sarosh

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by sarosh 1y ago
But why does, as you explain "training goes brrr"? Francis Bach, the author, makes a good faith effort to explain exactly why this material is beneficial (see https://francisbach.com/my-book-is-out/ ): &qu
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by sarosh 2y ago
This is the PDF of the following 2011 book focused on FFTs and fast arithmetic for both real numbers and finite fields. https://www.amazon.com/Matters-Computational-Ideas-Algorithm... The author is Jörg Arndt: born 1964 in
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by sarosh 2y ago
Interesting that the underlying model, a LoRA fine-tune of Qwen2.5-Coder-32B, relies on synthetic data from Claude[1]: But we had a classic chicken-and-egg problem—we needed data to train the model, but we didn't have any real exam
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by sarosh 2y ago
Defer to other experts, but (briefly) normalizing flows are a method for constructing complex distributions by transforming a probability density through a series of invertible transformations. Normalizing flows are trained using a plain lo
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by sarosh 3y ago
This actually seems like just a very clever market segmentation solution since the GPU was already limited to 8x PCIe lanes (its a laptop GPU see https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4060-Laptop... ). The &#x27
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Ask HN: Best Board Games of 2023?
3 points by sarosh 3y ago|1 comments
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by sarosh 3y ago
The paper, Trigger-Level Event Reconstruction for Neutrino Telescopes Using Sparse Submanifold Convolutional Neural Networks, is here https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08812 . The crucial advantage of SSCNN are that they &quot
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by sarosh 3y ago
Looking at https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/rulesets/default/eve... provides most of the key 'game loops', i.e. # idea -> prelim -> major -> 2 figures -> submitted paper int
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by sarosh 3y ago
A (now 6 year old) discussion that might be helpful: Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ Also https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
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by sarosh 4y ago
The author, David Mumford, is known for his distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1974. [2] Pattern theory was formulated by Ulf Grenander to describe knowledge of the world as patterns. [3] Prof. Mum
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by sarosh 4y ago
Heres the Arxiv link with the PDF since the Science link isn't working. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07814v1.pdf *See p. 21 for a list of benchmarks, including the results of a finetuned GPT-3 for coding.
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by sarosh 4y ago
The repo from the paper: https://github.com/mlpen/Nystromformer
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by sarosh 4y ago
A more detailed source: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-quanta-magazine-new-y... , explaining "For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate g
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by sarosh 5y ago
The pre-print referred to in this article itself is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15323
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by sarosh 5y ago
An interesting take from Mike Pondsmith given his heavy involvement in the venture at the end of (at least in my opinion) well-written article: "[C]omparing the tabletop experience with its video-game incarnation, he noted that the la
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by sarosh 5y ago
The paper itself is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09259 with the key conclusion that "Examining the evolution of human concepts using probing showed that many human concepts can be accurately regressed from the
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by sarosh 5y ago
Can you explain a bit about your personal note taking/retention process?
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by sarosh 5y ago
A nice summary of the current understanding (from a lay perspective) on manifold "sameness". From the article: "But Freedman’s [1981] proof left open the “smooth” four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture, which says that any four
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by sarosh 5y ago
There is already a nice writeup on the current incident from Cloudflare at https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ They key observations: "Due to Facebook stopping announcing their DNS prefix r
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Foundation (Apple TV)(tv.apple.com)
3 points by sarosh 5y ago|0 comments
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by sarosh 5y ago
This Economist article is from October of 2020. Peter Turchin is not a historian. He is instead in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Universtiy of Connecticut. He advocates for a field of 'cliodynamics' whi
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by sarosh 5y ago
Thanks Lee - appreciate the insight!
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by sarosh 5y ago
Hi Aaron - are you using VSCode for the IDE? How is this similar to/different from say, Gitpod?
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by sarosh 5y ago
The write up at https://blog.cloudflare.com/doom-multiplayer-workers/ contains a lot more technical details, including the Durable Object interaction with Workers.
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Why model calibration matters and how to achieve it(unofficialgoogledatascience.com)
1 points by sarosh 5y ago|0 comments
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by sarosh 5y ago
See prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055501
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by sarosh 6y ago
Article is from April 28, 2014.
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by sarosh 6y ago
There may be issues in their legal structure the prohibit direct investment or their Board feels more comfortable offloading the technology risk to someone else. Alternatively, they may want certain liquidity features (or other options) tha
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by sarosh 6y ago
Probably the most interesting piece is "Box G: “Low-For-Long” Interest Rates and Implications for Financial Stability" ... " A longerterm risk is how the market participants’ exposures to greater levels of duration risk affec
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by sarosh 6y ago
"The U.S. economy was in the midst of the longest post-war economic expansion, with historically low levels of unemployment, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. The global pandemic not only brought about a pu

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