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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
This is the bit I don't get. Why are there so many people ready to line up to defend the powerful against the weak, the rich against the poor? What a brave and noble purpose! I'm real proud of people like that... The richest man
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
I share the author's frustration with this trend that _everything_ be a JSON object. Just recently I had some colleagues create a 200Mb JSON blob representing data records with the goal of querying the data in various ways. I instead l
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
The timing makes me think that its just another rich guy re-aligning himself with Trump. If this is the case it's interesting to see how each different tech figure expresses this fealty.
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
Summary: Rich white guy complains that it's too much effort to figure out what we're supposed to call 'coloured people' these days. It reads like the lament of a sore winner who has been forced to think of other's
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
I think that over time, AI will tend to make all programmers into average programmers. For those who are beginners, it can bring their skills up and make them look like better developers than they are. More insidiously, expert programmers w
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
I think what was intended was that _human_ nature hasn't changed.
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
Glad it helped. I've used online quantile estimators (GK in particular) to very effectively look for anomalies in streaming data. It worked much better than the usual mean/stddev threshold approach (which was embedded in competing
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
See also the Greenwald Khanna quantile estimator, an online algorithm which can compute any quantile within a given ϵ. https://aakinshin.net/posts/greenwald-khanna-quantile-estima...
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
> We’re releasing Llama 3.1 405B Is it possible to run this with ollama?
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
> Compared to pre-internet society or the can't cope with change part of society who doesn't use TikTok or know how to shore a trench. I know that it's cool to think that the 'olds' who aren't on tiktok don&
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
>It's because X's config files were asking you questions that there was no good way of knowing the answers to other than trial-and-error. You didn't have to guess, you just had to read the specs in the manual that came wit
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by throwaway_2494 2y ago
I fondly remember programming my own higher resolution graphics modes via X86Config. I used to scrounge around at work to find the highest bandwidth monitors, and then I'd program my own modes with oddball non-VESA resolutions beyond t