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by sfink 2y ago
I do this a fair amount as well. It's really just a way of documenting the configuration and idiosyncratic commands in one place, which happens to be executable. I will happily create (uncommitted) Makefiles with hardcoded paths and ke
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by sfink 2y ago
> Washing and destemming a tomato is more of a problem to solve now that will need another 10+ years of price reductions in robot+end effector costs and increased efficiency before it beats bulk washing and hand-destemming (or crude mach
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by sfink 2y ago
Oh duh, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
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by sfink 2y ago
Not if part of your definition of "best" includes codebook/model size. The best text generator will use a massive model. That won't help compression beyond a certain point, since the cost of lookup indexes grows with the
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by sfink 2y ago
I'd kind of like to see some sample LLM entries in the list (as in, at the bottom of the list). Not because they'd ever be competitive, but because it would underscore how they burn massive amounts of space for the model with litt
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by sfink 2y ago
I tend to agree, but is that really a fatal flaw? A lossy compression scheme that gets it 90% right only has to encode the delta for the remaining 10%. Which is a big cost, sure, but the alternative is evaluating how important the thrown-aw
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by sfink 2y ago
I don't know anything about this space, but damn , this looks impressive! Could it be used to sort trash and recycling? Could it recalibrate if gunk got on it, or as it aged? (I guess silicon is probably pretty resistant to aging.) Ca
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by sfink 2y ago
Looks like it's a cured silicon, and you can do whatever the heck you want with it. https://www.smooth-on.com/products/dragon-skin-10-slow/ So I don't think you could 3d print it, but you could 3d print
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by sfink 2y ago
Apologies for the cynicism, but that immediately makes me think of a node owner dropping a tinfoil hat over their node, waiting for an ACK from the technician, then taking it off again and splitting the "repair" money with the tec
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by sfink 2y ago
It was a little unclear, but my reading is that the professor didn't actually care if it was submitted, but the school did. So yes, the paper was required and had to be submitted, but the professor would give an A for it even if th
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by sfink 2y ago
Sure, but then why call it medieval at all? The term only fits if you define "medieval" as unspecified "olden times" (or circularly, "what D&D calls medieval"). The point, as I understand it, is that there
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by sfink 2y ago
As added support for this view, I can contrast with the relatively uncommon experience of having some experiences unified: when listening to an audio book, my brain often (but not always!) ties the experience of the book with my physical lo
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by sfink 2y ago
Why should that be a big goal? It's difficult, it's not what they are good at, and they can get a lot better at assisting in other ways through incremental improvements. I'm happy to leave this part to the humans, at least fo
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by sfink 2y ago
It predates Linux by a lot. It's software flow control for ancient terminals and modems that couldn't keep up, so they'd use in-band ^S and ^Q characters to manage the input and output. rms also hated it, to the extent that h
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by sfink 2y ago
This sounds very much like an incomplete story. Knowing nothing else, I'd guess that SpaceX pissed off somebody or somebodies, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to evaluate how reasonable or unreasonable their reaction is without
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by sfink 2y ago
I self-injected weekly for half a year for a much more mild and mundane reason (immunotherapy). It sucked. Because I was doing it at home and not under observation, the dose schedule was way more conservative, so I'm not sure if it e
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by sfink 2y ago
He objected to a woman wanting to have a job.
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by sfink 2y ago
Why would they crash at highway speeds? On a highway, they'd be in the dedicated lane. Not on a highway, they wouldn't be going at highway speeds. The point is an alternative to today's setup, for the majority of people who n
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by sfink 2y ago
You can still compact with a conservative scanner, you just have to accommodate pinned regions.
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by sfink 2y ago
I find this to be more of an interesting observation than a reason to choose a conservative scanner. I've never really thought of conservative GCs as faster or slower. The stack scan is fast, simple, and prefetchable, but occasionally
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by sfink 2y ago
Somewhat? But I think it might lead you slightly astray. With SVG text, there's an interpretation step to get to the image. If you ask a question about the image represented by the SVG, you'd probably do SVG --> image --> re
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by sfink 2y ago
Confession: I haven't read the paper. But any mention of LLM reasoning ability ought to address the obvious confound: the LLM is trained on examples of deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning, SAT-solver reasoning
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by sfink 2y ago
As another someone with aphantasia, I remember what something looks like, so I draw what I remember. That memory is not an image, it's knowledge of what something looks like. For simple things, that's enough. For complicated thing
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by sfink 2y ago
Your grandma is into cannibalism? How big was this apple pie? Something about this story doesn't add up.
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by sfink 2y ago
No, they shouldn't. Iterability was not avoided to enable the inverted representation (where an object that is a key in a WeakMap stores a hidden WeakMap entry inside it). And I suspect even with an inverted representation, there'
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by sfink 2y ago
It sounded more like defining fairness as having the rules apply equally to everyone in practice . Which is a pretty decent definition, IMHO.
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by sfink 2y ago
> So I guess what you are saying is that the business model is that cloud vendors will buy a license, but only if they they want to make changes to the code, but not release those changes. That, or the cloud vendor does not buy a license
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by sfink 2y ago
> Straight from the gnu's mouth! > > "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)." That gnu's mouth spoke 3 other clauses, and finished up with: > A program is free software if i
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by sfink 2y ago
Um, ok. Your position baffles me, because you clearly understand what exponential means mathematically, yet you insist that the word means something else colloquially. Specifically "faster than linear". Usually, people who (mathem
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by sfink 2y ago
> The original MIT-licensed program continues to exist and be available regardless of the proprietary versions and embeddings. > A copyleft license just asserts, using copyright power, that such things should not exist. Well, a copyle

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