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by torginus 4mo ago
Yet HDMI is more widespread and both cables and equipment tends to be cheaper, which is surprising considering a USB-C to HDMI dongle needs actual hardware, while its basically just passthrough for an USB-C to DP. It's also quite nice
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by torginus 4mo ago
> Americans on the other hand ... Have realized most people are idiots and are willing to give away their and resources for a piece of paper if it has George Washington's face on it. So they've kept putting it on every piece of
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by torginus 4mo ago
I wonder if LLM's 'jagged intelligence' will come to bite here again. AI might be better at finding certain kind of bugs, to the degree outperfoming the best humans, but that doesn't mean a skilled human can't find
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by torginus 4mo ago
Imo it's very simple - AI is a big function inverter. If you have a better cost function than frontier labs, as in, you are better at judging model output quality, then you can use that cost function to RL the next generation of models
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by torginus 4mo ago
> we can validate if an inline assembly expression is safe by ... Ensuring that the assembly's effects are fully captured by the constraints. For example, if an assembly instruction modifies a register, then the constraints must cap
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by torginus 4mo ago
It's easy to get wrong, and CORS is not well suited to today's cloud-native microservice era, when your code calls into a million and one different api endpoints hosted by various means. It used to be that there was a webserver wh
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by torginus 4mo ago
Considering an LLM wrote this, I wonder when will LLMs go from writing insightful (sounding) investment advice to basically agentic landlording?
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by torginus 4mo ago
Considering how successful LLMs are at these kinds of projects. I think labs RL on converting successively bigger programs from language A to B, considering they have near-infinite training data, and infinite retries, I think given enough
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by torginus 4mo ago
Also, I'd be interested in the quality of these Rust ports. I have a friend who's an experienced Rust programmer, and he told me Rust ownership doesn't really lend itself well to rewriting mostly OOP code that was written wit
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by torginus 4mo ago
It's about pushing the envelope. If your technology is limited by certain physical constraints, then all of the things you make will end up being constrained by the same stuff. After a short exploration you can reach the conclusion tha
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by torginus 4mo ago
Quads and dirt bikes afaik.
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by torginus 4mo ago
I don't wanna badmouth Java people, but how they push the idea that this thing is some sort of genuine breakthrough that took multiple PhDs years of cutting-edge research to implement, when in fact they basically copied what .NET did f
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by torginus 4mo ago
And its a quite insane thing to push, even if true - AI spend has outgrown wages (even in software) to such a degree, that basically if AI allowed companies to fire every human employee, they wouldn't be saving that much.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Personally that's why I think 'async' in most languages is a farce - it could've never occured to 90s programmers, as back then applications frequently swapped out parts of their program code and state onto the disk - an
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by torginus 4mo ago
I know its a faux pas in the Java world to acknowledge the existence of .NET, but how does this differ from .NET structs? Value types, generic specialization, boxing - a quick skim makes it looks like they picked the same choices.
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by torginus 4mo ago
I know its a faux pas in the Java world to acknowledge the existence of .NET, but how does this differ from .NET structs? Value types, generic specialization, boxing - a quick skim makes it looks like they picked the same choices.
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by torginus 4mo ago
> The difference between “jmp $+15” and “jmp $+16” is inscrutable Just like the difference between 'him' and 'her' is inscrutable taken out of context, but that's why LLMs have embeddings they use to store contex
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by torginus 4mo ago
This is why you have multiple successive panels. If there's a disease that happens for 1 in 10k people, and you have a test with 1% FPR, 99 of 100 people will be false positive. But what you can do then, is either run a more expensive,
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by torginus 4mo ago
I mean I did data science and ML (more the engineering part) back when it was popular, and I kinda echo those sentiments. ML folks told me their methods would only outperform traditional ones if we could feed the training pipelines an order
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by torginus 4mo ago
Why do people say this? You can get a Shanghai-made Tesla Model 3 with CATL batteries in the US yet somehow, if a Chinese car, made with Chinese components in Chinese factories were to enter the market, the would spell doom for the entire U
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by torginus 4mo ago
How does that even work? If Z.ai wants to buy lets say GPUs for AI training, what's stopping them from going to a local reseller? Its not even circumventing the rules, its the natural thing to do. For that matter, does (only) NVIDIA ma
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yet, that 80s CEO, practically a peasant by modern standards of pay, had the option to cross the Atlantic in a Mach 2 supersonic airliner. If that's not the most obvious demonstration of technological prowess, I don't know what is
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by torginus 4mo ago
When we had need of quite big machines (AWS metal instances), we've found the performance differential between metal, and the equivalent size VM was 10-20% for CPU heavy workloads.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Or processes. Chrome has builtin process isolation for every browser tab. It starts up darn near instantly, and scores as 'pretty good' as far as sandboxing is concerned.
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by torginus 4mo ago
I think a lot of them already do, considering you can do things like digitally sign legally binding contracts.
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Isn't this for the same reason why you can't do banking on an unlocked bootloader phone? There's no way to verify the integrity of the system, and any malicious app can just grab your banking credentials or enable criminals t
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by torginus 4mo ago
wdym? it says 13.5 million euros has been allocated to the project - you aint building a frontier LLM with that kind of money, but its enough to give research opportunities and real-world experience to a handful of researchers, and build u
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by torginus 4mo ago
wdym? it says 13.5 million euros has been allocated to the project - you aint building a frontier LLM with that kind of money, but its enough to give research opportunities and real-world experience to a handful of researchers, and build u
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by torginus 4mo ago
wdym? it says 13.5 million euros has been allocated to the project - you aint building a frontier LLM with that kind of money, but its enough to give research opportunities and real-world experience to a handful of researchers, and build u
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by torginus 4mo ago
Why would those jobs be minimum wage? Skilled trades often pay as well or better than most desk jobs - which might be a downgrade for a lot of folks here, but the maximalist AI disruption premise is still far from an apocalyptic scenario

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