MauranKilom

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by MauranKilom 1y ago
But you posted this to a site that is literally called Hacker News... To be clear, I am not supporting any attempt at undermining your project, but people are pointing out to you that your results will be called into question if your only
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
Because no message has ever had its meaning twisted by overzealous spellcheck. No ducking way.
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
I don't have much to contribute, but the name "Rephsis" seems borderline unpronounceable to me (maybe that's why the empire is crumbling? :P). I don't know whether you had some inspiration behind it, but to me it
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
Do they? I think it's mainly about how much energy you are willing to invest into making rational decisions over emotional/"gut" ones. I mean, in the end, it probably doesn't matter which kind of shaving cream you b
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
In other words, you introduce an invalid state to every object and make constructing objects a lot more cumbersome. The first is the exact opposite of the (imo highly desirable) "make invalid states unrepresentable" principle, and
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
Thanks for this, it provides an intriguing approach to thinking about transformers (or predictors in general)! For extracting the fractal from the residual stream, did I understand it correctly as follows: You repeatedly sample the transfor
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
> I think that they should not have allowed to overload = and , operators Comma operator I would agree is really only used for shenanigans. But operator= is as crucial as the copy/move constructors for ownership, so I'm not sur
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
As a younger programmer, I used to listen to people hating about everything C++ does, offers, or wants to be. Specifically https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ [1]. Then I tasted the RAII (probably up there with Dynamic Programm
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
Regardless of all the "he said, she said", libel or not libel, email response times, GMP, threats and whatever drama: Is there anyone who is seriously contesting the "it is intended to cure/prevent a disease, therefore i
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by MauranKilom 2y ago
FWIW, "number of flights you take" also drowns out your eating habits in environmental impact. Compared to how much they cost, flights have stupid CO2 equivalents. However, I don't know why you are comparing a single billiona
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
Don't you think that we would be able to observe some anisotropy in the data if that were the case? (Note: I have no clue, but it seems unlikely...)
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
If you (or anyone reading it) include yourself in that "we", you can help with taking that step by writing and/or donating to the nonprofits that are driving these cases. Like the ICCL that posted this article, or e.g. NYOB (
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Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results(arxiv.org)
2 points by MauranKilom 3y ago|0 comments
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
As a notable example, the MP3 format was hand-tuned to vocals based on "Tom's Diner" (i.e. a female voice). It has been accused of being biased towards female vocals as a result.
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The Development Abstraction Layer(joelonsoftware.com)
3 points by MauranKilom 3y ago|0 comments
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
I find this post very highly accurate in my personal experience (minus the "do it on a Saturday" part). And this is in a company whose departees often tend to eventually return precisely because it's actually not among the &q
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
> even humans hallucinate massively Simpler example: Dreams.
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
A fair comparison (on a technical level) to GPT-4 RAG would be a doctor in a relevant field who also has internet access. I think this would be indeed interesting to compare to assess the resulting quality of care, so to speak! (The other m
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
Agreed - I am a bit troubled by the maintainer stance here, even if they have to wade through a bunch of AI nonsense every day and this report is fluffed up way too hard. "We assume 64 bit overflow is not going to happen because nobody
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
The OpenAI announcement mentions being able to provide an image to start the video generation process from. That sounds to me like it will actually be incredibly easy to anchor the video generation to some consistent visual - unlike all the
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
FYI on https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116089 : `inline` first and foremost affects the One Definition Rule. Very briefly put: If you have a function defined (!) in a header (and call it in
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
At least the image scaling does not appear to be in linear? Going by the notes in [0]: Gimp and stb_image_resize results are subtly different from others, even for Bilinear. Looks like they do convert source sRGB image to linear, do f
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
Arguably, minimal frequency + phase adjusted so the falling sinusoid has only negative values in the playing area is "more optimal" (more room for error).
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
Two big question marks after reading this and the linked home page (partially pointed out in other comments): - If there's a flaw in your application code that causes a crash (as is the motivating example in the essay), then restoring
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
I hear it's one of the factors regarding the location of Intel's upcoming German fab.
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
That's an interesting project, going to keep an eye on it! I have a hobby/DIY project involving sending several hundred UDP packets per second to various ESP32s across the house (driving LED strips live based on music playing on m
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
My wireless headphones get an unbearable amount of pops and cracks when I'm wearing them close to my (running) microwave. But since I wear them virtually always, I am in effect virtually never next to my microwave when it's on :)
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
Most recently, I was using bash.org as my go-to non-HTTPS site for captive portal purposes (back when HTTPS Everywhere was a useful extensions). But the built-into-Firefox HTTPS only treatment handles captive portals gracefully already, so
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
I am well aware of the techniques you mention, and intimitely familiar with inspecting include trees under the light of "does it make sense for this code to be recompiled if this code changes?", particularly across module boun
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by MauranKilom 3y ago
I agree with the thrust of your argument that there are a lot of compile-time-encapsulation tools you can employ to reduce build times. However, I will still challenge you on your build time/object size claim. Take a codebase structure

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