tbalsam

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by tbalsam 3y ago
Oh my gosh, thank you so much, love. This is years of experience/advice as liquid gold in your comment, thank you so much, dearie bun! :')))) <3 I react even to All Free and Clear, and have carried Bronner's while backpack
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Oh my gosh, thank you for sharing! I really appreciate it! :')))) <3 <3 <3 <3 :')))) I'm hoping to be below 12-13 pounds base weight this time, which is 18-22+ with food and water. Lots of ultralight people are in
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by tbalsam 3y ago
That's a great idea! I'd love to publish something once it's sorta converged for me and has a "workperson's well-worn wrench" quality to it. :') I might even publish in video form just to make it more acce
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by tbalsam 3y ago
(especially as they've shown diatomaceous earth to be microscopic, razor-sharp fragments. Some people even eat this to try to kill parasites, eep! I'm not sure of the research here but my Spidey sense at least is going off the clo
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I'm terrified by the idea of breathing this in. Reminds me of asbestos snow.
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Copper pthalocyanidine (generally good-looking+most accessible that I know of, so I've stuck with that <3 :')), you can get it as powder online (cheapest+lightest) or as watercolor paint (it's called Pthalo Blue -- yes, of
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by tbalsam 3y ago
This is fascinating, wow. Thank you for sharing that. If it was not clear from my earlier oligodynamic post, I'm autistic and the fewer day-disrupting routines I have (washing cup with soap, I'm allergic to almost any detergent so
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I would assert so, oddly enough different metals kill different bacteria, let's see. I shall now search ncbi and see: Bismuth apparently has action, especially highlighted against E. Coli: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
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by tbalsam 3y ago
That is very cool. I'm currently experimenting with dyeing my armpit hair with dyes containing oligodynamic metals to reduce the amount of noxiousness induced from long-haul (weeks-months) backpacking trips (it's what I do). Deodo
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by tbalsam 3y ago
It's also likely got some sort of basis in the oligodynamic effect, as Titanium rips apart cell walls passively that way as well. How much each does each, I can't say. Works for a lot of other metals, like bismuth (you wonder how
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I love programs that minimize the trifecta of code complexity, code length, and runtime. Ugh, such a good practice. Wish we did it more. We need more single-file, well-purposed and commented, editable and hackable libraries. :'))))
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I come to HN to avoid comments that leave me brimming with anger.
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by tbalsam 3y ago
In my unbiased estimation, his work offered better than a minimum variance of contributions to the field! <3 :')))) ;)))) ;')
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Anyone that remotely touches any ODEs relating to this line of work just had a heart attack and fainted. We don't need a roaring 20's prohibition-era jiggly jazz fest on our energy packets, this sounds absolutely nightmarish for a
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I think a high lr + SGD does maybe a piece of what you're talking about, and I think the most important piece. That is, the curvature can be ignored as the noise from a high lr implicitly optimizes for flatter valleys in parameter sp
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by tbalsam 3y ago
There are dozens of dozens of optimizers. Almost every single one of them claims superiority. Some of them, like MADGRAD, are great. But sticking with the basics is pretty good in my experience.
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Hi! I've worked a lot with ML algorithms, and I believe this is tied in with regret. Not only do huge steps (after an initial warmup) get to a rough minimum faster, due to the energy involved, the minimum found tends to be more shallow
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by tbalsam 3y ago
After about 20 minutes of searching, I found the voiceline in question at 7:46 at https://youtu.be/SeG5YYq8kQU . It's definitely not the same as the series of "two grunts in a row" that my siblings and I fina
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Toy Story 3 on the Wii was an integral part of me bonding with my siblings as I was back from college on breaks. We really looked forward to it, and spent...hours, just noodling around in the game. It was so fun, and so ridiculously silly.
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by tbalsam 3y ago
if signal(ml_model) > noise_floor: return "not dud" elif signal(ml_model) <= noise_floor - epsilon and signal(ml_model) - signal(previous_ml_model) >= expected_improvement slope: return "might show
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I've been wondering what much of the drive for it is, to be honest. Before I didn't have much problems securing A100s, now it seems to be a lot more frequent (having taken a short break from things). I made a training speedrunning
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Dissidence != Appropriate scientific skepticism. I believe appropriate skepticism is part of being a skilled scientist, being a dissident is part of being a noisy scientist. These two do not always correlate with each other. That said, stan
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by tbalsam 3y ago
This article make very little sense to me, though I could be completely missing something here. Most psychotomimetic models of the dopamine receptor use D2 agonists (though this is not the only receptor that can be interacted with to genera
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Start with 7B and refine as much as you possibly can there. Your value is going to be determined by the variable iteration_time, where your final equation involves 1/iteration_time. Any lessons learned there will effectively scale. Whe
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by tbalsam 3y ago
If you can do it in GPU memory, do it in GPU memory. If it takes quantization + buying a 1 TB RAM server ($4k of RAM + parts), do that in memory with the raw tensors and shed a small tear -- both for cost and the joy of the pain that you ar
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by tbalsam 3y ago
If it's any consolation, that post is...hot word salad garbage. It's like they learned the words on Wikipedia and then proceeded to try to make a post that used as many of them as possible. It's a good litmus test for experie
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by tbalsam 3y ago
That's true, and I probably should have done some better backing up, sorting out, and clarification. I remember when that paper came out, it rubbed me the wrong way too then, because it is people rediscovering double descent from a dif
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by tbalsam 3y ago
100% agreed. I'm pretty sure today was the first time I learned that the site was founded by Yudkowsky, which honestly explains quite a bit (polite 'lol' added here for lightheartedness)
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by tbalsam 3y ago
Gotcha. I'm happy to do the trace as it likely would be fruitful for me. Do you have a link to a specific post you're thinking of? It's likely going to be a Tishby-like (the classic paper from 2015 {with much more work going
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by tbalsam 3y ago
I enjoyed this presentation, thank you for sharing it. Good stuff in here. I think things are a bit off about the reasoning behind the basis functions, but as I noted elsewhere here that's work I'm not entirely able to talk about

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