hippietrail

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by hippietrail 8d ago
On the Speccy at the time we had no volume control, only frequency... or more accurately you could but the frequency and the volume were tied somehow: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14655
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by hippietrail 8d ago
Nope. I did the same thing myself with my Spectrum. I guess I was 14. I didn't have a microphone so I tried it with my dad's stereo headphones. I got the idea to try it after looking at the Z80 machine code of cassette saving and
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by hippietrail 8d ago
Exactly. There's a widespread misconception that it works on tokens all the way through. Tokens are only at the input and output edges. All the internal transformation is in the many-dimensional tensors variously described as "mag
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by hippietrail 8d ago
I keep seeing this stochastically parroted here. Perhaps by humans but how knows?
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by hippietrail 8d ago
And flipping a coin, rolling a dice, uttering a sentence.
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by hippietrail 8d ago
"Guessing" is more accurate than "predicting". It takes educated guesses.
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by hippietrail 8d ago
The language model itself is a static data structure. On top of that is an inference engine. Currently all inference engines are autoregressive. Meaning they use the current output to produce more output. This isn't necessarily the onl
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by hippietrail 11d ago
Writing without uppercase letters or full stops is not writing. Low-effort is low-effort. Slop is slop.
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by hippietrail 13d ago
Every coder/developer/programmer/software engineer should write a text editor at least once.
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by hippietrail 16d ago
I started travelling in December 1989 and still find different places. Touristy places tend to get samey and cities tend to get samey. Vietnam has got much more like a developed country since my first visit and that's a fantastic thing
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by hippietrail 16d ago
Country towns feel much more varied around the world than big cities do. Rural areas in Australia are nothing like ones in Japan, which are nothing like ones in Thailand, which are nothing like ones in Romania. When I miss city life I move
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by hippietrail 16d ago
I'm 58 and still choose hostels over hotels but I avoid party hostels. Sometimes I hang out with someone older than me, sometimes with someone younger than me. Usually I hang out on my own and don't mind it. I've had bedbugs
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by hippietrail 16d ago
Depends on the hostel and the guests. It's a few months since I had a roommate on their phone at night. I've had noise issues in hotels and I've had quiet hostels. Totally orthogonal.
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by hippietrail 16d ago
58 here. Hostels are fun. But I do avoid party hostels full of only people in their 20s.
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by hippietrail 28d ago
Each character has one "radical" out of a set of 214, which was assigned by the Kangxi emperor about three centuries ago as a way to index and sort characters. Sometimes it's the whole character itself, sometimes it's a
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by hippietrail 2mo ago
Does it roll its own Unicode solution without ICU, or does it forgo Unicode? Or somewhere in between?
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by hippietrail 3mo ago
I was in Taiwan when it came out there. It was insanely popular. I was camping at some random place and it was crowded with random people and families even at 2am all collecting 'em all.