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by shpongled 4mo ago
There is a relatively widely adopted tool (100+ citations, >500k invocations collected via telemetry) for mass spectrometry-based proteomics written in Rust, and quite a few others in the works. [1] https://github.com/laz
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by shpongled 6mo ago
The title is >Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. Isn't being an anti-masker the opposite of this viewpoint? Literally saying, I only care about the returns for myself, even if creates negative value for other
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by shpongled 7mo ago
As someone who is "into" programming languages (and making toy implementations of them), I think some of the most important macros are along the lines of Rust/Haskells `derive/deriving` for quickly enabling serialization
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by shpongled 8mo ago
As someone who has been primarily writing Rust for the past 8+ years, I am actually unaware of any political drama surrounding Rust. It's just a programming language.
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by shpongled 8mo ago
Looking at their profile I'm inclined to agree. But I think in isolation, this one post isn't setting off enough red flags for me. At the very least, they aren't just using default prompts.
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by shpongled 8mo ago
No, it doesn't. The "I'm an expert at AI detection" crowd likes to cite things like "It's not X, it's Y" and other expression patterns without stopping to think that perhaps LLMs regurgitate those pat
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by shpongled 8mo ago
Unclear why you think this is ChatGPT, doesn't read like it at all to me. Many people - myself included - use punctuation to emphasize and clarify.
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by shpongled 11mo ago
If you consider correctly citing a source that is explicitly provided in the context via tool use, then sure. They absolutely cannot correctly cite sources otherwise.
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by shpongled 11mo ago
The value proposition is multi-cursor editing, which is very nice
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by shpongled 1y ago
It's not totally novel, but it's very cool to see the continued simplification of protein folding models - AF2 -> AF3 was a reduction in model architecture complexity, and this is a another step in the direction of the bitter l
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by shpongled 1y ago
Probably because ByteDance and Facebook (spun out into EvolutionaryScale) are doing it
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by shpongled 1y ago
Protein folding is in no way "solved". AlphaFold dramatically improved the state-of-the-art, and works very well for monomeric protein chains with structurally resolved nearest neighbors. It abjectly fails on the most interesting
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by shpongled 1y ago
There's no problem with randomness in FP? You could use a monad/external state for an OS-level RNG, or define a purely functional PRNG
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by shpongled 1y ago
2016 remains one the greatest single player FPS games I've played (Titan Fall 2 is the other)
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by shpongled 1y ago
When I mean "use" them, I mean make heavy use of them, e.g. structs or functions annotated with multiple lifetimes, data flows designed to borrow data, e.g. You can often get by just with `clone` and lifetime elision, and if you d
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by shpongled 1y ago
As someone who loves SML/OCaml and has written primarily Rust over the past ~10 years, I totally agree - I use it as a modern and ergonomic ML with best-in-class tooling, libraries, and performance. Lifetimes are cool, and I use them w
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by shpongled 1y ago
Thanks! I'm not super up to date on all the ML stuff :)
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by shpongled 1y ago
Do you know when this was introduced (or which paper)? AFAIK it's not that way in the original transformer paper, or BERT/GPT-2
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by shpongled 1y ago
I looked through their torch implementation and noticed that they are applying RoPE to both query and key matrices in every layer of the transformer - is this standard? I thought positional encodings were usually just added once at the firs
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by shpongled 1y ago
I think you cropped out the important part of the quote: > It’s rare that I have more than a drink or two in one night. I don't drink that often any more, but 2-3 drinks in a night, done occasionally is not a problem. I've had
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by shpongled 1y ago
I would pay $5000 to never have to read another LLM-authored piece of text ever again.
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by shpongled 1y ago
One possibility is trying a different form of cardio. I personally don't enjoy running at all... but I love cycling. Running for 30 minutes is super boring, but I can go do a 4-hour ride no problem. If you can't go outside at all,
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by shpongled 1y ago
"It doesn't get any easier, you just get faster" - Greg LeMond
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by shpongled 1y ago
True, I should have qualified "actual" duration, not perceived duration!
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by shpongled 1y ago
N,N-DMT is very intense and not to be taken lightly - but you could say the same with LSD, psilocybin, etc. Personally, I am much more wary of large doses of LSD/psilocybin than DMT, in part to the substantially longer duration of the
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by shpongled 1y ago
Yep, I would love anonymous record types, ala StandardML/OCaml
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by shpongled 1y ago
I just googled "car fatalities [alcohol/distracted]" etc, and found either NHTSA or California statistics. All of them could be prevented using modern tech, but considering that we can't even get speed cameras socially
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by shpongled 1y ago
Most car "accidents" are intentional - drivers are choosing to speed (35%), drive intoxicated (30%), or scroll tiktok (15%) rather than pay attention to the road.
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by shpongled 1y ago
Firearms are a constitutionally enshrined right - driving is not. For the vast majority of Americans, cars represent a significantly higher threat than assault by gun [1]. We also let drivers flagrantly and repeatedly break the law and negl
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by shpongled 1y ago
Writing my own "OS" (read: mostly copying from the OG Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial [1]) was also a formative experience for me as a teenager. Really great way to learn systems programming and what goes on under the hood

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