DougBTX

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by DougBTX 22d ago
April last year
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by DougBTX 1mo ago
Yeah, we’re in a funny position. By all accounts it is fair use (at least in the US) to train models (and build search indexes, e.g. Google Books), but sharing the books dataset itself is absolutely forbidden (clear non-transformative copyi
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by DougBTX 3mo ago
Oh, thanks, that’s interesting, I thought it covered that too!
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by DougBTX 3mo ago
> GPUs put the associativity of the sums in matrix multiplications in arbitrary order That’s user-controlled too, not an inherent property of GPUs: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.12/generated/torch.use_det
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by DougBTX 4mo ago
The weights are code, the prompt is code, the output is code. Is the meat code?
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by DougBTX 5mo ago
Zed is also released under GPL 3: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/LICENSE-GPL
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by DougBTX 5mo ago
Here's the page for the notebooks-with-maps: https://www.moleskine.com/en-us/shop/limited-editions/the-lo...
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by DougBTX 5mo ago
> In this case it’s a relatively small dependency so it’s not the end of the world, but it’s the exact same principle. An alternative world-view is: "A little copying is better than a little dependency," from https:/&#x2F
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by DougBTX 8mo ago
The train/test split is one of the fundamental building blocks of current generation models, so they’re assuming familiarity with that. At a high level, training takes in training data and produces model weights, and “test time” takes
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by DougBTX 8mo ago
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not! Radio buttons support keyboard navigation without JS.
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by DougBTX 8mo ago
> but how is the result "stored" Like this: https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index
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by DougBTX 10mo ago
Spicy: > Use caution when using the manual door release; the window will not automatically lower when the door is opened and damage to the window or vehicle trim may occur. Manually opening the rear doors is a destructive operation!
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by DougBTX 10mo ago
Yes, from the article: > To support the cluster’s massive scale, we relied on a proprietary key-value store based on Google’s Spanner distributed database... We didn’t witness any bottlenecks with respect to the new storage system and it
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by DougBTX 10mo ago
> Then you can roast the meat pieces in a closed glass vessel It sounds like this is steamed meat, as opposed to roasted. Your cooking time seems to match a quick search for steamed chicken recipes: https://tiffycooks.com&#x2F
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by DougBTX 10mo ago
From https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/ > In 2022, the fatality rate for people traveling by air was .003 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The death rate people in passenger cars
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by DougBTX 11mo ago
> I want everything that passes through a function to be a copy unless I put in a symbol or keyword that it suppose to be passed by reference. JavaScript doesn’t have references, it is clearer to only use “passed by reference” terminolog
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by DougBTX 11mo ago
Perhaps it has to be that way, the motivation to build a mechanical computer is based on the belief that computation can be mechanised.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
1999, $25 million investment: https://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/06/google-receives-25-... 2000, launched ads: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads 2001, profitable: https:/&#x
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by DougBTX 1y ago
> Our package-lock.json specified the stable version 1.3.2 or newer Is that possible? I thought the lock files restricted to a specific version with an integrity check hash. Is it possible that it would install a newer version which does
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by DougBTX 1y ago
With binary vectors, 20 dimensions will get you just over a million concepts. For a billion you’ll need 30 questions.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
> they often automatically pluralize, with the predictable result of seeing tables with names like addresss. This is a very poor example, that case is literally in their unit tests file: https://github.com/rails/rail
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Agreed. The article makes many references to how life would be better with explicit well-defined interfaces… but types are how we explicitly define interfaces. For example, Rust borrow checking isn’t to add complexity, it is to make it poss
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by DougBTX 1y ago
“Incomplete” seems like a better word than “incorrect” for this. The code is likely correct in the narrow scope it was needed for, but is missing features (and error checking!) beyond the happy path, making it easy to use incorrectly.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
These UI elements (including the keyboard!) already blur their background, so that’s not a new cost. My 5 year old phone handles those fine. The distortion looks fancy, but since the shape of the UI elements is mostly-constant I’d expect th
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Here's an attempt at that: The GPU is responsible for blending layers of the interface together. Liquid glass adds a distortion effect on top of the effects currently used, so that when the GPU combines layers, it takes values from (x
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by DougBTX 1y ago
> Whereas complexity is a measure of how far ahead I can reasonably expect to calculate So complexity is something like: high branching factor after culling “obvious” branches?
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by DougBTX 1y ago
I suspect there is some /sarcasm in the parent post, the “techies” have already shipped crypto public ledgers which these scam sites use to steal their victim’s funds. Can it be sufficiently de-anonymised to do this analysis?
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by DougBTX 1y ago
That’s one of the interesting things about innovation, you have to believe that things are possible before they have been done.
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by DougBTX 1y ago
> Are the AI companies really living in an echo chamber? The author tested 12 models, and only one was consistently wrong. More than half were correct 100% of the time. A better conclusion would be that there’s something in particular wr
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by DougBTX 1y ago
Absolutely fine, as long as the success flag is predicted by the model ensemble under test. That’s how Claude Code works for example, it will continue to iterate until success (or it will give up with failure at a certain point).

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