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by spaintech 3y ago
Form me, one of the significant criticisms of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, is their environmental impact. The process of “mining” Bitcoin requires significant computational power, leading to a large carbon footprint. Recent estim
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by spaintech 3y ago
This is a fascinating approach. I’m working on something similar but as part of the feedback loop, as you said, rewriting history with transactional data as part of the context window. I feel as though the LLM and the NLP could potentially
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by spaintech 3y ago
Great site! I kind of have a predisposition to summarize linux performance, be it tuning or monitoring, taking a deep breath… This is such a depth subject, with a long list of variety of observability tools. At minimum, make sure you know d
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by spaintech 3y ago
For me, while not defending AGI, the discussion often involves disentangling fears rooted in science fiction from genuine concerns grounded in reality. While the ethical and safety concerns related to AGI cannot be dismissed and how it migh
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by spaintech 3y ago
What devices do you currently run OpenWRT on? I’d like to have a good and secure home network, currently running a pair of Ubiquity UDRs, and sometimes I wish I could have more control.
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by spaintech 3y ago
I would recommend you seek profesional help from coaches who have experience in high stress high performance jobs. I received “a very long time ago” coaching for Special Ops and SWAT type jobs. This has been well documented in resulting use
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by spaintech 3y ago
Thank you, yes I’m am aware of the HW CPU forth. Drawing from my own experiential intuition, there’s a significant cost overhead—roughly 30% on hardware (CPU and Memory)—attributable to utilizing OSs that were originally architected to faci
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by spaintech 3y ago
It depends on the definitions of a housing crisis, but according to “ The Guardian” [0]Spain is in the worst housing crisis in Europe. Here this the summary: “ In Spain, a significant housing law, aimed at enshrining housing as a fundamenta
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by spaintech 3y ago
From a business perspective, I’d like to underscore the importance of genuinely understanding the problem through personal experience, subject expertise, or in-depth research, as that will allow you to have insights into potential solutions
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Ask HN: From Unikernels and JVM to Forth: A New Paradigm for Cloud Computing?
3 points by spaintech 3y ago|2 comments
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by spaintech 3y ago
While I applaud the intent to bring the issue of homelessness to the forefront of the media, I feel like this project is more about gaining self attention for the project rather than solving the issue all together. The ~20GBP for the 18650
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by spaintech 3y ago
Comparing Europe and the US on food choices is probably not the best choice, nutritional choices vary quite a bit in Europe. I live in Spain, and I guess I’m spoiled as I get freshly made “menu” at most local restaurants for a about 15-20$
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by spaintech 3y ago
I’m of Cuban/American descent. Consequently, I grew up primarily on a diet of BBQ and roasted pig. However, after moving to Spain, I developed a penchant for the tender piglets from Segovia. Initially, mutton and other lamb dishes were
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by spaintech 3y ago
It's interesting to note that even in Rust, there exists a Forth compiler, as depicted in these resources [1]. Its usage remains somewhat unclear to me [2], but its existence has been previously discussed here [3]. It boasts a robust i
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A Hidden Cost of Virtualization When Scaling Multicore Applications(usenix.org)
3 points by spaintech 3y ago|1 comments
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by spaintech 3y ago
Great explanation of well known problem in virtualization, it not only shows the major cost implications of virtualization with a 5x penalty for multi core applications, it show a good potential fix of the problem to increase efficiency.
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by spaintech 3y ago
My first exposure to CORBA was 1996/97 where it was used to deploy a major distributed infrastructure. It worked quite well to manage and integrate this large scale deployment, some of it expanded beyond just one datacenter, so it was
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by spaintech 3y ago
My thought on what an AI engineer is; an individual who uses AI and machine learning techniques to develop applications and systems that can help organizations increase efficiency, reduce costs, increase profits, and make better business de
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by spaintech 4y ago
Wait, I’m not following this article. Here is a very biased view from an enterprise usage perspective. The value IMO of GPT is that it’s architecture allows it to analyze and understand large amounts of text data in real time, making it an
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by spaintech 4y ago
interesting article, I have to give that a try! :D One ting is that while getting the value of running pretrained model weights like OPT-175B, there are also a potential downsides to using pre-trained models, such as the need to fine-tune t
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by spaintech 4y ago
It's interesting to see the various perspectives on heap sizing and how it can affect system performance. The author's suggestion of using a fixed heap size for studying a system and a growable heap for the average user makes sens
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by spaintech 4y ago
Well, that is an understatement. I do agree with you that banks have been trying to fix decades old application. But in this process, you don’t need ETL, nor all the process and development to accomplish these ideas. Conceptually the idea b
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by spaintech 4y ago
Not that big data is dead, more like real time data is coming to life, but you need the old stuff around to make a buck or two… Well, that my view. LLMs are transformer model technique are making data more relevant than ever. If you are a b
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by spaintech 4y ago
The importance of source citation in ChatGPT's responses is a topic of debate, particularly as the platform shifts towards a paid model. While ChatGPT is designed to deliver information in a conversational and user-friendly way, it is
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by spaintech 4y ago
What a great read! I have to admit that I’m biased towards FORTH, I’m not a programar, more of a maker, so when I need to build an embedded project, Forth is my go to solution form my application. One of the benefits I have found in Forth “
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by spaintech 4y ago
I was reading this on my ipad, and it was a pain not to be able to see the output, would be great if the author just created a link to each of the section to godlbolt… https://godbolt.org/z/5cosP46TT >:D I know, how
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by spaintech 4y ago
This might have what you need… https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html interesting design and fun little project.
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by spaintech 4y ago
In the car analogy, it's more like learning and understanding the limitations of the Otto Engine so that you can build a better one... IMO. :) BTW, in aviation, where reliability, constancy, and longevity, they still use magnetos and c
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by spaintech 4y ago
You are correct, Forth is not a institutional tool, more of a individual choice. IMO, one that allows you to prototype and debug interactively as you write your code and has been like that since the beginning. It allows you to train yourse
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by spaintech 4y ago
https://youtu.be/x5RCfQyTDFI

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