iliekcomputers

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Summing ASCII encoded integers on Haswell at almost the speed of memcpy(blog.mattstuchlik.com)
132 points by iliekcomputers 2y ago|36 comments
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by iliekcomputers 3y ago
chess has had engines 100x better than magnus carlsen for years and it's not dead. people who have fun giving these competitions will continue having fun, while people who don't will keep crying that they're useless or dead o
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by iliekcomputers 3y ago
yep, this level of censorship is a bit much in my opinion. the models should at least be able to create fiction reasonably. Can't wait for things like llama / alpaca to become more prevalent!
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by iliekcomputers 3y ago
yeah, it's being very slow for me too! I don't have monitoring on it as such, but there was an outage just today ( https://status.openai.com/ ) so it's probably still unstable or something.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
i'm not employed by google, nor have i ever been. GSoC is google paying people to work on open-source stuff, with little direct relation to their profits.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
I was a student in a no-name college with no real chance of landing an internship at the big tech companies, given my cv had neither the prestige of a good college name nor many impressive projects. GSoC basically allowed me to jump into an
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
it depends where you take it! plus the initial prompt changes everyday. tomorrow will be a different setting with different characters.
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Show HN: Text Adventures, ChatGPT based text adventure games everyday(adventures.param.codes)
4 points by iliekcomputers 4y ago|8 comments
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
GSoC basically changed my entire career. I'm glad that Google keeps this running, especially given that they got rid of other cool competitions like Codejam. Hopefully, they can continue finding the budget for these extremely valuable
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
The way that I think about this is that anyone who's good at skill X has put in the hours. Putting in the hours is not a sufficient condition for "getting good" or "being successful", but it is a necessary one. Each
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.
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Gradient descent (or how the best algorithms are the most intuitive)(newsletter.param.codes)
1 points by iliekcomputers 4y ago|0 comments
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
oh dang probably it was the hacker news hug. can you try again?
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
How is this the worst part lmao?
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
If you think people good at things (like writing) get good at those things without producing an insane amount of low quality content, you need to update your model of the world.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
Losing my google account has to be a worst nightmare scenario. I've started disentangling slowly, starting with mail, but Google Photos is just so convenient.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
Also, what this does is really separates the wheat from the chaff. If the company can't tell me the salary or the job, it's not a good fit anyways. Interestingly, what this means is that Google is not a good fit at all. They wante
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Stop the cross-site script kiddies from pwning you(newsletter.param.codes)
4 points by iliekcomputers 4y ago|0 comments
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
I never really understood what incentive a government had to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. There are no real benefits over something like UPI in terms of user UX. It takes things out of the government's hands, as it's harder
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
I have a public notes repo [0] in which I only write for myself, with no real expectation that anyone will ever read it. I have however gotten feedback in the form of cold emails that people have found the notes useful or interesting. Writi
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
I feel like Hugo / Jekyll (or equivalent) + GitHub Pages (or equivalent) is much much easier to set up. Is the resiliency really needed for your personal blog? Github Pages (which I use for my blog [0]) is pretty good at uptime afaik.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
Chess variants are very interesting. It'd be very nice if someone could build an online version of this actually.
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by iliekcomputers 4y ago
>Does it really matter whose child it is? Umm what? Do you not see the inherent breakage of trust if your wife is having sex with someone else in a monogamous relationship and then trying to pass off someone else' kid as yours?
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
Interesting, what do you mean by this? I would have expected that people who exercise more would have lower probability of being overweight?
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
How is the platform being trash (also arguable) related to employee's moral compromises?
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GitHub Copilot makes LeetCode interviews completely pointless(newsletter.param.codes)
5 points by iliekcomputers 5y ago|0 comments
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
The thing that I've found helpful with going to sleep on time and not spending too much time in the night on the phone is to just keep the phone in a different room. That way, you either read a book or go to sleep, both of which are be
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
Ah I see. That makes sense. Would be interesting to know what caused the entire site to go down in the beginning. Wonder if it was just too much traffic.
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
I'm not sure I completely understand. They say that the only thing that was affected was the tournament because its events needed to be processed synchronously, but I remember the entire site being unavailable for people. Was that unre
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
The major complication is the politics though, the fact that building housing is so hard isn't for lack of money, it's all politics and Bezos' $20B won't be able to solve that.

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