krapht

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by krapht 29d ago
spinning up a venv with duckdb: 5 minutes using sql everywhere; never having to remember dataframe syntax: timeless
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by krapht 1mo ago
Yep. Nobody has repealed Medicare, for example
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by krapht 1mo ago
His example of a web crawler stinks. I can get behind the philosophy, but his specific web crawler example at a minimum needs to retry, respect robots.txt, and rate limit per domain. So no, xargs + curl is a dumb example.
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by krapht 1mo ago
Which is why I've never quite understood the appeal of portable SIMD libraries for performance-critical code. If I'm explicitly writing SIMD rather than relying on the auto-vectorizer, it's usually because I want access to th
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by krapht 1mo ago
One I spent a few months working on was pathfinding for trucks. The goal is to find dominant solutions over {shortest time, lowest cost (tolls + fuel), avg road speed variance - traffic sensitivity} and then return 3-4 routes that are equal
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by krapht 1mo ago
social media is a completely different market though - since there are massive returns to scale, it's incredibly hard for a new entrant to break in. model training and inference is the opposite. people switch LLMs like people change cl
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by krapht 1mo ago
Is Gemini really doomed? I'm still bullish on Google: 1) they have more free cash flow and capital than God due to the ads business 2) they have data - intent from web searches, youtube videos, google books and music 3) they have dedic
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by krapht 2mo ago
I think that's backwards. Anything that changes the performance of a model deserves a minor version bump. A new model has to be qualified before being pushed to production; but we don't get the choice here, just cross your fingers
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by krapht 2mo ago
News to me. What do you call mixture-of-experts and model distillation?
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by krapht 2mo ago
ironically, any frontier LLM will easily generate a tutorial at any detail you like explaining what these are. if don't have time for that, just know that these are technical parameters that affect how likely it is an llm will produce
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by krapht 2mo ago
It's more rare, and definitely less lucrative, but there are opportunities in software engineering for non-profits, open-source, and smaller non-tech companies. If you've made your blood money and don't need top n% pay, it&#
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by krapht 2mo ago
Slight tangent: a long time ago when I was into this hobby, Oshpark was usually the go-to instead of JLCPCB. What happened to them? Macrofab too if anyone's used them.
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by krapht 3mo ago
> The catch is that for image resolutions >=700x700pixels (most production usecases) Citation needed? 2XL looks like you go up to 800x800 pixel inputs. This isn't the dealbreaker you say it is - all pipelines benefit from thought
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by krapht 3mo ago
More than just your commute. Any downtime where you are doing a mindless chore is prime podcast time.
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by krapht 3mo ago
I've heard of people using anythingllm for this purpose. Basic rag is almost stupid in how easy it is, though. You grep for keywords, take the surrounding paragraph, then stuff it all into your llm prompt. The next upgrade is to automa
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by krapht 4mo ago
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
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by krapht 4mo ago
I went and looked at the code. It's AI bots and a few confused trend followers all the way down. There's no way anything in there works.
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by krapht 4mo ago
<article excerpt> What AI actually does Mutinex has built what it describes as a “multi-agent system,” where each agent acts as a domain specialist. For example, one agent understands marketing econometrics, another understands compe
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by krapht 4mo ago
You can go your entire career without recursing, or using a tree data structure in its raw form (i.e. you only use it as part of a library)
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by krapht 6mo ago
which city is that? I want to move there with my children. If you desperately want mediocre chromebook instruction for your children; where your classmates turn in ChatGPT essays as original work, feel free to move to Virginia.
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by krapht 6mo ago
Lots of sensors these days will give you 10 or 12 bits of data per color channel. You may want ordered dithering when previewing on an 8 bit display.
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by krapht 6mo ago
Is the code actually good though? Not seeing any benchmarks vs numexpr, numba, or Jax
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by krapht 6mo ago
Sublime Text? Sure, doesn't have the long tail of extensions, but surely most people don't need those. The biggest issue with ST being the fact that it costs money...
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by krapht 6mo ago
Paying customers use docker desktop.
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by krapht 7mo ago
Even if you don't like the current administration, the rank and file are still out there doing valuable work. The government is more than ICE; it also administers welfare, funds research, collects taxes, and distributes social security
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by krapht 7mo ago
So? If the goal was to attract corporations you'd release under a BSD license.
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by krapht 7mo ago
Why? Is Scotland innocent?
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by krapht 7mo ago
This post makes me sad for two reasons: 1) kids k-5 are using laptops 2) websites are so bloated today that browsing on a Chromebook is causing agitation Otherwise I don't have anything topical for this post, but good luck OP
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by krapht 7mo ago
Yes, but is this a problem? Haven't most betting markets turned out to offer accurate predictions?
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by krapht 7mo ago
The human is responsible. How is this a question? You are responsible for any machines or animals that work on your behalf, since they themselves can't be legally culpable. No, an oversized markov chain is not in any way a human being.

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