bnjemian

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by bnjemian 2mo ago
Using a PRNG and a seed, you can have paeudo-randomness and determinism. The pseudo-randomness is the key piece, it’s random to the extent that it cannot be distinguished from true randomness in polynomial time classically.
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by bnjemian 2mo ago
I don’t find the recent spate of blog posts and systems delegating and combining LLMs to get better performance particularly interesting. Especially given that anyone who’s taken an ML 101 course has learned about ensemble methods. While an
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Show HN: Regulo – an adaptive semaphore for saturation control(github.com)
2 points by bnjemian 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bnjemian 4mo ago
It’s a huge problem, but I’d caution against this absolutism — there may well be structure that can be created around and between LLMs and their outputs to enable the necessary segregation. As a loose comparison, hardware bit errors happen
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by bnjemian 4mo ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site Willing to relocate: California, Washington, Canada, EU, or UK (no visa required) Languages: Python, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL Technologies: PyTorch, JAX,
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by bnjemian 5mo ago
Okay sure, but what happens when a high CVE is discovered that requires immediate patching – does that get around the Upload Queue? If so, it's possible one could opportunistically co-author the patch and shuttle in a vulnerability, ci
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by bnjemian 5mo ago
Would like to check this out when you're ready to share.
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by bnjemian 5mo ago
I just experienced this same issue with Gemini. I pasted a text message thread into Gemini (Pro, Thinking, Flash – all are affected) and it was misattributing dialogue. It said Alice said x, which Bob had said; it said Bob said y, which Ali
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by bnjemian 5mo ago
It's funny because the author notes a prior attempt to uncover Satoshi's identity and giving up because an implied lack of technical depth. I guess this time they were undaunted. Perhaps they received an AI assist and felt validat
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by bnjemian 5mo ago
Suspect it's a typo. 33, not 23, gives ~8.6*10^9.
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by bnjemian 8mo ago
This completely ignores that: 1. Russia was the aggressor in Ukraine, 2. Putin has made clear his desire to pursue expansionist goals through military action targeting prior members of the Soviet Union, 3. Putin regular threatens nuclear wa
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Need to look into how this turned out – I've sent letters to Merkley and Wyden over the years about privacy concerns relating to facial recognition and similarly invasive technologies. We need more regulation in this space. That said,
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation – took a look, but I'm not seeing an odoo app that clearly seems to fit the criteria mentioned. Was there a specific odoo app you had in mind?
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Ask HN: Business Messaging Phone and Twilio Integration
1 points by bnjemian 2y ago|2 comments
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Hah! Looks like we found the same article. Interesting other links too!
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by bnjemian 2y ago
I once read that some people who are blind from an early age, as they get older, start to click their tongue, but often those around them (parents, siblings, etc.) will discourage them. Thing is, that clicking can actually be used to develo
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by bnjemian 2y ago
I don't know if this is true – that pupil sizes vary meaningfully between races and folks from Africa and Aboriginal populations in Australia have smaller pupils – but it may make sense. Those are both relatively sunny places; Northern
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Here's the thing you may be missing: The complete diversity of human phenotypes (including what is socially discussed as 'race') is almost entirely present on the African continent. If you believe in evolution (and I'm a
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Sometimes, my dishwasher stacks are poetry.
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by bnjemian 2y ago
In the documentation and Supabase CLI, edge functions on Supabase are demonstrated and scaffolded, respectively, with a Deno runtime. I don't think it's required though. And if you've used Node.js, Deno will feel very familia
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Mark Z. Jacobson! Haven't heard that name in a few years. Don't know him personally, but here's a tangent for the interested: In the first year of my PhD, I read several of his papers from the 90's on the GATOR family of
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by bnjemian 2y ago
Been using Hono for a few months and have really enjoyed it. For me, it's been the perfect minimal HTTP/router functionality needed to structure an API that lives within a single edge function that's deployed to Supabase and
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by bnjemian 3y ago
Yes, that's somewhat true, but in practice we have subtypes. As a counterfactual to that assertion, if it were meaningfully a billion different things, then we would need a billion highly precise treatments. Yet, we've managed to
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by bnjemian 3y ago
In principle, yes, in practice, no; real-world mutations are (more often than not) non-random and their frequencies can be affected by a variety of factors. For example, the location of the mutated gene or region within the bundled chromati
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by bnjemian 3y ago
I came to see if this had been posted given I hadn't seen it. Surprised this didn't get more attention, it's a very impressive result – and not just because it involved arrays of entangled qubits flying around each other. I w
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by bnjemian 3y ago
I find this fascinating. I once was considering getting my whole genome sequenced from Nebula but then I realized that their sequencing was being done by Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). The quality of sequencing from BGI is very high, but
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by bnjemian 4y ago
Rad – that would be really interesting to have specific measurements and use cases associated with surgical recover. Haven't tried the app out yet – may have some more questions once I do. Thanks!
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by bnjemian 4y ago
I like this idea and the design – the gamification is a good approach in my view. A question for you: I have a relative who has been recovering from a pneumonectomy – is this a use case that you currently support or plan to support in the f
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by bnjemian 4y ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes (not required) Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity. Technologies: - Languages: Python (primary), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, C/C++, R (not preferred). - ML: PyTorch (primary), Tensorflo
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by bnjemian 4y ago
I'd be very interested to see the breakdown of input energy costs. Most notable is the raw energy cost required to power the lasers and control machinery in the experiment. But then there are other costs, all of which must be amortized

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