GrantMoyer

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by GrantMoyer 8mo ago
The idea is that NPUs are more power efficient for convolutional neural network operations. I don't know whether they actually are more power efficent, but it'd be wrong to dismiss them just because they don't unlock new ca
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by GrantMoyer 9mo ago
Even with modern digital codecs and streaming, there's usually chroma subsampling[1], so the color channels may have non-square "pixels" even if overall pixels are nominally square. I most often see 4:2:0 subsampling, which s
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by GrantMoyer 9mo ago
> This metalanguage must have some kind of constructs to describe unknown things, or things that are deliberately simplified in favor of exposition. Perhaps you're thinking of mathematics. If you have to be able to represent arbitra
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by GrantMoyer 10mo ago
Linux supports per-process namespaces too, and has tools like firejail to use them for sandboxing, but nonetheless sandboxing is not widely used.
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by GrantMoyer 10mo ago
> if digital painting were solved not by a machine learning model, but human-readable code, it would be an even more bleak and cruel joke, isn't it? On the contrary, I'm certain such a program would be filled with fascinating t
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by GrantMoyer 10mo ago
I largely agree with this, but at the same time, I empathize with the FA's author. I think it's because LLMs feel categorically different from other technological leaps I've been exited about. The recent results in LLMs and d
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by GrantMoyer 10mo ago
Test successful?
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by GrantMoyer 11mo ago
Thanks for organizing for me my thoughts on why even a restricted modern subset of C++ is complicated.
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by GrantMoyer 11mo ago
Ditto. It's also significantly lighter weight than competing readers (at least when I bought mine), has physical buttons, has color models, and has really good battery life possibly because it runs a custom Linux instead of Android.
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by GrantMoyer 11mo ago
Like the author, I've also found myself wanting to recover an accidentally deleted file. Luckily, some git operations, like `git add` and `git stash`, store files in the repo, even if they're not ultimately committed. Eventually,
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
I'm not the author, but these video-in-game projects typically work with a few phases: 1. Get the game into a specific state by performing specific actions, moving to specific positions, performing specific inputs, etc. so that a porti
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
There's a somewhat easier way to implement 2-argument-function flip in C++ than the blog post provides: #include <functional> constexpr auto flip(const auto& f) { return std::bind(f, std::placeholders::_2, std::plac
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Docker Engine without Docker Desktop is available through winget as "Docker CLI"[1]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Pyright catches an awful lot of dumb mistakes I make in Python.
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Is there any reason to explicitly train for role reversal? Can't you instead swap the input labels on any instruct tuned LLM? The model is trained on both sides of the chat log either way, right?
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Rust bindgen[1] will automatically generate native Rust stucts (and unions) from C headers where possible. Note that c_int, c_char, etc. are just aliases for the corresponding native Rust types. However, not all C constructs have idomatic R
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Try Arch Linux. It hits all your points except maybe 5. 1. It symlinks redundant bin and lib directories to /usr/bin, and its packages don't install anything to /usr/local. 2. You can keep most config files in &#x2F
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
There's no implied license because the news site that told them to use the image — through the OpenGraph protocol — is (supposedly) not the rights holder.
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
I don't think that can explain why they're only targeting certain sub-categories of porn, and it's also contradictory to the public statements by Valve: > We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate t
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
I'd love for Helix to implement a "Kakoune mode". I develop on Windows at work, where Kakoune is not ideal, so Helix seems like it'd be a perfect fit, except I can't get over the keybindings. Its keybinding philosop
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
> On average the precision is equal. The mantissa just adds linear segments to a logarithmic curve. Yes, exactly; the linear regions are needed to more evenly distribute precision, while the average precision remains the same. Alternativ
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Without a mantissa, way too much precision is allocated to the near zero range and not enough to the "near infinity" range. Consider that without a mantissa, the second largest float is only half of the largest float. With a 23 bi
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Haskell has `bottom`[1] (see also [2]), which acts like Rust's `return` from a type checking perspective. I wouldn't call using a uninhabited type for the type of a return expression theoretically inelegant. On the contrary, I fin
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
My phone is not the only device I use my ear buds with. Having to contantly attach and remove a usb-c adapter would be a complete pain in the ass. It's not just a matter of plugging it in — which would already be bad enough. I'd a
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Any law that allows a government to renounce people's citizenship for broad, vague reasons is a very, very bad law. Regardless of its intentions, it will be used as a tool to subvert the rights of citizens even outside the target group
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
The problem with this is that once enough people are paying for an ad-free subscription, services reintroduce ads to the paid subscription, sometimes alongside the introduction of a new more expensive ad-free subscriotion.
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
It depends on how styleable the <permission> element ends up. I don't imagine any website will use it if it's limited to being an ugly default button with non-configurable text. But if the button is configurable enough, ther
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Google's trial has "allow on every visit" and "allow this time", but "block on every visit" is conspicuously missing.
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
I think it's probably just really hard to diagnose uncommon diseases in people (although endometriosis in particular may be fairly common). I have trouble diagnosing some bugs in software at my job; I imagine it's much harder to d
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by GrantMoyer 1y ago
Claude Plays Pokemon is kind of an interesting case study for this. This sort of knowledgebase is implemented, but even state of the art models struggle to use it effectively. They seem to fixate on small snippets from the knowledge base wi

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