physicsguy

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by physicsguy 4d ago
I recently tried to get Claude to use Codegraph in a repo rather than using grep/find all the time but I found it didn't follow instructions a lot of the time. I tried putting in a pre-tool call hook and explciitly blocking find&#
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by physicsguy 6d ago
> Growing up in Australia, every computer I’ve ever owned has defaulted to “US Letter” as the paper size. I'm not sure how; the UK is an Anglosphere country that uses A4 and desktop machines as far back as I can remember (mid 90s) a
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by physicsguy 7d ago
Na, was normal in the UK to have A4 too
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by physicsguy 9d ago
> Anthropic and OpenAI don’t care about Math and the progress in that field: They just picked a domain with a lot of cultural capital that is so complex and abstract that people don’t really understand what’s going on. I don't think
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by physicsguy 11d ago
I thought you were going to say about "bob" being a slang word for a poo. Turns out that's a particularly East Midlands thing!
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by physicsguy 19d ago
This is one of those when you go "Huh, this is amazing!" or "Huh, I thought this trick was really well known!" depending on your background ;) Here's a similar impl from 1980 written in Fortran that also computes ot
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by physicsguy 23d ago
CUDA used to target POWER9 architecture but it was so niche that you ended up compiling from source literally everything since no wheels were available for it. EasyBuild and Spack were full of half broken recipes for the magic incantations
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by physicsguy 23d ago
The big question is whether companies hold enough proprietary data to do useful things that for e.g. Anthropic, etc. can't easily replicate. For some very niche cases I think this is probably the case but for the vast majority, the com
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by physicsguy 27d ago
One of the big things to think about is whether local LLMs will be things companies want to deploy. If you think of for e.g. some proprietary piece of software that wants to embed an LLM they've fine tuned or trained, they will want to
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
What is the performance like for symbolic maths? I always preferred Mathematica for that to SymPy since it's baked in to the language much more. It was also way way faster than SymPy was for anything interesting.
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
> Small llms are still way more efficiently server on big GPUs. Yes, but the privacy aspect means that for many, many applications slower local will still be preferable to faster remote so long as the actual model performance is the same
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
Speed cameras are less liked for sure but ANPR is typically used to catch people who have not paid their vehicle tax or who have not got their annual car safety check done (MOT) but are continuing to drive
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
I find all the reporting on cameras in the US quite interesting given we’ve had ANPR cameras in the UK for 20+ years
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
You'd have written Instagram which was released in 2010 in Elixir which wasn't released to the public til 2012?
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
In premium ice cream you'll get 18-20% dairy fat content and no gums. In ones with gums, it's typically much much lower - 5% is the minimum in the UK for "dairy ice cream" where 100% of the fat must come from dairy but n
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
>They do put cornflour in their fruit yogurts, but that seems less egregious than most. These are UPFs. The point of adding cornflour or starches is to make them thicker and more luxurious in terms of the way they feel in your mouth wi
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
It's interesting you note Yeo Valley because I've found their products very mixed - lots of them do have UPFs. It's interesting that their ice cream doesn't. There's no Waitrose within 50 miles of me (East Midland
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
They're basically used as you say to replace things like eggs and milk. The whole point of that from the industrial perspective is to save on cost, they weren't removed on health grounds. It was pointed out in a BBC documentary re
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
They're all still shoving tons of emulsifiers and stabilisers and coconut and palm oil and xantham and locust bean gum and stuff in though. It's almost impossible to find ice cream without these. For e.g.: "100% All Natural I
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by physicsguy 1mo ago
My great uncle worked for Walls after National Service; he died this year. He emigrated to Australia in the 60s so must have been before that. Few stories I remember him telling me... part of his job was that he went out on the road giving
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
Unless they stop blasting the ads aimed at international markets e.g. "Premier Chinese Gaming Partner" around all the boards in the game this is very small fry in practice.
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
I think I'm too clumsy for a programme like this
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
I think people in the Python world just don't yet have a good mental model of async either. I recently have had conversations with a number of people who have switched to FastAPI because "it's faster" even when they&#x27
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
> The United States government considers US supremacy in "AI" as a national security consideration. They thought the same about SSL in the 1990s and the world didn't stop moving elsewhere.
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
Transfer of ownership is probably the least controversial part of owning a house in the UK too.
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
There is no "company" in effect and hasn't been since 2020. The government is the operator and tells companies where they can run trains and what they charge while the companies have levied a % of revenue. That's changin
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
I'm a phyicist by training and have published in the past but I left academia and so haven't for a number of years now. I tried out using Claude to do some physics problem solving - mix of maths and simulation - and ended up with
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by physicsguy 2mo ago
Static memory allocation is widely used in quite a bit of embedded software, particularly safety critical stuff. There it's often latency related since you don't want hangs while memory is allocated. I've even seen it on some
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by physicsguy 3mo ago
They had a thing of encouraging talent and putting it in special schools to develop it. Then Maths reading groups etc.
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by physicsguy 3mo ago
Not many Cockneys in London these days, they're all in Essex

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