scaredginger

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by scaredginger 2mo ago
They didn't need the disclaimer for this to be obvious AI slop
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by scaredginger 8mo ago
Normalising by mass is a poor way to assess food's protein content since different foods have greatly different water contents. E.g. beef jerky has much higher protein per 100g than beef largely because it's dried (admittedly, pro
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by scaredginger 10mo ago
Bit of a nitpick, but I think his terminology is wrong. Like RL, pretraining is also a form of *un*supervised learning
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by scaredginger 11mo ago
Looks like the impl uses a HashMap. I'd be curious about how a trie or some other specialized string data structure would compare here.
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by scaredginger 1y ago
There may be some cost to each resistance gained, reducing the fitness of the bacteria
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by scaredginger 2y ago
I think the AI bubble may have some interesting parallels with the dot com bubble ~25 years ago. The internet was revolutionary and transformed the global economy. However, most of the internet companies at the time were garbage and were gi
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by scaredginger 2y ago
Yeah, no. If I know what my data look like, I can choose an order of summation that reduces the error. I wouldn't want the compiler by default to assume associativity and introduce bugs. There's a reason this reordering is disable
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by scaredginger 2y ago
That's not how I'd express it either. Insurance is a positive EV bet on a log-utility basis
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by scaredginger 2y ago
You don't make many friends being a moral relativist
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by scaredginger 2y ago
Maybe a nitpick, but virtual inheritance is a term used for something else entirely. What you're talking about is dynamic dispatch
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by scaredginger 2y ago
Also, Terraform Industries (natural gas company)
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by scaredginger 2y ago
And some won't, so they'll remain directors
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by scaredginger 3y ago
https://archive.is/IzfVe
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by scaredginger 3y ago
Obtaining an uncontested lock absolutely doesn't require calling into the kernel
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by scaredginger 3y ago
You might be interested in Odin. It's very focused on numerical computing and has certainly taken some design hints from Go
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by scaredginger 3y ago
It was shielded
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by scaredginger 3y ago
Can you explain this 'common sense'? I was under the impression that Tether was in the business of taking USD (with the promise of returning it) and earning interest on that USD without paying any interest on it. If that's tr
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I think this counts as a bottom-up DP solution
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I'm pretty sure you can perform tests and find defects without actually flying the rocket
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by scaredginger 3y ago
> Note that Carbon is not ready to use
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by scaredginger 3y ago
https://archive.md/eIXcA
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by scaredginger 3y ago
[citation needed]
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by scaredginger 3y ago
https://archive.is/ynX9Y
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by scaredginger 3y ago
https://youtu.be/I25UeVXrEHQ
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by scaredginger 3y ago
Performance of a web server isn't just about latency, it's also about throughput and how many requests can be served concurrently
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by scaredginger 3y ago
What percentage of readers here would you estimate have missed a chance of becoming a billionaire?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I'm sorry, this book is clearly a joke. Do you not get the humour?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I find it strange to find that strange. Why wouldn't one leverage one language's strengths to address a shortcoming in another?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I mean, duh?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
The original claim was that "The way real wages are tracked also undersell this trend"; they are calling CPI into question. Personally, I don't really have an opinion on whether CPI is effective here, but saying "CPI-adj

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