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by cdavid 11d ago
The population rejected more autonomy with a large majority (>70 %) in the last referundum.
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by cdavid 1mo ago
For once Cholesky is less general than QR: Cholesky only makes sense for positive matrices, while QR works for any matrix (including non square). Also QR is a primitive for operations like finding eigenvalues, and I don't think Cholesk
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by cdavid 2mo ago
The author explicitly mentioned syncing to his parents house. Even the "RAID is not backup" should be more nuanced IMO once you are talking about FS that supports regular snapshots.
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by cdavid 2mo ago
It is especially strange not to see it in the list given GiTS is heavily featured (according to the comments, I can't access the page or web archive ATM). Patlabor movie 2 was directed by the same director as the original 1995 GiTS ani
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by cdavid 2mo ago
The metaphor breaks quickly because as a first approximation the electricity "quality" does not depend on the provider, and will not change overtime. That's not true of LLM output.
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by cdavid 2mo ago
For NumPy/Pytorch, the C API is much bigger issue than pickle. I have not looked at the architecture of this, but given it uses its own IR + replaces ref counting w/ a GC, I am assuming it does not have C API compatibility.
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by cdavid 3mo ago
The same way cloud is about doing the exact opposite. Understanding a bit of accounting / corporate finance opened my eyes to many things.
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by cdavid 3mo ago
That's debatable. We can't go back in history, but if it were not for ML/data science, I believe python 3 would have killed python. At that time web dev / CLI utilities were major use cases, and that was the time golang
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by cdavid 3mo ago
Also NI, etc. was very linked to the scene from the early days. Cubase, etc. have no such link that I know how, but there was still the strong hacker culture around atari and to a lesser degree amiga (vs PC), when PC was just not usable for
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by cdavid 3mo ago
I wanted to understand the implementation of some numerical algorithms, and the tech reports were not enough. I cloned the repo of said library, gave it claude and asked it to write a new technical report in math notation, but with annotati
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by cdavid 4mo ago
Partially a mix of strong, hacker culture in Germany in the 90ies + Berlin being a major place for electronic music in that decade. For example, ableton was famousley co-created by the members of the monolake, a pioneer of minimalist techno
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by cdavid 4mo ago
no because it does not come from the same budget
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by cdavid 4mo ago
Not really. GPU many cores, at least for fp32, gives you 2 to 4 order of magnitudes compared to high speed CPU. The rest will be from "python float" (e.g. not from numpy) to C, which gives you already 2 to 3 order of magnitude dif
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by cdavid 4mo ago
scilab is not based on numpy/etc. However, matlab was certainly an inspiration for the scientific python stack in early 2000s. I myself started contributing to numpy and matplotlib by adding missing features I needed to move away from
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by cdavid 4mo ago
A fifth edition has been out recently: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/programming-massively-parall... I started learning about GPU and CUDA from this book recently, and I agree the writing is confusing, and code examp
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by cdavid 4mo ago
Did not know of the "thinkism" expression. When I was studying in France eng. school, I called that "the mythe du cerveau" (literaly "the brain myth", though does not roll on your tongue as well). It is guarant
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by cdavid 4mo ago
The main point of mythical man month was that communication cost across people was the main cost as project grow in complexity. So increasing individual output by itself is not enough to affect the argument. It could, if you also reduce the
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by cdavid 5mo ago
fair, somebody else clarified already !
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by cdavid 5mo ago
Indeed. I would add a third factor to compute and datasets: the lego-like aspect of NN that enabled scalable OSS DL frameworks. I did some ML in mid 2000s, and it was a PITA to reuse other people code (when available at all). You had some w
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by cdavid 6mo ago
Also one of the initial creator of haproxy, a well known reverse proxy. To imply somebody like as a simple "AI shill" is just ignorant.
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by cdavid 6mo ago
I agree. It is difficult to convince leadership to do this work at all ("it works on my example, ship it"), and in my experience most DS don't even want to do it. One of the key value is that it forces some thinking about wha
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by cdavid 6mo ago
The typical solution is to work in one of the "global" (aka American) companies in Japan: google, amz, apple, ms, etc. At least for now there are enough jobs across all those companies for motivated foreigners, though that could c
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by cdavid 7mo ago
Yes, this is the real cause, and the OP explanation is just a symptom of that.
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by cdavid 8mo ago
My rule of thumb is that management complexity is given by #direct reports x #project, where project is defined as a set of stakeholders (be it PM, etc. depending on business). Concretely, managing 12 ICs on a well defined platform team w&#
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by cdavid 10mo ago
I can believe it is deliberate at the top, I've certainly seen first hand in several orgs I've worked at. My sense is that unless actively managed against, any org big enough to have a financial department and financial planning w
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by cdavid 11mo ago
You had to accept some license terms before you could download the VST SDK. When linux audio started to get "serious" 20 years ago, it was a commonly discussed pain point. Concretely, it made distributing OSS VST plugins a pain. E
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by cdavid 11mo ago
I agree the big deal is tool calling. But MCP has at least 2 advantages over cli tools - Tool calling LLM combined w/ structured output is easier to implement as MCP than CLI for complex interactions IMO. - It is more natural to hold s
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by cdavid 1y ago
Since the OT is about EU, it is important to keep in mind that costs per MW are much lower in EU than in the US (or the UK). E.g. according to https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/infrastructure-costs-nuclear-e... , UK/US
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by cdavid 1y ago
It is not cheap, but it is clearly made by people who care about music. In those days where "slop" is so common, for people who can afford it, it is a nice refresher. Another minor inconvenience is that it is memory hungry for lar
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by cdavid 1y ago
Maybe I am too mathematically enclined, but this was not easy to understand. The ELI5 explanation of floating point: they approximately give you the same accuracy (in terms of bits) independently of the scale. Whether your number if much be

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