bertmuthalaly

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by bertmuthalaly 17d ago
Local LLMs are improving for fixed hardware, though - a 30b parameter model now is markedly better on the same hardware than one from a year ago.
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by bertmuthalaly 5mo ago
Now that I see this in the light of the recent sama article, I wonder whether the point of the "it's too dangerous" rhetoric is to enable "Open" AI to avoid open-sourcing the weights and process. A convenient pretex
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by bertmuthalaly 8mo ago
https://somethingdoneright.net
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by bertmuthalaly 10mo ago
rad! sponsored
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by bertmuthalaly 1y ago
It's the first section in the article - "I have implemented manual memory management via cpp/new and cpp/delete. This uses jank's GC allocator (currently bdwgc), rather than malloc, so using cpp/delete isn&#x27
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by bertmuthalaly 1y ago
When you’re debugging, especially a complex system, especially during an outage or postmortem, understanding when your commands executed relative to when your log lines appeared is really helpful.
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by bertmuthalaly 1y ago
fun fact - this person (jcs) also founded lobste.rs
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by bertmuthalaly 2y ago
This is the thesis of Bullshit Jobs!
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Ask HN: How are OMNY/Oyster implemented?
2 points by bertmuthalaly 3y ago|0 comments
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by bertmuthalaly 3y ago
I love the crossover with the Prince of Persia, which was also an early computer labor of love.
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by bertmuthalaly 3y ago
What was the original?
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by bertmuthalaly 4y ago
Wait, this busking happened on the way TO work and not the way home? No wonder why no one stopped!
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by bertmuthalaly 4y ago
Thinking through the implications of building batteries for homes and coordinating them for demand response programs a la Tesla Powerwall. Distributed battery storage can help alleviate transmission bottlenecks that prevent other storage an
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by bertmuthalaly 4y ago
A "prior art" section is especially useful for people evaluating your library!
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by bertmuthalaly 4y ago
pictures please! :)
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by bertmuthalaly 5y ago
Electron can save you a lot of time but that doesn't mean your app has to be slow. https://keminglabs.com/blog/building-a-fast-electron-app-wit...
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by bertmuthalaly 5y ago
Immer [0][1] seems like a really serious attempt at bringing high-quality persistent data structures to C++. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q [1]: https://sinusoid.es/immer/
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by bertmuthalaly 5y ago
A 150m walk on a bald Texas street does indeed sound miserable. A tree-lined one, though, can be quite nice: https://twitter.com/brent_bellamy/status/1411133447062441990
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by bertmuthalaly 5y ago
A nitpick but arguably an important one for your point - this article argues that the efficiency cores aren’t for “browsing the web / watching YouTube / checking emails” but for non-interactive tasks like Spotlight indexing (based
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“Intro to Human Behavioral Biology” Needs Critique(somethingdoneright.net)
7 points by bertmuthalaly 5y ago|0 comments
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by bertmuthalaly 5y ago
It might be already happening? https://twitter.com/AriaCallaghan/status/1375154205233721348
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
That paper is really frustrating - it seems to be written for laypeople like us, but conflates the theory that humans made a containment mistake and COVID escaped from a lab so (we should make research safer) with "COVID is an intentio
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
On iOS now, if you’re setting up a new device, Signal will prompt you to transfer your messages from your old device. Not exactly a backup feature but it covers one use case (I don’t want to lose my chat history when I switch devices).
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Isn’t freezing/lagging after a couple of minutes of use a symptom of an ailing software ecosystem, not a criticism of the hardware?
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Not a precise answer, but they show video of a figure skater in the product reveal video and it looks usable! Link with timestamp: https://youtu.be/A9qrURPAtnY?t=109
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
What's the refresh rate?
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Wait wait wait notion but fast? OK I’m signing up
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Have you done this / do you have pointers to someone who has?
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Does anyone have a sense (or direct experience) of whether goverments are tougher on immigration applicants that get degrees from online institutions like this?
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by bertmuthalaly 6y ago
Can you post the failed attempts as well? This is amazing, I just want to contextualize it.

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