mvanveen

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by mvanveen 1mo ago
I have no data to back up this claim but one hypothesis I have is it's gotten particularly acutely bad esp with newer gen models because of increased training on reasoning and chain-of-thought. To borrow a programming lang analogy th
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by mvanveen 1mo ago
that's an interesting idea thx
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by mvanveen 1mo ago
yeah, no, I've tried a number of variants like that. for ex even if I tell it to not rely on its chain of thought created jargon it'll just usually continue to hallucinate adding in the jargon unless I line item them painfully an
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by mvanveen 1mo ago
Maybe it’s just me but (and I ask this as something of an ML practitioner myself) can anyone at Anthropic or Open AI or any of the frontier labs work on summarizing content into a format where a human won’t immediately vomit? There’s this s
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by mvanveen 2mo ago
One of NetBSD’s strengths and emphases is portability. They have a motto- “of course it runs NetBSD.” IIRC NetBSD was ported to Apple Silicon slightly before Asahi Linux succeeded. Another cool corollary to this ethos is the portability o
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by mvanveen 3mo ago
I think from what I can understand about Serenity OS and Ladybird from afar and the kind of Cathedral culture that Andreas Kling values and feels Apple benefits from I'm not wholly surprised that the development of Ladybird took this c
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by mvanveen 10mo ago
The Silfi 52 chip is news to me- thanks for pointing it out (also didn't know it's what is powering the new Core Devices products- pretty cool). I've built custom firmware for a DIY OLED ESP-32 watch that is made by a few ven
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by mvanveen 10mo ago
Has the Rebble community ever explored their own open source HW for the rebble ecosystem? I know there’s a ton of work involved to get something high quality/consumer grade and there’s obviously cost implications correlated to order v
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by mvanveen 11mo ago
Ironically, I don't think glibly remarking that you "still have all your limbs" and some handmade furniture at the end properly demonstrates someone "fear[ing] the saw," and it demonstrates some of the hubris we&#x2
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by mvanveen 1y ago
I have Susan Kare's original finder iconography tattooed on my body. I don't have much opine on the new design language but I do think the new finder icons displayed in the post are an abomination.
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by mvanveen 1y ago
I had the pleasure of meeting Dan in person a few times up here in the Bay Area. He was incredibly approachable and always generous with his time. If he sensed your curiosity, he’d give you his full, undivided attention. Just weeks before h
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by mvanveen 1y ago
I thought it was funny they spent so much time bashing choice of distro and highlighting various performance considerations only to pick Alpine? Alpine linux uses musl as its libc, which contrary to the articles' claims (unless I'
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by mvanveen 1y ago
I think this is true if there aren't new questions to be asked. But technologies shift and evolve all of the time. One of my top StackOverflow questions for years was around the viability of ECMAscript 6. It's now essentially ir
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by mvanveen 2y ago
> What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file? At some point, for me, ‘find <dir> -name “*.ext” | xargs grep <pattern>’ took over for recursive grep, b
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by mvanveen 2y ago
> If that doesn't work, look into pivoting to tech recruiting. Hopefully I wouldn't need to go back to school for this. The market for tech recruiting has been hit as hard and in some ways harder than the market for tech worker
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by mvanveen 2y ago
In this case let's assume that the weights and biases of, say, a neural network are fixed and the model is already trained. One way of thinking about explainability is that it deals with determining for some input data how much each fe
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by mvanveen 2y ago
I am a co-author of a patent for model explainability for credit risk underwriting applications using Shapley values. In fairness I haven't given this article a thorough read but my initial impression is that I'm finding myself fr
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by mvanveen 2y ago
I will bet you that said citation (the important one you’re holding out for) will have an accompanying Jupyter notebook when it’s ready
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by mvanveen 2y ago
>Same with notebooks, you can write NASA-production-grade software in a notebook, but most likely you won't. One of my family members literally maintains a software platform for test bedding production NASA spacecraft at JPL and it
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by mvanveen 2y ago
Love is A Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
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by mvanveen 3y ago
Reading this I think it is interesting to compare and contrast this write up with the evangelism of Richard Hipp and his success with SQLite. It seems to me that Hans Reiser's write up still has a lot of leaps and lurches, both emotion
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by mvanveen 4y ago
Not that I follow this particularly well, but I feel the late (and great) John Barlow left a pretty good list: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/comment/cborf3... (linked to barlow'
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by mvanveen 5y ago
I think it’s important to ask “what guarantees are in place to keep multiple implementations consistent and what is the fallout if they are not” as a lens to determining the degree to which it is or isn’t “world-ending” The Python ecosystem
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by mvanveen 5y ago
The only way to find out is to consult the world wide WEEB
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by mvanveen 5y ago
I do not disagree with you. However, I would speculate part of PSF's hesitancy is likely specifically around the perceived violence that gross' "GIL-less" changes may incur to the runtime semantics' backwards compat
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by mvanveen 5y ago
Just came in here briefly to opine that there is a very real risk of fork if the Python core community does not at least offer a viable alternative expediently. The economic pressures surrounding the benefits of gross’s changes will likely
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by mvanveen 5y ago
Yeah, thanks for being receptive to my feedback! FWIW I would not personally install your desktop app without further understanding of these other areas. However, if the adjustments you describe could sufficiently allay my concerns and mak
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by mvanveen 5y ago
Hi Alex and Daniel! This looks really cool and I believe I am in your set of target customers/potential early adopters. Personally, I'd much moreso prefer a self-hosted option such as a desktop application with strong guarantees
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by mvanveen 6y ago
How does this tool compare to lspci?
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by mvanveen 6y ago
In many cases within regulated environments getting access to GPU in e.g. a customer's on-prem solution is prohibitive. In enterprise ML contexts on tabular data problems we found there are a lot of cases where even training can be gre

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