solaxun

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by solaxun 2y ago
On the latency of the first request - How is the CFG cached? Is it done at the API Key + schema level? Meaning that for a given API key, the latency penalty for a new schema is only paid one time, regardless of how far apart requests are? O
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by solaxun 3y ago
I've read that SFT is good for "leveraging existing knowledge" gained during initial pretraining, and helpful in changing the way that the model responds, but not useful for teaching it new knowledge. In your experience is
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by solaxun 3y ago
fine tune the chat or base model?
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by solaxun 4y ago
Tough to answer since I've only read the two intro chapters currently available. I'm still in the early stages myself with with Deep Learning but have years of experience with programming and lisp, so I'm coming in with a ba
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by solaxun 4y ago
Books in the little series are all about "learning by doing", and teach using the Socratic method (question/answer). Each concept is introduced with small problems that build upon each other. You are forced to get your hands
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by solaxun 4y ago
Not sure on relative popularity. If you haven't already, you should try it! Here's why I like it: - Very consistent, easy to keep the whole language in your head - Stable, core rarely changes ("accretive only" min
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by solaxun 4y ago
Nothing little about a 450 page book, but still... I have to buy it.
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by solaxun 4y ago
I think the point is that given typical demand, the amount of supply would have been sufficient to not cause meteoric price increases. Demand exploded due to incompetent monetary policy driving a speculative mania, and that demand was what
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by solaxun 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point being made here. Are you simply saying that higher rates means a higher monthly payment, and that the amount that prices have fallen is still not enough to offset the increase in the mortgage paymen
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by solaxun 4y ago
15 years ago was a different animal because the money largely stayed in the banking sector, as excess reserves. This time, a substantial portion of it was deposited directly into consumer's accounts (stimulus checks) - and that money
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by solaxun 4y ago
Out of curiosity (not much experience with Actor systems), do these systems solve a different problem than having disparate processes communicate by sticking a distributed message queue between them? From my naive point of view it seems li
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by solaxun 4y ago
I always found it strange that I really like salmon sushi/sashimi, but don't really care for cooked salmon. For some reason cooked salmon tastes too... heavy. I realize that's probably the fat content, but for whatever reas
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by solaxun 4y ago
The one they built, apparently.
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by solaxun 4y ago
So I guess that means handling SWIFT MT / ISO 20022 messages is a big part of the custom stack?
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by solaxun 4y ago
That's an interesting question... for a lot of fintechs that "wrap" banks in a unified API, if something goes wrong on the app side the bank is not going to be liable. This is a bit different since they are actually the bank
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by solaxun 4y ago
I understand your concerns, but the alternative (at least in the U.S.) of credit agencies are absolutely abysmal. Despite the privacy concerns it's difficult for me to imagine more data not improving the current state. For 10 years I
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by solaxun 5y ago
I think the idea is that once you've been counting long enough, you know the reduction that you need to make intuitively. Of course weight will come back if you revert to old habits, but I don't think counting calories forever is
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by solaxun 5y ago
This is the only correct answer. I've put on, and lost, 25 lbs probably 8+ times in my life (intentionally). I weigh 180 at my heavier end so that's a meaningful percentage for me. Depending how disciplined you are able/want
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by solaxun 5y ago
This is my main qualm with testing as a means of validating understanding. If you truly understand a topic, you will probably pass a test on it. However passing a test most definitely does not guarantee understanding. I remember very, ver
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by solaxun 5y ago
Jobs.
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by solaxun 5y ago
> You must keep the basic properties of strings in your head. Actually I just call whatever the languages version of len, rest, first, strip, split etc. is and move on. Snark aside, when I'm using a language I don't keep the i
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by solaxun 5y ago
I'm not sure how the size of a standard library has any bearing on the size and perceived complexity of the language. To me, it's about how many language features/keywords/constructs etc. one must keep in their head to
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by solaxun 5y ago
I think the idea with Loom is that you won't have to deal with the red/blue pill bifurcation of sync/async code anymore. It's a return to basics where everything is once again a thread and can be written synchronously, w
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by solaxun 5y ago
A few years back I was walking along the SF bay down in the marina with a friend when suddenly I heard a "clunk" and felt a splash of water on my legs. Initially I thought some drunk idiot threw a beer bottle out the window of th
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by solaxun 5y ago
You get a vote as a shareholder too. I tend to agree that governments on the overall are held far less accountable for their actions than private companies, which will go bankrupt without patronage (without... ahem, government intervention)
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by solaxun 5y ago
I came across this once in Peter Norvig's Udacity CS 212 course - I think it was in the discussion forums for one of the lessons. My head promptly exploded.
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by solaxun 5y ago
I understand your point generally but I don't understand this example. If you need data from 15 tables, you need to do those joins, regardless of prefiltering or subgrouping, right?
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by solaxun 6y ago
Just wanted to say - I've learned a tremendous amount from your blog over the years... I really enjoy reading it and hope you continue for a long time!
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by solaxun 6y ago
One thing has changed, and that is the amount of household debt. There is a class of bubble and related collapse that are driven primarily by debt fueled purchases. When debt bubbles collapse, stimulus doesn't have the intended effect
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by solaxun 6y ago
nominal interest = real interest + inflation

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