akiselev

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by akiselev 11d ago
> They use a high mghz signal to measure the tip temperature using impedance measurements IIRC. Then they control the tip temperature using a feedback control loop. That's not how Metcal fixed temp induction soldering irons work.
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by akiselev 12d ago
I'd love to see that chat log, and the final board. To be fair I've only been testing on nontrivial PCBs with 6+ layers and I haven't had the luck you have. > FWIW - Computer vision is also NP complete, but we do that all
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by akiselev 12d ago
> Yet, it's all the most likely token and my brain hurts trying to understand how that can be. You and everyone else. That's the great mystery of transformer architectures as applied to language. To be clear though, they&#x27
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by akiselev 19d ago
Major ISPs in the US have been doing it for at least a decade. Xfinity Wifi [1] claims over 20 million wifi hotspots provided through customer routers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity#Xfinity_WiFi
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by akiselev 25d ago
It was donated without CCDs or electronics, which is what makes the difference between earth and space observation satellites. NASA only got the body and optics (mirrors), they had to provide their own sensors.
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by akiselev 1mo ago
They've been used for over 20 years but until they became a weight loss drug recently, almost all of the research was on diabetics which introduces two confounding factors: diabetes and the diets diabetics already have to follow to man
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by akiselev 1mo ago
> Can you give an example of an incomprehensible piece of writing (any writing, never mind a proof) that has commercial value commensurate with the costs involved here? It depends on what exactly you mean by "commercial value comm
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by akiselev 1mo ago
I think we're underestimating just how much low hanging fruit there is. I've been trying to apply this LLM research process to physics (QM and solid state) and there is so much missing in Physlib and the rest of the Lean ecosystem
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by akiselev 1mo ago
> The problem for regulating software development is still who gets to formally determine who the "good" people are. This kind of thing should clearly be objective and evidence-based but what useful evidence do we have availab
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by akiselev 1mo ago
> This seems like a bad idea, what does local mean? Anything Grok can access locally? This seems like asking for trouble. It means you put "i.swear.this.is.localhost [remote ip]" in your hosts file.
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by akiselev 1mo ago
The important part of the professional certification like PE or MD is the liability that comes with it, which means that the professional has a lot more agency. A construction firm or hospital can't really force their professionals to
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by akiselev 1mo ago
> They think they can just unload to some sucker for a big payday. See also the entirety of cryptocurrency. That's also the entirety of the biotech VC industry, except even more so. Biotech startups require far more capital to mak
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by akiselev 1mo ago
This is really cool! I'm wondering what data you're using and if you can impose a more precise coordinate system into the visualizations with ways to track a specific point (perhaps starting from polygons or GPS coordinates). It s
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by akiselev 1mo ago
It wouldn't have worked, period. You can't use capillary blood for the kind of blood tests they were claiming to. It's statistically impossible because the sample isn't big enough and drawing more capillary blood doesn
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by akiselev 1mo ago
That's a well studied topic in military history/science called unit cohesion. The saying goes that morale gets the soldiers to the battlefield, cohesion is what keeps them there. In order to withstand the psychological horrors of
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by akiselev 2mo ago
> And yet, no one's rushing to pick up Servo. Mozilla Firefox merged Servo's Stylo CSS engine into Firefox 57 in 2017 and their WebRender renderer into Firefox 67 in 2019. I guess you could call that a "pretty niche brow
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by akiselev 2mo ago
> Ladybird has come much farther in a shorter amount of time. That's hardly a fair assessment when large parts of Servo were mainlined into Firefox years before Ladybird even existed. Stylo, their CSS engine, landed in Firefox 57
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by akiselev 2mo ago
The weights are in SRAM, so the LLM architecture is burned in but the weights can be updated.
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by akiselev 2mo ago
The tokens per second performance numbers coming from Cerebrus/Talas are several orders of magnitude higher than models running on GPUs, which is such a huge step change that it will enable many more uses of LLMs that are impractical o
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by akiselev 2mo ago
Knob the Yob has a certain catch to it.
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by akiselev 2mo ago
I think at that point the phrase "engineered soil" loses all utility. We've been engineering soil with domesticated herd animals since prehistory, bringing fertilizer from pasture to arable land at the very least. If we look
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by akiselev 2mo ago
That's my fault, I should have prefaced that I'm just talking about the US. I have no idea what the situation is like in Europe (for some reason I assumed biofuels weren't big there). Due to US density and geography, most mar
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by akiselev 2mo ago
The vast majority is grown on marginal land, just above pasture. They can't grow better crops without massive works of engineering and tons more fertilizer and energy use. The alternative is to just use slightly less of that land, be
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by akiselev 2mo ago
> So it's wasteful, not at all "Green", and inefficient, but do we have a replacement octane booster that wont poison people? I'm not sure it's all that wasteful. The waste product from biofuel production is di
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by akiselev 3mo ago
From the article: > DD6 is a second-generation nickel-based single-crystal superalloy developed by the institute with fully independent intellectual property. Its chief engineer, Li Jiarong, said the alloy’s performance matches or excee
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by akiselev 3mo ago
When I ask it to tweak recipes and stuff, it frequently says stuff like "my favorite way to..." or "I really like [x]". I have a viscerally negative reaction to a machine claiming it has a favorite anything.
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by akiselev 3mo ago
I remember working with the Pegasus at Caltech in the early 2010s for a tech demo that was never going to launch. I'm amazed it's still operational.
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by akiselev 4mo ago
That's a very vague prediction that took decades to bear fruit. The concrete predictions behind the investments into companies like Pets.com and Webvan failed. It took the survivors like Ebay/Paypal and Amazon to build the digital
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by akiselev 4mo ago
> Because proteins famously aren't molecules. Tertiary and quaternary protein structures are much more complex than molecules and have emergent properties.
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by akiselev 4mo ago
I only use it to help hold together some complex assemblies when putting them together so I can't speak to it's strengths, but: > Do you need a conductive substrate on both sides to apply the release voltage? Yes, you attach

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