jxy

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by jxy 2y ago
> No support for first class continuations I'm not sure about how people would feel about this. I have mixed feelings. It feels like a loss of many things. What are the gains from ditching continuations?
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by jxy 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-rectangular_flags
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by jxy 2y ago
The HTML version is quite nice. Do you know how they did the LaTeX to html conversion?
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by jxy 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
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by jxy 2y ago
mouse or keyboard is really just a preference. you could do mouse 1 sweep-select 2-3 in one window, and move to another mouse 1-3, and move to another do mouse 1-3, ... Or you could do, in case of vi, y$ (or other movements), ^w w (or other
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by jxy 2y ago
Nature's evolution algorithm took millions of years to find the architecture and the base model, which then takes decades to be fine tuned to be able to form this opinion.
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by jxy 2y ago
from OED: the modern sense of "meme" > 2. An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. Also with modifying word, as inter
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by jxy 2y ago
interesting % /usr/bin/jq --version jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty
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by jxy 2y ago
so it wouldn't require a shell that supports job control?
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by jxy 2y ago
How does taskwarrior deal with recurring tasks now? Like tasks that have a due date recur every two weeks, or tasks that have a due date always two weeks after done.
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by jxy 2y ago
If you like to read Feynman: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_35.html#Ch35-S2
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by jxy 2y ago
We chose a random direction as a convention, just as we chose a random charge as positive.
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by jxy 2y ago
I don't trust any kind of generalization like this, which only serves further disinformation and misinformation. There are bad journalists (if they can be called journalists at all) and good journalists. At this point in history, our o
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by jxy 2y ago
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/5881 https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8650
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by jxy 2y ago
You are a maintainer of a software that depends on ollama, so you should know that ollama depends on llama.cpp. And as of now, llama.cpp doesn't support the new ROPE: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/iss
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by jxy 2y ago
https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/issues/1966
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by jxy 2y ago
I was trying this for a while, but the inability of labeling and refering to specific math equations became a deal breaker.
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by jxy 2y ago
Yeah. That's how rio's text windows [0] look like in hold mode, except that it has a much simpler design and better support of mouse. [0] https://p9f.org/magic/man2html/1/rio
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by jxy 2y ago
THE PLACEBO EFFECT: It works even when you know it's a placebo.
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by jxy 2y ago
For equations and flowcharts, I would argue that the rendering is more important than the textual "code", so a "preview block" with rendered output would be very useful already. A much better UI would be something like w
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by jxy 2y ago
This is slick. Are there plans for rendering LaTeX equations and/or diagrams/flowcharts, such as mathjax and/or mermaid.js?
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by jxy 2y ago
When an email drops, do some squats; when you start to stray, pushups all the way.
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by jxy 2y ago
> One of the essential characteristics of general intelligence is “sentience,” the ability to have subjective experiences—to feel what it’s like, say, to experience hunger, to taste an apple, or to see red. I see the argument goes both w
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by jxy 2y ago
Does LMSys even claim to be using the public API? What API endpoint is "Gemini-Advanced-0514"? Is LMSys "Gemini-1.5-Flash-API-0514" the same as what the public API endpoint "gemini-1.5-flash-001" provides, or &
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by jxy 2y ago
It's fun stuff of translating C declarations to English, given English uses its special order for possessive and verb object order. If you use Japanese, you can write the Japanese from left to write in order, while reading the C declar
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by jxy 2y ago
> there are fewer local minima in a higher dimension Is it actually proven, or another hypothesis? What is the reason behind this?
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by jxy 2y ago
> We can see that in this case, where perhaps the X axis represents "more cat" and Y axis "more dog", using the euclidean distance (i.e. physical distance length), a pitbull is somehow more similar to a Siamese cat th
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by jxy 2y ago
Do you think it's bad that it won't try to persuade the user that the earth is not flat? I really want to know what OpenAI think the output should be, given a prompt like "write an argument for why earth is flat".
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by jxy 2y ago
There was this: Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly, https://arxiv.org/html/2404.09937v1
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by jxy 2y ago
> > Stripped of anything else, neural networks are compositions of differentiable primitives > I’m a sucker for statements like this. It almost feels philosophical, and makes the whole subject so much more comprehensible in only a

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