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by wyager 2y ago
First, worth noting that "the EM field" (the thing that shows up in the wave equation) in this case is specifically the EM 4-potential. This doesn't work if you try to treat "the EM field" as the strength of the E a
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by wyager 2y ago
Photons have their spacial frequency directly locked to their temporal frequency. Temporal frequency f Spacial frequency k f = k * c Dimensional analysis: t^-1 = l^-1 * l t^-1
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by wyager 2y ago
I studied wave mechanics in college, but the origin of mass didn't click for me until several years later (and in fact I don't believe it was every brought up in the context of wave mechanics, which seems like a problem in retrosp
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by wyager 2y ago
You've missed the point of my comment. It has no normative claims, unlike your angry invective about rights. I'm just pointing out that the inevitable consequence of these new regulatory regimes is a nationally siloed internet. Yo
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by wyager 2y ago
The thing that made a global internet possible is that it was understood that sending bits over a wire is different from shipping physical goods. The customs regime for physical goods is prohibitively expensive for bits. I'm not intere
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by wyager 2y ago
I'm not going to address your comment at the object level; I'm just going to point out that you've missed the point of my comment entirely. My comment is descriptive (the internet is going to become nationally siloed) not nor
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by wyager 2y ago
We are fortunate to have lived through a brief period where the internet was truly a global network. A person in the Netherlands or Nigeria [1] could access the best technology services the world had to offer. People could more or less inte
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by wyager 2y ago
How do you compile that on a new platform?
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by wyager 2y ago
Correct, libraries do have to either pick a specific async IO library or use a trait for async IO. I have seen some of the latter in embedded-land, although I'm not sure if it's used in desktop async rust as well. The rust compile
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by wyager 2y ago
Rust has settled into an excellent design niche where the language does not provide any features that require a language runtime. Rust's async/await is a purely compile-time feature, with no runtime support required. This is extre
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by wyager 2y ago
> whilst people are getting poorer their access to resources has been scaling well enough to keep them above the poverty line Defining poverty as "wealth relative to the richest person on earth" or whatever you're doing he
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by wyager 2y ago
If he read it at the same age range I did, then a 13 year old certainly seemed like a man by comparison.
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by wyager 2y ago
Great. This looks like it may address some problems I've written about in the iPhone photo pipeline: http://yager.io/comp/comp.html https://petapixel.com/2023/02/04/the-limits-of-com
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by wyager 2y ago
Thanks, will check this out.
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by wyager 2y ago
I'm looking for a music app (streaming or otherwise) that supports what seems to me like a basic feature, but which seems to be unsupported in anything I've tried. I want the ability to shuffle my library/play the latest rele
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by wyager 2y ago
> all problems that we want to feed to an LLM therefore must be translated to autocomplete. I don't disagree with this, but I do disagree with this earlier statement: > The further you get from autocomplete, the less reliable the
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by wyager 2y ago
> We know how LLMs work fundamentally We know how they work only at the lowest level (the arithmetic operations) and the highest level (the optimization criterion and the representation of various layers, like the input/output layer
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by wyager 2y ago
> I'm literally describing how inference is done. You are very clearly not doing that. Nothing about your comment had anything to do with the internal structure of LLMs. I believe you that you've set up some models with pytorch
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by wyager 2y ago
You are making a very popular mistake: confusing the training procedure for LLMs (autocomplete) with "how they work"/their internal ontology (mostly unknown). When we teach children how to do arithmetic, we have them predict
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by wyager 2y ago
> It’s possible to write a language without it Whenever you do that, programmers deride the language for being "excessively academic" or something
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by wyager 2y ago
I would also strongly suggest using a modern higher level HDL like clash or amaranth over raw-dogging it with VHDL or (System)Verilog.
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by wyager 2y ago
Irish and scots-irish aren't the same thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans
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by wyager 2y ago
Zscaler is such insane garbage. Legitimately one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. If your organization is structurally competent, it will never use Zscaler and will just use wireguard or something.
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by wyager 2y ago
The scots-irish were one of the 4 largest ethnic groups at the time of the declaration of independence and are arguably the single biggest differentiating factor from other anglo colonies like aus and NZ. Not sure where you're getting
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by wyager 2y ago
Australia is an aberration (I can go into it in more detail if you'd like), but for the most part, the reason the US is (substantially) economically better off than most European countries (like the UK, where the GGP is from) is inextr
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by wyager 2y ago
We're good, thanks
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by wyager 2y ago
You're doing extremely simple constant arithmetic here. GHC can optimize this type of thing away to nothing as well. Are we talking about contrived examples or real numerical bottlenecks?
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by wyager 2y ago
The reality is that for any language, including C, compiler optimized code will never be as fast as hand optimized code in libraries like BLAS. So at some level, the choice of host language doesn't matter very much, because you're
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by wyager 2y ago
> The only mechanism besides ionization that could harm humans [is heat] This claim is, IMO, too strong given available evidence. There are many chemical interactions with characteristic energies well below 1eV, or any reasonable thresho
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by wyager 2y ago
> The amount of cars Americans have on absurd loans is entirely irrelevant to their personal wealth or lack thereof. The allocation of debt is essentially irrelevant - there are materially more, bigger, better cars per capita in the USA.

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