ephimetheus

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by ephimetheus 1mo ago
I enjoy programming as a hobby and have done it for many years. I also enjoy building stuff with LLMs. Why is one pure and sanctioned and the other one is bad? Why do I need other people to decide this for me?
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by ephimetheus 1mo ago
Or it’s really just plain old gate keeping maybe.
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by ephimetheus 3mo ago
Funny this predates even the original paper first introducing the attention mechanism underpinning modern LLM.
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by ephimetheus 4mo ago
I’ve noticed this too. I think it started around the time of the first round of big tech layoffs in the US, and when the US ratcheted up the price for H1B(?) visas. Seems like economic uncertainty or fear of it breeds xenophobia. Who knew
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by ephimetheus 7mo ago
sPHENIX uses software that we’ve worked on at CERN to do some of their reconstruction!
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by ephimetheus 9mo ago
Oh yes and so much so! Electrons are point-like (not composite like a proton) and interact only electroweakly (not strongly).
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by ephimetheus 9mo ago
There absolutely are direct neutron experiments, but they are much lower energy and have a different focus, partly because neutrons being neutral means they’re very hard to accelerate. There’s an ultra cold neutron source at Paul Scherrer t
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by ephimetheus 9mo ago
I get what you’re saying, but the measurements are real. In some sense they are the truth. In the article this refers to the finding that the quark is more complex than three valence quarks. The measurements indicating that the three-quark-
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by ephimetheus 9mo ago
Neutrons are just as complex, they’re much harder to study though.
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by ephimetheus 10mo ago
Didn’t they just drastically increase the price for non US citizens? I think it almost went up by 10x
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
I appreciate the opinion, but that precludes it from being used in repos that are not jj-first and happen to use submodules.
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
I got into jujutsu recently for the mega merge workflow. The only thing I’m missing now is support for git submodules, especially when working with workspaces. This requires me to keep using git worktrees with collocated jj in each of them,
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
Is selecting text in the PDF supported? I can’t get that to work in iOS Safari.
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
So far whenever jujutsu came up I didn’t find its features that convincing relative to git. I have to say however that the mega merge workflow seems intriguing and might in fact be a solution to having to serialize my work like I do in git
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
Exactly, I would've hoped someone could come up with a way to render markdown directly into a PDF, without roundtripping via tex and having to handhold the styling process in the way that's required now.
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by ephimetheus 1y ago
What always disqualifies these projects for me is the fact that they need to use a headless browser to export to PDF. PDF export is the primary feature I need from these, and it’s a shame the export mechanism is still this slow and unreliab
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Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data(wired.com)
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
This is a fantastic analogy!
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
Which package do you mean? Last time I tried this it was kind of clunky.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
For experiment data, there is a layer on top of all of this that distributes datasets across the computing grid. That system has a way to handle replicate at the dataset level.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
Paperless-ngx is fantastic! I’ve been running it for a while and it works great! I wrote an iOS [1] app to connect to you instance and it’s open source [2]. [1] https://apps.apple.com/de/app/swift-paperless/id
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
Doesn’t work in web views unfortunately.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
iOS embedded safari doesn’t run them unfortunately. I mainly read HN from an RSS reader, whose web view always shows light mode.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
Especially meat is particularly expensive in Switzerland, however, compare to most of Europe. The marketing somehow managed to cement this a meaning higher quality, and the population largely accepts the higher price.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
4000TWh of energy per year comes out to about 456GW continuous power. So pretty much in the right ballpark?
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
On macOS, I get the message that the disk image is corrupted.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
+1 for RDataFrame for what it can do. Just be prepared to bail to C++ and for loops when you exceed what it can do without major headaches.
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
Yeah I think it has to do with the memberwise splitting. https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot5/issues/38 I understand this has not been a priority so far. It kinda works if you open a magic file with a specif
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
I can’t count the number of of times where a beginner did some stuff in pyroot that was horrifically slow and just implementing the exact same algorithm in C++ was two orders of magnitude faster. If you don’t use RDataFrame, or it’s just hi
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by ephimetheus 2y ago
All of our other code is C++. The data reconstruction framework writing ROOT files, the analysis frameworks doing stat analysis. The event data model is implemented in C++. It has its rough edges, but you do get a lot of good synergy out of

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