tobias2014

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by tobias2014 12d ago
Practical Engineering has a good video about wildlife crossings (2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mYpQWPtfpo
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by tobias2014 29d ago
They finally allowed for a hard spend cap that's easy to set a few weeks ago: https://aistudio.google.com/spend
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by tobias2014 1mo ago
This came up just a few days ago with ~130 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990
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by tobias2014 1mo ago
AI has rediscovered https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbsoftware/ and similar? Or are there algorithmic improvements? Without referencing established double-double work it's hard to know.
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by tobias2014 2mo ago
I agree, I see how Gemini itself with a usable harness can be excellent. But in agy with forced eager compaction (~125k with 3.1-pro, ~200k with flash) a kind of laziness and forgetting shows through that leads to an endless sequence of sto
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by tobias2014 9mo ago
For any space-like event you can find reference frames where things happen in different order. For the time-like situation you described the order indeed exists within the cone, which is to say that causality exists.
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by tobias2014 10mo ago
I guess when you use it for generic "problem solving", brainstorming for solutions, this is great. That's what I use it for, and Gemini is my favorite model. I love when Gemini resists and suggests that I am wrong while expla
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by tobias2014 10mo ago
And who believes that the difference between 91.9% and 92.4% is significant in these benchmarks? Clearly these have margins of error that are swept under the rug.
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by tobias2014 10mo ago
How is "If" as a function even a drawback? It is largely seen as something desired, no? I would see that as a huge advantage, which allows for very powerful programming and meta-programming techniques.
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by tobias2014 10mo ago
This is not true. Mathematica has the concept of contexts. You can have each notebook have it's own unique context. Mathematica Packages create their own context too, we are not talking about module's here which are useful for loc
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by tobias2014 10mo ago
I've been at a few universities and labs as a postdoc, and a Mathematica license always came either as part of the University or the department. It might not be relevant in some disciplines, but generally I assume it must be used a lot
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by tobias2014 1y ago
Meanwhile companies exist that have built essentially layers in front of chatbots, masking or filtering sensitive data, then forwarding the masked query, then unmasking it when giving back to the user(e.g. https://www.liminal.ai&
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by tobias2014 1y ago
Oniux seems like an "officially" supported tool similar to orjail (which hasn't received a commit in four years, but still works great as a shell script with iptables/iproute tools [1]). Orjail has also an option to run
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by tobias2014 2y ago
You can use firejail for network isolation, it can run applications in a new network namespace [1]. I'm using this to run applications over tor to make sure that nothing leaks. [1] https://firejail.wordpress.com/documen
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by tobias2014 2y ago
This might turn into a debate of defining "simplest", but I think the ensemble/statistical interpretation is really the most minimal in terms of fancy ideas or concepts like "wavefunction collapse" or "multiver
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by tobias2014 2y ago
I hope you bring that up as an example in favor on open-source, as an example that open-source works. In a closed-source situation it would either not be detected or reach the light of day.
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by tobias2014 2y ago
I was interested and looked at the actual patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/4348422 (there seem to be multiple patent documents, but this one adds some explanation), and he writes "I have now surprisingly
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by tobias2014 2y ago
This is why I think that modeling elementary physics is nothing else than fitting data. We might end up with something that we perceive as "simple", or not. But in any case all the fitting has been hidden in the process of ruling
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by tobias2014 2y ago
To fuel your cosmic horror: Some of the dots may even be galaxy clusters
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by tobias2014 3y ago
It looks like this is being discussed, with a complication of additional symbols that were introduced https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024
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by tobias2014 3y ago
It seems like this was the solution for archlinux, pull directly from the github tag and run autogen: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz...
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by tobias2014 3y ago
I find the article quite confusing and unclear to be honest. Are there any other sources? This is the original NYT article from 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva... "
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by tobias2014 3y ago
Recently talked to a DOE program manager. I confronted them with the question why we do things like machine learning or quantum computing in academia, when there's no hope in matching industry for those things. His answer was that from
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by tobias2014 3y ago
Is academia supposed to compete? I think the researchers wish for that, but that's not directly how government funding agencies see it. From a government's funding perspective the goal is to train tomorrow's workforce. People
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by tobias2014 3y ago
Is knowing the presence of something more valuable than knowing the precise absence of something? In my opinion both drive our knowledge forward and challenge our current understanding and development of models.
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by tobias2014 3y ago
Or even follow the idea of Stephen Wolfram's hyper graph, where space dimension and time are purely emergent properties of graph transformations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08210
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by tobias2014 3y ago
"Large retailers like The Home Depot, Walmart, or Amazon showed up, too" Call me naive, but I'm surprised to see these sell my data, I'll have to read agreements for accounts on those websites...
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by tobias2014 3y ago
This is very interesting, because for me it's just the opposite. In particular the two column layout is just more readable and approachable for me. The PDF version also allows for a presentation just as the authors intended. I guess it
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by tobias2014 3y ago
Definitely not true for Telegram, they are completely open about the client side infrastructure: https://telegram.org/apps (and there are dozens of third party clients, some even linked on their official website)
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by tobias2014 3y ago
In addition to the other comments: you could use the zfs-dkms package which builds it from source on every update

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