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by granitepail 3mo ago
A great deal of their research has been focused on zigging where others zag. Their paper "Continuous Thought Machines" ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05522 , presented at NeurIPS) was posed specifically under the
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by granitepail 6mo ago
Hey, what do you know—Moonshot came out and explained that Cursor was operating within the licensing agreement. https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2035074972943831491
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by granitepail 6mo ago
"Just" Kimi K2.5 with RL—people really misunderstand how difficult it is to achieve these reults with RL. Cursor's research team is highly respected within the industry, and what they've done is quite impressive. Before
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by granitepail 8mo ago
To me, it’s very obvious that the problem is social media. To social media, AI slop is peak efficiency. The affordances and incentives of the network encourage its creation. I don’t care for the media slop, but eg television media has more
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by granitepail 10mo ago
His JEPA family of models is a genuine step forward for SSL. Not the only approach, but a very insightful one. You’re very dismissive of his work.
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by granitepail 1y ago
If ya made it through all three of the sentences they wrote, you'd see the comment you replied to came around to it being reasonable to give families a break on group seating.
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by granitepail 1y ago
In my case, I’m paying for inference on the original models from e.g. Fireworks. So it’s not a quantization problem. The Qwen3 I was using was the new 458B (i think that’s the size?) model that was their top performer for code. I agree with
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by granitepail 1y ago
While the benchmarks all say open source models Kimi and Qwen outpace proprietary models like GPT 4.1, GPT 4o, or even o3, my (and just about everyone I know's) boots on the ground experience suggests they're not even close. This
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by granitepail 2y ago
From the individual article summaries: "The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, incl
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by granitepail 4y ago
More, I think, preying on the public's interest in UFOs to justify another massive military budget. All of the wild PR around UFOs with absolutely nothing of substance to back it seems to be a very effective PR campaign.
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by granitepail 5y ago
Maybe the backend was written in concrete.
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by granitepail 5y ago
Definitely. If you have the skills, working in a strong fund is the best way to get pay that scales with your contribution.
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by granitepail 5y ago
I haven't updated my LinkedIn in around five years. Definitely not a requirement. I do keep an up-to-date CV and just pass that along. Could always try putting n/a in the field and writing a note, or finding a hiring manager or so
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by granitepail 6y ago
Exactly. A cryptocurrency is driven by speculation. A treasury system helps manage flows of capital in and out of a business. Said company pays to use the proprietary system. Sure, they're both backed by a ledger, but Adjoint isn'
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by granitepail 6y ago
I played a lot of M:tG at various times in my life, and games like Magic teach you a lot about these concepts. I would have never thought about it has I not had that experience! No shame in learning about the meta game!
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by granitepail 6y ago
Arbitrary precision arithmetic.
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by granitepail 6y ago
The Art of Electronics is perhaps the best textbook (in any subject) that I have read. I’d highly recommend it. It’s exceedingly pragmatic and will discuss a mix of physical underpinnings as well as applications.
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by granitepail 6y ago
I wonder how the naive timestamp approach works when multiple users are syncing at the same time?
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by granitepail 8y ago
agreed. living in NYC, i’ve seen how extensive the problem is. we have lots of housing being built over a much broader area than san francisco and yet we still have the same problem. the number of people moving in to the city and getting hi
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by granitepail 11y ago
interesting to see this! the first thing that came to mind was irmin, from the good folks at MirageOS. unikernels provide an interesting opportunity to rethink block storage, as you're no longer bound the rest of your operating system.
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by granitepail 13y ago
echoes in the echochamber
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by granitepail 13y ago
This is reminiscent of "The Hunger Site" which started in 1999. http://thehungersite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ths/home
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by granitepail 13y ago
I have no idea why you're getting so much pushback. Products like those offered by Bloomberg ingest and distribute massive amounts of data in real time, as well. The comparison is completely suitable. While their products for investmen
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by granitepail 13y ago
You guys seem like a step in the right direction! The improved locking, in particular. Sharding is still a nasty issue w/ MongoDB.
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by granitepail 13y ago
Yeah! Exactly! Sorry if it was unclear, but what I meant was that I saw the latest wave of DBs (Rethink + Riak) as finally letting the administration & scalability side catch up to the programmer approachability side. Anyone with signif
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by granitepail 13y ago
I saw the article as more of a reaction to all of the technical (and often times inane) blog posts about why company x uses technology y. The main points I took away from the article were: - They did their homework, and - They knew that, ev
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by granitepail 13y ago
You're generally spot on, but I figured I'd clarify a bit of terminology since it can be so confusing in our field. Generally, TCP is referred to as a "stream" based protocol because it guarantees, amongst other things, that all packets wil
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by granitepail 13y ago
Having worked on a sizable AngularJS project for a good while, now, I can't begin to imagine where you're coming from. The strength of Angular, in my opinion, is that I write ~1/10th the code I'd write using jQuery & Underscore. Event h
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by granitepail 13y ago
it's not funny and that was not censorship. it was an expression of collective disappointment at a user's attempt to marginalize the CEO of a large and influential tech company made purely on the grounds of her being a woman. it's an intere
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by granitepail 13y ago
It's also worth noting that while blunt objects such as hammers and baseball bats find uses in construction and non-violent sports, guns do not necessarily share such innocent use cases. Sport shooting is the major exemption (I'm quite a fa

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