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by epaulson 6mo ago
I was a little confused by this part: "This is what's happening to the parameters of models when they're quantized down to sizes that are possible to run on your laptop. Instead of floats, small integers are what get stored a
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by epaulson 9mo ago
And every couple of days we see a post or a tweet about "Google/Apple/Microsoft just nuked my account with no notice and no recourse" so trusting them to sync passkeys rightfully makes some people nervous.
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by epaulson 1y ago
The 'it's rude to show your ai(llm) output' is a reference to this: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
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by epaulson 2y ago
It's frustrating that there's no pricing information. The tech looks cool and all, but without knowing how much it's going to cost there's no way to really evaluate it.
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by epaulson 2y ago
The National Science Foundation has been doing this for decades, starting with the supercomputing centers in the 80s. Long before anyone talked about cloud credits, NSF has had a bunch of different programs to allocate time on supercomputer
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by epaulson 2y ago
About two weeks I came across this tweet, from a PhD candidate just finishing up: https://x.com/CharityWoodrum/status/1808313627864440930 "For Woody and Jayson Thomas. From the local universe to the first gal
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by epaulson 2y ago
Are there APIs to get the iCloud sync into my own app? I'm all for iCloud syncing to my devices I just want a way to also get a backup in a file so if Apple decides to delete my account on a whim, I don't lose everything.
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by epaulson 3y ago
The fun thing about BlenderBIM is that it's IFC-native. (IFC is the 'Industrial Foundation Classes' - a data model/structure for modeling buildings and the components, systems, and intangibles like construction schedules
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by epaulson 3y ago
Oh, awesome. I'm glad to discover I was wrong about that!
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by epaulson 3y ago
I'd even be willing to pay the $99 a year, I just want the signature to last longer than a week, ideally forever. For years when I don't feel like updating the app, I won't pay the developer membership fee.
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by epaulson 3y ago
It's not so much that OPML is the interesting part here, it's that it's a file. A few weeks back Andrej Karpathy had a twitter thread[1] about blogging software and shared this link on 'File vs App' - https:/&
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by epaulson 3y ago
This sentence is doing a lot of work: "Hypothetical S2 does a bit more to simplify the layers above – it makes leadership above the log convenient with leases and fenced writes." It'd be awesome to have a bit more transaction
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by epaulson 3y ago
One of the long-standing challenges in the federated identity space has been that most of the solutions are built around domain names, which are a pain for most users to create on their own. There's a sense that people would prefer ema
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by epaulson 3y ago
I wish there was a good nonprofit 'infrastructure cooperative' that could provide some of these core services but have a corporate governance that could be trusted. The place I most want it for is a domain name registrar but DNS a
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by epaulson 3y ago
Bluesky is a different protocol than Mastodon, but conceptually I think it's fair to say they're similar. I think Bluesky would clean up if it could also interop with Mastodon - people want to leave Twitter but it sucks having to
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by epaulson 3y ago
This is a dumb question but how hard is it to train the mamba models that are on huggingface? It looks like the largest one is 2.8b - how many GPUs for how long do you need to train that up using a dataset like The Pile?
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by epaulson 3y ago
I know this isn't an actual v3 of the SSH protocol, but if there ever is a version 3 of SSH, it really needs some kind of (encrypted) SNI or at least a standardized metadata block that can be passed to any jumphost without having the k
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by epaulson 3y ago
Live data would be great, but I'd be interested even in historic data. Not like 1880s but a timeseries of 15-minute granularity of train positions for last year. It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks were and what other
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by epaulson 3y ago
The article is about what UI toolkits are used to build content apps for TVs and TV devices like FireTV/Apple TV, but I wish for a world where using those apps weren't my only options. It'd be nice if TVs and streaming servic
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by epaulson 3y ago
An important part of this is to eliminate the idea that as a society we all need to have the same 2 weekend days off. (Which we don't anyway because a huge percentage of the population does work on weekends, just not most "profess
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by epaulson 3y ago
During spring of 2020 at the very beginning of COVID my (100K+ person) company furloughed all of us for about 12 days, but most of us had to take it as 2 days of unpaid time off per week, so we effectively had 3 day work weeks. I have to sa
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by epaulson 3y ago
What's the ratio of humans back at headquarters ready to take over vs the number of cars active on the road? That's a really interesting number that I don't think I've ever seen reported anywhere. It does feel like a lot
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by epaulson 3y ago
I just wish that merchants could pass the interchange fees on explicitly to customers, and so the folks who are paying with cards that have high-interchange fees pay more. I'm sick of subsidizing other people's airline mile becaus
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by epaulson 3y ago
It is kinda bonkers that after 30 years Linux still doesn't some kind of inescapable and recursive process group mechanism. How many tens of thousands of hours of programming time would have been saved over the years if there was a way
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by epaulson 3y ago
The EPA had some money from the recovery funding and then the inflation reduction act to do more air quality monitoring stations - the EPA gave out 132 awards around the country, my city got one and we're putting up 68 sensors around t
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by epaulson 3y ago
Yes, we could get a lot more energy out of our fission fuel. The reason the USA doesn't is because Jimmy Carter set a policy of not reprocessing fuel because he felt it encouraged nuclear weapons proliferation, coming just a few years
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Terraformer Mark One – cheap natural gas from sunlight and air(terraformindustries.wordpress.com)
40 points by epaulson 3y ago|10 comments
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by epaulson 3y ago
Ben Recht is skeptical: https://twitter.com/beenwrekt/status/1662124696186544128
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by epaulson 3y ago
The schema.org markup that goes into websites for SEO and smart snippets in search engines is all RDF, usually as JSON-LD. Millions of people use RDF every day without even knowing it. https://developers.google.com/search&#x
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by epaulson 3y ago
Others have pointed out that doing this in an office setting is probably low-value, since the volumes are low and you can do a lot of this at the recycling facility already once it gets trucked away (though cleaner inputs are always welcome

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