danbst

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by danbst 3y ago
this is a disaster. There are rumors that part of infrastructure is destroyed. There are 26 million Kyivstar users. Now they all are without mobile for an indefinite time. I'm one of them 2FA via SMS doesn't work. Our biggest bank
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by danbst 3y ago
in llama.cpp inference runs on CPU, using AVX-2 optimizations. You don't need GPU at all It runs on my 2015 ThinkPad!
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by danbst 4y ago
to make this complete, the "Silpo" market chain created unique design for many years already. Here is full list, together with ideas behind each design https://silpo.ua/about/dyzainerski-supermarkety
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by danbst 4y ago
The idea is to store all matrix weights for neural model in log space, and never leave it. Maybe create a new activation function which doesn't leave log space. You can check the code, I don't just replace multiplication, I perfor
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Show HN: Did you know you can multiply matrices without multiplication?
6 points by danbst 4y ago|3 comments
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by danbst 4y ago
remove word egg
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by danbst 4y ago
There exists `sd` which does the same! Maybe details differ. See intro in https://ianthehenry.com/posts/a-cozy-nest-for-your-scripts/
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Robomojo.io – Pop Culture Reimagined by Artificial Intelligence(robomojo.io)
2 points by danbst 4y ago|0 comments
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by danbst 5y ago
There are several layers of propaganda, and you point to only one of them. 1) The propaganda for West is that "power balance" shit story. US citizens are distant enough to believe this is rational PoV. (it is not) 2) The propagand
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by danbst 5y ago
Partly related, the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra has a concept map as a first page, which looks really stunning. Author definitely had spent time mindmapping stuff before writing. https://minireference.com/miniref&#x2
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I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)(cassandraxia.com)
185 points by danbst 5y ago|45 comments
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Dramatica: A Theory of Story [pdf](dramatica.com)
39 points by danbst 5y ago|5 comments
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by danbst 5y ago
Both are correct from math POV, but they differ in how "integer division" works. Python floors `7 // -5` to -2, C rounds `7 / (-5)` to -1.
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Fiction.Tools(fiction.tools)
2 points by danbst 5y ago|0 comments
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by danbst 5y ago
This is explanation from author http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2011/05/lz4-explained.ht...
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by danbst 5y ago
Correct link: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/turtle.py#L3...
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A German Easter Egg in Python Turtle(github.com)
1 points by danbst 5y ago|1 comments
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Why Mathematics is Boring (2007) [pdf](math.ucr.edu)
86 points by danbst 5y ago|124 comments
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by danbst 5y ago
Brief history of inline freestyle rollerblading in Ukraine. It had declined as well, but head a peak much later than US. 2003-2008 -- this was rise period of skating. Primarily in Kyiv, but also Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odessa 2006 -- Seb
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by danbst 5y ago
That sounds utopian. Maybe there are also other reasons why this worked? In my experience, kids have no ideas on their own. And they don't like discovering things on their own. They want lectures and wait for assignments. Only few are
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by danbst 5y ago
- What was her age when you started this? - Did she have experience with board/card/pen-and-paper games before? Dice games? - What was starting typing speed and how it goes now? Do typing lessons causes frustration? - Have you not
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by danbst 5y ago
I believe content of his books is now less accessible to modern kids. Internet (Youtube) doesn't promote his works, ideas. Flexagons are rediscovered, instead of being included into school curriculum, etc.
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by danbst 5y ago
When I was a kid, I didn't know he was alive when I read his books.
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Ask HN: Why Martin Gardner is no longer popular?
16 points by danbst 5y ago|15 comments
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by danbst 5y ago
Nix has first-class support for URLs. Like, there are strings (" https://example.org ") and URLS ( https://example.org ). And if URL is not valid, it will be parser error. However, this "feature" turn
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by danbst 5y ago
Wonder how Forth and Forth-chips can help here. I imagine a tiny Forth, which interprets larger Forth, which implements C enough to compile old TinyCC/GCC and start the chain of rebuilds (as explained in stage0). As for hardware, a sch
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by danbst 5y ago
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/146009592#tabs-build-deps
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by danbst 5y ago
Just recently, there were large non-reproducible projects: python, gcc. Not sure where is the history of non-r13y. --- There is Debian initiative to create bit-to-bit reproducible builds for all their software (well, all critical). https:&
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by danbst 5y ago
yeah, article should talk about periodic TRIMming, though this is more an admin advice
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by danbst 5y ago
You are correct about strategic importance (which is still not tolerable). But it is not correct to justify this annexation by any historical reasons. That's like saying Ukraine has claims in Kuban, because it was historically Ukrainia

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