sdenton4

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by sdenton4 4mo ago
Ha, fair!
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by sdenton4 4mo ago
Concatenating arbitrary 32 bit ints covers all possible 64 bit ints. So the space of all pairs of 32 bit ints is in bijection with 64 bit ints. Commutativity introduces a relation on pairs of 32 bit ints (a,b) ~ (b,a), which accounts for on
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Nope, nope, nope. Gambling addiction has impacts beyond the person gambling, because we live in a society. They might gamble away their kid's college fund, lose their house, or resort to stealing money from family members. When they ta
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Dystopian scenarios... Like even more expensive steam decks.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
"Actually, I just pulled up your goodreads profile, and it looks like your eighth-most recent book was 50 shades of grey. In addition to having a faulty memory, you're reading work-inappropriate material. Finally, you read that in
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
I fail to recall the exact wording of the discussion topics, but they were, in fact, non-technical — covering such lovely topics as the hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges, and other similar “trauma-baiting” questions. Ha,
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Every time I prioritize speed over risks, I, too, end up with repetitive strain injuries.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Are you saying that, in fact, attention is all you need?
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
That's fine reasoning for video, but if someone is actually looking at a still picture for more than 1/240th of a second, the fine detail matters a bit more. These are different applications, with different sweet spots in the time
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Prusa is awesome, and a great next printer once you know you're in.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Going for whataboutism in the same week trump establishes a $2B find to pay off his cronies and tries to permanently exempt himself from taxes is laughable.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
A dismissal on technical grounds, which is also a complete loss.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Idk, I'm pretty good at continuing a conversation while handling the busywork of navigating a cafe. Or even riding my bicycle... The brain is a massively parallel bag of meat. We get some real advantages from focus, but the brain does
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
I came here to kick ass and deploy microservices... And I'm all out of ass.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Because it improves the loss! The gradient is the direction in which loss improves the fastest. Moving in a direction with a positive dot product with the gradient just means that you're (locally) improving the loss.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
That's not at all a bad idea, imo. And a silver star for crates which only depend on gold star crates...
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Yeah that's great. I love that plugging in the USB device from the phishing site is, itself, another attack vector...
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
...And in 1900, how many carriages were horseless?
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
The while premise of "learn some stuff them take an exam on exactly that stuff" is pretty flawed, and that's the point. So much of the academic structure is about what's convenient for evaluation, rather than what's
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
The problem is simplification. Suppose two regions share a border with some nonlinear points a, b, c, d. Simplifying the polygon for the first region might yield a, b, d while the second yield a, c, d. This creates gaps or overlaps between
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
Taking a quick look at the paper... Their claim isn't that the brain uses gradient descent, but that the direction of updates has (on average) positive inner product with the gradient. I expect this would also be true for (say) simulat
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
I dunno... gradient descent is only really reliable with a big bag of tricks. Knowing good initializations is a starting point, but recurrent connections and batch/layer normalization go a very long way towards making it reliable.
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by sdenton4 5mo ago
See also: "You don't have to monetize your joy" https://thehabit.co/you-dont-have-to-monetize-your-joy/
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
Probably 'we reserve the right to train our next version of smart autocomplete based on the text you send to the current version of smart autocomplete'
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
Well... https://xkcd.com/435/
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
It depends! Every time you go off the beaten path, you're locking yourself into less documentation, more bugs (since there's less exploration of the dark corners), and fewer people you can go to for help. If you've got 20+ ch
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
I love my Brompton, have taken it for short tours, and use it for a weekly grocery run (big front bag and a back pack). You can carry quite a lot, actually, though probably not a Costco run for a family of four. (That's what my cargo b
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
Yeah, that's how you get skynet.
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
By end to end loss optimization, they mean evolution: Try a thing, and see if it dies or reproduces more. Repeat until moon landing.
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by sdenton4 6mo ago
Speed may be a factor - reptiles and mice live their lives at very different paces.

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