loxias

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by loxias 6mo ago
I would love, _love_ to know more about your data formats, your tools, what the JSON looks like, basically as much as you're willing to share. :) For about a month now I've been working on a suite of tools for dealing with JSON sp
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by loxias 1y ago
These are SO, AMAZINGLY pretty! Are these blender renders? or...?
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by loxias 1y ago
Do you mean a sphere eversion? :) Shoutout to my fav math visualization BITD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNY
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by loxias 1y ago
Firstly, at the $219 price point you can have my money already. Beyond that, things that appeal to me are basically anything which increase the likelihood I can accomplish high dexterous fine motor control skills, for things like tinkering
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by loxias 1y ago
Try TDA ("mapper", or really, anything based on kernel density computed connectivity), it's a whole new world. This ain't your parents' "factor analysis".
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by loxias 1y ago
based
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by loxias 1y ago
> "This Is How You Lose the Time War" No other book captured the feelings of being 20-something and flirting like reading this. Reading it felt like being right back there again, with all the excitement and anxiety. Highly re
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by loxias 2y ago
I look forward to reading this in closer detail, but it looks like they solve an inverse problem to recover a ground truth set of voxels (from a large set of 2d images with known camera parameters), which is underconstrained. Neat to me th
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by loxias 2y ago
Thanks for what you're doing. Of all the various companies and orgs posting chatter about deep learning, I've come to really appreciate your efforts (and Anthropic), because you're USING MATH. :) I have some understanding o
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by loxias 2y ago
Most people don't correctly use an em-dash differently than a hyphen. That jumps out to me. :)
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by loxias 2y ago
Wow! This is really cool! Really really cool! I imagine some sort of use where it's even more collaborative and not just "unadorned turn-by-turn". For example, maybe I'm taking notes involving words, simple math, and
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by loxias 2y ago
This is really, really cool and thanks for making it!! We must think at least somewhat similarly, last few times I was apartment hunting I did the same, though I never polished it up like this (more plugging numbers into a spreadsheet). Hon
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by loxias 2y ago
I found it was surprisingly easy to "populate with every instance of a given type". I've made a few maps based on grocery and transit where I did it by adding all >100 stores & stops.
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by loxias 2y ago
> What I don't get isn't the benefits of BWT on its own. It's why BWT should add any additional benefit if you're already doing Huffman. Ahhhh. Now we're on the same page. :) Seeing how it helps when combined is
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by loxias 2y ago
I always understood it as working because of the predictability of a symbol/letter/token given the previous one. Sorting all the shifts of a string puts all the characters in order, then looking at the last column shows you all th
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by loxias 2y ago
"Okay" Can you describe for me what the product does? It's not that hard to make a turnkey "just add power" appliance that does nothing but spit out tokens. Some sort of "ollama appliance", which just si
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by loxias 2y ago
Intel PMem really shines for things you need to be non-volatile (preserved when the power goes out) like fast changing rows in a database. As far as I understand it, "for when you need millions of TPS on a DB that can't fit in RAM
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by loxias 2y ago
facepalm Wow, I had no idea. Thank you for providing the valuable additional context of the above being potentially from one of those "GME to the moon"... pauses ... people. I had it totally completely backwards.
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by loxias 2y ago
HAHAHAHAH! Oh man... Ouch! First time I'm hearing it put that way!! As far as I knew, the contract was done before I left town! :) But that absolutely, to a T, sounds like (a distorted version of...) *exactly* the sort of miscommunica
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by loxias 2y ago
neato! Curious where you're sourcing the raw feed from. Wire service (AP, Reuters, AFP)? Google news? "the wikipedia current events page"? Something else? As in every other engineering endeavor, the raw data you start of
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by loxias 2y ago
Dimagi became successful?!? Awesome! I also worked there as a third person, though I don't think overlapping with you. :) Congrats on living the dream, I tried, failed at that 5 years ago ("maybe i can just sell my coding dir
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by loxias 2y ago
My life got a lot easier since I adopted the habit of making a shell script, using buildah and podman, that wrapped every python, rust, or golang project I wanted to dabble with. It's so simple! Create a image with the dependencies, th
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by loxias 2y ago
We're not all optimizing for the same thing. :) A comment containing a few terms I can google and educate myself on, if I'm curious, has far more value to me than "having a conversation" (or whatever engagement metrics y
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by loxias 2y ago
Knuth, Bellard, Tunney.
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by loxias 2y ago
It's useful to me in that you've identified an interesting niche! I like the idea! As for the implementation, eh, I'd probably rather code my own so it can be in bash or c++ ;-) It's also useful to me in that it'
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by loxias 2y ago
You subtly referenced one of my favorite facts. "In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that -- except for special cases -- all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration.
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by loxias 2y ago
Wow! Complete with custom mobile player! That's quite a ways up from "set up a ssh tunnel home and use vlc", I may have to take this for a spin.
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by loxias 2y ago
Absolutely. Honestly, I took the presence of this HN post itself, and the fact that it directly contradicts my own first hand experience, as a really bad sign (for HN). Very little has changed on Reddit since the protests. A few tight kn
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by loxias 2y ago
Honestly, this makes me curious to try playing the game. Good advertisement. :)
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by loxias 2y ago
NovelQA is a great one! I also like GSM-Symbolic -- a benchmark based on making _symbolic templates_ of quite easy questions, and sampling them repeatedly, varying things like which proper nouns are used, what order relevant details appea

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