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by ttul 2y ago
“I’d especially like to thank three colleagues, Thor Simon, Viktor Dukhovni and Larry Rudolph for their assistance on this project.” That’s Victor Duchovni, inventor of the Postfix MTA. Two Sigma, founded only back in 2001 (i.e. newer than
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by ttul 2y ago
I’m certainly not a domain expert, but one thing I have read repeatedly about Transformers is that not all tricks scale the same.
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by ttul 2y ago
The 2D Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) can replace attention because the 2D DFT looks a lot like attention. The algorithm loops over each pair of values in the input matrix, calculating first a linear combination of each pair that scales b
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by ttul 2y ago
MailChannels CEO here. As discussed in my blog post, we're EOL'ing the free email delivery API that we made available to Cloudflare Workers users back in 2022. The uptake on the service was decent, but the uptake for the service d
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by ttul 2y ago
I have to say I also feel a whole lot more secure on the iPad. MacOS security is really good, but the infinite flexibility to install whatever software you want exposes you to making bad decisions. On an iPad, if you’re going to be exploite
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by ttul 2y ago
I recently bought the M4 iPad Pro with the nano texture glass, etc. My goal in buying an iPad was to have a device that helps me focus more when doing certain kinds of work. I have ADHD and so my life is a constant struggle against distract
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by ttul 2y ago
I came here to make the same comment. If you’re founding a company and it’s a fantastic investment opportunity, nobody will have any problem with you paying yourself a great salary. If the opportunity is less great, then they may take issue
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by ttul 2y ago
This is a cool demonstration of shared latent spaces. Whether you're generating audio and images, or audio and text, or robot controls and video, or... whatever. The concept of having a shared latent space for different modalities real
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by ttul 2y ago
…Making their multiple about 1,650x ARR… Something tells me that price ain’t sustainable.
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by ttul 2y ago
The Gmail engineering team is perhaps 500 strong based on various estimates that try to exclude team members who work on Google Workspace more broadly. At Google’s median pay of $300K, the cost is very approximately $150M/yr to enginee
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by ttul 2y ago
If your email address was a secret known only to your existing contacts then how does someone reach you if they don’t already know you?
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by ttul 2y ago
Protocols aren’t going to change that. Email has to be open or it won’t work. But being open means there is abuse. And abuse means there is reputation. And reputation… means you will be blocked sometimes.
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by ttul 2y ago
I run one of the largest email sending services on the internet. I have been living the “mess” of internet email for over 20 years. Here’s the thing: despite the internet’s email system being complex and confusing and riddled with problems,
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by ttul 2y ago
Real change requires legislation.
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Furthermore, it’s increasingly clear that OpenAI is doing a “bottom-up” challenge to Microsoft and Google. I would not be surprised at all if OpenAI launches an email service to compete with Gmail, imbued with a fine-tuned model that is opt
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by ttul 2y ago
According to the paper, the "registers" are additional learnable tokens that are appended to the input sequence of a Vision Transformer model during training. They are added after the patch embedding layer, with a learnable value,
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by ttul 2y ago
Many thanks for the encouraging comments.
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by ttul 2y ago
An NVIDIA RTX 4090 generates 73 TFLOPS. This iPad gives you nearly half that. The memory bandwidth of 120 GBps is roughly 1/10th of the NVIDIA hardware, but who’s counting!
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by ttul 2y ago
I’d love to see whether you could tease out heart rate and respiration from this data. If you already wear an Apple Watch or Fitbit, that data is continually collected. Shoving everything into a time series model with enough samples might d
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by ttul 2y ago
Netanyahu's ongoing corruption trial looms large over all of this. If he were to lose power, he would be far more vulnerable to conviction and potential imprisonment. So from this vantage point, the Al Jazeera ban could be seen as an a
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by ttul 2y ago
It’s fair to say that the CTO’s job is to make sure Microsoft never misses a trend. Their number one existential threat is a new tech trend that makes their existing model fail. Whether that thing is the rise of smart phones or generative A
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by ttul 2y ago
Long ago, I worked on the operating system for a desk phone. With only 64K of RAM, there was no dynamic memory management whatsoever. We made heavy use of static variables and let the compiler figure out how to allocate everything at compil
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by ttul 2y ago
I remember reading about this concept in a kids book about “the future” published by Usborne in the mid-1980s.
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by ttul 2y ago
Seems plausible to me. The taxi drivers kept Uber and Lyft out for longer than any other city in North America.
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by ttul 2y ago
I’m not saying a CEO group is a replacement for venture capital. You can join a group of CEOs whose companies are all venture backed. As for ensuring parasites don’t join your group… that can’t be guaranteed.
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by ttul 2y ago
It’s plausible in the minds of the taxi drivers, and that’s all that matters for getting reelected in the fall.
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by ttul 3y ago
What you have to understand about B.C. is that the winning political party has to appease the voters in a few concentrated ridings where a large number of people earn a living in the personal transportation business, driving taxis and Ubers
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by ttul 3y ago
Join a CEO group and set up a cross-holding of stock between the companies in the group. Now you’re all digging for gold at the same time. You don’t have to be a VC and you also don’t have to be that person with 26 lifetimes to spare.
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by ttul 3y ago
A WASM-based PDF viewer may have security advantages over a native PDF viewer such as the viewer embedded in Safari or Chrome. I wonder if anyone has put MuPDF into a browser extension?
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by ttul 3y ago
This person should just use Linux.

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