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by iknownothow 2mo ago
I mentioned elsewhere that time taken for setting is also a major factor for why Portland cement is preferred. Maintenance is probably less of a factor but it also depends on the use case. Take what I have to say with a grain of salt. Lime
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
Sure but lime plaster can be used in bathrooms on the non shower walls as there's no running water but lots of moisture/humidity which leads to mold growth. As far as using it in the grout behind tiles, you may have a point. I&#x2
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
It is not lime as in the fruit, it is lime as in the material (CaOH2). Lime the material is the binding agent in lime plasters. It is not likely to get washed away.
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
I'm not sure as I'm not a builder or plasterer and it does depend on the use case. However I do know that some grout and some paints that say they are anti-mold contain Lime or calcium hydroxide as their primary anti-mold ingredie
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
You are correct. I'm not sure why I remember cement to be water proof. Its possible I infered from how its been used around me. I have seen cement very often used where water contact is expected (bathrooms etc). I have also seen brick
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
I forgot another important reason why Portland cement is preferred over lime these days. Lime takes a while to set (a few days?), cement sets faster.
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
For those not familiar, the secret ingredients are to do with the Lime Cycle [1]: 1) Quicklime/Slakedlime (Calcium Oxide, CaO) 2) Lime (Calcium Hydroxide, CaOH2) 3) Limestone (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3) To keep it simple, typically you
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
Gotcha and thank you! So the encryption is happening on the OpenAI backend and the agent's clear-text output designated to the sub-agent never reaches local. Which is a real problem since you can't intercept/monkey patch the
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by iknownothow 2mo ago
Could someone explain to me where exactly the encryption is happening? I assumed that the main agent makes calls to sub-agents locally. Does Codex work in such a way where the main agent makes calls to sub-agents in the backend (openai serv
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by iknownothow 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, can there not be something like a two party or N party veto? i.e. requiring a minimum of two or N parties to work together to veto? The choice between just a single party having a veto power vs no party with veto powers se
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by iknownothow 6mo ago
I just checked again. 16GB DDR5 (291 Euro) to 32GB (519 Euro). Seems right to me and does not match what you reported. Maybe they updated the website by the time I checked.
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by iknownothow 6mo ago
I checked the prices for 64GB DDR5. There's some variance based on brand/model but the average and trend seems more or less right. Did you happen to notice that it is about prices in the EU?
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by iknownothow 6mo ago
Thank you author Ian Mckay! This is one of those good hygiene conventions that save time by not having to think/worry each time buckets are named. As pointed out in the article, AWS seems to have made this part of their official naming
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by iknownothow 6mo ago
Potential reasons I can think of for why they don't disallow name reuse: a) AWS will need to maintain a database of all historical bucket names to know what to disallow. This is hard per region and even harder globally. Its easier to k
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by iknownothow 6mo ago
I'd ask politely to refrain from such comments :) This is not me criticising you. I totally understand the urge to say it. We're all thinking the thing you're thinking of. It takes effort not to give into it ;) The reason I p
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by iknownothow 1y ago
I agree, Databricks is one of many in the space. If S3 makes Databricks redundant, then they also make others like Databricks redundant too.
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by iknownothow 1y ago
S3 has much bigger fish in its sight than the measely vector db space. If you see the subtle improvements in features of S3 in recent years, it is clear as day, at least to me, that they're going after the whale that is Databricks. And
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by iknownothow 1y ago
I just did a wget of the site and noticed the following line at the end. > <script async src=" https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?xxxxxxx"></script> I am going to use this for sure, b
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by iknownothow 1y ago
I'd say that's where we're headed. A big model that's trained from the start to use tools and know when to use certain tools and how to use tools. Like us :) I wouldn't be surprised if someone's building a data
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by iknownothow 1y ago
To be fair, I'd put finding literal string diffs in the category of asking LLMs to do rote arithmetic. The attention mechanism does far too much complex thinking for such a dumb task. This is precisely where you need to dumb down and f
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by iknownothow 1y ago
As far as I can tell, the paper covers text documents only. Therefore your example doesn't quite apply. It is well known that LLMs have a ways to go when it comes to processing images like they process text or audio. I don't think
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by iknownothow 1y ago
> Log-linear attention replaces the fixed-size hidden state with a logarithmically growing set of hidden states Does this mean the models can be smaller too (on top of the primary benefit of being faster)?
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by iknownothow 1y ago
That's fair. I care about the end result. The problem is about taking information in 2D/3D space and solving the problem. Humans solve these things through vision. LLMs or AI can do it using another algorithm and internal represen
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by iknownothow 1y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, your opinion is also vibes. Let's ground that a bit. Have a look at ARC AGI 1 challenge/benchmark. Solve a problem or two yourself. Know that ARC AGI 1 is practically solved by a few LLMs as of
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by iknownothow 1y ago
Thanks for the reply and apologies for the general cynicism. It's not lost on me that it's people like you that build tools that make the work tick. I'm just a loud potential customer and I'm just forwarding the frustrat
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by iknownothow 1y ago
I've read the link and the GitHub readme page. I'm sure I'm in the top 1% of software devs for the most number of timestamps parsed. [1] DST is not a problem in Python. It's parsing string timestamps. All libraries are b
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by iknownothow 2y ago
Is there a terminology battle happening in some circles? And if so, what are the consequences of being wrong and using the wrong terminology? I follow the rnd and progress in this space and I haven't heard anyone make a fuss about it.
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by iknownothow 2y ago
How does it compare with s5cmd [1]? s5cmd is my goto tool for fast s3 sync and they have the following at the top of their Github page: > For uploads, s5cmd is 32x faster than s3cmd and 12x faster than aws-cli. For downloads, s5cmd can s
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by iknownothow 2y ago
I've been inadvertently working on this topic and I'd like to share some findings. * Do not confuse bots with DDoS. While bot traffic may end up overwhelming your server, your DDoS SaaS will not stop that traffic unless you have s
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by iknownothow 2y ago
Many parents don't know social media is bad. I've had to convince my partner that it is harmful over many months. She's only now stopped doom scrolling instagram. We finally came to an agreement that our child will not get a

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