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by bdcs 1mo ago
Perhaps the more apt analogy is not a battery but a canister of petrol. Kidding aside, even one-time use energy storage can be useful during catastrophic events (war, etc)
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by bdcs 4mo ago
"Everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented ... a 15-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For 3 hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!" - Keynes, 1930 Though this was a
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by bdcs 5mo ago
Trying to lose is also fun (as white) Some observations: * Knights are color bound * You can mate with Knight & King (K+K is still insufficient material) * 3 fold repetition still applies (and has a popup!)
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by bdcs 6mo ago
> extra bits per channel Page 18 of the paper: > As shown in Table 1, our approach outperforms other methods for both Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct and Ministral-7B-Instruct, achieving significantly higher average scores. We evaluate our met
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by bdcs 6mo ago
Some corrections: the vectors are un-rotated in practice for future query vectors. This could be removed with a slightly different LLM arch. PolarQuant does live on in TurboQuant's codebooks for quantization which borrows from the hype
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by bdcs 6mo ago
Here's my attempt at a undergrad-level summary (corrections welcome!): The core idea is to quantize KV cache, but do so in a way that destroys minimal information. In this case, it's similarly scores between vectors. The simplest
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by bdcs 9mo ago
Looking to the Chinese market is insightful, IMO. There's one platform for a luxury sedan, and it gets ~200mi on EV mode (~100MPGe) and then ~400mi on gas. It works out to about 70mpg purely on gas. I'm not sure how it's so h
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by bdcs 9mo ago
Yes true; good point. I think this is changing (e.g. regen braking for aux. power on passenger trains maybe eventually capacitors for traction drives in the future), but currently and ~almost all the time, this is correct and a good point.
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by bdcs 9mo ago
>Oh, an EREV is fancy way to say "hybrid" ok Kind of. EREVs are what locomotives have been doing for a century (and to a lesser extent barges), which is called diesel-electric in that field. I agree the terminology is lacking,
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by bdcs 1y ago
It relies on an “unintuitive observation”[0] that you can run batches basically for free (up to a limit). So if you only run one inference, you batch it plus a lot of guesses and, if you guess right, can speed up the inference by the number
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Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much(economist.com)
37 points by bdcs 1y ago|25 comments
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by bdcs 1y ago
> does it actually make a difference for SRAM? I have no idea in practice. But for the thermodynamic limit of actually making a difference, any irreversible change requires heat to be generated, e.g. initializing to zero, truncating, or
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by bdcs 2y ago
reminds me of the classic post: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un... OOC Do you use ChatGPT/Gemini via the chat interfaces, pasting context and design and then copying out? Thanks!
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Ask HN: How do you work within corporate restrictions to use AI coding tools?
1 points by bdcs 2y ago|3 comments
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by bdcs 2y ago
That is correct[0], as known from the iPad M4 analysis. I will say SVT-AV1 has had some significant ARM64 performance improvements lately (~300% YoY, with bitrate savings at a given preset[1][2], so call it a 400% increase), so for many use
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by bdcs 3y ago
I've been doing that with a Minisforum bd790i -- a Ryzen 7945HX which is a monster of a CPU (16 zen4 cores, with very high single threaded and multi threaded benchmarks[1]) with a paltry TDP. Minisforum even coined the term "Mobil
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by bdcs 3y ago
https://www.llamaindex.ai/ is much better IMO, but it's definitely a case of boilerplate-y, well-supported incumbent vs smaller, better, less supported (e.g. Java vs Python in the 00s or something like that). Depends o
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by bdcs 3y ago
Excellent comparison. However, I am confused by > no more than two cards per PC I've seen quad 4090 builds, e.g. here[0]. What do you mean no more than two cards? Yes, power is definitely an issue with multiple 4090s, though you can
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by bdcs 3y ago
The tyranny of the marginal user reminds me of population ethics' The Repugnant Conclusion.[0] This is the conclusion of utilitarianism, where if you have N people each with 10 happiness, well then, it would be better to have 10 N peop
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by bdcs 3y ago
I'm curious how 1Password can say passkeys cannot be stolen, and yet passkeys are sharable within 1Password. Wouldn't an attacker stealing my 1Password credentials (secret-key/user/pass) also get (cf. steal) my passkeys
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Now in beta: Save and sign in with passkeys using 1Password in the browser(blog.1password.com)
2 points by bdcs 3y ago|1 comments
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by bdcs 4y ago
I'm surprised some low-fee automatic solutions aren't recommended here. Robo-advisors can split your cash across multiple banks on the backend. Using WealthFront[0] as an example, their cash account offers 4.05% APY, and FDIC insu
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Poll: How do you browse Reddit without an excruciating experience?
26 points by bdcs 5y ago|43 comments
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by bdcs 5y ago
reddit.com
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by bdcs 5y ago
old.reddit.com
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by bdcs 5y ago
+ Reddit Enhancement Suite
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by bdcs 5y ago
Apollo
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by bdcs 5y ago
Narwhal
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by bdcs 5y ago
Other
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by bdcs 5y ago
Ugh, why no helmet? They reduce a multitude of bicycle head injuries by 2-3x [0] [0] https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/1/278/2617198

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