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by perrygeo 4d ago
In 2020 we eliminated sulfur dioxides from international shipping fuels to reduce pollution. We inadvertently did a little geoengineering project, albeit in the wrong direction. Pretty solid evidence that this sulfur removal had direct warm
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by perrygeo 5d ago
Amazing work. It's one thing to say "async is complex". It's another to parse that statement so carefully as to have a cross-language theory of async execution. Looking forward to digging into this!
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by perrygeo 6d ago
Yes mercator distorts size at high latitudes. But it preserves angles which is more important for many (most?) mapping applications. Literally no one is using a mercator projection to determine size at the continental scale. We use mercat
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by perrygeo 6d ago
The stolen data claim isn't the smoking gun. We can already assume the frontier labs are accessing our data, as they have repeated done. Not news. The big claim is that OpenAI sniped the research. Not a model, a human did so. Intention
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by perrygeo 7d ago
I've tinkered with SDR some and did a bit professionally. I always found GNU Radio to fall into the uncanny valley - too GUI to scratch my programming itch but too low-level to be useful for exploration. Between libraries like `pyrtlsd
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by perrygeo 11d ago
Empirically false. Python's type system is not sufficient to describe runtime variants, period. I have worked on at least three system that used mypy in strict mode yet hit runtime errors constantly. I get where you're coming from
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by perrygeo 11d ago
"LLMs are next-token predictors" is a perfectly accurate mental model. But that doesn't preclude higher-level models such as "LLMs emulate artificial general intelligence". Both can be true. In systems, we can have
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by perrygeo 12d ago
Or another angle - will we even need a framework? Frameworks exist to give humans better a better interface for common patterns. But LLMs can find and replicate patterns all day in vanilla Javascript without getting bored or annoyed by bad
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by perrygeo 13d ago
> I rarely have type problems in my programs that python typecheckers can't catch. > I do have type and dirty data problems of the dataframes/csvs/parquet I'm reading. Something about those two statements makes my
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by perrygeo 13d ago
What's ironic is that the book goes to great lengths to explain this. The entire point of the book is: use leverage to grow assets. The alternative, not taking debt and using income to directly pay expenses, is literally called out a
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by perrygeo 13d ago
Polars is much better than pandas in this regard. But using it via Python still carries the risk of runtime errors. Python's linters leave many holes unfilled - it catches some stuff but still leaves everything else to the runtime. L
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by perrygeo 13d ago
I agree. But the data science/engineering space is enamored with Python. Makes good sense when doing interactive work. Makes no sense in production. But by that point, most developers consider it a sunk cost and just keep their Python
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by perrygeo 13d ago
For me, the superpower of polars is production stability. Pandas tends to push all problems to runtime, with all sorts of hidden heuristics. Particularly around column types and missing values. It's very hard to know if you've tes
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by perrygeo 15d ago
> The military can afford to learn. You can't do that in a business. are you literally saying that businesses cannot afford to learn? Businesses must afford to learn. Under capitalism, that's the job description. Those that f
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by perrygeo 15d ago
That's just "counting". But for many people (the vast majority of humans), they can and do easily visualize sheep as they count them.
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by perrygeo 15d ago
> Where is all this love for coaster brakes coming from?! Childhood nostalgia? They are indeed terrible brakes from a riding perspective. But a) no cables or pads to mess up, b) beginner friendly and c) skidding. Great for kids riding ar
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by perrygeo 19d ago
Yes. Extrapolated further, my AGENTS.md files barely have any content. It's an index with links to code sections, skills, documentation, etc. I think of AGENTS file like a router - the job is present what's available and dispatch
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by perrygeo 20d ago
> Most new businesses have some form of AI in them Most new business are customers of AI companies. They are consuming AI . They don't build AI. They don't advance AI technology. They are not using AI in innovative ways. They
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by perrygeo 20d ago
Visualizing a sheep is not something I can even do once. Let alone repetitively until it gets boring. Being asked to visualize is quite frustrating and confusing - especially to a little kid not sure exactly what he's supposed to be &q
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by perrygeo 20d ago
I thought "count sheep" just meant "please just go the f*k to sleep, kid". Literally counting sheep was too absurd. At the risk of sounding obvious, there are no sheep. No amount of trying to conjure pictures of sheep wo
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by perrygeo 21d ago
I think we're in total agreement here. The $120k gets a profit for Anthropic. The $5k subscription loses money hand over fist. Somewhere in between is the real market price. And the OP is betting on a 10x reduction, from his already b
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by perrygeo 22d ago
That $5k subscription is already deeply discounted by debt funding. Anthropic is losing money on that account. So the bet is this free lunch will continue indefinitely and prices are gonna drop 10x on top of that? We'll see! Put anot
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by perrygeo 22d ago
Yes, scientists have put forth dire predictions of extreme weather. Here's the thhing though - we actually see measurable increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events. They put forth dire predictions.. and they are
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by perrygeo 23d ago
> So it's not $120k/month of real money, but it's still crazy spend. I would guess I'm one of a handful of top individuals on Earth outside the frontier labs, in terms of my experience with top-end models. We get it
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by perrygeo 23d ago
For research tasks, I like Meta's muse glimmer 30b model run locally. Whatever they did in post-training to make it so terse and direct, it worked. Gets right to the point and wastes no tokens. Here's a snippet from a recent think
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by perrygeo 23d ago
I've come to accept that some people, when faced with impressive technology, simply want to use it. They genuinely have no interest in understanding how it works. Lately, its even become fashionable to shame people for trying to unders
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by perrygeo 25d ago
> next token prediction is not searching a solution space. Interesting take. Next token prediction (via the attention mechanism) is a "walk" through the token embedding space. Searching the solution space is what it does, mathe
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by perrygeo 25d ago
Yep, `/usr/bin/gdb /usr/local/bin/clisp 1337` ... also in TADC lore, windows has forward slashes.
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by perrygeo 25d ago
> In The Amazing Digital Circus (episode 8, "hjsakldfhl"), when Kinger opens the terminal to try to reset Caine, you can see that Caine (a creative AI built in 1996) is programmed in Lisp. The file is literally named Caine-core
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by perrygeo 26d ago
Skin in the game. Being "smart" isn't an immutable property of a noun. It's a verb. It's something you do, something you practice, constantly. Even in fields like Math where ostensibly we have universal truths acces

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