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awegio
3y ago
In their FAQ > How does it work? > Using a "Virtual Distributed Filesystem" (VDFS), in other words; a decentralized database that emulates a filesystem. It indexes hardware filesystems to create a master database that is syn
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awegio
3y ago
It depends on your web browser. Just see what happens here https://webauthn.io/ Firefox on Desktop tells me to "touch my security key". Not sure how that works. Firefox Android gives me a few hardware options to
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awegio
3y ago
You need a compact encoding for chess engines that explore billions of states as fast as possible to plan the best move.
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awegio
3y ago
> There's exactly one hit There are N possible sequences, and you try N times with a success probability of 1/N each (because it is a good hash function). This means the expected number of hits is 1.
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awegio
3y ago
A language model estimates the probability of a sequence of words P(w_1, ..., w_n) or equivalently P(word | context). For compression, word sequences that have higher probability should be encoded with shorter codes, so there is a direct re
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awegio
3y ago
> put programs in custom sandboxes, where /bin/bash is found exactly where they expect to find it NixOS can do that, I think it was necessary to get Steam games running https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/
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awegio
3y ago
Why? Only if you would reuse the same data multiple times, or if you use a unique random generator that is easily distinguishable from other data. So maybe don't use the 5x5 island, but when done right the approach shouldn't help
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awegio
3y ago
That's probably because you confused Vim and Kakoune key bindings. Kakoune - n: next match - alt+n: previous match - shift+movement: extend selection by movement Vim - n: next - shift+N: previous match So if you press shift+N as you ar
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3y ago
> Node packages work much better Are you sure about that? I haven't seen a node app built from source on nixpkgs yet. That includes Electron apps like Signal Desktop, which is a bit disappointing. There is this article about trying
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3y ago
DeepMind's blog post on AlphaDev says: > AlphaDev uncovered faster algorithms by starting from scratch rather than refining existing algorithms Finding that specific optimization, especially when given the comments, seems almost tri
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awegio
3y ago
Then just use an Ad Blocker. The actual problem is SEO spam though.
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awegio
3y ago
> mental models, each with a degree of uncertainty, to some overall business strategy That actually sounds a lot like model based reinforcement learning. AlphaGo still had an explicit model of a perfect information game, but newer algori
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awegio
3y ago
It looks like this is a high level interface more like Intents on Android, e.g. in the video it opens the Logo Templates page of Adobe Express probably without automated UI interaction.
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awegio
3y ago
> It sees what you're seeing. In the video the user drag&drops a file into the copilot window. How do you know that it can see your screen? I believe "works with all apps" only refers to the third party plugins.
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awegio
3y ago
If I understand correctly, the proposed act restricts the use of spyware, and apparently some actors want to keep some loopholes. The title reads like the EU wants to allow uses of spyware that were not allowed before, but I cannot infer th
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awegio
3y ago
According to the internet what you wrote is the distribution of min(random(), random()), but the distribution of the product is different. Product: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/659254/product-dist... M
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awegio
3y ago
In more formal terms, since it is a uniform distribution you can write random(x) = random()*x then you can easily see that random(random(random())) = random()*random()*random() The resulting distribution is not equal to random
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3y ago
How did you realize it here? This user has multiple comments in this thread but this one actually sounds more normal than the others. I find it very uncanny to see comments like this that sound like ChatGPT but are surprisingly relevant to
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awegio
3y ago
So like almost every news website they added a title picture to every article to drive engagement. The problem here is that they used a picture where a face was visible, they have to use some generic image instead. The whole trend of adding
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3y ago
Well, it's about workforce, not the shareholders. There is probably some correlation between morale and stock price, though.
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3y ago
Related: The Hardware Lottery ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489 ) It goes both ways: processors are built to accelerate existing applications, and applications are built to run with the constraints of the hardware. This
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3y ago
Here is the original post by the photographer in German: https://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2023/04/24/laion-e... He sent an initial demand that LAION declined. He did not want to give up, then he made