bbminner

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by bbminner 1mo ago
Actually, I came to comments specifically to praise the inverted bar charts, I've never seen it before, a very intuitive way to communicate lower is better IMHO.
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by bbminner 1mo ago
If you have to express your computation using an "array programming DSL" with things like scan and gather anyways - why not opt to use torch/tensorflow/jax or anything else that targets MLIR? An example of writing a relu
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by bbminner 1mo ago
Oh, at least in the post Soviet tradition of oral exams, you are given plenty of time to think and prepare your argument before you start an actual conversation with the examining professor. And if you need to think more during the exam to
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by bbminner 1mo ago
Same. The focus on written exams rated blindly and uniformly at the US higher education system always puzzled me. I guess that's the only way to scale things up when you pay professors and teachers living wages?
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by bbminner 2mo ago
And there's also parsec.app but only for windows hosts through.
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by bbminner 2mo ago
Honestly this is the first time I am seeing this kind of work that i genuinely like. Most fractal and other kinds of self repeating results are not that interesting at all to me.
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by bbminner 2mo ago
https://youtu.be/IehwV2K60r8?is=WWZU3R1PMAQksHhj How they fit the Sonic 3D intro onto a sega mega drive _cartridge_!
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by bbminner 2mo ago
How difficult it is to get a perfect beam in practice? Can one manufacture a flat rotman lense like that to introduce sinc phase shifts - this should yield a well behaved very directed beam? What are the practical challenges in doing so?
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by bbminner 2mo ago
If AI can find new proofs for well posed math problems, i see no reason why it shouldn't be able to implement a more performant fully featured version of an existing interpreter (eg with JIT and AOT) that emulates python api well and p
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by bbminner 3mo ago
I have not looked into this specific issue, but are we sure that a regression here could have been avoided via a localized test? Maybe issues seem to arise from A implementing a feature with tests. B seeing that A lacks some functionality a
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by bbminner 3mo ago
I agree re Rust vs C - this is not (only) a language issue. What would (roughly) the invariant be here? In another thread comment below i argue that maybe the system (OS) itself is so complex that it lacks clear contract / the contract
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by bbminner 3mo ago
On the other hand, it is (both halting and spec adherence) are checkable under compute and space constraints though? :) I'd say the biggest hurdle are means to describe the spec in way that is easy enough for a human to produce to make
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by bbminner 3mo ago
+1 that there are few things more exhausting than listening to someone's "proof of work" i'd rephrase as "visible lack of effort is problematic" - anything above that passes the bar for me, and other factors be
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by bbminner 3mo ago
I am far from a security expert, but from the number of "we missed a single line C check across files during refactoring" critical security bugs discovered on a regular basis these days, the whole premise of a "giant secure o
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by bbminner 3mo ago
Could you elaborate on what exactly does such syntax provide over kwargs? To me it looks like verbatim x=a, y=b replaced by x(a)+y(b) in the argument section.
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by bbminner 3mo ago
Yes, that was my thought as well when i was visiting UK and reddit kept asking me to verify my age. It might be even more private and non-trackable than that - if "age.id.gov" central authority effectively "provides a new ran
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by bbminner 3mo ago
How `plot(.. + ggsize(700, 300) + ..)` is superior to a keyword parameter `plot(.. , size = (700, 300), ..)`?
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by bbminner 3mo ago
One argument I heard from a college that the experimental llm written code (not production ofc) should be "write only" - you specify the requirements and constraints and let the machine figure it out - you specifically avoid &quot
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by bbminner 5mo ago
I asked the same question a few years ago, and the answer I arrived at is that the app has, by default, more permissions (not only technical but also conventional) to collect data, send push notifications, and otherwise harass the user.
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by bbminner 6mo ago
To my surprise, even sophisticated means of traffic masking like amnezia and vxray get disrupted frequently, requiring hopping around self hosted solutions and updating ones setup periodically. That's waaay beyond what most people are
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by bbminner 7mo ago
Eastern European pan-fried cottage cheese fritters (mix and fry 150g cottage cheese, 5 tbsp flour, 1 egg, 3 tbsp sugar, salt) are great. That's all I have to say.
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by bbminner 8mo ago
I still consider jax.vmap to be a little miracle: fn2 = vmap(fn, (1,2)), if i remember correctly, traverces the computation graph of fn and correctly broacasts all operations in a way that ensures that fn2 acts like fn applied in a loop acr
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by bbminner 8mo ago
A long while ago i heard something (that might have been a urban myth) about Bose putting useless weight into their headphones to make them appear more "substantially professional". Is that a myth or they have pivoted towards actu
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by bbminner 9mo ago
I'd be curious to know the breakdown of "wages and benefits" between academics, teachers and administrative staff. I've heard that admin takes up a huge fraction of the cost. How large can it be?
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by bbminner 9mo ago
This is really cool, these patterns (run once now and then once triggered) surface all the time and usually turn into ugly code! How many interations did it take? So most lines like A { B{ on D{ print() } } C{} } equivalently desugar into s
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by bbminner 9mo ago
I was really confused about the case folding, this page explained the motivation well https://jean.abou-samra.fr/blog/unicode-misconceptions """ Continuing with the previous example of “ß”, one has lower
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by bbminner 9mo ago
It is very interesting though! I have been interested in this kind of language design for interactive UI for a while. If there was a quick article outlining how all the "with" and "on" and "own" work to more ex
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by bbminner 9mo ago
Did HoMM series ever get popular outside Eastern Europe? I am yet to meet a person born and raised in the US who have heard about it, but maybe i am just unlucky or targeting a wrong demographic.
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by bbminner 9mo ago
I think it is difficult to oversell the bob nystrom game patterns book https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
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by bbminner 9mo ago
While better, a person modifying PizzaDetails might or might not expect this change to affect the downstream pizza deduplication logic (wherever it got sprinkled throughout the code). They might not even know that it exists. Ideally, imho,

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