geph2021

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by geph2021 2y ago
wow, that's terrible. I was a competitive swimmer in my youth, and we did similar competitions from time to time (very rarely). I've never seen or even heard of a swimmer passing out underwater. A more common drill we would do
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by geph2021 2y ago
That's exactly the author's point: Most programming books suck. Yet he has some recommendations: But I do have this call to arms: my top five programming books every working programmer should own – and read. They a
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by geph2021 2y ago
I think this sort of technique is used in boxing and MMA: play a good defense, stay out of trouble, and let the aggressor exhaust themselves until later rounds when you feel you may have a fitness advantage. I think there were good exampl
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by geph2021 2y ago
Our motor controller had a 100 page datasheet that was overwhelming and dense - but uploading it to Claude and then asking questions let us quickly resolve one of our issues! That's interesting. I've tried exactly this w
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The future of kdb+?(timestored.com)
219 points by geph2021 2y ago|66 comments
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by geph2021 2y ago
There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. I think that's true of most large organizations.
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Ask HN: What are the best resources today for learning AI/LLMs
20 points by geph2021 2y ago|9 comments
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by geph2021 2y ago
People have been comparing and contrasting successive technology innovation cycles for a long time. OP mentions railroads, but that doesn't mean there's an "effort to hitch" AI to railroads. It's just a comparis
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by geph2021 2y ago
When you think about the promise (or hype) of crypto/bitcoin/blockchain 10 years ago, in some sense it augured equally, if not more, transformative change/disruption than AI. Crypto portended drastic and fundamental changes:
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Obtaining source code for training LLMs(shape-of-code.com)
1 points by geph2021 2y ago|0 comments
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Efficient WaveRNN: Block Sparsity(andrew.gibiansky.com)
7 points by geph2021 2y ago|2 comments
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by geph2021 2y ago
It depends on the counter offer and your situation. I would have agreed with you, but a couple years ago I told my employer that I had a job offer kind of land in my lap (I wasn't actively looking), that it was good and I was inclined
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by geph2021 2y ago
governments should have been falling over themselves to buy or otherwise subsidise expensive solar PV, because the more we bought, the faster the price would fall That's quite a stretch, especially considering that there are p
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by geph2021 2y ago
I don't know a lot about these tools, but I've used QCAD[1] for home improvement projects, drawing schematics and layout diagrams, and been very happy with it. It seems quite powerful. It's also open source, although not b
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by geph2021 2y ago
same :)
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by geph2021 2y ago
Recommendation for anyone wanting to get into the gory, shocking details of WWI: The podcast, Dan Carlin's A blueprint for Armageddon[1]. Over 24 hours on the topic, and I was left absolutely devastated by the descriptions of the impac
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by geph2021 2y ago
As far as I can tell, its optional dependency is Open MP, not CUDA. Doesn't seem directly dependent on CUDA.
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by geph2021 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting. "We call it the engine block because it somewhat resembles a three cylinder motorcycle engine" (referring to the power distribution and cooling)
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by geph2021 3y ago
and cooling! Imagine the heat sink on that thing. Would look like a cast-iron Dutch oven :)
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by geph2021 3y ago
original title is: "4,000,000,000,000 Transistors, One Giant Chip (Cerebras WSE-3)" So I guess they're trying to stay true to it.
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by geph2021 3y ago
very murdery! Never even seen coffee that color :)
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by geph2021 3y ago
I enjoyed the game! There was a whole lot of civilizational collapse due to food-borne illness. Maybe throw in a comet strike, or more varied geological changes (flipping magnetic poles, ice-ages, tsunami, sea-level rise, etc...). It&#x27
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by geph2021 3y ago
Anyone know what is happening, or happened, with shakti db[1]? It's been years since Arthur started this other k-variant. 1- https://shakti.com/
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by geph2021 3y ago
I'm thinking they automatically fed in bulk images, asking for product description/title, and put the result straight into their product descriptions/titles. Some of the images triggered the OpenAI guard rails.
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by geph2021 3y ago
I think you're missing how this technology works. The basis for these models is training data. And to train anything, you need to label the data. So prompt engineering is simply using the lexicon, terminology and language labeling c
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Lessons from Charlie Munger(conorneill.com)
2 points by geph2021 3y ago|0 comments
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by geph2021 3y ago
Looks like they are trying to drive people to their sites judging from the long list of URLs on their profile I can't imagine that's very effective. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I rarely (i.e. < 1% of the time)
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by geph2021 3y ago
correct. It's generally not feasible to shade such a large area over water. But evaporation does take its toll on reservoir water. There was a proposal not long ago to shade the canal carrying water from Northern California to Sout
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by geph2021 3y ago
I do not have anything specific. I have read threads where someone, usually with snark, responds with a comment of the sort "are you a bot?", or "you sound like chatGPT". That's probably only been a couple times
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by geph2021 3y ago
even here on HN, the percentage of AI generated comments has to be increasing day by day. I have to assume that some have created HN commenter bots, even just as a hobby/learning project.

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