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by articulatepang 9d ago
It’s important for you to hear that this kind of syntax thing really, really doesn’t matter that much. Having this kind of complaint about languages is a sign that you haven’t worked on compilers or learned about the field of programming la
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by articulatepang 10d ago
Scraping would be costly in this world: scrapers would have to spend tokens in order to get the webpage. But, in this world, the website owner would receive tokens that they can then use to do whatever they want, including paying for serv
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by articulatepang 14d ago
I agree! I came to the comment section to say exactly this. In any cache hierarchy you want to put colder content in cheaper but slower storage. Here, compression is the cheaper but slower form of storage.
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by articulatepang 15d ago
For Excel?
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by articulatepang 16d ago
Who’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?
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by articulatepang 16d ago
I think a reasonable story could have been told that goes like this: local models aren’t as good as frontier models with a $20/month subscription, and the hardware costs a lot. So only a few enthusiasts will buy Apple machines for this
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by articulatepang 16d ago
Surely this is not something that motivates the vast majority of people using local LLMs.
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by articulatepang 18d ago
There’s a big difference between DRAM and SRAM. SRAM stores bits in the state of a couple transistors. DRAM stores bits in the charge of a capacitor. A CPU is mostly transistors, so SRAM is made of the same “stuff” as the CPU logic itself.
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by articulatepang 20d ago
I’m genuinely curious: why should it be on a separately managed DNS record?
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
In the context of microcontrollers and electronics, the likeliest intended meaning was shipping from China, South Korea, Taiwan and perhaps Japan, because that’s where the bulk of the fabs are.
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
Again, I’m genuinely curious: can’t two parties sign a contract that says “you pay for all tokens required to produce the answer, but you only get the final answer tokens”? My understanding of US law is that there’s nothing in logic or prec
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
When you hire lawyers or consultants you usually don’t know how many hours they’ll bill you. It will depend on developments in the case that you cannot in general predict. For example if the other side files a motion and your lawyer has to
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
> If they charge by the token, all your tokens are belong to you I’m not sure this argument is correct. You can sign whatever contract you like with the model provider, right? Including “you are entitled to the end product but not the in
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
I think it depends on whatever contract you signed. If you signed a contract that says “you pay per minute of screen time but only get the end result” then I bet that if you went to court demanding the screen recording, you’d lose.
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
I’m pretty sure the person you’re replying to means stealing in the context of information, IP, copyright, etc. This thread and this entire topic isn’t about stealing physical goods or money. We can all agree that if I break into your house
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
We don't really have to guess: as jet engines became more fuel-efficient, inflation-adjusted prices for air tickets dropped. And as oil prices fluctuate, so do ticket prices. There's a bunch of noise in both these trends but the b
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
But are you willing to pay 10-20% more for that joy? I personally would rather pay less money to fly, not get to see out the window, and spend those dollars on, say, a fancier meal at the destination. Or to have an extra day at the destinat
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
Yes, exactly this -- it's a fast and convenient way for my code to just write the pixels into a spot in RAM (the CPU's RAM, not VRAM) and have those pixels end up on screen. On modern architectures this nearly always goes through
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
I went through this a few months ago in Rust. I wrote all the code by hand, no LLMs. Then I went ahead and added a small "game" on top, plus some special effects like pixelization shaders and chromatic aberration at the edge of a
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
That's technically correct but consider the following: You're implementing quicksort. The actual algorithm is a conceptual piece of math. You write the code. But sometimes the code produces output that isn't sorted. The code
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
Hey! Thank you for posting. This a great project and an excellent illustration of progress in technology: commodity hardware and open source software got good enough that you could do this at such low cost and as a solo developer. Great wor
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
What do you mean not serious? He’s developing visual aids to teach students and to accompany his mathematical research papers. Also, not in this post, he’s been actively using LLMs to do real math research, that is, to prove theorems and so
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by articulatepang 6mo ago
Thank you and yes, I agree! It's neat to use the binomial theorem to see this, because that's the tool the article uses for the main trick/insight it's explaining.
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by articulatepang 6mo ago
I love complex analysis, and that's the branch of calculus that is most associated with number theory. For example, it was critical in the original proof of the prime number theorem and Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic
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by articulatepang 7mo ago
I've had a similar experience with Apple Store employees many, many times: I walk in and vaguely describe what I want, and they steer me to the cheapest item they sell that could possibly meet my stated requirements. I've also ret
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by articulatepang 7mo ago
Maybe you mean it's a crime to professionally provide advice of this nature without a license? It is generally not a crime to casually provide advice of this nature without a license. For example, if my friend tells me, "My stom
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by articulatepang 7mo ago
As you say, "the fundamental theorem of algebra relies on complex numbers" gets to the heart of the view that complex numbers are the algebraic closure of R. But also, the most slick, sexy proof I know for the fundamental theorem
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by articulatepang 7mo ago
You can think of it as returning an equivalence class if you like. Then it's single-valued. More explicitly, it returns an equivalence class whose members are complex numbers that differ by integer multiples of 2*pi*i. When it's i
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by articulatepang 7mo ago
One technical point about resonance: the fourth-power law only applies when the driving frequency (i.e., the frequency of visible light) is far below the resonant frequency (which is in the UV region of the spectrum). The approximation brea
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by articulatepang 8mo ago
For those who don’t know: the film City of God is based on this, and it’s a great movie. One of my all-time favorites. The directing, acting photography and storytelling are all very well done. Worth anyone’s time.

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