benrow

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by benrow 1mo ago
Have a look around for token biasing, or green lists. It's based on a nudge to the choice of the next token (which can always be drawn from a set of possibilities which are all probable enough). At first I thought this approach was jus
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by benrow 1mo ago
I've heard that this kind of watermarking process works by biassing the statistical sampling towards a partition of the set of possible next tokens (red set and green set), at each position. It might only be a slight nudge each time, b
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by benrow 3y ago
You had keyboards? Luxury, back in my day we had to stamp punch cards with the tips of our fingers. If we made a mistake, the head operator would cut one of our fingers off with a bread knife. We didn't mind though, it made us tough, t
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by benrow 3y ago
I didn't get very far into AoC this year as I ran out of time. Maybe I'll pick it up again later. But my point is, I was surprised at how hard day 5, part 2 was. I didn't give up and solved it, but went away wondering whey I&
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by benrow 3y ago
My first thought was that the pilots and crew would lose their jobs if they refused to fly. But perhaps pilots would be less likely to get rated for Max aircraft if (hypothetically) there's a perceived broad issue with their safety? Th
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by benrow 3y ago
I still prefer 200 with an empty list for the 'no results' case. The same client code works, rather than having to code for 204. - If I query for an identifier which doesn't exist - Server replies 404, this should fall into m
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by benrow 3y ago
I like the convention: - 404 if resource requested by id - 200 with empty list of results if it was a 'search' type request with params (not referring directly to an id)
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by benrow 3y ago
I was looking for this comment. I'm very happy with the combo of IntelliJ features and vim movement commands. The only inertia vim adds to my workflow is escaping into command mode. I have a 'jk' shortcut combo rather than es
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by benrow 3y ago
We ran into a problem where we blew the direct memory limit recently. To trace the problem, I added a breakpoint on ByteBuffer.allocateDirect() - this is how DM is normally allocated. But rather than suspending the process, we set it to pri
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by benrow 3y ago
Google have their "Machine Unlearning" challenge to address this specific issue - removing the influence of given training data without retraining from scratch. Seems like a hard problem. https://blog.research.google&#x
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by benrow 3y ago
Regression is a good analogy of the problem here. If you found a line of best fit for some datapoints, how would you get back the original datapoints, from the line? Now imagine terabytes worth of datapoints, and thousands of dimensions rat
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by benrow 3y ago
Merry Christmas - Have you tried https://www.kaggle.com/datasets ?
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by benrow 3y ago
Could still happen though unfortunately, as many bought at ultra low interest rates. Those fixes will be coming to an end in a year or two. At least in this country we tend to have fixes of 1-5 years.
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by benrow 3y ago
Also curious. I'm a sample of 1 and also relatively inexperienced. But I felt I quickly reached the limits of what was possible when I tried doing sentence classification with OSS sentence embedding models. The issue was with negation.
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by benrow 3y ago
I wrote a subtractive synth in java for my masters project. It was a fascinating domain to learn. For example, how to manage the independent voices, wavetable interpolation, envelopes. I was probably in over my head, and if I recall correct
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by benrow 3y ago
Here's a fairly in-depth exploration of spaced repetition, if that's the style you prefer - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
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by benrow 3y ago
Furthermore "If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China." https:/
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by benrow 3y ago
I've also noticed over a few recent trips to Amsterdam that there's something special about the sound Ij. The river IJ, and the beer Ijwit. The language is unfamiliar to me, and quite intriguing. I find the pronunciation of Zuid v
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by benrow 3y ago
I wouldn't say I'm someone with knowledge (non-US, non-economist etc). But I understand the interest payments on a large national debt can be a problem. Not sure if that's a significant factor here. I only just recently learn
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by benrow 4y ago
A few years back I got a decent second hand student oboe for £300 on eBay. Prices are probably higher now though. You'd definitely want to check out the second hand market if getting started in woodwind.
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by benrow 4y ago
There should be a name for the logical fallacy where direction of travel of a statistic is taken out of context. Local fluctuation being taken as the beginning of a trend. Perhaps just "short-sightedness", but it's more speci
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by benrow 4y ago
Good write up. Sometimes novelty comes from outside the team. For example, cross-department re-platforming efforts, vendor changes, and long running migration projects. This can all lead to inconsistency, which needs to be managed so it doe
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by benrow 4y ago
You might be interested in some podcasts by Oxide Computer Co - they talk in depth about their challenges designing and building a high speed top of rack ethernet switch. They go into problems of high speed circuit design in general, and th
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by benrow 4y ago
At first glance, one might think Java already has collection types with defined encounter order - List (defined iteration order based on insertion order) and SortedSet/SortedMap (defined iteration order based on elements implementing t
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by benrow 4y ago
Oh, to be fair, NLP proposed the meta model, which was based on how Virginia Satir would solve people's problems by just getting them to be more specific, in a skilful way. This would highlight how our thinking can change how we experi
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by benrow 4y ago
I'd say the two fields are very different. In the case of NLP - they watched very successful therapists in the 1970s, noticed some common themes, and extracted out a model. So for example, Milton Erickson would tell artfully vague stor
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by benrow 4y ago
That's really interesting that neuro linguistic programming helped you so much. I don't want to inquire into your own experiences as it's personal. But, I used to follow NLP very closely and sort of lost interest over time. A
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by benrow 4y ago
I was in this position just recently where git suddenly stopped working, due to needing a complete update of xcode tools. Annoying blocker but OK, let's get it done. But trying to download the xcode tools put me into a loop which wasn&
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by benrow 4y ago
If I may suggest some further feedback, I think mentoring is very important at a senior level. Perhaps this could be covered in a chapter in the existing communication section, unless of course I missed something! I think learning to identi
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by benrow 4y ago
Maybe the edit buffer is a different area of memory to the mapped file. This would make sense as editing a file doesn't update it on disk until you choose to Save.

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