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by biot 7mo ago
This is the LLM equivalent of a riddle, eg: “A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?”
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by biot 7mo ago
Depending on how you define 3D printing: braille.
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by biot 11mo ago
The article says: > The full menagerie of shapes is too diverse to get a handle on, so mathematicians tend to focus on convex polyhedra The phrase "tend to focus on" suggests it's not an exclusive thing. However, you'
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by biot 11mo ago
Presumably a simple sphere would trivially qualify as being unable to pass through itself.
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by biot 1y ago
> Serverless Advocate: Yes, but instead of paying for infrastructure overhead and hiring 5–10 highly specialized k8s engineers, you pay AWS to manage it for you. This argument lost me. If you’re running your own k8s install on top of ser
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by biot 1y ago
If you buffer starting with the ( character, then you'd still send the [text] part of the link, and worst case is that with no matching ) character to close the link, you end up buffering the remainder of the response. Even still, the
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by biot 1y ago
There are a few things in our implementation that make a more general solution unnecessary. We only need the output to support a limited set of markdown which is typically text, bullet points, and links. So we don't need code blocks (y
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Preventing Flash of Incomplete Markdown when streaming AI responses(engineering.streak.com)
34 points by biot 1y ago|11 comments
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by biot 1y ago
This has long been my favorite entry! Still on my todo list to go through and fully understand it.
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by biot 1y ago
Maybe as an eventually consistent life form using extremely slow message passing. Though gravity becomes a major factor that would limit the size unless it’s incredibly sparse. One of my favorite episodes of Love, Death, & Robots is “Sw
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by biot 1y ago
While the search offered is handy, I watch logs on multi-pod workloads via: kubectl logs -f -l app=api --max-log-requests=50 This follows along all pods with the given label (app: api) for up to 50 pods or however many you want. Qu
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by biot 1y ago
You can run ad blockers in mobile Safari. This one works great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/... -- it's both a browser itself as well as acting as a content blocker for Sa
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by biot 2y ago
The revenue milestones appears to show annual revenue goals rather than monthly. For example, if you have only 1 plan at $1/month, the $1000/month target shows you need 84 subscribers.
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by biot 2y ago
Fun fact: it's a different device, but the principle is the same as the device used in the documentary Tim's Vermeer. It results in the images overlapping between your left and right eye and you simply paint until the difference g
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by biot 2y ago
> However, if it's inside a plastic case that blocks light, it doesn't. You want an ordinary diode to allow current to flow easily when it senses light? Simple: shine a powerful laser at the plastic-encased diode and it will me
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by biot 2y ago
> Seems like all these other factors should matter too! The way I read it was that there are some minerals that are no longer there to begin with because they're simply not in the soil. For nutrients (like vitamin C) created as part
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by biot 2y ago
> I think an IDE, a keyboard, and a projector are better than printing code blocks at a specific revision which is identified by a computer-readable id, and which must be given a new ID and a new printed page every time you want to try
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by biot 2y ago
From the article: > "This is a big object. An object of this size is going to have the equivalent impact energy in the hundreds of megaton approaching a gigaton," Brown said. "That'd be a regional impact. It's t
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by biot 2y ago
The interviewee touches on this: > And so I would say, in response to what’s often asked, which is: If depression isn’t simply an abnormality in serotonin, why would you prescribe an SSRI? And I think the answer is that through serotoni
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by biot 3y ago
I suspect a lot of people overestimate how special their code is. Also, if your code exists in a private repo on GitHub, then you're already trusting the same third party when using GitHub Copilot.
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by biot 3y ago
If some company’s alcoholic beverage doesn’t get approved, you wouldn’t say “finally some faith in the firearms system” just because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives handles both.
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by biot 3y ago
From the paper’s introduction: > Machine learning (ML) models for materials science have the potential to vastly expedite the computational discovery process. State-of-the-art ML models can predict the results of physics-based quantum m
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by biot 3y ago
> I didn't like any of the sardukar fighting scenes, or how the ships exploded I thought the ship explosion effect was brilliant and realistic in terms of how it would actually work if energy shields were a thing in real life. Just
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by biot 3y ago
suggestion: when you click to loop a sound, the URL should update with the current state of everything you have selected. Then you could send the URL to other people and they could listen to your garbage.
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by biot 3y ago
The bike shown in the first image is Specialized Sirrus X. You can make out from the image of the manual that it says "spacer/axle/bolt specifications". Searching for this yields the following Specialized bike manual whi
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by biot 3y ago
Much like how "garbage collection" is industry terminology referring to a specific feature of memory management in programming languages, "space junk" is also industry terminology that's specific in its meaning: &gt
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by biot 3y ago
This appears to build off of earlier research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9 "Here we show that thin-film devices made from nanometre-scale protein wires harvested from the microbe Geobacter su
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by biot 4y ago
> If something is E2EE it is deeply inconvenient and fragile. If something is easy to use, it cannot be E2EE. The only difficult part of E2EE is establishing trust. As in: how do I securely exchange encryption keys with this other entity
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by biot 4y ago
When a collector purchases the Ship of Theseus, they expect to get the Ship of Theseus, not some mere copy.
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by biot 4y ago
Prior research in 2004: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Keyboard-acoustic-eman... "We show that PC keyboards, notebook keyboards, telephone and ATM pads are vulnerable to attacks based on differentiating th

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