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by tails4e 2y ago
I agree, using LLMs the right way and SO the wrong way is definitely possible, but it's easier to use LLMs the wrong way and just blindly without understanding. A diligent person would use it as a learning tool for sure.
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by tails4e 2y ago
I Agree. However in many cases the cat is out of the bag in terms of juniors using LLMs, it's almost ubiquitous these days .
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by tails4e 2y ago
One concern Ive heard is that Llama can be a great accelerator for senior engineers who know what they want. However for junior engineers it could hold back their learning as they just use whatever it gives without really understanding what
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by tails4e 2y ago
I usually make it Monday 18 or 19 and then I loose the will as the time taken is excessive, and obsessing about it is not good. I've finished a 5 years, but all after the fact. Some I am not sure I'll ever finish....
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by tails4e 2y ago
The cost of standards is very high, probably second to the cost of no standards! Joking aside, I've seen this first thang when using things like ethernet/tcp to transfer huge amounts of data in hardware. The final encapsulation of
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by tails4e 2y ago
The transition to RISC-V depends entirely on how much of the cpu core susbstem is from ARM. The ISA itself is one part, there are branch predictors, l1,l2 and 3 caches, MMUs, virtualization, vector extensions, the pipeline architecture, etc
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by tails4e 2y ago
Felt special witnessing history, was delighted my kids and their friends all were glued to the TV for it also.
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by tails4e 2y ago
An FPGA could 400mhz with a bit of effort, 100mhz easy.
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by tails4e 2y ago
Whats wrong with it? It seems to be very high resolution, continuous, and accurate whenever I've compared it.
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by tails4e 2y ago
Go garmin. I have a vivoactive 5, it has 11 days of battery and loads of stats. I love it. My wife liked mine so much she dumped her Fitbit and now has the same watch. It's great.
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by tails4e 2y ago
I agree largely. I have a p30 pro, and it's a great phone despite being 4 or 5 years old . It's so good, recently it got water damaged and I as faced with replacing it. I couldnt find a phone for under 500 that could beat it, and
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by tails4e 2y ago
Compared to this, 15kwh for under 5k https://midlandbatteries.com/products/dyness-15kwh-dl5-0c-ba... Needs an inverter though, but if you have solar you already should be ok
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by tails4e 2y ago
This is a local supplier of Dyness batteries, 15kwh for under 4.5k https://midlandbatteries.com/products/dyness-15kwh-dl5-0c-ba...
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by tails4e 2y ago
That's obscene. Less than 10k of materials (and they can probably source it cheaper than a regular joe like me), 5k labour. 35k profit is a bit much....
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by tails4e 2y ago
And the Powerwall is also a ripoff vs many other options. 5kw battery module can be for for 1.2k, so 3 modules give 15kwh for under 5k
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by tails4e 2y ago
5kwh battery module for 1.2k in the EU. 13.5kw should be under 5k. Any system north of 15k is price gouging, unless the system is huge.
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by tails4e 2y ago
Exactly, it makes no financial sense, you'd never get payback on it at that price. The company offering it had payment plans and all, with 0% interest, to make it more attractive, but that's just part of the grift.
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by tails4e 2y ago
The price to get solar installed in the US is insanely high compared to the cost of the materials. I've seen my extended family get quotes north of 40k for modest installs. I got a modest system with batter for around 9k in the EU, and
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by tails4e 2y ago
Agree. It took a truly superior product at lower cost to make a dent in Intel's dominance in server, all the while Intel tried their best to flex their lock in muscle. That happened well after 2008, with the advent of Zen and chiplet b
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by tails4e 2y ago
The 5oz is one of the best fast food burgers out there, better than a lot of fancy restaurant burgers
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by tails4e 2y ago
Really nice writeup. For the test, could Fermat's method be used to find candidates and then trial division to weed out the false positives? Given they are rare this should not cost much extra time as the trial division (with some prec
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by tails4e 2y ago
Seems like it's slowed in growth, rather than actually declined. So disingenuous to say they have taken a dive really.
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by tails4e 2y ago
I charge at home and almost certainly would not have an EV if I could not. I know someone who had an EV and could not charge at home who got rid of it as it was really inconvenient to have to regularly wait 30 to 40 mins to charge as a char
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by tails4e 2y ago
I just got 2 new monitors in work, one has a built in usb-c hub, and that monitor can use display port out to drive a 2nd monitor.... It can, the MacBook hardware can, but MacOS cannot. I was thrilled to no longer need multiple dongles to d
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by tails4e 2y ago
I'm well aware it is Intel, but it was still sold at the time as a 10 hour battery life, and I'm sure it can be, when nothing is running but one tab of safari. So my point was, and in agreement with you, is when using similar sw (
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by tails4e 2y ago
Modern zen4 based laptops can get 15 hours. My 2019 MBP was quoted as 10 hours but gets under 2.... Why? because it's more software than hardware that is the issue. My MBP runs out of battery quickly because outlook (or chrome) uses to
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by tails4e 3y ago
Essentially averaging. To put it simply, noise is random while the signal is not. So if you average 2x the noise reduces but sqrt(2) but the signal remains. Keep doing that and you have the signal appear out of the noise. GPS operates at a
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by tails4e 3y ago
I've often thought about this myself. I'm sure scientists involved are aware of the compounding errors with each step and build that in, but I'd love to see an analysis that breaks that down. When I first saw it I thought the
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by tails4e 3y ago
Terence Tao did a great lecture on this, https://youtu.be/kY1gfrhNUIg?si=9u9k8of6-jRybwCG
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by tails4e 3y ago
I've seen the third order Taylor series used, but with the coefficients calculated at various offsets for a quarter wave. So you lookuo where you are in the quarter wave, then look up the 3 or 4 cofficients. This keeps the error somewh

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