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by nels 2mo ago
Very cool! Any idea what the approximate battery life on this is?
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by nels 6mo ago
I think you meant to link this page: https://research.google/blog/a-decoder-only-foundation-model...
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by nels 8mo ago
Very impressive! I got curious and found this photo and brochure from the Indian Memory Project [1] [1] https://xcancel.com/Indianmemory/status/1277521026813882368#...
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by nels 9mo ago
Seems like you're right! [1] [1] https://studyfinds.org/physicists-pull-off-quantum-teleporta...
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by nels 9mo ago
Really enjoyed this, interesting read as always! It reminded me of Google Labs’ recent GenTabs project [1], and also of a recent ACM paper on user-assembled LLM-mediated tools from web content [2]. Feels like similar concepts are emerging i
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by nels 9mo ago
It's interesting how number 5 on the list is the same as today's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203581 (Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)). I&#x27
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by nels 1y ago
I agree that costs and administrative growth need to be cut, and that relying on international tuition is and should not a long-term fix. But international students are not the primary cause of rising costs or problems in universities as th
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by nels 1y ago
International students at places like Stanford are not displacing Americans. Stanford is one of the top-ranked universities in the world, so the competition pool is global by definition. There is no evidence that equally qualified Americans
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by nels 1y ago
International students are not displacing Americans; they pay tuition, often at higher rates, and help sustain universities. The real problem is that higher education has been underfunded for years, and the current administration has only m
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by nels 2y ago
Nice work! You may be interested in a paper that explored a similar concept and included some interesting ways of dealing with latency called WorldScribe: https://worldscribe.org .
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by nels 2y ago
The main difference in peanut butter isn’t about being European or American actually—it’s about the recipe. Some brands add extra oil, like palm oil, to keep it from separating (Skippy (US) and Calvé (EU), for instance). Without it, peanut
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by nels 5y ago
The concept of the metaverse also involves doing those activities (e.g., work, fitness, entertainment) inside the metaverse. For instance, the home workout videos that people watch on their TVs these days could someday be replaced by an i
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by nels 7y ago
Nice! This seems like a great status bar solution that is independent of which terminal you use. For iTerm users, there's a built-in feature that works very well: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-status-bar.html
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by nels 7y ago
Assuming you have a good current working environment away from home, I don't see the potential benefits of moving in together outweighing the likely negative consequences that you've mentioned. I definitely agree with you on that
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by nels 9y ago
Have you considered saving files (such as fonts and JS libs) loaded through major CDNs centrally just once instead of storing it again each time a page is saved? Maybe you already have plans for this, but it would be smart to implement a sy