F
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by sanjiwatsuki 11y ago
The headline is misleading and clickbait-y. The rule in question (3500 calories deficit results in one pound of weight loss) is mostly true, even if oversimplified. The fact that your metabolism drops as your weight drops just means that th

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