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by batterseapower 1y ago
Reinventing the programming paradigm has been Tim Sweeney's hobby horse since before 2006: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/crg/papers/sweeney06games.p... After Epic's wild success hes now got a bit
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by batterseapower 2y ago
I tried it in OpenAI's O1. If I give it minimaxir's original prompt it writes the obvious loop, even if I include the postamble "Look for tricks that will make this function run as fast as possible in the common case". H
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by batterseapower 2y ago
Annual ridership is about 7m passengers ( https://www.caltrain.com/media/34265 ) or 9m if we annualize the numbers in this article. At the same time, the Caltrain is losing more than $33m/year ( https://ww
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by batterseapower 2y ago
I don't think that's naive - it could definitely help ameliorate the issues. To my knowledge noone has tried this approach. The other idea I had when I was working on this stuff was to do JIT supercompliation. Clasically, supercom
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by batterseapower 2y ago
Supercompilation doesn't depend on having a typed language - you can more or less derive a supercompiler mechanically from any operational semantics, typed or untyped.
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by batterseapower 2y ago
My PhD was on supercompilation for Haskell (thanks for the cite in the repo :-)) Cool to see that people are still working on it, but I think that the main barrier to practical use of these techniques still remains unsolved. The problem is
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by batterseapower 2y ago
The other recent improvement suggested for LoRA is DoRA: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/lora-and-dora-from-s... . It really does seem to strongly outperform LoRA - see also https://www.answer.ai&#x2
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by batterseapower 4y ago
Related - here's a fun short sci-fi story about a savant ("the prompt whisperer") who is able to intuit the prompt that was used to generate things: https://interconnected.org/home/2022/08/03&#x
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by batterseapower 5y ago
Theoretically possibly by bartering for oil. The EU already has such a mechanism in place for buying oil from Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade...
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by batterseapower 5y ago
This is an associative study and thus can't really tell us anything about the causal impact of working from home. A recent properly-conducted randomized controlled trial found that WFH improves productivity: https://www.nber
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by batterseapower 5y ago
This very cool article explains the mRNA sequence chunk-by-chunk which might give you a flavour of why differences exist: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
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by batterseapower 6y ago
Not just a hunch, actual US policy: "Operation Choke Point" was a 2013 inititative by the DoJ to hurt legal but unpopular businesses (e.g. payday lenders, tobacco, firearm dealers, and - yes - pornographers) by making it harder fo
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by batterseapower 6y ago
These are financial futures. For some evidence that the presence of futures stabilises spot commodity prices see e.g. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/CNEH/2005/papers/futures_CNEH_030...
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by batterseapower 6y ago
This is cool. I wonder how they mapped the PAC organization names + individual contribution employer names to ticker symbols? Maybe fuzzy matching, or just a lot of manual work...
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by batterseapower 6y ago
Thanks for remembering :P
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by batterseapower 6y ago
For another approach to making this work in Haskell, see this thread of mine from 2010: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-October... The relevant keyword if you want to learn more here is "
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by batterseapower 6y ago
I was curious about this question too so I tried to find a list of comparable risks. Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Global_catastrophic_r... The solar flare risk (at ~1% per year [1]) seem
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by batterseapower 6y ago
Market inflation expectations are below where they were at the start of the crisis: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE
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by batterseapower 7y ago
If you like the idea of this library you'll probably like the book "How to Measure Anything" by Douglas Hubbard ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20933591-how-to-measure-... ). It's all ab
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by batterseapower 7y ago
There is some genetic basis for this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/08/albions-seed-genotyped...
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by batterseapower 7y ago
https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/A-Cent...
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by batterseapower 7y ago
Allegedly, stocks which are highly exposed to government spending outperform their low-gov-spending peers under a Dem presidency, and underperform during a GOP one: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=15
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by batterseapower 7y ago
For ridesharing apps, at least, it seems clear that the gig economy has grown the total market and hence the number of workers needed to serve this market. Before Uber entered New York there were ~500k cab trips per day: now, yellow cabs on
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by batterseapower 8y ago
The value of large corpora for translation may be diminishing.. In particular, Facebook have achieved impressive results using unsupervised ML for translation: https://code.fb.com/ai-research/unsupervised-machine-transl
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by batterseapower 8y ago
Real compensation has become disconnected from wages mostly due to 2 factors [1]: - Wage inequality (the average wage is growing faster than the median wage) - Growth in benefits like pensions and health insurance which are not part of wage
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by batterseapower 8y ago
Public info: https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/edgar-log-file-data-set.html
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by batterseapower 9y ago
Recommendations for vitamin D seem to be a bit of a trend recently, but the evidence for their efficacy does not necessarily seem to be there. Meta-analysis suggests that supplementation in vitamin-D deficient populations does not reduce ca
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by batterseapower 9y ago
Interestingly, it's well known that the stock of firms with high levels of investment does worse than the stock of firms that do not invest as much -- see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii&#x2F
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by batterseapower 10y ago
You can also inhabit any reference type in Scala, even without "null": by writing an infinite loop :-)
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by batterseapower 10y ago
As if the fact that jTDS is mostly unmaintained wasn't enough reason not to use it, the MS driver supports several extra useful features e.g. bulk insert and availability groups (for AlwaysOn)

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