maxov

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by maxov 2y ago
Yes, I also found the description a little weird because of the emphasis on linear-time parsing. It is cool theoretically, and it could be understandable from a perspective of "make the compiler fast", but parsing is never the bot
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by maxov 2y ago
Looking at the actual article ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1 ), their procedure does actually use deep learning in the process of synthesizing candidate chip designs, and the use of deep learning is
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by maxov 3y ago
Absolutely! (also see the article) https://www.colorado.edu/artssciences-advising/resource-libr...
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by maxov 3y ago
What a strange recommendation. I do research in CS theory and machine learning and I try to find arXiv preprints when I can, they are usually more complete than conference versions of papers. If you stick to papers from authors you know or
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by maxov 4y ago
If Google Scholar is sunset that would be a great loss for the academic community. When was that feature removed? I have felt reasonably confident in Google Scholar so far because it is already 18 or so years old.
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by maxov 4y ago
In case you do not know, I find Google Scholar to be pretty useful for finding dates and other information about the paper - e.g. in this case https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=New... I work w
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by maxov 4y ago
SemanticDB ( https://scalameta.org/docs/semanticdb/guide.html ) is a protobuf-based file format that does almost exactly this for JVM languages, primarily Scala (I was a contributor a while back). It is used to buil
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by maxov 4y ago
I feel like "generate" is kind of a strong word in this case though. At this rate if the machines rise up, they will do so just to parrot all the "machines rise up" plot synopses in their training corpus.
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by maxov 4y ago
I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating. https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just
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by maxov 5y ago
Good point! I think this heuristic works well if the edges between tiles in completed picture are uniquely identifiable or close to that. However from the images there seem to be only 4 "colors" of edges in the puzzle (8 if you co
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by maxov 5y ago
~20bn sounds about right. 9! * 4^9 / 4 ~ 23.8bn. Divide by 4 due to rotational symmetry. Absolutely mind-boggling to me that such a small, simple puzzle has such an extreme search space! Great example of P vs NP, time to build a Where’
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by maxov 5y ago
I haven't been a parent so I can't be positive, but I doubt time off for maternity or paternity acts as a "positive" incentive for having children, meaning people who didn't want children before would now want them.
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by maxov 5y ago
Another way to think about it is counting the probability of getting k boys out of 2 children. 0 boys - 1/4 1 boy - 1/2 2 boys - 1/4 There's a half chance of getting exactly one boy, and one way to calculate t
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by maxov 5y ago
I'll give some brief context first for why it could be useful, then explain what DeepWritable does. AWS Amplify JS has a library called DataStore that takes GraphQL schema and generates ActiveRecord-like model classes ( https:/&#x
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by maxov 5y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time diving deep into Scala (I worked on compiler related semantic tooling for scalameta, worked on a experimental parallelizable Scala compiler, and even have a single commit in this release from almost
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by maxov 5y ago
I might be misinterpreting, but are you saying the two are mutually exclusive? Google Docs does need custom layout and rendering which may be tough/finicky to implement with the existing css layout, as well as consistency.
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by maxov 5y ago
The synchronicity of this showing up on the HN front page at the same time as Google moving Docs to canvas-based rendering ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858 ) is kind of funny. More seriously, this looks really
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by maxov 5y ago
Yeah, I have heard of it, and thanks for mentioning it to those who may not have. Like others have said, these have very few of the same guarantees people might be looking for in institutional accounts, especially that it's not FDIC in
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by maxov 5y ago
Gotcha. I didn't consider just putting a small amount of direct deposit into HMB, that's pretty clean! Might try it myself :) I doubt they expect most users to do something like this though, which may explain why they're able
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by maxov 5y ago
This may be unfounded, but I am pretty skeptical of any bank or service that offers such high APY for a savings account. The effective federal funds rate is now about 0.6%, and Wealthfront is really clear in their communications on how the
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by maxov 5y ago
This is pretty unfortunate. I loved using Simple for three or so years; it was my first independent bank account. It was a great app and beautiful design with innovative banking features, like budgeting and super easy high-interest savings
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by maxov 5y ago
I think those are just identifiers for the telescopes. If you click on the telescope to expand you can see what it’s communicating with and some info about the link, and the bitrates are closer to e.g. 20 Kbit/s - 1.0 Mbit/s.
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by maxov 5y ago
This is a really clean explanation, thank you! Is the O(1/d^2) decrease in bitrate due to the inverse square law for radiation intensity?
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by maxov 5y ago
I think this situation is a good illustration of latency vs bandwidth. Latency is unavoidable due to the speed of light, but there’s no physical barrier to bitrate aside from power consumption. Seems like the best bitrate we have from Mars
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by maxov 5y ago
Interesting. I am not a rocket scientist, but I think there’s a few fundamental problems with doing this: 1. You can’t keep the satellites in a “line” between Earth and Mars, as objects in orbits of larger radii travel slower and so have lo
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by maxov 6y ago
MF DOOM brought me and so many others joy over a long and mind-blowing career. He had a varied set of collaborators, and just so many artistic achievements. So much of his work is now seminal in underground hip-hop (Madvillainy, Operation D
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by maxov 6y ago
I'm not sure what this implies. Nuclear is a good example, because it can have immense positives in providing clean and safe power. War has existed for millennia, but that doesn't mean nuclear weapons aren't a uniquely danger
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by maxov 6y ago
Uh, yes? As just one example, China is already using facial recognition technology to help them identify, control, and jail Uyghurs: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/788597818/how-china-is-using-...
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by maxov 6y ago
I see where you're coming from, but this is terminology that is pretty clear within the field of statistical learning theory, which this paper's audience. Within learning theory I think this paper is actually quite important and c
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by maxov 6y ago
Sure, that seems reasonable, although likely a different mechanism than the one I’m talking about, which seems to come from early life language acquisition. I think when people discuss absolute pitch, this is the type they have in mind, bec

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