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by wrsh07 2y ago
This is an absolutely ridiculous take. Look at Arianespace: https://videopress.com/embed/DYF1wrn8?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&au... Is there any world where any western government created reusable rockets by 2025 w
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Let's talk about the article and then dark matter, I guess: > We’ve always been taught that the fundamental constants of nature — like the speed of light or the charge of an electron — are unchanging. But what if they aren’t fixed a
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by wrsh07 2y ago
My usual statement on monads is "like any abstraction, it makes sense when you need it" If you write a lot of go code and think "this error management (!= nil anybody?) is a drag, there has to be a better way! The truth is: g
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Largely orthogonal to your comment: One interesting thing I learned/realized when reading about the msr dafny project is that for loops mean you need to provide guarantees about invariants. How do I know there's no index out of bo
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by wrsh07 2y ago
As someone who likes math (math major, applied math grad) and who picked up functional programming relatively early in my career, I don't find this model (fp is just math) to improve my understanding or make it easier to understand why
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by wrsh07 2y ago
This entire conversation is about tradeoffs, but I would note that some of my favorite engineers that I've had the pleasure of knowing are: 1) very fast and 2) know exactly what the binary code of the thing they are trying to do looks
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by wrsh07 2y ago
It's been a while since I read the belgariad and I don't think I ever picked up the mallorean. Thanks for reminding me about those books!
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Prompting Claude 3.5 to behave like o1(medium.com)
1 points by wrsh07 2y ago|1 comments
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by wrsh07 2y ago
It's possible the better link is to the GitHub this was based on: https://github.com/bklieger-groq/g1 However the writeup is interesting in its own right, I think
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Ok let me try to unpack what I'm saying so that we're on the same page: 1. Until c++ [toolchains] do an abi break, you will find better performance in libraries like boost/folly/absl than in the STL. Titus wrote about th
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Microbenchmark suite is very different from fleet wide profiling The whole point of switching every single use of unordered map to node/flat hash map is because it is always better. It always uses less memory (much less memory per node
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by wrsh07 2y ago
I think it starts simple. Have you ever been watching a movie or tv show, and it shows the people walking up to the helicopter or Lamborghini and then cut to "they've arrived at their destination no transportation in sight"?
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Self driving cars are quite safe and ubiquitous if you're in the right cities
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Lol this is so incorrect it's almost funny. Google saved something like single digit % of CPU and memory fleet wide by switching to this map. That's not a micro benchmark
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SLS is still a national disgrace(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
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Another example is hash maps: all the large companies built better maps in cpp (folly, absl), but the number of apps that are performance sensitive and still use std::unordered_map will be astounding forever. (Why not upstream? ABI compatib
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Hypothetical situation: Suppose in five or ten years we achieve AGI and >90% of people agree that we have AGI. What reasons do the authors of this paper give for being wrong? 1. They are in the 10% that deny AGI exists 2. LLMs are doing
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by wrsh07 2y ago
I would note that Facebook and Google were opposed to eg gdpr although it gave them a larger share of the pie. When framed like that: why be opposed, it hurts your competition? The answer is something like: it shrinks the pie or reduces the
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by wrsh07 2y ago
If you're in the ocean and your ship breaks down and another ship adjusts its plans to come pick you up, is that a rescue? If there were no changes needed to the subsequent flight to accommodate two additional riders, sure, not a rescu
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by wrsh07 2y ago
As a fan, it absolutely sucks to have your team throw. This isn't just a gambling problem, having your team tank to get top draft picks also sucks. But if you enjoy the sport, you probably enjoy it in a "may the best player/t
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by wrsh07 2y ago
You can run llamafile as a server, too, right? Still need to download gguf files if you don't use one of their premade binaries, but if you haven't set up llm to hit the running llamafile server I'm sure that's easy to d
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by wrsh07 2y ago
I always find it fascinating! Much like it is important in a museum of natural history to note "science isn't finished, some of these things are still under research" it's important to contextualize the painting you see
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Clean RL is a great library if you're looking to get started doing some deep reinforcement learning! That plus gymnasium are pretty standard. It's good for the world if we keep publishing improvements and optimizations to understa
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Thanks - I think I misread your initial response. Yes, the context matters a lot. One of the frustrations with this conversation (and this is a thing that happens sometimes and doesn't other times - I don't mean to say this is alw
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by wrsh07 2y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure where I used either term If you want, I will though: in the document, Jimmy says he wants to create the biggest YouTube channel. By that metric (his own!) he has succeeded.
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by wrsh07 2y ago
I actually think this document gives an incredible look at the kind of culture that Jimmy is intentionally cultivating!! There are lots of startups in SV looking for "cracked engineers" and frankly this sounds a bit like that!
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Please indulge my hypothetical situation: there is a company that produces many very expensive videos every week and make a lot of money from each one. Every single video they make is a hit. In this hypothetical situation, I would be impres
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by wrsh07 2y ago
The fact that I find the first chapter of When We Cease to Understand the World (the world war 1 bit) to be breathtaking/haunting maybe tells you everything you need to know (The book is historical fiction)
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by wrsh07 2y ago
I found the top level comment to highlight useful ideas. Operationally, so many people would benefit from understanding bottlenecks, critical components, etc It feels a little silly to say "a more ethical organization doesn't deal
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I'm surprised you've never had a hypothetical conversation

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