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by wwarner 2y ago
Great read. I knew as soon as I saw EBITDA that Amazon would be used as an example, but the savings for prepaying for beef blew me away.
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by wwarner 2y ago
Not an expert, but it could be that if the radius of a quark star grows slowly enough, then a very massive one would have a schwarzchild radius that is bigger than the star, making it a black hole but without a collapsed singularity.
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by wwarner 2y ago
There’s also Filippo Valsorda linking directly to Rust via .a files. https://words.filippo.io/rustgo/
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by wwarner 2y ago
nice writeup! and witty reparté!
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by wwarner 2y ago
Wonderful article. I’m seeing two Nobels awarded for research into immunotherapy. Best of all, immunotherapy probably saved my sister from stage 4 cancer.
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by wwarner 2y ago
IMO, the real headache is installing the supporting binaries ripgrep, fzf, lsp, tree-sitter, native-compilation, etc. I agree that emacs config should hew as close as possible to the defaults, and my init.el is pretty small. For the binarie
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by wwarner 2y ago
23 watts.
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by wwarner 2y ago
Seems a bit upside down to me -- the Narrative doesn't provide meaning, but rather Meaningful Things drive the Narrative.
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by wwarner 2y ago
"Multiverse Analysis" is a terrible name, that can only introduce confusion, even if it increases readership. This methodology is more about machine learning than it is about covering all possible worlds. I'm also suspicious
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by wwarner 2y ago
dude thanks
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Douglas Gough: Probing inside the sun [video](youtube.com)
3 points by wwarner 2y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
I suppose, except that for a model of 7B parameters, the number of combinations of dropout that you'd be analyzing is 7B factorial. More importantly, dropout has loss minimization to guide it during training, whereas understanding how
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by wwarner 2y ago
Yes, lots of activity in the space. I thought you were saying it was a dumb problem, but I was wrong. I think this is a great paper.
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by wwarner 2y ago
well that's exactly the point -- no such result is available for language models.
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by wwarner 2y ago
huge. the activation scan, which looks for which nodes change the most when prompted with the words "Golden Gate Bridge" and later an image of the same bridge, is eerily reminiscent of a brain scan under similar prompts...
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by wwarner 2y ago
I think LISA Pathfinder showed that it's possible to phase lock lasers over very long distances as long as they are in a stable orbit. It's basically a metal cube in freefall surrounded a proximity sensor, so that as the sensor dr
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by wwarner 2y ago
A relative recently received immunotherapy for cancer that was spread all throughout their body, even protruding past the collarbone and visible under the skin. A little more than one year later, they have been off chemo for six months and
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by wwarner 2y ago
Singing is fun, I'd probably give in after a while.
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by wwarner 2y ago
We can feel superior to the past, but by the same logic, how will the past judge us? I suppose it depends on what problems we manage to solve in the future; i.e. the future will have a lot of the same problems we have today, but which ones?
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by wwarner 2y ago
A great scientist. Rest peacefully Prof Simons. He probably deserved the Nobel for Chern-Simons theory.
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by wwarner 2y ago
They keep saying all-you-can-eat shrimp was a bad idea and I don’t understand how that’s possible.
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Rob Landley: The Rise and Fall of Copyleft (2013) [audio](ia803008.us.archive.org)
2 points by wwarner 2y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
I visited Bilbao a few years back and the claim then was that Basque Country had the highest average income in Spain. Today Wikipedia [0] lists it as second. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_lists_of_Spanish_aut
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by wwarner 2y ago
Clever fix, very smart that the system supports this degree of remote patching.
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by wwarner 2y ago
What is the point of a dual license if you can't pay for the commercial rights which guarantee that you're not infringing on the copyleft license? Whoever I spoke to at Artifex [0] several years ago told me the terms of the commer
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by wwarner 2y ago
I tried paying for muPDF a few years ago and it was way way more than my company could afford. Had to use a different system that was not dual licensed.
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Filippo Valsorda: NIST post-quantum signature algorithms(abyssdomain.expert)
1 points by wwarner 2y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 2y ago
A great book. There’s a scene in which a message was to be delivered to the commander and the messenger was startled to realize that Grant, in muddy boots without a coat, was the recipient. The war started with generals with shiny buttons a
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by wwarner 2y ago
this is important as it collects and reports its references. a) it’s the correct paradigm for using llms. b) through human interactions, it can learn from its mistakes.
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DJB and Lange: Post-Quantum Cryptography: Detours, delays, and disasters (2022) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments

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