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by shash 8mo ago
Technically it’s a retroflex approximant [1] and is found in many places (often not as a separate character or phoneme). But I think we’ve hijacked a cultural thread with enough phonetics for now! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by shash 8mo ago
I'm coming around to the idea that we _should_ really be using "l" or maybe "r" instead of "zh" for the ழ. At least it's closer in pronunciation and there's a chance someone can work their way to
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by shash 8mo ago
I think the decline of manual transmission is different from self-driving. Manuals, you could argue are a technological progression that doesn’t change the fundamental economics or sociology of driving. But self-driving has issues far beyon
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by shash 8mo ago
Or it collapses when the seniors have to retire anyway. Who instructs the LLM when there’s nobody who understands the business? I’m sure the plan is to create a paperclip maximizing company which is fully AI. And the sea turned salty becaus
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by shash 8mo ago
Either that or the “bespoke hand-crafted artisanal free-range code” will be the only thing still maintainable because vibe coders made such a mess
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by shash 8mo ago
In the Before Times we used to do programming interviews with “you can use Google and stack overflow” for precisely this reason. We weren’t testing for encyclopaedic knowledge - we were testing to see if the candidate could solve a problem.
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by shash 9mo ago
Over the years it’s kind of becoming clear that “running major businesses” is kind of orthogonal to “having emotional integrity”. In larger businesses it’s mediated by layers. But just take a look at some of the deranged tweetstorms we’ve b
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by shash 9mo ago
If only because of the fact that the start menu (equivalent - the dock and applications view) isn’t an ad filled react app.
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by shash 9mo ago
A good scanning electron microscope costs at most a few million? And is pretty common in a decently funded lab pretty much anywhere? Resolutions of 5nm is not uncommon. A scanning tunnelling microscope can go much lower (single atom types)
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by shash 10mo ago
You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine… I know the b
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by shash 10mo ago
As one of those on the skeptical side, one train of thought I have not seen people even mention is, the way we’re using LLMs to code now is largely to use a less precise language (mostly English) to specify what’s often a very precise probl
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by shash 10mo ago
It’s usually easier to explain the dft. and easier to do a periodic function than a totally arbitrary sequence.
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by shash 10mo ago
They already do offer that - it’s called a multi-project wafer or MPW. But it’s prohibitively expensive on a per-chip basis. It’s mostly used for prototyping or concept proving and not for commercial use. One problem is, you need to create
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by shash 10mo ago
Finicky chemicals and relatively expensive equipment. But he’s founded a company with Jim Keller. We occasionally see them post a photo with zero context, but we do know some things. Like they are targeting lots volume stuff and basically b
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by shash 10mo ago
That would make sense _except_ the amount of time and specialized knowledge it takes to build one. Easier by _far_ to go deal with TSMC and Samsung
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by shash 10mo ago
Each die gets tested. Not that they’re testing their stuff with these dies.
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by shash 10mo ago
If stored in proper conditions, the shelf life of undiced wafers is pretty much limitless. But if moisture or dust get in, it’ll start to have corrosion and other damage. Diced wafers on the other hand are placed on UV tape and I recently l
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by shash 11mo ago
I’ve done that too. In essence it kinda sorta comes down to a small convolution kernel with learned weights. In some places it works really well.
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by shash 11mo ago
Ok. Those are impressive results. Nice addition to the toolbox
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by shash 11mo ago
OCR is one of those places where you can just skip algorithm discovery and go straight to deep learning. But there are precious few of those kinds of places actually.
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by shash 11mo ago
I’ve found exactly the opposite. In domain after domain the performance of a pure deep learning method is orders of magnitude less than that of either a traditional algorithm or a combination. And often the CNNs are so finicky about noise o
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by shash 11mo ago
Not to mention performance. So often, the traditional method is the only thing that can keep up with performance requirements without needing massive hardware upgrades. Counter intuitively, I’ve often found that CNNs are worse at threshol
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by shash 1y ago
In general avoid frivolous use of pointer arithmetic. foo[k] and *(foo+k) will usually generate identical asm, and the former is just easier to read…
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by shash 1y ago
Yeah, the point here is nuanced, but let's do an argumentum ad absurdum instead /s Probably the _best_ advice I got from the entire startup community is, "don't scale without PMF". The saving grace here is that they
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by shash 1y ago
It’s interesting that not a single hardware concept is actually explored - nothing like a real alternative architecture or how one would program it. Just a lot of complaints about standard (sounds like x86 only at that) techniques without m
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by shash 1y ago
Very similar. To the extent that when I’ve worked on synthetic aperture I have used ideas from radio astronomy. And there’s a similar field of synthetic aperture ultrasound which is where I did a ton of work a decade ago.
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by shash 1y ago
Same guy. His work is pretty amazing actually. Lots of little details he’s worked out and built upon. Someday I’d like to replicate his designs.
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by shash 1y ago
The original sin was probably hiring those people for a not-yet-clear business in the first place…
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by shash 1y ago
I mean, you can’t even see a single frame pointer register. The srams dominate everything else. Even the functional units are relatively cheap.
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by shash 1y ago
AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES Edit: came for the Sagan, found the Pratchett!

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