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by exacube 14d ago
IME 3.1 Pro still has better system-instruction following than Flash 3.7, esp. when there're many conditions and clauses. 3.1 also writes better prose for technical material than Flash 3.7. Once the system prompt complexity goes up, F
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by exacube 23d ago
plug: studymode.ca/ml is an AI-generated cirricculum + chapters/lessons that teaches ML by building practical projects the lessons have svg diagrams, ai chat inline (google docs), etc apologies if this comes off as slop, but its b
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by exacube 1mo ago
I'm finding Gemini 3.7 speaks a lot more academically. Its explanations are not clear and intuitive by default. Maybe this has to do with all the RLVR it went through, where reasoning through difficult academic/coding problems ca
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by exacube 6mo ago
obligatory oxford comma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g
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by exacube 8mo ago
does anyone know how well this 5x petaflop improvement translates to real world performance? I know that memory bandwidth tends to be a big limiting factor, but I'm trying to understand how this factors into it its overall perf, compar
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by exacube 9mo ago
it does; thanks so much, appreciate it!
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by exacube 9mo ago
Some fine tuning data questions: i see the the dataset Google published in this notebook https://github.com/google-gemini/gemma-cookbook/blob/main/Fu... -- from looking at the dataset on huggingface, it
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by exacube 9mo ago
would love to see some comparison numbers to Gemini and Claude, especially with this claim: "The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineers"
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by exacube 9mo ago
the only constant is HN's styling.
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by exacube 2y ago
yes that'd be great! and if the price could somehow include the shipping rate to the country, that'd be awesome
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by exacube 2y ago
Doesn't Ontario's IESO also do this?
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by exacube 2y ago
Is the real identity of Jia Tan known, even by Lasse Collin? I would think a "real identity" should be required by linux distros for all /major/ open source projects/library committers which are included in the dist
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by exacube 3y ago
mmm.. > what are the top 5 tallest man-made structures in the world Statue of Unity (Tallinn, Estonia) - 368 m Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) - 330 m Supertree Grove (Orlando, Florida) - 275 m Skylon Tower (Kuala Lumpur
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by exacube 3y ago
Ah, makes sense :)
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by exacube 3y ago
Nice article! There is a bug in the compaction method: def compact(sstables, output_sstable): # Ordered by ascending key. pop() results in the item of the smallest key. heap = heapq.heapify([(sstable.next(), sstable) for sstabl
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by exacube 5y ago
Apologies for my tone, I didn't mean to insinuate you weren't experienced. I guess I was wondering what was wrong with copy(), thanks for the link! IMO, copy() is well-designed and the semantics are sensible. I think the other exa
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by exacube 5y ago
It's surpring that Go 1.17 discountined support for MacOS 10.12 (or older), which released only 4 years ago. Along with deprecating Intel support, it seems like Apple, their users and the ecosystem is totally fine not giving a shit abo
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by exacube 5y ago
> e.g. cloning a slice. https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#copy
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by exacube 5y ago
My favorite part: Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. This work is enabled for Linux, MacOS, and Windows on the 64-bit x86 architecture... For a representative set of
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by exacube 5y ago
Thanks for all the hard work and open sourcing it! Are there benchmarks/numbers for how Astro improves page load / page download size for a relatively complicated web app? I wasn't able to find it on the website or the README
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by exacube 5y ago
Design docs are a heavy-weight way to accomplish 3 major things, roughly in the order of importance: 1) Get feedback from your peers and other teams who need to interface with your design. Your design, or the problem you think you are tac
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by exacube 5y ago
Or DirectX. Mostly, I think the expectation is that folks won't handwrite vulkan, they'll use a higherlevel API, like a game engine's API.
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by exacube 6y ago
I don't think the release cadenece (6 weeks) is the cause for how fast the language was changing. As a counter examples, Go release roughly every ~26 weeks and mostly has releases with minor updates. Chromium releases every 6 weeks but
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by exacube 6y ago
VS Code's Remote Development. I'm not sure how many folks rely on this, but its been amazing for me.
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by exacube 6y ago
TIDAL isn't getting traction & Jay-Z wants to sell it <=> Square needs a hook into the rap industry because they market really well there. Square has been paying rappers to promote Cashapp since 2018. Here's an article w
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by exacube 6y ago
Well, here goes another thread about free speech vs. ethical discourse, where atleast one side uncompromisingly refuses to put themselves in the shoes of the other. Just to fast-forward this thread a bit for everyone: - Free speech doesn&#x
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by exacube 6y ago
Does using the underlying platform's webview make things faster? What are the benefits to end users?
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by exacube 6y ago
Human labour is by far the most expensive aspect of taxis. If a tax driver earns 35,000 USD/yr, a self-driving car only needs to cost < 35,000/yr to turn a profit at scale. IIUC, FSD costs are mostly captured by the running ser
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by exacube 6y ago
IIUC: OP is set to own roughly 40% in 4yrs -- 10% at the end of the 1st year (i.e the "cliff"), and the rest of the 30% across the remaining 3 years (probably more often than once a year). the "reverse vesting" means tha
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by exacube 6y ago
how much of storage on macs is actually used up by code though?

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