Agingcoder

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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   Yes. Even 15-20 years ago, parts of Iran / Pakistan ( Baluchistan) were very tricky, and while on the road I met people who got kidnapped and eventually ransomed. Afghanistan was of course not a recommended path either. I think in the
2. 392.▲
   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   Édit : he had been in a car accident, and couldn’t use his right arm.
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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   Many years ago I was traveling around Asia and came across a Spanish traveler called Samuel who was walking from Barcelona to Kathmandu. I don’t know if he made it, but he made a lasting impression on me.
4. 394.▲
   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   I agree with this including the unpopular opinion.
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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   Yep I owned a 40 meg drive. I remember when very large applications appeared (50 megs) wondering how it was even at all possible, and whether it made sense. It also meant lots of highly unreliable floppies !
6. 396.▲
   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   You didn’t get sick ?
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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   What’s political bias ? ´left wing’ and ´right wing ´ mean completely different things in Europe and in the US , so I have a hard time understanding how you can give a global answer to that question for a global ´AI ´ ( yes I know it’s not
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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   RIP :-)
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   by Agingcoder 3y ago

   Do you have any example ?
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I remember something similar ie an acquaintance of mine who was ´introduced’. He used to aggregate orders and forward them to his main provider, who eventually got busted, at which point my acquaintance stopped. I remember thinking that thi
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    That was my initial reaction as well. Counting bits arises quite naturally in many places.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I’m unable to recognize any of them, with the exception of ( I think ) Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    No you’re right. If memory serves me well, I used to switch between Slackware 3, redhat 2 and Debian 1.2(?) at about that time. I never liked redhat, enjoyed Slackware but ended up not enjoying the lack of a package manager, so Debian did t
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I agree with you, but eventually realized there was a specific reason. RPGs at that time were much less immersive, so much so that I had no interest whatsoever in the genre. And no I neither enjoyed eye of the beholder 2, nor lands of lore,
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Yes both Pike and Lemire are correct ( scaling, not the real issue etc ). I used to not like debuggers. Then pernosco ( omniscient debugger by Rob O Callahan and Kyle Huey ) happened - it’s incredible.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I loved it - I used to run it in the 90s.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    It depends on the size of your company. If it has 200k employees, you can mutualize the salaries of your dbas. There are also intermediate steps between ´build your own dc’ and ´run everything in was’. You will build monitoring tools anyway
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Yes, this is absolutely thrilling. I can’t help looking for the latest development everyday.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    This is a very interesting discussion. I agree with you. I’m an application developer but I’ve had to debug what I consider to be very hard issues ( network driver bugs, kernel bugs, compiler bugs, hardware bugs, etc ), every time in what I
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    This is interesting. I think though that the first option eventually leaks though, and that (unfortunately) you will have to spend time debugging things, sometimes at great cost for really sophisticated abstractions. The tradeoff, and the t
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Yes it does - gpt 4 is vastly superior to gpt 3.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    It’s interesting. It looks like if you’re trying to improve the accuracy/perplexity of the model and using fp32 it doesn’t make a difference , but if you want to quantize it/make it compressible a modified soft max makes a huge di
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Edit: they were quite common, and just about everyone around me eventually got one.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I encountered my first virus I think around 1991. I don’t remember the name of the virus, but I do know I had to learn to format a disk, and reinstall DOS. A few years later I came across a computer virus zoo on one my friends computer - I
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I think academia is political because it’s a very small world, and chronically underfunded, so people fight. If there were loads of open positions, with unlimited research budgets, and decent salaries, I hope they wouldn’t fight and there w
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Academia infighting politics mainly - my sentence was indeed very ambiguous.
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I remember talking to one my professors about this particular research topic I found interesting, and that I’d be interested in working with prof X about this topic. I was told that it was a great idea, it was also important that I understa
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. :-)
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    Edit: I’m essentially self taught as well, apart from one class about algorithms. To a large extent, reading books about old tech is still interesting- you’ll just have a better appreciation of what you have now, how it came to be, and what
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    by Agingcoder 3y ago

    I agree with this. After compressing one my nerves quite nastily ( right hand wouldn’t move ) I invested what was at the time a significant amount of money into a keyboard ( kinesis). Best money I’ve ever spent!