doph

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by doph 4mo ago
Even with all the Qwens and Kimis and GLMs etc, the latest Gemini Flash models are still an insane value! I recently settled on 3.1 Flash Lite after testing basically everything on offer on OpenRouter, and it was not a close call - cheaper,
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by doph 4mo ago
All tokens are symbols. All of the frontier models speak Mandarin.
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by doph 5mo ago
is a kv cache not a kind of state? what does statefulness have to do with selfhood? how does a system prompt work at all if these things have no reference to themselves?
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by doph 5mo ago
What I love about it is that more than any other park I've visited, it defies description. I adore Yosemite and Joshua Tree, for example, but I believe they can be understood from photography. Grand Canyon feels like it can barely be u
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by doph 7mo ago
I was into playing and modding Doom back in the 90s and just a few months ago rediscovered the community - I am just blown away by the effort and creativity that is going into these source ports and the indie games people are building on to
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by doph 9mo ago
I think what's fair is to expect police officers to have as their top priority the protection the citizens they are serving. Too often they seem to have as a top priority the protection of themselves, which means as a consequence that
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by doph 9mo ago
There's a reason nearly all of the old guard VFX studios were driven to bankruptcy over the last decade and it doesn't have anything to do with massive demand for talent.
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by doph 10mo ago
ESP32 - quite a range of dev boards and places like Seeed and Adafruit have a nice selection of accessories. Adafruit develops CircuitPython which is IMO the lowest barrier to entry for programming MCUs. Adafruit even has CircuitPython sket
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by doph 10mo ago
I share this opinion. I've used FSD quite a bit during the free trial periods and each time come away with the sense that it's like driving with a newly licensed teenager at the wheel. If I have to be as alert and ready to avoid a
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by doph 10mo ago
I'm in Los Angeles, which can be a challenging place to drive. Each time they give me a free trial of FSD for a month, I enable it and test it with excitement and optimism. Each time I only use it for a day or two before it does someth
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by doph 11mo ago
In-wheel application is possible, but it's important to understand that the pancake shape is only a consequence of the axial flux design and Yasa doesn't make motors in other "formats". Yasa motors shaped like this have
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by doph 11mo ago
I don't think their motors are axial flux, they're just large and narrow to fit inside wheels. Or at least all the images on their website depict radial flux designs.
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by doph 11mo ago
lots of people can notice that. my last job involved meticulously timing our software's input-tp-display latency, testing viewers' responses to it, and fighting for each and every ms we should shave off of it.
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by doph 11mo ago
Very much this. After multiple very painful stings, I have a zero tolerance policy for nests on the house, but I am very grateful when they show up in the garden. Wasps are more effective at controlling garden pests than any chemical means
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by doph 1y ago
Mostly agree, however this kind of quirk could issue entirely from post-training, where the preferences/habits of a tiny number of people (relative to the main training corpus) can have outsize influence of the style of the model'
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by doph 1y ago
Did they ever address that? I have not been able to stop thinking about it, it was so bizarre.
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by doph 1y ago
It hasn't been effective for me. I've put up two bat boxes, and neither has had any tenants in the 8 months they've been out. There are plenty of bats around, maybe they've got better housing options. The ones I observe
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by doph 1y ago
The article you link is a very specific type of failure that apparently did not happen in this instance, where Claude was able to access the author's writing. And the author apparently found the insights useful, though the lack of anal
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by doph 1y ago
I didn't believe it and after trying those samples, I still don't. All of them run flawlessly for me on FF 104.0.4 on an up-to-date Arch install on my laptop.
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by doph 1y ago
Microwaving causes individual particles to join into a delicious plastic-cheese emulsion, making them undetectable.
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by doph 1y ago
Yes, and this provides a nice intuition about the relation of wavelength to energy. But x and γ wavelengths are several oom shorter than visible light, so you'd have to be traveling at very close to c to experience that amount of Doppl
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by doph 1y ago
>it's been about 100 years so now each day is 2.3 milliseconds longer >after 1000 days 1000 * 2.3 milliseconds = 2.3 seconds I don't think the example helps at all to explain the concept, but I think the math is right
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by doph 2y ago
I just stopped paying for Plus and my history seems to be retained on the free tier.
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by doph 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts. I think people who make arguments like Chiang's are unwilling to examine our own decision making process, and in particular are unwilling to entertain the idea that it is as mechanistic as an artificial neutral net
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by doph 2y ago
I'd argue that an LLM has a fuller understanding of what we mean when we say "art" than most individual users of the term (Chiang's definition sounds more like the one for "craft" to me). Indeed, asking ChatGPT
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by doph 2y ago
I found Chiang's argument a little incoherent, but I think he _is_ essentially saying this. "Knobs and dials" are the opportunity to make all the little decisions that Chiang's definition of art requires. He says explici
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by doph 4y ago
As a graphics professional who loves node-based workflows, I find the constant re-invention of the wheel pretty painful. With some coordination of this effort, Blender or Natron could be real open-source challengers to Nuke, but starting fr
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by doph 4y ago
Give the voice controls a try! It's the only way I adjust my mirrors. I have come to appreciate my Model Y's interface for its uniformity. I do love a well designed physical interface, but what you get in most other cars is a tota
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by doph 4y ago
No, at least on my '22 MY, you can use one of the stalks to turn on wipers or spray washer fluid. There's also an auto mode that turns them on when rain is detected that works about 80% of the time for me. You can also use voice c
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by doph 4y ago
I agree it's been bad for a while, but by following the negative trend, it is also true that it's gotten noticeably worse. Amazon has nearly completed its transformation into AliExpress but with a worse search function.

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