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by spott 3y ago
As far as I can tell they didn’t correct for alcohol consumption of fathers post-conception. All those effects could be the result of “alcoholic” father figures, right? What am I missing here?
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by spott 3y ago
There are orders of magnitude fewer people playing with large (>40B) parameter models than the small ones, which means even fewer people finetuning those models. I can’t imagine this is anything but selection bias.
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by spott 3y ago
They compare them because Haskell is probably the most famous language with a function currying syntax. That is pretty much where the similarities end though.
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by spott 3y ago
What is this “unified memory” you speak of? Modern supercomputers are just a bunch of computers with a (very) high speed interconnect. As far as I’m aware, pretty much every multi node job on a supercomputer uses MPI to communicate, and th
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by spott 3y ago
This whole discussion seems to be summed up as “premature optimization is the root of all evil, and using anything but a csprng is a premature performance optimization” There doesn’t seem to be any good non-performance reasons to use a regu
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by spott 3y ago
One way to think of this is that there are always multiple ways to break up the units when moving a system of equations into matrix form. What I’m trying to say is that there is always one way to break up the units that leads to matrices a
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by spott 3y ago
Interesting article... though to be honest, I'm not sure I buy the premise. In the article, he states: "Let's call the matrix of all (xi 1) `X` and let's call the vector of all yi `Y`", and then states that the unit
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by spott 3y ago
The answer to both of those is “de beers” I think. Monopolies/cartels can create all sorts of market inefficiencies if they want to.
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by spott 3y ago
They are for architecture… the design of buildings. I don’t know if they will do any coding at all in these programs.
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by spott 3y ago
Part of the problem is that nix takes an opposite stance from where python seems to be heading… Poetry, pipenv, etc are all about building dependency tree solvers into python package management.. so if you have package a that depends on pac
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by spott 3y ago
I think it is likely that they are trying to see if the watch you returned was counterfeit before they refunded you. This is probably a difficult process as the counterfeits of Apple products have gotten really good. When you pushed them
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by spott 3y ago
I always get excited by these kind of devices… until I realize I honestly can’t think of what I would use it for. Anyone have plans for something like this that they would like to share? I’d love some project ideas.
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by spott 3y ago
The Prius has better visibility, and thus is unlikely to run into a pedestrian. A large truck/SUV can’t see anything shorter than like 4 feet that is right in front of it… so it is more likely to kill someone just because it can’t see
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by spott 3y ago
> use less die area at the cost of a lower maximum clock. This makes no sense to me. Lower die area means smaller feature sizes (ie a process size change) or fewer transistors (ie features change). I’m not sure how you have the same fe
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by spott 3y ago
"Microservices" has always been weird to me. People argue for them from two different, drastically different, points of view: * Microservices become necessary at some point because they allow you to independently scale different p
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by spott 3y ago
Thanks! That is good to know.
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by spott 3y ago
https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot/chatgpt-user-an... There are two agents, but apparently you can't allow one but disallow another.
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by spott 3y ago
Do you have a source for that? All I can find is here [0], which doesn't mention GPT4 or Claude. [0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/ultimate-plan.html
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by spott 3y ago
Everyone replying is missing the point that the technical challenges that Netflix is purported to be great at… aren’t a problem for the other streaming sites. The UIs may suck in some way or another, or be buggy, but the backend doesn’t str
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by spott 3y ago
Llama.cpp defaults to using metal. [0] [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#metal-build
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by spott 3y ago
Quick question: what does “Unix compliant” mean in this context? There are shells that are bash compatible, and shells that are sh compatible, and shells that work on posix systems, but I’m not sure what “Unix compliant” means. I think
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by spott 3y ago
N in space. There are two combined results in the article. The first was n^1.5 in space and time, the second reduced that to n in space. The original was n^2 in time and n in space.
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by spott 3y ago
The downside of those is that they a) don’t actually create a very sharp edge, but instead create a “toothy” edge that can’t push cut, but can slice decently, and b) remove a lot of material, and thus shorten the life of the knife.
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by spott 3y ago
Without a bargain there isn’t much point.
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by spott 3y ago
What kind of energy density? There is energy density by volume (where it matches batteries, when you ignore all the stuff you need to keep hydrogen at 700bar safe), and energy density by weight (where it wins pretty handily against pretty
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by spott 3y ago
Location: Boulder, CO Remote: yes, will also work locally in office Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PyTorch, python, pandas/scipy/etc., nix, c++ (been a few years), quantum physics, computational physics
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by spott 3y ago
Until you change the underlying tables, or the api schema. At which point you don’t need to change the other.
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by spott 3y ago
There are two clauses in the llama license that I’m aware of that are restrictive: 1) if you have more than 700M daily active users you can’t use it. 2) you can’t use the output of this model to train other models. Are you aware of others,
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by spott 3y ago
Whatever you do, use the xdg_base_dirs python package for Unix dotfile location management… not platformdirs. They refuse to honor (even optionally!) xdg environment variables on macs, which is a pita when managing dotfiles across Mac/
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by spott 3y ago
It was found by another poster in the thread.

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