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by hikarudo 7d ago
Very cool! How does the direct TCP mode work?
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by hikarudo 22d ago
Why? The inference server isn't a harness, it's tokens in, tokens out. That's different from a harness.
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by hikarudo 2mo ago
Sounds super interesting! What's your approach?
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by hikarudo 3mo ago
Fun fact: one of Yann LeCun's first 'deep learning' projects was on OCR for postal codes (MNIST).
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by hikarudo 4mo ago
In Japan, I learned to drink water upside down to stop hiccups. Works for me, whereas drinking normally doesn't.
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by hikarudo 4mo ago
Thanks for the correction. You're absolutely right.
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by hikarudo 4mo ago
It's not a market failure, it's just supply and demand. There are many computer components competing for the same resources (fabs, wafers). Demand for GPUs, RAM etc. has increased a lot due to AI, but supply is still the same due
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by hikarudo 5mo ago
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.
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by hikarudo 6mo ago
> Once you reach this stage, the only escape is to first cover everything with tests and then meticulously fix bugs The exact same approach is recommended in the book "Working effectively with legacy code" by Michael Feathers,
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by hikarudo 6mo ago
Also checkout Deepmind's "The Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" on kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-good-hackathon
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by hikarudo 6mo ago
One trick I use all the time: You're typing a long command, then before running it you remember you have to do some stuff first. Instead of Ctrl-C to cancel it, you push it to history in a disabled form. Prepend the line with # to comm
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by hikarudo 7mo ago
Why 25%, shouldn't it be 12.5%? 8 ECC bits for every 64 bits.
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by hikarudo 11mo ago
A gentleman's gentleman!
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by hikarudo 1y ago
Here's a great talk by John Hughes, one of the authors of QuickCheck, with real-life examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q
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by hikarudo 1y ago
I used a similar setup for a while: Obsidian for taking notes in markdown, and vscode for coding. Eventually I moved to using vscode for both. My gigantic notes.md file is always open in tab 1, so I can go to it immediately with Ctrl + 1. F
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by hikarudo 1y ago
Also see "I Pencil" by Leonard Read (1958).
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by hikarudo 2y ago
> we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests. A similar idea is present in Herbert Simon's 'The sciences of the artificial', where he describes a sentient city.
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by hikarudo 2y ago
Sincere question: what's wrong with Python f-strings?
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by hikarudo 2y ago
Computer vision. C++ and Python.
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by hikarudo 3y ago
That was Blaise Pascal.
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by hikarudo 3y ago
"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
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by hikarudo 4y ago
What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.
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by hikarudo 4y ago
You can split it up into several files, then concatenate the arrays at runtime.
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by hikarudo 4y ago
Spot on. You've described Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" paper exactly.
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by hikarudo 4y ago
import -window root `date -Is`.png
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by hikarudo 4y ago
Greg Egan's "Permutation City" kind of fits those requirements.
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by hikarudo 4y ago
"A car is a wheel, and is a wheel, and is a wheel, and is a wheel".
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by hikarudo 4y ago
conscious vs unconscious memorization
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by hikarudo 5y ago
The opencv_contrib repo does have a module, called "reg", for direct alignment.
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by hikarudo 5y ago
Here's a very good visual explanation of double descent: https://mlu-explain.github.io/double-descent/

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