backprop1989

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by backprop1989 2mo ago
Terran
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by backprop1989 4mo ago
And to be really pedantic about it, an acronym is pronounceable , like "NASA", so BPF is actually an initialism!
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by backprop1989 4mo ago
For what it’s worth, that sounds like a very interesting premise. N=1, but you have a potential reader here!
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by backprop1989 4mo ago
Root mean square?
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by backprop1989 5mo ago
> The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. I assure you, they do not.
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by backprop1989 6mo ago
Step 1: Put the helium in a blimp Step 2: Fly around the straight and over to Taiwan Step 3: Pump it into the chip factory There you go, solved it.
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by backprop1989 9mo ago
Anyone who says LLMs don’t have a sense of humor should be shown this page.
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by backprop1989 10mo ago
Calling it a necroprinter is equal parts ominous and spectacular.
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by backprop1989 10mo ago
Replace double quotes with single quotes then
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by backprop1989 11mo ago
I’d think you’d want the VOCs to be captured by something, rather than floating around in the air where you could breathe them in. Combined with a HEPA filter in the air circulation system, this should be a good solution.
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by backprop1989 11mo ago
The article mentions that Apple paused the show due to geopolitical tensions and its own interests in the region (selling phones to middle eastern customers). Similar reasons to why they cancelled Jon Stewart’s show (which is also mentioned
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by backprop1989 1y ago
Yeah, there are probably a few multimillion dollar app ideas in here, but of insufficient complexity or lowbrow-ness for the typical HN reader (myself included). The nano-banana template idea or the Q&A Walkman, for example.
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by backprop1989 1y ago
Isn’t one of the main functions of the brain / nervous system to “filter” noisy sensory input data to provide a coherent “signal” to perception? Perhaps a smaller or more specialized model could do that if we ended up packing the “skin
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by backprop1989 1y ago
What’s a tapeworm format?
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by backprop1989 1y ago
At once familiar and also utterly alien. Perhaps part of a ritual to honor the dead, or perhaps worn to scare children into eating their vegetables. We'll never know.
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by backprop1989 1y ago
Exactly, now you’re a bank (or maybe selling unlicensed securities, either way it’s jeopardy). We ended up revising the contract so that the credits expired after three years. That opened up its own suboptimal outcomes. It was a lesson that
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by backprop1989 1y ago
Accounting rules. If the credits last indefinitely, any unused credits cannot be counted as revenue. Ran into this at my last company when we signed a big contract and gave them hundreds of thousands of dollars in non-expiring credits. Our
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by backprop1989 2y ago
This is awesome! Definitely some more obscure historical events in there. Agree that the scoring is a bit harsh, especially since the clips are, let’s say, somewhat impressionistic. Excellent idea and can’t wait for the next version.
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by backprop1989 4y ago
I’m nearby near Woodside. Same thing for me. Interestingly enough my issue has been upload speeds near 0.01 Mbs, downloads are generally fine. Rumor has it the lines were cut somewhere but I haven’t been able to confirm.
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My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension(boingboing.net)
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by backprop1989 8y ago
Is MC Vlad about to drop an album?
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by backprop1989 10y ago
Unfortunately, the world is never going to end; it's just going to keep dragging on and on.