spider-mario

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by spider-mario 5d ago
Could we please not make text light grey on white? It’s just barely AA compliant when bolded. https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html#fg=96...
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by spider-mario 5d ago
Me: “I have too much stuff at home; I should get rid of what I’m not using to free up space.” HN:
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by spider-mario 6d ago
> The trivial example demonstrates that once you pick your confidence interval you don't truly have odds anymore. But if we're judging whether we have the right odds number, what matters is if a different number is correct. A
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by spider-mario 6d ago
If you pick a ball from a bag of balls of which half are fuzzy and half are smooth, then before picking the ball, there is indeed a 50% chance that you will pick a fuzzy one. But once you pick it and have it in your hand and can feel th
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by spider-mario 7d ago
It’s the same principle. The “trivial interval” from the first link (the one you called pedantry), which is applicable to a Gaussian and tweakable to have different coverage than 50%, clearly shows that being an n% confidence interval, on i
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by spider-mario 7d ago
If you just meant it in the sense that “if I pick one interval at random and don’t look at it, it will (future) have an n% chance of containing the true parameter” then sure. It’s a pre-data statement (“I have an n% chance of sampling dat
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by spider-mario 7d ago
It’s not reaching. See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622516 > Like saying the probability your uncle died of a shark attack is either 0 or 1. For a frequentist, it is. If you want the Bayesian
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by spider-mario 7d ago
> Correct, which is why it's crazy to consider a Jeffrey's credible interval as valid, but not a confidence interval. The confidence interval is “valid” for what its definition is. But: - saying “there is a 95% chance that this
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by spider-mario 8d ago
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-015-0947-8#... https://sami.boo/jaynes/confidence-intervals-vs-bayesian-int... (+ Cauchy example below) It’s like with test accuracy. Test acc
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by spider-mario 8d ago
About the same amount of energy per image as a second of hot shower.
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by spider-mario 8d ago
Yes. It’s maybe easier to reason about by imagining that we are trying to estimate the parameter of a Gaussian distribution. Let’s say that the “true” distribution of the data has mean μ=100 and standard deviation σ=15, but we don’t know th
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by spider-mario 8d ago
MTPLX is this software: https://github.com/youssofal/MTPLX I tried it with the author’s 4-bit quant of Qwen 3.8 27B: https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized... (but no need to
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by spider-mario 8d ago
> Qwen3.8 27B seems like it was clearly supposed to be a high-end consumer open-weights model, but the t/s is so low for me on my old M1 Max 64GB that I hope others are getting use out of it. Have you tried it with MTPLX? I get arou
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by spider-mario 8d ago
> Second, besides noise (bars are Wilson 95% confidence intervals, very conservative for run-to-run noise), there is little difference down to 4-bit; only the 2-bit scores a bit lower. Confidence intervals have nothing to do with run-to-
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Implementing FMA and finding bugs in C and Rust standard libraries(shnatsel.github.io)
3 points by spider-mario 9d ago|0 comments
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by spider-mario 9d ago
“your own website and then asking for donations […] business model” make it sound as if it’s for profit, which it isn’t.
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by spider-mario 12d ago
No, I don’t think they’re intelligence either.
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by spider-mario 12d ago
The post ends with: “Time to lawyer up...”
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by spider-mario 12d ago
For what it’s worth, there’s an emoji dial in the settings. I’ve set mine to: Warm: Less Enthusiastic: Less Headers & Lists: Default Emoji: Less
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by spider-mario 12d ago
I don’t follow your logic. “The gifted person is highly intelligent, just not good at deadlifting 500kg” does not diminish the 500kg deadlift and I wouldn’t expect an IQ test to measure it.
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by spider-mario 12d ago
That sounds a bit like saying that the words-in-noise test is not a good hearing test because neither dolphins nor octopuses can speak.
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by spider-mario 13d ago
Sometimes, it’s quite presomptuous and doesn’t search when it should. I’ve had to argue too many times with it that, yes, the Nintendo Switch 2 is real.
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by spider-mario 14d ago
Starting at 0 is really only useful if you’re plotting a ratio measure and not just an interval one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement#Interval_... ), which I’m not sure this “intelligence index” is.
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by spider-mario 16d ago
Nah, it reads much more like ChatGPT than like Claude to me.
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by spider-mario 16d ago
> Claude is genuinely good. Better writing than most of the alternatives, Is that really how people feel? That’s not my subjective experience at all. I find Claude’s writing style “annoying”, for lack of a better description.
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by spider-mario 18d ago
Right, but not a model you have already downloaded onto your machine.
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by spider-mario 18d ago
Try 3.8 27B in MTPLX; I get about 30 tok/s with the same hardware as you. (Although it does use around 90-95W of power, compared to the ~60W that 3.6 35B-A3B uses to generate 55 tok/s. That’s about 3 J/tok instead of 1.)
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by spider-mario 20d ago
Nokia buying Qt in 2008 brought an LGPL option.
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by spider-mario 20d ago
It also means you can’t easily know the set of formats that the server could respond with, which in turns makes e.g. archival more difficult.
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by spider-mario 21d ago
Most JPEGs are slightly smaller as progressive. The drawback is rather that it’s slightly more resource-intensive to decode, and if you overdo it and split the chroma, you can get weird effects: https://cloudinary.com/blog

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