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by suspended_state 1y ago
> [...] LLMs are from the get-go a bad idea, a bullshit generating machine. Is that a matter of opinion, or a fact (in which case you should be able to back it up)?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Of course, but does it mean that my argument is flawed? You're just shifting the discourse, without disproving anything. Do you claim that the web was useful for everyone on day one, or as useful as it is today for everyone? I could ju
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by suspended_state 1y ago
In the early days of the web, there wasn't much we could do with it other than making silly pages with blinking texts or under construction animated GIFs. You need to give it some time before judging a new technology.
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by suspended_state 1y ago
The point is that not every web crawler is out there to scrape websites.
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by suspended_state 1y ago
I don't know what to think about Systemd. I think however that a lot of hate comes from: - a very opaque structure: it's actually not that opaque, since configuration files are still plain text, and better yet with more structure,
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Let's first get the obvious out of the way: caching is not an abstraction, the "Storage" abstraction is what enables caching to be implemented. If I had to put Caching in a category, I would say that it's an optimization
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by suspended_state 1y ago
It is very likely that this device works by perceiving and interpreting brain waves. Actually, from the article: > “We recorded neural activities from single neurons, which is the highest resolution of information we can get from our bra
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Yes, but is it as efficient?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Doesn't this depend on the point of view?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Records are product types. Variants are sum types. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall05/cos441/n...
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by suspended_state 1y ago
It's the VHS of digital image compression and storage.
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Indeed, I'm not a regular Python practitioner. I had to use it from time to time because it's the language chosen by the tools I happened to use at that time, like Blender, or Django. In the former case, it wasn't very enjoya
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by suspended_state 1y ago
I am not well versed in python programming, this is just my opinion as an outsider. For anyone interested in using these tools, I suggest reading the following: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/10zdidm
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by suspended_state 1y ago
> The first thing to note is that there is no indication that foo or bar can fail. I don't see how this is different from traditional programming. > I do think this is a really neat concept, but I have major reservations about th
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by suspended_state 1y ago
The original question was: can quaternions be used in place of matrices to perform LLMs tasks, and the answer is: quaternions are 4 dimensions, with the implied meaning that matrices can cover different dimentionalities, which are needed fo
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by suspended_state 1y ago
> the quote is the part between the dots; my comment is about why the number of developer resources might limited. Very confusing. On HN, it's customary to follow the email-style convention of using the '>' symbol for q
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by suspended_state 1y ago
Who are you quoting here?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
CSS at the time was still a leaky abstraction: in order to get things working, you had to include extraneous DIVs in the HTML code as anchors for the CSS rules. The standard body has attempted to address this issue with pseudo-elements and
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by suspended_state 1y ago
>> layouts were implemented by abusing table elements to create a grid. > Never understood what was actually wrong with it Separation of concerns?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
I don't understand the following from the article: "The more root growth, the more carbon in the soil, which can be a source of food for soil bacteria that multiply under warming temperatures. When soil in a rice paddy is waterlog
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by suspended_state 1y ago
If that is possible in Zig to have a "void" struct field, then you are correct, but wouldn't this block a third-party user from defining a struct field named data later?
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by suspended_state 1y ago
I think the main advantage of the intrusive definition is that you can use it to implement the non intrusive one easily, whereas the reverse isn't possible.
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by suspended_state 2y ago
I found the idea of polling DB queries interesting. They basically took what is done with HTTP and pushed it down the stack directly in the DB server, eliminating the extra SQL round trips one needs to make server-side in order to provide u
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by suspended_state 2y ago
The old station on google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/m5m7A8rKKgJwvbAj9 The location on openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5694806014
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by suspended_state 2y ago
Reddit has a much broader aim than Slashdot ever did. Slashdot _is_ just about discussing news, just like HN. Reddit is basically a BBS with no particular topic or usage in mind. They cannot be compared.
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by suspended_state 2y ago
The company history page on the corporate web site of Mitsubishi Pencils provides a reason behind the name: https://www.mpuni.co.jp/en/company/history.html It's not clear why the 3 companies got the right to
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by suspended_state 2y ago
I was thinking about that too. I wasn't so sure but this SO entry eclipsed my doubts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7222164/mmap-an-entire-l...
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by suspended_state 2y ago
I guess that the following statement would be true: if the process cannot load the whole file in memory and allocate memory for the model at the same time, then the it won't be able to run successfully. Strictly speaking, the sentence
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by suspended_state 2y ago
That's very nice work, and many interesting concepts introduced in the post (for example, arenas, length bounded strings, the Cut struct). One caveat though: > If the OBJ source cannot fit in memory, then the model won’t fit in memo