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   by pncnmnp 5d ago

   Apparently, there's a term for the general practice, it's called "link shimming" - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat... . I had some fun in my grad days building a pri
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   How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939(pncnmnp.github.io)

   29 points by pncnmnp 2mo ago|14 comments
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   Pliny the Younger's Letters About the Eruption of Vesuvius(pompeii.org.uk)

   2 points by pncnmnp 3mo ago|0 comments
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   by pncnmnp 3mo ago

   I want to share why I am posting this paper and why I think this is an interesting read. From "Henry Faulds Proposes Fingerprints as a System of Identification": https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=525
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   On the Skin-Furrows of the Hand (1880) [pdf](galton.org)

   13 points by pncnmnp 3mo ago|5 comments
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   Tearing into ChatGPT's Container Environment(pncnmnp.github.io)

   4 points by pncnmnp 3mo ago|0 comments
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   Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster(inverse.com)

   97 points by pncnmnp 3mo ago|61 comments
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   Maia-3: free and open source(lichess.org)

   59 points by pncnmnp 4mo ago|1 comments
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   by pncnmnp 5mo ago

   The whole setup works on my M2 MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM. I use Gemma 4B via LiteRT-LM. I've found that LiteRT-LM has a much lower DRAM footprint than Ollama. I've also made tons of optimizations in the code - for eg, you can do
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    by pncnmnp 5mo ago

    I wish I had known about Pipecat a lot sooner. I found out about it a few weeks back, and since Gemma 4 launched, I've been building my own entirely local voice assistant using Gemma 4 + Kokoro TTS + Whisper from scratch - https:&#x2F
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    by pncnmnp 5mo ago

    I have come to a similar realization recently - its what I call "Take it home OSS" - i.e. fork freely, modify it to your liking using AI coding agents, and stop waiting for upstream permissions. We seem to be gravitating towards a
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    by pncnmnp 5mo ago

    A fun tangent - if someone wants to explore how Azure is performing RDMA over RoCEv2 - check this paper out - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... There is an interesting NSDI
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    by pncnmnp 6mo ago

    I am a bit late to this thread, nevertheless, I wanted to put my thoughts down as well. Horizon Worlds and the Metaverse were both pitched as a "social" platform. And this in itself is where I believe they went wrong. It fundament
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    by pncnmnp 7mo ago

    On a similar tangent, but on the opposite end of the spectrum, check out this month-old discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772003 ChatGPT's code execution container contains 56 vCPUs!! Back then,
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    by pncnmnp 9mo ago

    Happy Public Domain Day, everyone! Such a great project. A bit tangential here, but I am really looking forward to 2035 for the public domain. A ton of culturally significant works seem to enter then - And Then There Were None, Gone with th
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    by pncnmnp 9mo ago

    There is also AussieEspañol, who is attempting to travel from Argentina to Alaska in a tuk-tuk (an auto rickshaw) - https://www.youtube.com/@aussieespanol/videos Followed him a bit last year. A really sweet and enthusi
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    by pncnmnp 10mo ago

    Hi! Author here. I agree that I should have explicitly stated the word "priority queues" since it is an ADT people can directly relate to. I will add it in. However, it is simply not true that I did not describe how a priority que
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    by pncnmnp 11mo ago

    When my friends and I were undergrads (3rd year, I believe), we had an absolute blast exploring this exact topic - the intersection of Bloom Filters and client side searching. So much so that it became part of our undergrad thesis. It all s
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    Timing Wheels(pncnmnp.github.io)

    51 points by pncnmnp 11mo ago|3 comments
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    Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919)(manifold.umn.edu)

    2 points by pncnmnp 11mo ago|0 comments
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    The Birth of Social Security(ibm.com)

    2 points by pncnmnp 11mo ago|0 comments
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    I love what Norvig said. I can relate to it. As far as data structures are concerned, I think it's worth playing smart with your tests - focus on the "invariants" and ensure their integrity. A classic example of invariant I c
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    Some interesting stuff from the Nature paper > The Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero Crater to characterize early Martian geological processes and habitability and search for potentia
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    I recently listened to the episode on The Antikythera Mechanism and found it quite fun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x0g Also, I wanted to mention something interesting - back when LLM-driven applications wer
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    Culinary arts and Computer Science (2019) [pdf](www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

    10 points by pncnmnp 1y ago|2 comments
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    Thanks! This might be it. I looked up Henry J. Kelley on Wikipedia, and in the notes I found a citation to this paper from Stuart Dreyfus (Berkeley): "Artificial Neural Networks, Back Propagation and the Kelley-Bryson Gradient Procedur
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    Apologies - I should have been clear. I was not referring to Rumelhart et al., but to pieces of work that point to "optimizing the thrusts of the Apollo spaceships" using backprop.
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    I have a question that's bothered me for quite a while now. In 2018, Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) wrote a rather interesting essay - https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re... (Artificial Inte
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    Are We There Yet? The Jetsons and the City of the Future (2023) [pdf](cinemadev.cntv.usc.edu)

    3 points by pncnmnp 1y ago|0 comments
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    by pncnmnp 1y ago

    One of my favorite examples of this is the Beatles: > On 11 February 1963, the Beatles recorded ten songs during a single studio session for their debut LP, Please Please Me. > Martin asked the band if they had any songs that they cou