jmoss20

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by jmoss20 2mo ago
> …‘‘computer science’’ is not a science and…its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergen
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by jmoss20 2y ago
"sleeping on the streets" and "living in Brooklyn Heights" are hardly the only two options here.
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by jmoss20 2y ago
To be fair, I don't think the rationale is really "if they have nothing to hide...". More something having to do with whether privacy is something that should come along with the legal arrangement of, say, an LLC. > just t
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by jmoss20 3y ago
It's only a problem if you want to use Bayes to take some credences + evidence and prove them irrational (indep. of prior). Bayes is great for verifying self-consistency: given some priors and some evidence, it produces exactly one set
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by jmoss20 3y ago
I imagine at least part of this is that specs (and documentation generally) just suck now. It's nigh impossible to sort out which bits are CYA legalese, and which bits are "no, actually, do this or else <terrible outcome>&qu
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by jmoss20 3y ago
It's a matter of economy-- if you spent all day measuring obvious things you'd never get anything done. Clearly which things you choose to measure should be a function of how certain you are about them, and how much you stand to l
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Agreed with the general point, but it doesn't apply here. Memory locality can be objectively measured (e.g. with last level cache miss counters), and parent comment is correct besides -- it's usually plain to see in the code. Ther
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by jmoss20 3y ago
The problem is exactly that the improvements are not most of what you're paying for, at least in many locales where this sort of policy would make a difference.
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by jmoss20 3y ago
How certain are you that the upper tail is not impacted just as much, if not more?
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by jmoss20 3y ago
The claim here is that the military families are /so much more stable/ that it explains their kids (collectively) performing better than every other state in the country. Obviously the military provides some sort of economic lower
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Yes, in my experience rural areas around bases tend to be more well-off than rural areas not around bases -- the base stimulates the local economy quite a bit, if nothing else. (Otoh, the revolving door population is not great for stability
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Yeah, I had a similar upbringing, and this is my feeling as well. There's a massive trade-off here, but I do feel like the military kids I knew (and run into now) are radically more adaptable and sociable. Another upside, in retrospect
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Yeah, this is along the lines of my comment. (Am a military brat, attended some DoD schools, also attended a school in FCPS.) The educational rigor across different districts is massive. Many military kids get to sample from it a lot of tim
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by jmoss20 3y ago
This sounds familiar -- I wonder if we were there at the same time.
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by jmoss20 3y ago
I grew up on military installations and attended some DoD schools. Some things unmentioned/underemphasized: Families PCS (move) extremely often -- sometimes every school year, frequently every few years. Some places have DoD schools &q
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Because the model (=="dictionary") is 70B floats -- 280GB naively, 40-70GB aggressively quantized (which might reduce compression rate). If your file is big enough that the marginal compression win over other methods makes this sp
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by jmoss20 3y ago
> The existence of even the most basic objective truth, such as 1+1=2 You might be surprised that even this is a relatively (sorry) controversial view. Many (most?) practicing mathematicians do not hold it. Even if it were, then you get
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Whoever sold them those call options, at the very least.
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by jmoss20 3y ago
> It seems like almost every day I run into some Cruise or Waymo (mostly Cruise) vehicle stuck in the middle of the street blocking traffic ...really? I've seen this maybe once or twice, total. Is there really some part of town wher
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Really? Maybe my (large, relatively well respected state school) lectures were uniquely bad. But I found MIT lectures to be leagues ahead of what we got. They covered more content, went deeper and were faster paced. The lecturers were more
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by jmoss20 3y ago
Quantization is hardly a "finding of the open source community". (IIRC the first TPU was int8! Though the tradition is much older than that.)
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by jmoss20 3y ago
The Presidio is not dense.
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by jmoss20 4y ago
This does indeed improve efficiency significantly: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07061
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by jmoss20 4y ago
Which makes you wonder what would happen if you gave ChatGPT two streams of output: one for "speech" and one for inner-monologue-style "thinking". For most of our "hmm, let me think"'s I'm not sure wh
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by jmoss20 4y ago
What if I hook some (very hypothetical) actuators up to the rock? Surely the /concept/ doesn't depend on us having the tech to make such actuators...
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by jmoss20 4y ago
The problem with this view is Hilary Putnam's "a rock implements every finite state automata". (Nicely explained, with a rebuttal in [0].) It's an attractive idea that some thing has agency (or consciousness, or whatever
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by jmoss20 4y ago
Social media may be global, but other countervailing factors may be local.
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by jmoss20 4y ago
You most certainly were not seeing hippies endorsed by the state department in the 60s. (Though, that we look back on the hippies of the 60s fondly does say something about the direction we've charted since then.)
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by jmoss20 4y ago
No, 512 still fries skylake.
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by jmoss20 4y ago
It's a UX thing. The "auto-close" behavior makes the policy obvious. And presumably the maintainers are not bound in any way to not re-open an especially good/important bug. It just makes makes non-patron support opt-in,

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