sebastianmestre

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by sebastianmestre 24d ago
SSA = static single assignment? I am confused
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by sebastianmestre 1mo ago
From a computational standpoint, Pick's theorem seems more useful to find the number of interior points via I = 2 (A - B + 1) Where area would be calculated using the sum of signed areas of triangles.
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by sebastianmestre 4mo ago
He used his blog to queue the work to be executed asynchronously by another MS worker that reads it
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by sebastianmestre 4mo ago
Is this really a split that exists? In my case I see Claude produce code much worse than I would, but it's certainly much quicker and, even after reworking, it makes me finish tasks in less time.
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by sebastianmestre 5mo ago
If you want the token sequence, you ought to avoid discarding it when you produce the string output. This is because, even ignoring special tokens, different token sequences map to the same strings. From a space perspective, this is actuall
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by sebastianmestre 5mo ago
This post you are commenting on (*6316) is a link post that points to the other one (*4663) The normal behavior for link posts in HN is that the title takes you to the link address, not to the post address. To enter the post address, you ne
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by sebastianmestre 5mo ago
I think 2.8 is where the Blender Foundation showed their commitment to improving the UX, but it just continually kept going from there
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by sebastianmestre 5mo ago
It's not perfect, but it's been vastly improved in recent years. If you lost interest in 3D art because of Blender's bad UX in the past, I recommend you give it another shot. Also, there might be other new 3D software with be
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by sebastianmestre 6mo ago
I don't think that's what the GP was going for... rather, implying that flat-eartherness is uncorrelated to IQ and, thus, the average IQ of flat-earthers is the same as that of the general population.
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by sebastianmestre 7mo ago
TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed
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by sebastianmestre 8mo ago
> I would expect something more rigorous from verified code. I think you just want the illusion of safety :p A big advantage of verified code is that it enables you to write the sketchy and dangerous-looking code BECAUSE it's prove
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by sebastianmestre 8mo ago
yep, some padding fixes this JPEG compression can only move information at most 16px away, because it works on 8x8 pixel blocks, on a 2x down-sampled version of the chroma channels of the image (at least the most common form of it does)
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by sebastianmestre 8mo ago
When you're a beginner you're a beginner, no way around it. But understanding your weaknesses and working on them is huge, and I think most people just don't try to do it. Being stuck for days is something to be overcome. The
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by sebastianmestre 8mo ago
I did competitive programming seriously between '17 and '24, then kept on coaching people As a beginner I often thought about a problem for days before finding a solution, but this happened less and less as I improved I got better
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by sebastianmestre 8mo ago
I used to love Pomodoro until I found out that it goes against my own interests. I was a teenager with focus issues when a teacher introduced me to Pomodoro. It was great because I was finally able to get my schoolwork done (I would regular
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
I kind of wish they start sending records in randomized order to take out all the broken implementations that depend on such a fragile property
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
I agree that your previous comment could be shorter, maybe half as long, with some effort. For example, this sentence could just be removed without changing the content or tone: > But I think this is an interesting perspective difference
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
This is kind of bait-and-switch, no? The author defines American style intelligence as "the ability to adapt to new situations, and learn from experience". Then argues that the current type of machine-learning driven AI is America
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
Fwiw, I think the four in the wikipedia comes from two people using the double entry system simultaneously. So it's two records in the landlord's own books which u dont necesarily know about, and two records in your books.
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
To add some more detail, the max of two SDFs is a correct SDF of the intersection of the two volumes represented by the two SDFs, but only on the inside and at the boundary. On the outside it's actually a lower bound. This is good enou
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by sebastianmestre 9mo ago
You can take the minimum of two SDFs, which more or less gives you an SDF for their union. The maximum is the intersection. A few years ago I wrote a DSL that writes the SDFs for you, for my university programming languages course. https:&
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by sebastianmestre 10mo ago
I think the pictures of the reconstructions are source enough, they look horrible
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by sebastianmestre 10mo ago
Pretty sure that OpenAI uses BPE in their GPT models
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by sebastianmestre 10mo ago
I had the same feeling while testing the code. It might be caused by seeing the increasingly coherent output of the different models, makes you feel like it's getting smarter.
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by sebastianmestre 10mo ago
Cool article, it got me to play around with Markov models, too! I first did a Markov model over plain characters. > Itheve whe oiv v f vidleared ods alat akn atr. s m w bl po ar 20 Using pairs of consecutive characters (order-2 Markov mo
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What Least Squares Assumes About Your Data(sebmestre.blogspot.com)
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by sebastianmestre 10mo ago
> very cyan but not very green and blue (no realistic example here) Very high temperature blackbody radiation perhaps?
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by sebastianmestre 11mo ago
git rebase --onto squashed nonsquashed next-pr Works fine in my experience (except when submodules are involved)
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by sebastianmestre 11mo ago
No, yeah, totally. Even assuming binary vectors 2^768 is a ridiculously huge number. The probability of collision even assuming a bad sampling that discards 75% of dimensions is still vanishingly small.
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by sebastianmestre 11mo ago
I think that the latent space that GPT-2 uses has 768 dimensions (i.e. embedding vectors have that many components).

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