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by vegabook 2y ago
He did say ‘I think’ so not speaking for the whole world
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by vegabook 2y ago
> "To fix this fragmentation of package formats, two new formats have been introduced...Snap and Flatpak" The Nix package manager trounces these two options utterly and completely for anything that's not GUI-based, and eve
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by vegabook 2y ago
The point is that the dGPU will _become_ the PC, and it essentially has been the PC for a while now, as you are essentially proving with your cybperpunk comment. Nvidia is preparing to SoC-up it's RTX cards with ARM cores and then it&#
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by vegabook 2y ago
as soon as someone puts 16GB of VRAM next to an SoC (Nvidia, soon), the gaming pc is dead. These hot 'n slow discrete components are fun to decorate with RGB but they're yesterday for _all_ segments.
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by vegabook 2y ago
AMD has been making SoCs forever. Why does it take a kick in the teeth from Apple for both Intel and AMD suddenly to wake up and give us performance SoCs, 5 years later? They've been coasting on the stone-age motherboard+cards arch bec
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by vegabook 2y ago
Geekbench Ryzen 9 7950x is 2930 max, so if we're generous and give the 9950x 15% uplift we'll be at 3380, which is still 400 points or so behind apple silicon for a much higher clock speed and a multiplier larger power draw. Also
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by vegabook 2y ago
you can store the main eigenvectors for a set rolling period and see how the space evolves along them, all the while also storing the new ones. In effect the whole idea is to get away from "individual security space" and into &quo
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by vegabook 2y ago
my experience is that while data keeps growing at an exponential rate, its information content does not. In finance at least, you can easily get 100 million data points per series per day if you want everything, and you might be dealing wit
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by vegabook 2y ago
This geez wants to lock us into Kitty vs cross-terminal TMUX? ... and withouth attach/detach?? Even a 386 running at 20 Mhz can trivially handle Tmux what's this whole "oh it has to parse keystrokes twice" malarkey?
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by vegabook 2y ago
you don't wanna forget wezterm which has a nice lua scripting language that allows you to do tons of fun stuff, and is otherwise super-minimal as well. Also happens to run everywhere including Windows and BSD.
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by vegabook 2y ago
actually, any number of crypto APIs will give you tens of millions of points per day, for free (though that was not our use case).
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by vegabook 2y ago
Seconded wezterm is such a great terminal and the lua scripting possibilities including communication with neovim, are really powerful. Also it runs everywhere even BSD. Have switched on all my systems.
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by vegabook 2y ago
indeed. Financial timeseries I was working with over 100 million new points, _per day_. For anything serious TimescaleDB is essentially not open source. Well done tembo.io crew -- will definitely give this a whirl.
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by vegabook 2y ago
NixOS fits the mold. The confidence it instills feels similar to when I moved from Windows to (Ubuntu) Linux.
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by vegabook 3y ago
Also AMD64
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by vegabook 3y ago
The company that did 4-cores-forever, has the opportunity to redeem itself, in its next consumer GPU release, by disrupting the "8-16GB VRAM forever" that AMD and Nvidia have been imposing on us for a decade. It would be poetic t
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by vegabook 3y ago
They benefit even more by not serially starting wars all over the world in the first place.
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by vegabook 3y ago
but does it have a REPL? Lots of BEAM's runtime interaction capability is lost without one.
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by vegabook 3y ago
I went with a CyberPower BR1200 which was about 150 pounds (circa 200 USD) but that's overkill because it will keep my pi+router going for several hours, whereas power-downs typically last less than 15 minutes max where I live and I h
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by vegabook 3y ago
a) Cable ethernet b) SSD (via USB3.0 adapter on my RPI4) c) Ubuntu Server LTS 22.04. d) cheap UPS. Mine runs Yggdrasil network, HAproxy, Caddy server, a couple of webservers in containers, and a TMUX instance that I log into
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by vegabook 3y ago
move fast and break things
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by vegabook 3y ago
nix-shell makes most of this go away, except the ollama files will still be in `~/.ollama` which you can delete at any time. nix-shell -p ollama in two tmux windows, then ollama serve in one and ollama run llama2
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by vegabook 3y ago
I'm interested in this too. While I note the (slightly chaotic) plethora of NIPs[0], and many of them look blockchainy, NIP-01 looks ultra pragmatic, simple, and flexible for a bunch of possibilities, and is the only one that is requir
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by vegabook 3y ago
PDF is objectively much better than HTML at rendering text documents. And it's not even close. This could easily have been done 10, even 15-20 years ago. That it didn't is not just inertia. Latex and PDF have enormously better tex
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by vegabook 3y ago
"Dead or Canadian" yes?
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by vegabook 3y ago
AMD has always been a terrible steward of ATI. They're fundamentally a hardware company (as per Lisa Su's CV) which didn't cotton on to the fact that Cuda was the killer. I remember how @Bridgman kept playing a rearguard acti
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by vegabook 3y ago
yeah WebGL definitely snappier. I wonder though why these 3d stacks are so awful at rendering lines/meshes. Aren't they supposed to be super-optimised for this kind of anti-aliasing work? I mean even blender can be a bit dodgy som
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by vegabook 3y ago
Wow the SVG rendering of AlexNet is excellent, far superior to the WebGL option. 3d in SVG -- must be some maths going on underneath.
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by vegabook 3y ago
I liked Stephen Wolfram's piece. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
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by vegabook 3y ago
I'm quite surprised that this point is not being made more. It's not like MSFT is the only shop that OpenAI can turn to, and you could argue that what will now happen is a full scale lobbying war will be now be waged by OpenAI bac

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