smilekzs

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by smilekzs 27d ago
My personal yardsticks: How often does a conceptually incremental change correspond to a proportionally incremental code diff, vs. a surprisingly whole-world-upside-down rearchitect? Do the code patterns naturally leave enough room for you
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by smilekzs 3mo ago
Sigma-Delta Modulation
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by smilekzs 3mo ago
Well, at least there are objective performance benchmarks on cars, and some of them are okay proxies of performance in motorsports. https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/carwow-quarter-mile-400-metre-... https://en.
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by smilekzs 3mo ago
The legal guardian is responsible for gatekeeping what their minor sees or does not see.
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by smilekzs 3mo ago
Last time I tried, a lot of CAD/CAE packages still won't operate under WINE, at least not out of the box.
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by smilekzs 4mo ago
A key consideration in favor of running your local LLM despite all the trouble: The commercial serving endpoint may not exist tomorrow, or at least not at the same price.
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by smilekzs 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors Macromedia Flash taught me this in the early 2000s...
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by smilekzs 4mo ago
> why does it matter what the percentage is This percentage directly determines the influence on SP500 index funds holders (SPY, VOO, etc.). The outcome could have been: 1. not included (0%) 2. included, weight by free float (0.3%) --- 5
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by smilekzs 4mo ago
I sense a nod to https://papersplease.fandom.com/wiki/The_Republia_Times
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by smilekzs 5mo ago
+1. Brought up in a low-trust env and this became habitual.
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by smilekzs 5mo ago
Google TPUs are VLIW machines on a circuit-switched network.
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by smilekzs 5mo ago
Or, more neutrally, a different tradeoff point between mass transit and personal cars.
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by smilekzs 5mo ago
Off-roading aspirations and 3rd row legroom (S1) seem to be major differentiators from Rivian. As for autonomy, Waymos have LIDARs which at least provides more redundancy. I see these as different design tradeoffs so no judgment implied.
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by smilekzs 5mo ago
Turnouts exist. Unfortunately, head-of-line-blockers are very commonly already overwhelmed by the task of keeping tab of their own vehicle; would be a far stretch to expect them to simultaneously stay aware of traffic situations, spot the t
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by smilekzs 6mo ago
> that the hertz as defined refers to one radian per second, and that it should have instead been defined as rev/s This is precisely what leads to the "forgot to multiply 2pi or 1/(2pi)" problem in the EE / signa
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by smilekzs 6mo ago
Reminds me of https://dunerts.wiki.gg/wiki/Anti-Air_Mine Early 2000s RTS games (Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3, CnC franchise) continue to amaze me in how well their seemingly comical "game physics" model the intrin
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by smilekzs 7mo ago
New Strix Halo (395+) user here. It is very librating to be able to "just" load the larger open-weight MoEs. At this param count class, bigger is almost always better --- my own vibe check confirms this, but obviously this is not
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by smilekzs 10mo ago
Or, as it has always been, piecewise linear approximate it.
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by smilekzs 10mo ago
Single-chip specs according to: https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/abou... https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/nki/... Eight NeuronCore-v4 c
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by smilekzs 10mo ago
This is quite accurate considering Google TPUs are VLIW machines.
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by smilekzs 10mo ago
Correct --- found a remark on Twitter calling this "Jenson Math". Same logic when NVidia quote the "bidirectional bandwidth" of high speed interconnects to make the numbers look big, instead of the more common BW per dir
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by smilekzs 1y ago
Anecdote: 9 years ago I was at MSFT. Hands forced by long GC pauses, eventually many teams turned to hand-rolling their flavor of string_view in C#. It was literally xkcd.com/927 back then when you tried to interface with some other te
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by smilekzs 1y ago
The image circle of this is APS-C sized => 1.5x crop factor => 75mm "full frame" equivalent. I'd categorize this as more of a portrait lens (than "normal" as the 50mm moniker implies).
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by smilekzs 1y ago
Lidars have been reporting per-point intensity values for quite a while. The dynamic range is definitely not 1 bit. Many Lidar visualization software will happily pseudocolor the intensity channel for you. Even with a mechanically scanning
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by smilekzs 1y ago
Not OP but I think this could be an instance of leaky abstraction at work. Most of the time you hand-write an accelerator kernel hoping to optimize for runtime performance. If the abstraction/compiler does not fully insulate you from m
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by smilekzs 1y ago
> The active class is clearly redundant here. If you want to style based on the .active selector, you could just as easily style with [aria-selected="true"] instead. I vaguely remember (from 10+ years ago) that class selectors
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by smilekzs 1y ago
From first principles I think the concept can make sense. From car-specific function-specific ECUs, to platform-shared (but still function-specific) ECUs, then to Zonal architecture and domain controllers. The goals: consolidate and general
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by smilekzs 1y ago
I'd argue that chassis tech is more sophisticated in the BEV case due to more weight. Adaptive dampers, air springs, rear-axle steering, etc. might not be necessary on a comparably sized ICE vehicle. OTOH, ABS and ESP systems can achie
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by smilekzs 1y ago
GP hypothesized the situation "from downtown one city to another", which is distinct from airport-to-airport.
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by smilekzs 2y ago
You're not wrong, but that just means the <adjective> is where the bulk of information resides. The trade-off matters. Maybe it's a model with good enough quality but really cheap to serve. Maybe it's a model that only

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