rented_mule

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by rented_mule 6d ago
If the mechanics of the proof are not understood, how do we know it's been proven? Math proofs are not a "trust me, bro" kind of thing.
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by rented_mule 7d ago
I like to leverage that when brainstorming solutions to hard problems. Instead of contemplating small percentage improvements, try to think about what's in the way of improvements that are orders of magnitude better (e.g., don't t
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by rented_mule 25d ago
You're right that Python 3.15 is not fully released yet, but it's in prerelease which is defined as: """ After the first beta, no new features can go in, but feature fixes (including significant changes to new featu
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by rented_mule 1mo ago
I was lucky enough to spend ten or so hours with Amit over the span of six or eight years after he left Google. He has a fantastic ability to find the simple core of very complicated things, making it easy for others to understand. People r
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by rented_mule 1mo ago
For anybody who wants to dig into the theory behind all this, these are examples of aliasing (the same word you see in "anti-aliasing" regarding fonts, computer graphics, etc.). I've been fascinated by moire patterns since I
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by rented_mule 1mo ago
The largest brands (Walmart, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, etc.) put a lot of analytics into their ad spend. I worked on an ad platform with a large audience that these kinds of brands wanted to get their name in front of, but the audience wa
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by rented_mule 1mo ago
Something the best data scientist I ever worked with was adamant about... there is almost never an inherent "speed bump" at 0. If error bounds expand on both sides of 0, we have no idea if the true sign is positive or negative. Th
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
CodeWhale is a coding agent that auto-routes requests to Flash / Pro based on complexity, as determined by Flash. It's also tuned for DeepSeek's caching behavior, making things even more inexpensive. I'm retired, but I&#
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
You are right that they cannot control the language used by journalists. But then can loudly respond ( many journalists would give Altman a platform) that the AI did not go "rogue" in any sense of the word - it did what humans to
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
As a fan of drumming, you're probably one of the millions who have seen this. But for anybody who hasn't, here's a fun video showing how complicated drumming can be with a live performance by someone whose nickname is "T
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
Hanlon's Razor ("never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") comes into this... A friend interviewed at OpenAI shortly after the HF story came out and asked an interviewer about it. The intervi
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
JavaScript has module bundlers that will merge all your code modules into one module for deployment. It's a little surprising nobody (that I'm aware of) has done this for Python and PEP 723 dependency specifications. Then the sing
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
On top of everything you mention, AC makes the climate problems worse. Solar reduces the negative impact, but does not eliminate it. I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. 15 years ago, typical summer daily highs made it into
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
In terms of what we decide to build, impossible vs. impractical is not a particularly interesting distinction (that distinction can give rise to fun science fiction). Practicality is at the core of good engineering, and possibility is just
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
> What's the difficulty of a 1GW datacenter in space? Simple back of the envelope calculations? Let's assume your numbers are correct and that panels in space can generate 10x the power per square meter per 24 hour period (due
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by rented_mule 2mo ago
I didn't know about it for the first few years I lived here, so ask when you're at the counter.
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
> Why do rural people deserve subsidies by virtue of living in the sticks? For the same reason urban people deserve subsidies, for things like public transportation, by virtue of living in the city. The first sentence of the US Constitut
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
I'm not who you're replying too, but I also live in a place with no delivery to the home, despite UPS and FedEx doing so. Everybody in our town gets a free PO Box - I suspect that's how the service obligation is covered. Once
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
There is clearly a level of thinking that doesn't involve language. Participating in competitive sports has been a core part of my family, with some competing at elite levels. When you get to a certain level, if language is involved du
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
This is not unique to SQLite... it should help with any database that uses B+Trees. Batch deletes are also typically faster when the IDs to be deleted are sorted in these same systems.
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
If this becomes law, it will give rise to a fun new form or protest art in this vain. What is the cutest thing you can design that nobody would consider to be related to guns, but which gets flagged? An obvious example... a llama sitting on
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Building Blocks of GenAI Product Evaluation(yinghonglan.substack.com)
1 points by rented_mule 3mo ago|0 comments
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
Sometimes it's a "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" thing or a FOMO thing. But sometimes different roles fit different people better. I started my career doing mostly full stack work. I couldn't get away f
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
Around 2015, I found myself managing back end and machine learning engineers (not researchers) at the same time. Many of the back end engineers wanted to do more ML. Some of them did well when given a chance, but others wanted to revert to
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
My understanding is that the core research team is between 100 and 200 people. I don't have a great source for that - a friend of a friend is on the team. By comparison, Open AI's Chief Research Officer said their core research te
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Long-Form Video Understanding – Part 2: Evaluation and Benchmarks(yinghonglan.substack.com)
1 points by rented_mule 3mo ago|0 comments
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Long-Form Video Understanding: Bottlenecks and Design Choices – Part 1(yinghonglan.substack.com)
2 points by rented_mule 3mo ago|0 comments
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Introduction to (Multimodal) LLM-as-a-Judge(yinghonglan.substack.com)
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
I'm trying to keep this account anonymous so that I'll speak my mind more easily, and she's probably more private than I am, so I don't want to say her name. Among other things, she worked on mission control software for
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by rented_mule 3mo ago
CodeWhale (formerly deepseek-tui) automates this over DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro. My shallow understanding is that it prompts the model to evaluate the complexity of a given task, then decides on Flash vs. Pro at various reasoning levels for

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