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by ryanschneider 28d ago
> I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device I first parsed the "on device" as _on the piano_ and was intrigued how that worked :) maybe someone can make "dynamic" rolls for a player piano somehow (like on
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by ryanschneider 1mo ago
The trick I learned from a kind manager is to make your last day something early in the month and your first day on the new job the last week of the same month. In short if your time off doesn’t actually cross a month boundary your old insu
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by ryanschneider 3mo ago
HowTown has a pretty good video on the same subject: https://youtu.be/dqLM65HfVEw?is=avWFidbKxRvW3YUY
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by ryanschneider 7mo ago
Wait am I in the minority talking to Claude in markdown? I just assumed everyone does that, or at least all developers. It seems to work really well.
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by ryanschneider 7mo ago
I’m kind of surprised no one has mentioned this one yet: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gQyphPbaLHBMJoghD/comp-sci-i...
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by ryanschneider 11mo ago
A reverse engineer friend once taught me I could patch an x86 function with `0xEBFE` to get the CPU to spin forever. It wasn’t until much later that I understood that (IIRC) 0xEB is the “single byte” jump instruction and that of course 0xFE
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by ryanschneider 11mo ago
Even cooler, let's say you need to "update" a subset of your parquet files after they are written. Once you have your parquet files in a ducklake, you can "virtually" update them (the files themselves aren't t
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by ryanschneider 2y ago
Not that I expect them to fix it at this point since it seems to be a known issue, but just in case anyone from Notion is watching please fix the macOS app’s CPU usage. On a brand new M3 MacBook Pro each tab takes about 10% of one core _non
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by ryanschneider 2y ago
It’s fun to guess what something is on HN just from the title before going there or the comments. In this case my guess was that someone was - rendering Doom then using an LLM to get a text description of the scene - asking the user what to
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by ryanschneider 2y ago
I really thought this was going to be a new LLM-backed GOOG-411 type thing.
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by ryanschneider 2y ago
Aha! This post finally made it click for me that that is exactly what’s going on, thanks for putting it so succinctly. I think one of the big differences between AI and most other previous technologies is that the potential impact different
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
As other have mentioned I’ve used it for diagrams in code comments and READMEs (before GH added mermaid integration). Making readable diagrams with 80 character width can be a challenge. I bought it back in either late 2017 or early 2018 an
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
Seems like the technique only works in highly controlled scenarios (e.g. you have tens of phenotypes and images and want to have a better than random chance of assigning one to the other): > Nevertheless, re-identification risk in the wi
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I just wish they would make more compact shows that tell their entire story in a single self contained season. If 1899 for example had only been given a single season from the outset it actually might’ve been a much better show.
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I just took a break from reading a scene from Anathem revolving around tiling and came across this thread. :) This sort of “HN coincidence” has happened to me several times this week, is there a term for it I don’t know?
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
There’s actually a lower bound for integer ops: https://twitter.com/DavidVorick/status/1719097248699879831 > (i) any model that was trained using a quantity of computing pow greater than 10^26 integer or floati
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
It probably matters for Go since presumably the go runtime starts up some of it’s worker threads before calling your main. Though actually now I’m not so sure, seems worth digging into.
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
iPhones and iOS have had this for quite awhile. My iOS dev knowledge is rather dated now but IIRC Grand Central Dispatch let you indicate the type of workload your task needed and thus which core type it was typically scheduled on.
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I think the whole point is that you only have a limited “cutting edge budget” so if you are somewhat forced to spend that budget on cutting edge ML models then don’t overload your team _also_ using cutting edge languages or infrastructure o
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I’m in the same boat in that I’m losing my vision very slowly from an inherited retinal disorder. One thing I’ll add is I’ve started going to the gym as much as I can while I can, I figure I’ll be much more confident once blind if I have go
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
While not in the same league as those tubs, when we first signed up for Fresh Amazon was using frozen Amazon-branded bottled water to keep the groceries cold. They switched to insulated bags a couple weeks later though, but we had plenty of
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
Quick feedback: I really thought the “ROI Calculator” on your landing page was meant to be interactive not a screenshot so was wondering why it didn’t work. Any chance it could easily be made interactive by embedding the actual software the
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
One more wrinkle: authorization starts with “author” but in computer security is no longer about who wrote the data but rather if they are allowed to. It has its origin in “to determine the author of” but the modern usage is at least twice
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I think the problem is further compounded by team size and insistence on 40 hour work weeks. As soon as you have people on “manager schedule” that feel the need to look busy the number of meetings starts growing exponentially. I’m all for h
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
One thing I really really miss from working in person on a small team was that we did all PR reviews in person, almost like a little “thesis defense” session. This was medical adjacent signal processing software so that rigor was necessary,
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
Good call, I use “minor:” as a comment prefix for this but just realized that I got into that habit awhile back and the team composition has changed since then so newer members don’t have that context. I wish there was something like semant
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
It was also mentioned recently in Julia Evans’ lima post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668964
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I’m pretty sure I first heard this anecdote in Andrew Ng’s original machine learning course on Coursera.
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
On my iPhone 11 at my standard brightness (around 25%) the HDR one is much brighter but if I turn my brightness to max then they both look the same. If I dim my brightness completely the HDR does get dimmer but is still quite visible while
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by ryanschneider 3y ago
I was just thinking the other day I’d also really like that for my terminal history, especially since I’ve often worked at “bring your own device” sized companies.

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