stared

38 ms·

751.
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown(p.migdal.pl)
338 points by stared 2y ago|273 comments
752.
by stared 2y ago
I came here because I wanted to play Quake on Apple Silicon and looked for the best option - which turned out to be a cross-platform Vulkan engine https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake .
753.
Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs(macsourceports.com)
3 points by stared 2y ago|1 comments
754.
by stared 2y ago
Yes, it is PR. While individuals can be altruistic visionaries, shareholders will protest any action that is not in the company's interest. For a smaller player, open-sourcing might be a strategic move. It would likely go unnoticed if
755.
VkQuake – Quake port in Vulkan with dynamic shadows(github.com)
2 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
756.
by stared 2y ago
There are many useful tricks - like cosine distance. In contrast, softmax has a very deep grounding in statistical physics - where it is called the Boltzmann distribution. In fact, this connection between statistical physics and machine lea
757.
by stared 2y ago
Yes, you are right. If we ask LLM to grade something, we must create a prompt with good instructions. Otherwise, we will have no idea what 0.5 means or whether it is given consistently. (A rule of thumb: Is it likely that various people, no
758.
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown(p.migdal.pl)
5 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
759.
by stared 2y ago
While I like the idea of measuring subsequent steps, this kind of approach of using embeddings is the reason why I wrote: "Don't use cosine distance carelessly" ( https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/01&#x2F
760.
The Danger of Overthinking: The Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks(arxiv.org)
2 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
761.
by stared 2y ago
I bet this person has never created a data visualization. On the contrary, I think data visualization (along with architecture, mathematics, and mechanical watches) is one of the most interesting art forms that requires strict constraints.
762.
by stared 2y ago
I have been using Pinboard for ages (14k links so far). I appreciate that it remains unchanged. Many other services have deteriorated over time in their pursuit of "social engagement". The ability to publicly display my links is u
763.
Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs(macsourceports.com)
3 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
764.
by stared 2y ago
Do you know any nice copilots working in the terminal? "remembering exact commands" (vide https://xkcd.com/1168/ ) and "getting context for a given instruction" are precisely things at which LLMs exc
765.
by stared 2y ago
> Future you. Your posts become a time capsule of your evolving mind. Sometimes, I am the main beneficiary of my blog posts. But there is a much more practical point than bookmarking my progress — it is a polished resource with carefully
766.
by stared 2y ago
Thank you for sharing! As a small remark, classical and quantum coins are equally susceptible to bias. So the initial intro is a bit misleading.
767.
Night scenes do look darker now than they did in the decades prior(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by stared 2y ago|1 comments
768.
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves Anthropic after just five months(techcrunch.com)
1 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
769.
Tokei: Count your code, quickly – CLOC in Rust(github.com)
2 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
770.
by stared 2y ago
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/DdLSb
771.
by stared 2y ago
There was a joke: - Could you tell from an image if a man is gay? - Depending on what he is doing.
772.
Quantum Odyssey – a game about quantum circuits now in Early Access(store.steampowered.com)
1 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
773.
by stared 2y ago
I mean that referring to "HN for X" is like (more than a decade ago) "Facebook for X". I consider HN a clean exception to most (all?) online communities in which I have been participaing; in all other cases, the quality
774.
by stared 2y ago
For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.
775.
by stared 2y ago
I use the default macOS Terminal with the fish shell and starship prompt, and I'm quite happy with it. I see people raving about Ghostty, though I'm not sure what I'm missing. What features do you find most compelling about i
776.
by stared 2y ago
It goes then in the line of https://xkcd.com/810/
777.
by stared 2y ago
You are conflating two things - a lab leak and a virus being engineered. These are two separate things. Likely, the virus was not engineered but was stored in the laboratory.
778.
Show HN: Currex, a Pythonic currency calculator with real-time exchange rates(github.com)
2 points by stared 2y ago|0 comments
779.
by stared 2y ago
The longer I read the article, the more "stiffness" feels like mass. In Lagrangians, the quantity saying how stiff it is is precisely the mass term, vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_field_theory . At
780.
by stared 2y ago
A few nitpicks: First, I am not sure whom you refer to - as (I hope) everyone who uses cosine similarity has seen a . b = |a||b| cos theta. I read its very name, "cosine (of the angle between vectors) used as a similarity measure"

More ›