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by dgacmu 3d ago
Yeah, I'm sympathetic to their desire for compression and efficiency but base64URL is way more shell-friendly. I quite like base58 for human-presented identifiers also. I tend to use it instead of hex for having ~8-16 character IDs of
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by dgacmu 3d ago
But with most houses, the AC will cycle on and off throughout the day anyway - raising the temp while you're gone will often result in less cycling. Especially if you also increase the hysteresis range while out. So you get a triple ef
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by dgacmu 4d ago
"That's not a result, that's a broken harness, and it's worth publishing because I expect it to be common." That's Claude. But I agree and am also glad the author, uh, clauded this up. :)
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by dgacmu 5d ago
On the brax thing - the "article" is a youtube video. There's a pretty reasonable amount of pushback here against video-only content where folks can't rip through quickly to figure out how relevant it is to them or if it
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by dgacmu 6d ago
Bandwidth is really cheap in bulk. You can get a 100 gigabit internet connection for about $10,000 a month. If you were to somehow keep that saturated 24/7, you'd move about 30 petabytes in a month, so your per gigabit cost is onl
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by dgacmu 9d ago
esp32 bluetooth proxy: There's a standard esphome component that just turns any esp32 with appropriate h/w into a BTLE proxy: https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy/ I'm just using a cheap ES
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by dgacmu 9d ago
If you have a eufy scale, you can do this with no LLM needed - just set up an esp32 Bluetooth proxy, add it to home assistant, and then use the EufyLife integration someone already made. I did this recently with my scale to avoid having to
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by dgacmu 10d ago
Indeed, many programmers might pattern match to repetitive stress injury and think of their brushes with carpal tunnel syndrome. :)
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by dgacmu 11d ago
It does and that one also feels kind of saturated for measuring the most advanced models - opus, Gemini, astra, sol, fable, glm, kimi all scoring within statistical noise of each other. (74 +-3% down to 69% +-5% for kimi). It's still p
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by dgacmu 11d ago
I quite wish they'd move to terminal bench 4.0. 2.1 is saturated - there is no world in which Gemini 3.8 Flash is producing better code than Astra or Fable, as the 2.1 results might suggest. The 4.0 results differentiate these models m
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by dgacmu 12d ago
I think they started on a long slide starting in the late 90s when they tried to couple research more and more tightly to product deliverables, and then as they pivoted to being a services company, including selling off non-mainframe hardwa
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by dgacmu 12d ago
I laughed when I saw this; my 14yo looked over to see why I was laughing and asked "what's IBM?" indeed, child, indeed.
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by dgacmu 12d ago
It doesn't, really - this is a known hazard. You want fish that was flash-frozen very rapidly after harvesting. It's tastier and it kills (these types of) parasites. Which is basically what you're going to get at any decent s
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by dgacmu 16d ago
It should - one of the papers that Data Colada reported on about Gino was co-authored with Dan Ariely: https://datacolada.org/98
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by dgacmu 17d ago
No - DRAM is made on a different process than compute. Apple uses dram made by the usual dram manufacturers. The dram shortage is a combination of high demand + shifting manufacturing to HBM, which consumes more wafer capacity than DDR5
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by dgacmu 18d ago
Those not familiar with it might find the history of the Cod Wars interesting (and very relevant to this discussion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars (literally, Iceland having several decades of slightly-milit
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Rent, Always Rent - economics of the Zohranmarket(backofmind.substack.com)
2 points by dgacmu 20d ago|1 comments
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by dgacmu 20d ago
It's a pun on The Onion's repeating headline about gun deaths in the US ("only country where...") [1] . I thought it was pretty clear before I clicked it it was going to be talking about security vulnerabilities in C, bu
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by dgacmu 22d ago
That's only half the problem. OpenAI is contractually obligated, if you will, to believe that models will continue improving at an impressive rate for the foreseeable future (otherwise their valuation makes no sense). If you believe th
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by dgacmu 24d ago
I don't think he's mocking at all - the Pittsburgh scrapping culture is fascinating. (I've lived here for 20+ years now). I throw stuff on the curb all the time and like magic, it disappears before trash day. I've also p
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by dgacmu 25d ago
Most likely you're seeing the causality in the wrong direction - poverty creates a strong incentive to go for immediate benefits rather than absorb the risk of one that is delayed.
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
But that's why they're arguing that repricing the entire generation fleet is bad compared to having a different auction for new capacity. You don't need the same incentives to keep an existing, profitable plant online as you
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
Facebook runs a number of quite complex internal distributed systems - databases, caches, proxies, etc. all of these are amenable to various forms of formal verification, and verifying them is the kind of thing that helps prevent outages an
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
Your second two had high comments to upvotes, which tends to get articles downranked more quickly. It may simply be that the stuff you're posting is generating disagreement without corresponding upvotes.
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
Will do. I'm on vacation right now and losing my laptop for a few days, but seems worth trying. My recollection from the RNGs a decade ago (I'm dating myself) was that the AES approaches had higher latency but were quite decent, t
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
Oh, that's interesting - good point, since it's filtered and not trained from scratch. My prior would be to assume it's just bs'ing as LLMs usually do but it seems worth exploring.
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
I prefer my 8yo's answer about quantum entanglement, asked just now: "I don't know. How would I know? It's not a thing!" Even an 8yo has better metacognition, it seems. :-)
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
It's not critical but if you gave me something that behaved statistically like PCG (i.e., I didn't fret about whether it was going to cause me weird problems) but was twice as fast I'd be happy and would shift to it - it woul
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
This is a very weird hill to die on. I do a lot of testing and designing of things like hash tables and filters, and having a really fast, non-CS generator is incredibly useful for being able to clearly identify performance bottlenecks in d
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by dgacmu 1mo ago
The was Samsung, iirc: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...

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