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by edflsafoiewq 6d ago
I mean Peters himself was German.
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by edflsafoiewq 6d ago
I really like oblique projections. Have you seen this neat one from Kerkovits - A Low-Distortion Oblique Map Projection of the World’s Landmasses (2024)? https://files.catbox.moe/k11gqq.avif
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by edflsafoiewq 6d ago
The projection you see with your eyes is actually not that great in a sense. You can only see half of the world at a time and it's quite distorted as you move towards the edge. Also on a computer you should be able to "spin"
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by edflsafoiewq 6d ago
The article actually maps out the history pretty well. This is basically a recrudescence of the Gall-Peters debate from the 70s, triggered by Boston Public Schools adopting Gall-Peters in 2017. The current wave has taken up the old fight wi
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by edflsafoiewq 13d ago
It was the second most reported problem on the 2025 Rust survey, after compilation times.
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by edflsafoiewq 14d ago
Why is Direct2D so hard to implement in Wine?
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by edflsafoiewq 20d ago
General theme: A programming language's native in-memory object format is typically optimized for random access, uniformity, and mutability (fields at fixed offsets, etc). Serialization formats for network or disk tend to be designed e
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by edflsafoiewq 21d ago
Oh is that why the page is like 50 megs.
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by edflsafoiewq 23d ago
That is the opposite of what GP said. The point is only the total emissions matter, the climate does not care about "fair" allocations over either people or nation-states.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
Sounds like it would be easier to hope for a better UPI experience for tourists.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
1. The output is a permutation of the input. 2. If the comparison implements a strict total order, the output is sorted according to it.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
The DCs giving you a 1/8 downscale is well known, but the interesting part to me was this generalizes so you can get 1/4 (resp. 1/2) downscales by using only the 2x2 (resp. 4x4) block of LF coefficients.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
> Modular found ways to parralize LLVM code generation by introducing novel techniques What techniques?
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
There is already Invoke-WebRequest. Powershell 5 infamously shipped with "curl" as an alias for it. So be careful what you wish for.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
I interpreted that to mean "other people should be working because it will enable me personally to buy more stuff (that they produce)", not "each person should be working because working will allow that person to buy themselv
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
This was added in 3.14. The zipfile module was updated too, which probably makes Python the easiest way to work with ZIP files with zstd compression.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
You can't use BigDecimal either. There are libraries whose whole purpose is just to exactly reproduce COBOL arithmetic, eg. the IBM Decimal Arithmetic Library.
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by edflsafoiewq 1mo ago
"Porcupine" confused with "concubine".
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
"You could have invented..." a just a genre of expository writing which builds a path from something you know to something you want to learn. The sequence of development is not necessarily even historically accurate, it can be com
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
The big labs don't generally have the resources to remove stuff and re-run training again either. That's reserved for new models. Existing models are modified by operating on the weights even by the model creators, which exactly s
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
PrismML released a ternary model recently. However AFAICT they don't use this packing, instead packing trits as 2 bits each (as least for the GGUF). Hy-MT2 also came out with a 1.25bit model using a technique called Sherry, where weigh
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
I actually don't think LLMs are "really" intelligent either, but we do seem to be pawing our way towards something. Everyone is talking about safety and risk and alignment. But I never read anything about what kind of moral o
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
People swear up and down these things are real intelligences and not stochastic parrots until the ethical questions come out and then they're just fancy washing machines.
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
What's the advantage of the separate streams? That presumably prevents a streaming encoder/decoder.
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
It appears they are using Q2_0 in llama.cpp, which is 2 bits per weight + 1 float16 scale per group of 64 weights. This is inefficient in two ways: one bit pattern is wasted on each weight, since ternary weights only use {-1,0,1} and Q2_0 a
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JPEG for ASTC(github.com)
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
I find it kind of interesting the whole output wasn't released. A common criticism of mathematical writing is results are "pulled out of a hat"; you only write up a polished, final proof, but hide everything that went into de
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by edflsafoiewq 2mo ago
In data structure terms, attributes do allow nodes to be decorated with additional information without forcing any change on existing parsers. In JSON, this would require swapping, eg. "str" -> {"value": "str&quo
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by edflsafoiewq 3mo ago
I think those are CLI options, not negative signs. Ie. you call zstd -3 for compression level 3.
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by edflsafoiewq 3mo ago
"Oh gee, we'd definitely contribute to the open source driver if the repo name didn't have wacom in it." Yeah, uh huh.

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