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by mrcslws 29d ago
Update: https://x.com/mrcslws/status/2089850106292162982 Pasted below: Finally convinced myself that non-distorting watermarking is real, a la Anthropic / Google SynthID. It's not just spin / market
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by mrcslws 1mo ago
I think you're correct. It does alter the distribution for each output token, implicitly giving each candidate token a different probability. Maybe that's fine, but it's not as magical as Anthropic [and a lot of commenters he
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Ha, I’ve thought the same thing.
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
It's too slow. I mention this in the video at 1:20 - 1:50.
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
If you can SSH to a machine, you can use Outer Loop and Outer Shell, without having to do any sudo commands or expose anything new to the network. The browser + SSH client combined into a single app leads to nice user experiences like this.
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not hating on Cockpit, but Outer Loop (with Outer Shell) has solved a lot more of the stack. Cockpit accepts the constraints of living in existing browsers, so it requires exposing a port to the intern
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Thanks :) I wrote a previous blog post that discussed WASM in the FAQ: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/05/10/like-a-web-view...
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
I think it's okay as long as: - sockets are blocked by default, until they are added to an allow-list explicitly on the server side - True sudo awareness ensures root sockets aren't reachable without the sudo password. (This
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Also a blog post about it, with its own video: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/05/10/like-a-web-view... It's a fun heretical idea, moving away from a "cross-platform" web to a &quot
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
I think there are different clusters of people who use servers, SSH, etc. I'm closer to the cluster that uses them for deep learning experiments, GPU kernel optimization, robot development (a robot is just a server that moves!)... use
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
In all cases, the code is pre-compiled. A user never waits for anything to compile. When Outer Loop installs Outer Shell, it downloads pre-compiled binaries to the server. For Linux these are compiled against a manylinux ABI. Ditto for when
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Quick response regarding security: On various Mozilla forums that I saw, the discussion was basically: 1. We can't just allow the browser to connect to any socket, since many either explicitly don't want browsers connecting to t
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
Sure, I just added YouTube mirror link to the post: https://youtu.be/e40PLLuZ5KI (The one on the website is the standard browser video player, not custom.)
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
I wondered if this would be controversial. It all depends where you grew up. > Cairo, like Chicago, had a new shell (Microsoft’s favorite word for the user interface for launching programs and managing files) and a new file system https
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A native graphical shell for SSH(probablymarcus.com)
370 points by mrcslws 3mo ago|228 comments
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by mrcslws 3mo ago
I can confirm, this is how Adam talks.
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It's like a web view, but native(probablymarcus.com)
5 points by mrcslws 4mo ago|0 comments
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Tip: Use services, not the terminal, to run local backends(probablymarcus.com)
2 points by mrcslws 5mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A browser for Mac that connects to private web apps over SSH(outerloop.sh)
2 points by mrcslws 11mo ago|0 comments
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Web apps over SSH can be surprisingly good(probablymarcus.com)
2 points by mrcslws 11mo ago|0 comments
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by mrcslws 1y ago
Ha, after writing this post I found a Wikipedia article on this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_motion_blur
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Smooth Pursuit, and How Screens Don't Mimic Reality(probablymarcus.com)
2 points by mrcslws 1y ago|1 comments
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by mrcslws 1y ago
From the blog post: "more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month" https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... This is a classic product data decision-making fallacy. The right
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The web could use machine code(probablymarcus.com)
1 points by mrcslws 1y ago|0 comments
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Expressions Are Pragmatic Model Visualizations(probablymarcus.com)
1 points by mrcslws 3y ago|0 comments
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by mrcslws 3y ago
There may be tricks that I don't know about. One quick experimental answer I can give: if I change to looping over the sums and rerun Benchmark 3, my time in the aten::sum CUDA kernel increases from 0.779s (before) to 0.840ms (after).
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by mrcslws 3y ago
Yeah, one unspoken theme of this blog post is "look how nice torch.compile" is :) Fun fact, I had to put in extra work to get torch.compile working with my code, for understandable reasons. My library, Vexpr, literally runs an int
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by mrcslws 3y ago
Glad to hear :) Yes, I'm off doing my own thing now. Deep Learning went so much further than I ever expected, and now I'm drawn to all the things that can be built today. Who knows, maybe I'll swing back into neuroscience in
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by mrcslws 3y ago
I wondered about this same thing. Your logic about cache/registers is certainly true on CPUs, but what about GPUs? Hence this blurb: > I studied the CUDA traces closely and found that vectorization does indeed reduce many aspects of
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by mrcslws 3y ago
Aha, I was hoping to learn about something like this, thanks for sharing. I'll try this some time. PyTorch does use different threads for the forward and backward pass, so as you suggest, setting that flag might only improve the forwar

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