Mr_P

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by Mr_P 4mo ago
Android and Chrome need on-device AI capabilities. Google can't lock down those weights like it can with server-side ML. So it's easier to just release those models as open source and make it official, since someone would inevitab
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by Mr_P 5mo ago
How does this compare to Claude Managed Agents?
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by Mr_P 6mo ago
I had to double check that this wasn't an April Fools joke. The GitHub project has commits from 2 weeks ago, so it's not. Looking more closely though, this looks a lot like the Google "AI Cookie" from 2017, which also us
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by Mr_P 6mo ago
I looked around the repository, and it looks like it's just 3 regexes to strip whitespace or filler words: https://github.com/ARPAHLS/skillware/blob/main/skills/optimi...
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by Mr_P 2y ago
Years ago, my college multi variable calculus and linear algebra courses were both taught primarily using course materials that were interactive Mathematica Notebooks. We had access to all of the symbolic algebra tools and were even expecte
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by Mr_P 3y ago
Not really new news: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract (Oct 2023)
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by Mr_P 3y ago
Those same companies often invest in accessibility for vision-impaired users. I'm not sure you need a screen capture to scrape content when the site is designed to be navigable with a screen reader.
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by Mr_P 3y ago
For anyone else who was confused to see a paper use the same name as a commercial product, it looks like Google Gemini was announced in May, whereas this was submitted to SOSP that had an April submission deadline.
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by Mr_P 3y ago
GPU performance per dollar is only competitive for specific workloads. For extremely large scale compute, getting enough data center GPUs can also be challenging.
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by Mr_P 4y ago
What a convenient source of liquidity for the various drug cartels in El Salvador who need to launder their money.
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by Mr_P 4y ago
For all the hate that Java tends to get, the language natively supports this distinction between: * Expected errors - Checked Exceptions * Unexpected errors - Unchecked Exceptions Idiomatic Java also makes heavy use of asserts, e.g. using t
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by Mr_P 4y ago
I think they should have let him publish the paper. We've seen time and again that various trends in ML turn out to have actually been dead-ends. A few examples: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06356 https:/&#x2F
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by Mr_P 4y ago
This is literally the 'O' in SOLID. The key idea is to break code into "chunks" that each do one thing. Then, if you have to add a new feature, it goes into another chunk, instead of editing/modifying existing code.
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by Mr_P 4y ago
Microservices is just OOP/dependency-injection, but with RPCs instead of function calls. The same criticisms for microservices (claims that it adds complexity, or too many pieces) are also seen for OOP. Curiously, while folks sometimes
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by Mr_P 4y ago
It's not so much the existence of the flag, itself, but rather using an if-statement at the deepest-level of the call stack to conditionally modify behavior. This talk gives a great overview of why boolean flags (rather, if-statements)
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by Mr_P 4y ago
If you replace the word "bonus" with "promo", then you unfortunately get an eerily-accurate reflection of the state of FAANG companies.
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by Mr_P 4y ago
The author titled one of the sections "Midpoint circle algorithm". There happens to be a Wikipedia page on "Midpoint circle algorithm": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm The
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by Mr_P 4y ago
> unless you have some indication people are increasingly picking the competitor over you, or especially and more simply leaving you in favour of the competitor. If this happens, you've already lost. Software development has long l
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by Mr_P 5y ago
I'd bet someone just wanted to teach a course for fun and without compensation, but they had to formalize it and pose an actual job listing online for a month. Probably explains why the "Open date" & "Final date&quot
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by Mr_P 5y ago
There's a 2016 CppCon talk here about making C++ Modules work at scale for Google's 100Mloc mono repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFNpBfemDI So, apparently it can work. I don't don't how much Goog
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by Mr_P 5y ago
If generalized to 2D (and over the unit sphere), you'd get Google's S2 library ( https://s2geometry.io/ ). In 3D, the same can be done with morton codes (or a 3D hilbert curve) to build an implicit octree. Some ray
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by Mr_P 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Google's TPU's pushed them far over the edge on this. I'd bet TPUs running inference for Ads models can basically print money for the company. They've also already been building their own
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by Mr_P 6y ago
CLion (and other IDEs) have pretty good vim plugins: IdeaVim, VsVim , Vrapper. They're not perfect, but I also made the switch from vim to CLion and never looked back. With a half-decent plugin for editing text, there's not much v
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by Mr_P 6y ago
IOS 13 has a feature that can do something to that effect: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/facetime-feature-in-...
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by Mr_P 6y ago
Dependency injection systems (like Dagger or Guice) are essentially programming languages that specifically model this kind of initialization-vs-runtime distinction. Dagger is actually implemented as a compiler extension. Singletons can be
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by Mr_P 6y ago
> Which advice did/would have helped you landing your first job after university? Take a few advanced, specialized CS classes by your 3rd year. These often have large end-of-semester projects that can be fairly open ended. These fi
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by Mr_P 6y ago
You could Google for "t-shirt sleeve mask" and make your own. Etsy can also be quite fast.
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by Mr_P 6y ago
"Most experts think that flu viruses spread mainly by droplets..." ( https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm )
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by Mr_P 6y ago
Masks are effective at stopping people from unintentionally infecting others. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/well/live/coronavirus-fac... "Even a simple mask is very effective at trapp
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by Mr_P 7y ago
Researchers at Adobe published similar work several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978055 Interestingly, FB folks used a vastly simpler network architecture, but it probably still works because they have

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