mtdewcmu

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Y-Chromosomal Adam(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mtdewcmu 8d ago|0 comments
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Function-Level Programming(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mtdewcmu 15d ago|0 comments
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Zone of Ceremony (2019)(blog.ploeh.dk)
4 points by mtdewcmu 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mtdewcmu 2mo ago
Looks like the hardware this runs on has only 64 KB RAM.
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Complexity theorist Steven Rudich (1961-2024)(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
16 points by mtdewcmu 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mtdewcmu 3mo ago
I think that the common meaning of AI has changed since this was written. This book was written at least 14 years ago, long before anyone had heard of an LLM. Matt Mahoney incorporated neural networks in his compressors. Afaik they weren&#x
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by mtdewcmu 3mo ago
Really nice guy, also.
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by mtdewcmu 3mo ago
When decompressing, you need to reproduce the output of the LLM exactly as it was during compression, otherwise the decompressor would output gibberish. Can you count on the LLM being that consistent?
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by mtdewcmu 3mo ago
Fabrice Bellard did something with neural nets and a transformer model [1] that was very successful. I suspect that LLMs wouldn't be ideal to use as compressors, because they are large, consume a lot of resources, and are constantly ch
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by mtdewcmu 3mo ago
Is sel4 an OS kernel created by Jane Street?
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Data Compression Explained (2012)(mattmahoney.net)
193 points by mtdewcmu 3mo ago|36 comments
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by mtdewcmu 4mo ago
>> Retatrutide is incredible in a mind altering way >> and all just love the way it makes you feel Maybe it will turn out to be an antidepressant as well. That would be quite a coup.
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Largest survey of physicists puts Standard Model of cosmology under scrutiny(phys.org)
3 points by mtdewcmu 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mtdewcmu 6mo ago
You could write imperative code in Racket without much difficulty, as long as you don't mind the exclamation points.
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by mtdewcmu 9mo ago
Mine is GNU WoMan, an alternative to man. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/woman.ht...
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by mtdewcmu 9mo ago
Racket has packages (1) that work quite well. Chicken Scheme has Eggs. (1) https://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/index.html
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by mtdewcmu 9mo ago
I think they also make money from people that don't know the difference and use it because, for instance, it's the default in Edge when you search from the URL bar.
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by mtdewcmu 9mo ago
This all reminds me of Bing. It already lost the technology race, but it serves MS's own interests to keep it around, apparently.
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by mtdewcmu 9mo ago
I started learning Common Lisp, but ASDF and Quicklisp threw me off. I couldn't tell if you were supposed to choose one or the other or they were used together. This might revive my interest in Common Lisp if I get around to reading it
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Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot(extremetech.com)
43 points by mtdewcmu 9mo ago|18 comments
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by mtdewcmu 2y ago
Let's see if I can state this properly. The atoms of the ship will pass right through the event horizon like nothing. To see the ship, though, photons have to travel from the ship to your eyes. As the ship goes deeper into the black ho
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by mtdewcmu 2y ago
So you don't see _everything_ that went in before you, mostly just the _last_ thing.
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by mtdewcmu 2y ago
A single photon can't be seen multiple times, right? So, if photon A goes into Alica's retina, then Bob can't see photon A. If a big, opaque object passes through the event horizon right in front of you, it would absorb or sc
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by mtdewcmu 2y ago
I'm going to guess. From Bob's perspective, Alice's ship would still be able to block light. So he wouldn't be able to see what was ahead of him through the back of Alice's ship; Alice's ship would occlude his
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Coastal cities around the globe are sinking(sciencenews.org)
6 points by mtdewcmu 4y ago|0 comments
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by mtdewcmu 5y ago
It could have been carried by tax collectors.
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by mtdewcmu 5y ago
Could there have been glass lenses over the holes and it was a kind of microscope? Here's my guess: it's a magnifier to examine coins.
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by mtdewcmu 5y ago
Yes. Thanks for explaining.
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by mtdewcmu 5y ago
> If speed is an issue then you want it near the most commonly accessed data. Yes. You expect the seek time to dominate performance. The reason that the swap was faster when placed at the beginning is likely because the filesystem is mos
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by mtdewcmu 5y ago
What would be the result if you flipped the colors, so that the sharp elements are blue and the ocean is red or green?

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