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by sriku 3y ago
{ "Summary of talk": "Erlang + Cap'n Proto is going to be the next big thing, but they shall not be mentioned." }
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by sriku 3y ago
I'm curious about the first number to have absolutely nothing interesting to be said about it ;)
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by sriku 3y ago
This was also part of the motivation behind (plug) https://GitHub.com/srikumarks/inai . While the current incarnation focuses on REST packaged services as a unit, earlier versions did it at function level. Inai's s
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Distributed Shampoo Optimizer (In PyTorch) for Training NNs At-Scale(arxiv.org)
2 points by sriku 3y ago|0 comments
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by sriku 3y ago
Nope. Same reaction from a wide variety of people including my wife who's not in tech and doesn't know what HN or YCombinator are. She was like "let the team speak already!"
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by sriku 3y ago
Also https://hyperscript.org/docs/ - works together with htmx.
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by sriku 3y ago
Deadly nightshade as in this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_nigrum Is there a specific variety the author knows that's toxic? ... Because this (manathakkali or "fragrant tomato") features in So
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by sriku 3y ago
I keep the cynicism inside me in check usually, but these days finding it harder to do. So people contribute to this and then what? Google/MS/OpenAI etc train models on the data and try to sell it back to us?
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by sriku 3y ago
Don't most softmax implementations include an epsilon in the denominator which likely serves the same purpose? So the suggestion is to set that epsilon to 1?
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by sriku 3y ago
Wondering how res += (c=='s')-(c=='p') might do. I sure there is some C undefined behaviour relevant there. Curious but too lazy to check it myself!
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by sriku 3y ago
I wonder if a criterion based on "did it get you monetary value" is useful to make these judgements. If you take a css color line from a page, could you have chosen another color to equal effect or chosen this line from somewhere
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by sriku 3y ago
I used to own a psion way back and also had a brush with the OS which morphed into Symbian on Nokia iirc. I loved the software architecture (which borrowed aspects from the B5000), APIs and "services" and overall the focus on robu
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by sriku 3y ago
For me, the most mind-blowing part of Okasaki's book was the chapter on "numerical representations". Never looked at it like that before I read that chapter. While the other chapters certainly introduced material that was new
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by sriku 3y ago
"structs are functions that preserve the stack frame" is a cute idea/perspective. It doesn't look like this view leads to anything distinguishable from the usual approach with constructors though. Any examples that might
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by sriku 3y ago
Are there lessons to be brought forward to Mojo from the effort to bring autograd to Swift? (Apart from "python ftw", that is)
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by sriku 4y ago
Many constraint toolkits in other languages wrap around https://www.gecode.org/ . A rathe well established and performant library. I think the same folks behind Mozart/Oz are key behind this if I'm not mistaken. F
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by sriku 4y ago
"suddenly"? Yes it has become popular overnight in 30+ years. I'd chalk it up to two aspects - strongly typed languages that show how to do safe composition at scale, and .... Compositionality at scale.. One example, lambda c
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by sriku 4y ago
I haven't had much success using signals as a software composition mechanism at scale ... Despite being familiar with Conal Elliott's "functional reactive animations" concepts and Racket's FrTime. "patch langua
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by sriku 4y ago
Please can someone explain the chemistry better? The article seems to say it takes O2 from air and makes Li2O as output? Won't that somehow expend the battery over time .. or is the O2 released back on recharge?
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by sriku 4y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky's "AI box experiment" is perhaps relevant. Bing Chat seems to have some agency (like searching the net) - which could make it potentially dangerous. Yudkowsky's hypothesis is that an intelligent enough
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by sriku 4y ago
I don't get the feeling that the next gen of programmers (if the species isn't extinct) won't have much to learn from SICP ... and I'm saddened by that. In particular, trying to introduce some programming to kids seems l
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by sriku 4y ago
Thanks for that ref ... and plugs like that very much welcome!
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by sriku 4y ago
SWIProlog[1] has so far been my go to due to the extensive support system it has. However, I've been meaning to explore higher order logic a bit and Ciao[2] caught my attention there, with sugar for function-like notation and higher or
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Project Everest: Probably secure communication software(project-everest.github.io)
2 points by sriku 4y ago|1 comments
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by sriku 4y ago
I'm generally of the opinion that games are a lesser evil than TV so I'm slightly happier when the kids turn on the Xbox instead of open the flix. However, if there is a gap of a few days, the downloads start ... And we cant play
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by sriku 4y ago
Somewhat related and somewhat tangential. Slavoj Zizek on the "tautological emptiness of the master's wisdom" - """ The tautological emptiness of a Master's Wisdom is exemplified in the inherent stupidity
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by sriku 4y ago
... and when you throw in the fact that Panini formulated his grammar was formulated at a time when there was no written form of Sanskrit ... it truly baffles me. So reliant on tools I am. Some authors have suggested that he likely used his
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by sriku 4y ago
Stay for the joy of the craft, not the excitement. Excitement is temporary and it is lost when the thing that's exciting goes away or is replaced.
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by sriku 4y ago
(unsarcastically) I'd be pissed if a computer manufacturer placed an arbitrary limit on what I should be able to do with my computer.
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by sriku 4y ago
By Will Kinney - "A better summary: Physicists created an entangled system of qubits in a quantum computer in a way that is well understood in conventional quantum mechanics, and some physicists have speculated that entangled particles

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